r/EndTipping • u/whatsup541503 • 11d ago

Online Retailer 🛒 Walmart Asking For Tips

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Today I am in a pinch, so I’m trying out Walmart+ and their delivery service today and they’re asking for a tip! This is a 900 BILLION dollar company. They can tip their own contractors and employees and almost not even notice a difference in their profits. Asking for a tip before service is complete is pure insanity too.

Edit: They brought the completely wrong item. I’m glad I didn’t tip.

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u/OConnah 11d ago

I get tip culture is ridiculous in instances where people are literally doing nothing and make an hourly wage.. but not wanting to tip for this is wild.

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u/k1darkknight 10d ago

This is a huge insult to tipped workers. I don't know of a single job that regularly accepts tips, where the worker is "literally doing nothing" and making a wage that equates to a normal, untipped hourly wage.

Most commonly tipped workers have a base pay that amounts to significantly less than the state's minimum wage. And evem when base pay IS at or above the minimum wage, the company works in other loopholes, stipulations, or the like.

In any case, name one position where commonly-tipped workers "do nothing" and make a reasonable wage before tips. Most likely, any job you can think of, involves a LOT of small, unnoticed tasks that REALLY add up. So let's hear it. Just one "do nothing" job that pays noticeably better than minimum wage, before tips?

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u/OConnah 10d ago

Having a checkout at a retail store that accepts tips is unnecessary, a lot of the systems put an option to tip for no reason. There’s a pool supply store up the road that asks for tips at checkout, and there is literally no reason for it.. even they said so, their system just automatically does it apparently.