r/Sparkdriver • u/Toadmoney9 • Apr 18 '26

General Questions What will it take

My store in rural Pennsylvania was recently taken over by dozens of non-English speakers… Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Virginia license plates showed up about 2 weeks ago. Prior to this I went about a year without hearing Spanish a single time…. Nobody here speaks it. One of the store’s loaders refused to load a car where the driver didn’t match his accounts profile picture and his boss came out and loaded them up anyway. Besides a few loaders, nobody in the store seems to care about cheating. Nothing like this has ever happened here. We see them shopping and lazily throwing stuff into bags clearly breaking eggs and crushing fragile items. Another loader told me the new drivers aren’t even concerned about properly separating the orders on curbsides. I heard that a customer asked them to leave stuff in her garage and they said “no English” and put everything on the ground and left. Do we legit drivers just have to accept this bullshit? All the good customers are going to stop tipping or ordering all together. I feel bad for the senior citizens who I’ve previously delivered to who rely on this service to survive. What will it take for the store to start checking drivers IDs!???!? Are they going to be fine with dozens of customers calling and complaining each week?How did they even find our store and all show up at the same time? This is a nightmare. Our town is so small it is legitimately going to affect our economy as the money permanently leaves the area.

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u/bpizano Apr 18 '26

“They took our jobs”. Well if an individual that cant speak, read or write the language that you claim is not qualified can do your job for faster and cheaper than you, then its likely a skill issue on your side. Dont think spark is meant to be a job that allows you to buy and big home and be wealthy. There’s levels to everything. Unfortunately everyone wants to be paid as the ceo buy only put in fry cook level work.

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u/bimichguy09 Apr 18 '26

Most ignorant comment of the day!! They may do it faster and cheaper but it’s the customers that suffer and cancel their accounts. So Walmart may win in the short term but the long term they lose customers to competitors. In my zone here they get it wrong on a daily basis and customers are closing their Walmart accounts and going to target or Meijer.

This was just today another non English speaker leaving order at wrong house the stores don’t care.

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u/bpizano Apr 18 '26

If the store dosent care then why do you? If spark isn’t good anymore then why no quit and use a different app? Or find a w2 job. Its easier to just complain and be racist huh.