Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Some Walmart delivery drivers are buying their credentials online — letting anyone deliver goods to your door::Walmart Spark driver accounts are popping up for sale on Facebook and Instagram as the retailer’s delivery service struggles to verify who is working
Is it the item I wanted? Is it undamaged? Yeah I really couldn’t care less. Nobody is getting a delivery job to scope houses to steal from, they just go steal.
If someone wants to drive up and take your kid, they don’t need a Walmart job to do it…
The grand majority of instances of this happening are done by relatives. Not Joe worker delivering groceries.
We have schools. Busses full of kids that get dropped off at the side of the road like clockwork and based on the age range you want, you pick a time bracket.
Becoming a delivery driver to steal kids or property is like becoming a circus clown to pet animals. There’s easier ways to get to the desired outcome.
I nixed that problem right in the bud by having ugly kids.
This is already common among food delivery apps, probably every single gig service has this problem.
Is it a problem though? If they do the job I really don’t care that much. Not many people doing delivery to go back and rob the place.
Account sharing lets people who have lost their accounts get back onto the platform. If working credentials are easily available then banning malicious/useless drivers won’t be effective.
This is what you get when you order from fucking Walmart. How is this a surprise
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The driver declined to have his full name appear in this article due to potential retaliation from Walmart, but his identity is known to Insider.
“Drivers selling or sharing personal or account information is against the Spark Driver platform terms of use and will result in deactivation from the platform,” a Walmart spokesperson told Insider, adding that the retailer uses “manual and automated tools to identify and prevent this behavior.”
“Where appropriate, we request the removal of these posts from social platforms and deactivate drivers who are confirmed to be violating the terms of use in this way,” the spokesperson added.
The spokesperson also confirmed that Walmart is still rolling out a third-party identity verification feature in its app that compares selfies that drivers are required to take with previously submitted photo ID cards.
The Walmart spokesperson did not directly address Insider’s questions about whether the feature was operating nationwide yet.
Spark drivers around the US previously told Insider that they see their peers using two or three different names to pick up orders at Walmart.
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Isn’t this just DoorDash with extra steps?
It’s DoorDash with one less step. Wal Mart will hire a rando for you, and send them to your house with a shopping bag full of Wal Mart crap.
I would give it a miss, personally. If not for all the usual reasons, then certainly for this one: There is a package forwarding place right next door to my office building, so they’ve got parcel deliveries arriving all day and all night from everyone you can think of. USPS, UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL, etc., etc. And Wal Mart. The Wal Mart drivers are perpetually trying to deliver the stuff for the packages going next door to my business instead, apparently because their app apparently does not give the driver an address. It just shows a pin on a map. So if the location of the pin is ambiguous like, say, the parking lot of an office building with multiple businesses and addresses in it, they have no way to handle that and don’t have any idea what to do.
So order your stuff from Wal Mart and it will wind up wherever their system put that pin. That could be at your house, next door, on a random porch a block away, in the middle of a field, in a ditch on the side of the interstate, or possibly a nondescript patch of ocean in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa.
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This seems like a Wal-Mart problem, I don’t know who any of the people who deliver goods to me are, I never have done, it’s not normal for me to expect anything from the people who deliver things to me aside from they have the capability to deliver things to me.
_number8_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i remember a few years ago i got blacklisted from applying to doordash because it detected i had a speeding ticket. can’t blame anyone for trying to get around petty bullshit like that
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, someone else wants to hold Doordash liable for the behavior they tolerate or encourage in their drivers. Taking on that liability incentivizes them to filter out drivers known to break rules of the road; which is you.