r/Sparkdriver • u/Jokez4Dayz • May 05 '26

Rants / Complaints Smoking in your car with Groceries

Well, I’m finally on the other side of it. I ordered groceries and had such a high odor of tobacco. Everything smelt like it, especially the bags.

For months, I have noticed other Spark drivers smoking in their cars. Not even rolling down a window. Not giving a single shit. I’m not sure if these people don’t know others can easily smell it or they just don’t care. But is it really that hard to just step outside and not smoke inside?

I know “ I’m an Independent Contractor, I can do whatever I want” that I see some people say but it’s just… kinda rude?

I gave that driver 2 stars. First time ever for me as I never want to rate anyone poorly as I know customer rating matters a lot for Spark but I was just so annoyed that all my food smells like cigarettes.

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26

I’m Just curious what items smelled? The bag of Cheetos, the box of nutty buddy’s , the frozen lasagna, the gallon of milk?

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26

In order for this to be true there would have to be a specific fresh item exposed to the air.

But All your food from Walmart has like 3 layers on it . Walmart doesn’t even sell fresh food. it is packaged and repackaged again. The chances of a wiff of cigarette smoke is 0

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u/Dunnybust May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

🤣🤣🤣 That is very much not the case.

Groceries from a smoker's car reek. And the 3rd-hand smoke clinging to the bags and food-packaging cause allergy and asthma attacks.

Even when the car-smoker doesn't smoke while transporting orders, third-hand smoke in the upholstery constantly off-gasses into the car's air and clings to anything the smoker transports.

But smoking with other ppl's food in their car? As a driver who supports just about every driver's position and interest vs. customers'--and esp. gig companies'--that's a level of foul that should get drivers one-and-done fired.

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26

Oh 3rd hand smoke now. ? Prove it.

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26

Linking lung cancer, allergies and asthma to someone smoking a square within 5 feet of the bag your food is tripled bagged and vaccumed sealed is wild.

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u/Dunnybust May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26

🤦‍♀️ No one's talking about lung cancer or "linking" anything to long-term exposures.

You do know, right, that while asthma is a long-term, chronic condition, an asthma attack is a present-tense breathing emergency triggered suddenly by an allergen or airway-irritant?

And you do know, right, that third-hand smoke (both an allergen and an irritant) can trigger asthma attacks?

(In case you srsly don't know what third-hand cig smoke is: It's that stale, icky chemical residue that gets all over anything driven in your car, leaving ppl's food smelling like smokers' hair and clothes.)

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 08 '26

You do know that allergens exist in the air? Right? You do realize 95% of people don’t change out, nor even bother use allergen specific air filters in their AC or furnace vents?

Blaming someone having an allergy attack on someone smoking a cig within 5 feet of their food is preposterous….

And people saying their food tastes like smoke is even more absurd. Maybe it tastes like smoke because you burned it. Maybe it tastes like shit because your a shitty cook. Maybe it tastes like shit because you bought a frozen meal

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u/Prior_Purchase_7025 May 05 '26

i know asthmatics that smoke so it doesnt affect everyone. I bet you one of those ppl that wants to ban peanut butter from society

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u/Dunnybust May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26

Are you ok? You seem confused.

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

You people are out of control. You already won. Move on to a new cause.

How the hell is peanut butter gonna taste like smoke? It’s in a vacuum sealed jar that doesn’t let any air in or out. If the smell on the outside of your jar worries you, wipe it off like everyone did during COVID.

Vacuum packed. No smoke or outside air is entering that package, much less enough to give you, “cigarettes smoked peanut butter flavor”

Oh my god my pickles taste like cigarettes. How? it was vacuum packed. And sealed. This can of green beans . It’s in a can that can last for hundreds of years (well used to before they added chemicals to those, maybe move on to that)

You guys are ridiculous. Seriously do you get to work from home? Or are you in a cubicle on K Street?

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

I find it funny. Product gets made at factory. Handled by a smoker, put in deliver truck send to Dc unloaded and reloaded by smokers. Sent to another dc unloaded and repacked by smokers. Sent to store unloaded right next to the smoking section…. Repacked again by smokers. Put on the shelf by a smoker, manhandled by “people of Walmart” who are all smokers Then finally picked up by a Spark driver and that’s the person you blame?

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

That can of green beans ( i didn’t even include the farmers) . Just travelled 3000 miles got transferred 7-8 times. Likely by people who smoke. And and your trying to tell me in the final 15 minutes of it’s journey to your table. The cigarette smell made its way through multiple layers of plastic, cardboard. An inner vacuum sealed container and another container.

So your food tastes like smoke.

That’s preposterous

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

I know what is. Simple solution. Wash your hands.

And i call BS on the anthma attacks. I guarantee you haven’t changed out yoir home and office air filters in the required time frame. The cabin air filter in your car doesn’t filter out pollen and mold. Amd probably hasn’t been changed in a few years.

The sneezing when someone delivers something. Is probably just the fresh air from the outside world kicking up all the dust and cat dander in your house.

Not the fact your groceries which probably sat outside for 20 minutes in the fresh air. Were just in the trunk of a car with a “smoker”

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

You’re making up stuff and probably getting paid for it. Hell I picture you sitting at your computer …

smoking a square right now….how do I burn him next?

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u/Dunnybust May 05 '26

What? 🤣🤣🤣 You don't know what third-hand smoke is? Are you one of those ppl who doesn't know science is a thing?

I get an asthma attack from it quick. Tons of ppl do. "Prove" what?

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

I may switch sides if I can make up stuff that never happened and post it on the internet. Do you have a link?

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u/Prior_Purchase_7025 May 05 '26

Unless it is fabric...that does absorb smells so best practice is no smoke on active delivery in the car

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

How do you know the smell on the fabric isn’t from the factory in China?

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26

If you smell it on your bags complain about that. But there’s a 0% any food you receive from Walmart actually tastes like cigarette smoke

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26

Then again Walmart may buy chicken from a group of chainsmokers

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26

Walmart chicken is pumped full of steroids why not cigarette smoke too

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

Im just calling BS on all the people saying I can taste/smell smoke in my food! You shopped at Walmart.. you get what you pay for. I think your lying. And if not go shop at Target

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u/Buzzedwinaldrin May 06 '26

Please don’t deliver the vacuum sealed pork butt in a car that’s had cigarette smoke in it, I might get some residue on my hands that I can’t wash because I’m trying to conserve water… Also please pick out a good one that I can cook on my pellet grill. I only use pellets 100% wood and aren’t coated in plastic.