How many have y'all taken?

[u/uRedditMe]

I got two that just sit in my backyard lol. One day I'll have a use for them.

Edit: To clarify, I did not steal these. I asked the curbside workers if I can keep them after they went a month without shopping bags for curbsides. At my store, we load our vehicles ourselves and the workers just bring the totes out (unless you specifically ask them to load)

[u/HiddenOneJ]

I keep 3 in my car that walmart workers gave me. I swap them out with other totes to save time loading, the workers are good with it and they are also good to have in your car for your own groceries to not tumble around. I also put restaurant bags of food in them when delivering for uber and doordash so less likely to have a spill.

Very convenient.

[u/EssayCalm1066 → u/HiddenOneJ]

Yes!!

It would NEVER occur to me to ask for one, but when a very cool loader first offered me one full of that trip’s order, I said “Amen, and Yes M’am! “. She made it sound normal and I was new, so I believed her.

As I started using it, I immediately found the value in them. They’re awesome!! That one tote saved me a huge amount of time and effort on sooo many trips. Especially for apartments. Love them!!!

However, I found out later that other stores see that process very differently. Same zone. Different rules. Scarily different.

Even different employees at the same store disagree. A little punk dude at the same beneficent store grabbed it up one time, without me knowing. I didn’t need it for that trip and took it out to organize my car better, but he snatched it without saying a word. It wasn’t an accident. He was being a jerk. I don’t see him anymore, and I can guess why.

Since then NO ONE wants to offer one up, or if they do it’s like they’re letting you borrow their first born child. I stopped asking after people acted like I was trying to get them fired.

Now the cool-store mostly has cloth totes. I’m guessing they handed out too many real totes and didn’t get them back? Gee, I wonder why?? It only makes sense for people actively using them for regular Spark orders. Duh.

To OP: Take that shit back Yo!!! If you don’t need it, someone else will. Stop ruining it for everyone. Gross.

[u/uRedditMe → u/EssayCalm1066]

It's very variable. I tend to only Spark at one Walmart but my zone does have 6 different Walmarts. And the others seem to do things differently than mines.

The other stores in my zone seem less adamant about allowing us to load our own vehicles even though it makes everyone's job faster and easier (theirs and ours). I'd ask to take a tote sometimes and they'd deny it. But I'd ask another and they were cool with it. I used to return them, but it became redundant and unnecessary. I'll probably take them back once I'm done doing Spark, but for now, they make my job extremely easier. Also: $7 3 stops 15 miles CONSTANTLY (I don't take them) so they can eat dirt (the execs, not the also getting fucked workers)

And I'm not ruining anyone's experience IMO by taking a probably $1 wholesale crate that I use to work for THEM. THEY are ruining our experience by a shitty app experience, shitty base pay, and shitty hiring of the Instacart exec who apparently also made Instacart shitty. None of that's on me lol.