Walmart Shenanigans

 

Well, this is interesting. I learned something new about how my Walmart groceries are delivered.

People who want to work for Walmart use the app, Spark. They fill out the application, verify they have insurance, yada, yada, yada. The usual steps but without ever being seen by a human. It's called progress, I guess.

Apparently, many drivers have been lying to Walmart (((gasp))) by using fake I.D.'s and bogus transportation information to work for the company.

Really!? You mean Walmart had no idea that for the past two plus years people who don't speak a word of English were delivering groceries!?

Honestly, and this is where I slap myself because I thought Walmart had grown a heart and was hiring immigrants because they needed good workers. And yet that little voice in my head asked, "Thingy, are you sure Walmart is hiring these people because they care? That sure doesn't sound like what a Trump funding business would do."

I came across the article (link above) which notes, Walmart would like all drivers to show up in person and prove who they claim to be. 

You mean after two plus years Walmart had no idea who was behind the Spark app? 

I'm assuming customers who wear red hats were calling in complaining that brown people were delivering their items. Walmart finally had to acknowledge the maga base.

 Go ahead and yell at me for using Walmart. It's ok. I also use Amazon. I use Walmart for groceries because I live in a food desert. The nearest grocery store shut down four years ago because of they weren't making enough money. It still sits vacant. 

If I stop buying online from Walmart I would have to get on a bus with my grocery cart and sit with all the other passengers who have grocery carts, while they cough, sneeze, yell into phones, breath on me...

No.

Buying groceries online is fabulous. 

 I had no problem with my brown skinned driver. If I didn't understand what they were saying, they'd pull out their phone for the translator app. I have noticed my past few orders have been delivered by pale people who don't like to walk upstairs, who can't find the address, who won't read delivery instructions. 

 I'm sure many immigrants are scared. I'm afraid for them. It's only going to get worse for them. People who have been here for twenty years are being deported. Doctors, educators, children who have cancer... Trump and his Reich wing soldiers are laying waste to this country.

I need to find another store that is not bowing down to the fascist pig.

Otherwise (and I'll do it) I'll get on the coughy, spitty, sticky bus with my clunky grocery cart to buy $8 eggs. 

It's the least I can do.

*Update: No, the least I can do is cancel my membership with Walmart and Amazon. If I talk the talk, I gotta walk the walk. 

*Image from Pixabay, a free image app