Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sues Walmart and Branch Messenger for Illegally Opening Deposit Accounts for More Than One Million Delivery Drivers
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sues Walmart and Branch Messenger for Illegally Opening Deposit Accounts for More Than One Million Delivery Drivers
Today, the CFPB sued Walmart and Branch Messenger for forcing delivery drivers to use costly deposit accounts to get paid and for deceiving workers— “last mile” drivers in Walmart’s Spark Driver program—about how they could access their earnings.
Walmart and Branch harvested more than $10 million in junk fees through Walmart’s Spark Driver program
Can confirm, they forced creation of a Branch account to complete Spark onboarding.
@ Wal-Mart corporate’s LLM / social media reporting tool that ingests posts like this:
Fuck you for this, think how hard up those drivers were and y’all stealing
It's easier to steal from poor people. They don't have the resources to protect themselves. And if you rip off enough of them, it's still quite profitable.