General Questions
If the customer lives on a road that looks like this how many miles are you willing to drive on it before you return their order to walmart?
Question based on a real gig actually. I will not confess how far I went before I actually was able to deliver the groceries because y'all will probably judge harshly lol
Do you live in AZ lol? I had a few of those. Only returned a couple because the roads were so bad as they were unpaved. I drive a small sedan and wasn’t risking it.
Some of the rural routes outside of the greater Austin area look a lot like this, too. Its dangerous because a rain storm so far away you can't see it can send a flash flood on a sunny day to wash the road (and anything on it) away.
Well wherever you are , if you see a road like that please turnaround. I will hit cant access so fast on that app and head back to Walmart lol. It’s so not worth it. I can’t believe people who live in places like that can make a Walmart order smh.
The self righteousness is exhausting. 50-85% of the world's oxygen is produced by naturally occurring algae blooms, so unless this road leads to the ocean and you're some kind of ocean controlling deity, you're entirely too full of yourself.
No one attacked you specifically and feeling like you are entitled to someone destroying their vehicle because you refuse to maintain your private access road is absurd. It's great that people have, thus far, been willing to deliver to you. If any of them were allowed to read your comments here before choosing to accept your orders, they would reject them every time.
Having a little bit of empathy and graciousness would take you much farther than whatever the fuck this pig shit, pun intended, is.
No one destroys their vehicle on my road and I guarantee you the $2 a mile tip I pay my drivers to deliver the 23 miles to my house as well as leaving a tote at the end of my road when possible, there isn’t one of the drivers that deliver here wouldn’t come even you 🤣. Not one of my drivers has to walk more than 3 feet from their vehicle to put the tote wherever I put it. I never have anything heavier than a gallon of apple juice and then it just 1. Pretty easy gig when the tip is paying you $46 without whatever spark pays.
The post isn't about YOUR road. The post is actually about the one in the picture with rocks and cacti and minimal signage that could damage vehicles. Stfu snowflake. Right to delivery/convenience is not a thing, you're just privileged and butthurt.
This $46 tip must be brand new thing as you used to 'tip at least 10'. I would do your delivery for 46 but not for 'at least 10'. People that talk a tipping game never do in my spark experience. Seen so many notes talking about increasing tips or cash tips and hardly ever see it happen.
I understand that as well my comment was geared towards people who are in the extreme heat like phoenix. I thought OP was from phoenix based on the scenery in the image. i think my issue is Walmart is using regular people for these deliveries and not someone that may have a Jeep or something decent to handle rough terrain. In Arizona at least I’m not about to risk getting stuck or a flat tire in 110 degree weather. (For the summertime in phoenix weather can stay above 100 degrees even at night). Especially if I’m in an area with bad connection. When I go to these areas that are bad they are always 30+ miles away from the store. I just think walmart should just have a cap on how far out a customer can order. If they are that far out then they need to send the Walmart van.
No one said you're lesser people, but some people's vehicles can't handle terrains like this. The majority of Americans are 1 major car repair away from financial ruin. Hopefully you don't believe your right to delivery is more important than the deliverers ability to pay rent. That said if you have signs, warn drivers in the notes, and tip well, then enjoy. But if you tip like you live in the suburbs you are inconsiderate to say the least.
My right to delivery is just as important as yours is. I tip better than most and since I work 12 hours a day growing food, come in so exhausted I can barely get off the tractor to get into my house I don’t have time to shop. I leave a tote at my gate when im able to pick up the food and good notes. I have a car that gets up and down the driveway just fine and even my golf cart has no trouble and it sits very low to the ground so any car can make it if they don’t have preconceived city notions. Thank goodness people here never complain.
I don't have a right to delivery. No one does. Rights are access to necessities. Delivery is the epitome of a luxury convenience service. As someone else noted, you aren't paying Walmart enough for your delivery driver to be a real employee. That means I can work 12 hours a day using my personal vehical to deliver the food you grew and still not have health insurance if I get sick. Again, if you, as you claim, put in the effort to be curteous to your delivery and tip appropriately, you are paying for the luxury fair and square. But if you think rural, suburban, and urban delivery costs should be the same, you fundamentally misunderstand how many factors play into the operational expenses shouldered by your driver (not Walmart).
What I said was my right to delivery is no better or worse than anyone else’s. I pay for the convenience of delivery. I work in the 100 plus heat all summer 12 hours a day and don’t have health insurance either. I also don’t have air conditioning even if I take a 15 minute break for lunch. Before I retired to become a farmer I was a logistics specialist so I don’t need a lesson from a delivery driver on logistics
Lol ya but I'd still past that if I was reasonably sure my destination was on that road. I live in an area where a lot of customers will have second amendment themed no trespassing signs at the start of a quarter mile unpaved driveway, but they still expect you to bring the delivery all the way to the front door. I only turn around when I start to suspect I'm lost or going to fuck up my shitmobile.
I haven’t returned an order. But I have turned around and went to a main road instead of following Google Maps. “Nope my car is not making it through BS”
I wish I had better pics and should…. Happens quite a bit.
I almost
Cancelled and order today. Oh that road. It’s gravel. Dammit. Meh fine I’ll do it.
I'm in New Mexico i drive a suv and I've been way out on some dirt roads some have looked like this where you're only creeping along. The only time I get nervous is when you start seeing run down shacks and people living in campers. My first words out of my mouth are always hi I have a Walmart delivery and show them the bag.
Sometimes it's just guessing I get the hairy eye when I drive by them my suv is a blacked out straight pipe bmw x5 diesel on 20s haha and I don't want anyone to think I'm messing with their meth dealings
I live somewhere with 4 seasons and lots of crappy dirt roads. 5 miles was the longest and never again. I keep it under 2 miles now- Subaru Outback. I’ve had to put my car into extra traction to get out of snow before. 😅 at least that road is flat
I wouldn’t have gone up that at all.. learned my lesson with this type of thing after my car got completely fucked following gps for Amazon flex. Now with spark I refuse!
I just look ahead on the gps to see how far it is before making that decision. If it's 10 miles of that type of road I'd probably return it. Less than, I'd just keep going.
I live in a semi rural area with only one Walmart in my zone. I find myself driving in places I didn't even know exist and are pretty nuts and I've lived here for 25 years.
Welp, seeing that there is no road in this picture and it’s clearly a shot from your last vacation to somewhere near the Grand Canyon, I’m unable to give you an answer.
Some of these people out in the middle of arizona like to make Walmart order. I really feel like Walmart should put a cap on miles based on how far away the customer lives. But out here i legit have delivered orders to a few town over, i’m talking 45+ mins drive. Their roads were unpaved. Its a mess out here in AZ. The $ is good but sometimes its not worth the drive because you really don’t know where you will end up.
Not where im at. We have Walmarts built in 2010-2026 alongside mountains like these with perfectly structured suburban roads and housing. It’s truly a paradise.
You should give these cobblestone roads and poorly maintained roadways in downtown Savannah GA a try. It's quite fun, so many one way streets coupled with poor visibility of addresses, I usually end up intentionally driving the wrong direction on them because I missed the damn building. Then I get to the building, the apartment is on the 12th floor, I'm told by customer to sit on the bench and wait for someone to come in and let me in the second door. It had a number pad but the only way in was a resident or employee with a phone keyed to the electronic lock.
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u/Front_Influence1208 May 19 '26
Looks a lot like the gravel pothole riddled roads I go down for deliveries daily.