1 week Ago By Jack Hobbs
ONE Walmart shopper is clapping back at people who are claiming that she is breaking the law by not scanning everything while at the self-checkout. In a clip posted to TikTok , the user — who posts under the name @dulitty — can be seen glaring at other customers as she scans her items. The clip, which has received almost 1.
4 million views since being posted , shows the woman packing items up in a Walmart and overlayed with a soundbite of Deion Sanders from Prime Time. “Look at me,” Sanders says in the soundbite. “What about me would make you think I care about your opinion of me?” The user overlayed the viral video with the real reason why they don't have to scan everything.
Read More On Walmart "Me when people think I’m stealing from Walmart because I’m not scanning everything...
whole time it’s prepaid because I’m a Spark Driver,” wrote the social media user. In the video's description, they implored people to "Mind yo business." Many other viewers of the video flocked to the comment section to express their support of the driver.
"I’ve always felt so bad for my spark drivers when customers would tell me I’d be like mind ya business," wrote one person. Most read in Money "As a cashier at Walmart who works the self-checkout, I’ve had a few people come up to me whispering “I think that person over there is stealing, they’re just bagging everything without scanning," a second person said. "Customers tell me all the time that person is stealing.
I go no they’re a spark driver. And they then go oh what’s a spark driver," a third person reported. “I’ve always felt so bad for my Spark Drivers,” a fourth person who claimed to work for Walmart said.
"When customers would tell me I’d be like ‘Mind ya business." The U.S.
Sun reached out to the TikToker for comment. SPARK IT UP The Spark Driver app, which is operated by Walmart, functions the same as DoorDash as it allows shoppers to order and receive goods from other businesses. Below, find a detailed description of what a Spark driver is A venture started by Walmart in 2018, Spark Drivers function the same as those independent contractors who work for Doordash, Instacart or Grubhub.
The driver, who can chose where and when to accept a job, is will collect the goods from Walmart or whatever storw they are heading and then, instead of scanning each individual item, they are given a unique barcode to scan. Walmart launched the service in 2018. According to the Spark website , drivers are not required to scan every item, rather they scan a customer’s barcode using their phone.
The U.S. Sun recently reported that Walmart had recently paid several of its drivers $70 after the retailer fixed a system error.
The email from Walmart referred to a "system issue" that led to the company not accepting tips that were meant for the delivery drivers. Read More on The US Sun "As part of our continued efforts to improve the Spark Driver platform experience, we identified an issue in the system that prevented us from collecting and issuing tips that certain customers intended to give drivers," a Walmart spokesperson told Business Insider in April. "Even though customers were never charged for the tips, we are crediting driver accounts with correct tip amounts for affected orders and have made changes within the system that caused this issue.
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