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Walmart gig drivers have had enough of drivers using fraudulent means to get ahead of others. Walmart wants to crack down on users posing as other people.
Walmart has tripled its delivery platform over the past year, but workers say it's become harder to make a living as they compete with drivers using multiple names.
A strike by UPS drivers, like the action threatened earlier this week, would not be a problem for Walmart because it is "largely insulated" from such disruptions, a researcher said.
The retailers have invested a lot of time and money into building this.
Chicago-area gig workers who make deliveries for Walmart say the company’s delivery app is being targeted by scammers who use bots to hoard orders on the platform, making it difficult for them to make a living. The drivers are independent contractors who make deliveries for Walmart using the company’s delivery platform, called Spark. Drivers who make deliveries out of the company’s suburban ...