Have you cancelled your WalMart + membership yet ?

[protectionist]

I have. Cancelled it yesterday. Free at last!

I figured I'd give them 3 strikes (like in a baseball game).

Strike 1 - when I lived in an apartment complex of villas, they would sometimes drop the groceries off at the wrong apartment (and wrong entire building). I remember having to go our searching for it. Only to find the food piled up outside somebody else's front door. I wasn't giving the drivers tips back then - maybe that was the reason.

So I've been adding tips to the orders ever since then (about 5 years ago).

Strike 2 - for the last 4 years I've been living in an apartment building with a doorbell. I specifically write in the delivery instructions (in English & Spanish) for the driver to RING the DOORBELL, both in the computer order and in a note on my front door. They do about 50% of the time.

Strike 3 - Now, the deliveries (which used to come straight to your house) are now just one out of a bunch. So your frozen & refrigerated foods are sitting in NON-INSULATED, ordinary plastic bags, while the driver hopscotchs around to 3 or 4 other dropoff destinations, before he/she gets to you. All the while, your cold (at least they were) foods are roasting in a hot car trunk, mid-June, central Florida 90+ degrees, and when you finally receive them, they're WARM. Well, how could they be anything but ?

So, no more WalMart+ deliveries for me. I'll see if I can find another store with deliveries who have INSULATED bags (which are very cheap and reusable), and the driver comes straight to you. Up next, Publix.

 

[Moonglow]

I live in Walmart land, we get drone deliveries

 

[braalian]

I wasn't giving the drivers tips back then - maybe that was the reason.

That makes you a dick

 

[Manonthestreet]

I don't do business with them

 

[odanny]

I live in Walmart land, we get drone deliveries

 

[Moonglow]

These people would biotch about shitting gold nuggets.

 

[hjmick]

Are you homebound? Bedridden? Agoraphobic?


Or are you just lazy?

 

[braalian]

I have. Cancelled it yesterday. Free at last!

I figured I'd give them 3 strikes (like in a baseball game).

Strike 1 - when I lived in an apartment complex of villas, they would sometimes drop the groceries off at the wrong apartment (and wrong entire building). I remember having to go our searching for it. Only to find the food piled up outside somebody else's front door. I wasn't giving the drivers tips back then - maybe that was the reason.

So I've been adding tips to the orders ever since then (about 5 years ago).

Strike 2 - for the last 4 years I've been living in an apartment building with a doorbell. I specifically write in the delivery instructions (in English & Spanish) for the driver to RING the DOORBELL, both in the computer order and in a note on my front door. They do about 50% of the time.

Strike 3 - Now, the deliveries (which used to come straight to your house) are now just one out of a bunch. So your frozen & refrigerated foods are sitting in NON-INSULATED, ordinary plastic bags, while the driver hopscotchs around to 3 or 4 other dropoff destinations, before he/she gets to you. All the while, your cold (at least they were) foods are roasting in a hot car trunk, mid-June, central Florida 90+ degrees, and when you finally receive them, they're WARM. Well, how could they be anything but ?

So, no more WalMart+ deliveries for me. I'll see if I can find another store with deliveries who have INSULATED bags (which are very cheap and reusable), and the driver comes straight to you. Up next, Publix.

You sure seem to want an awful lot of amenities and special service for someone who can’t even be bothered to tip the poor delivery guys

 

[Oklahoma Journalist]

Sure, lemme pay a fee to shop at a store.

 

[braalian]

Sure, lemme pay a fee to shop at a store.

You’re paying a fee to have the groceries delivered to your home

Just like we’ve always done for pizza. It’s not some new or outrageous concept

 

[protectionist]

That makes you a dick

First of all, your sentence should have been PAST TENSE. And I've been giving tips for 4 years now - Strike 1.

Second, you have no idea if I can AFFORD to be giving tips (while I don't receive any for what I do) - Strike 2

Third, these drivers are all well paid (without the tips) and all drive nice, shiny, new cars (I don't even have a car) - Strike 3.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I have no intention of ever having groceries delivered to me for so many reasons. #1 I want to make sure that what I purchase is fresh and hasn't expired already or is about ready to. Also, I don't want what I buy to be left unattended to where it could be ruined from the weather or creature infested outside my front door and there is always the possibility that things could be missing due to them being overlooked or not even there for purchase in the first place. Being at the store yourself means that you know for sure if the place is truly out of whatever it is that you are wanting to get.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[protectionist]

Are you homebound? Bedridden? Agoraphobic?

Or are you just lazy?

Not that it's really your business, but I happen to have agoraphobia, although it is much less severe than when I was young. I'm 80 years old, partially disabled, have a variety of medical issues (as do all octagenarians), I have an electric scooter (souped up wheelchair), but I'm not bedridden or homebound.

I get out and about & have gone to Walmart recently, but my scooter's baskets are too small for shopping. Walmart's scooters are abysmal. They stall. They stagger... and this is if you can get one at all, waiting an hour? or so. People often leave them in the parking lot and casually drive away.

Ain'tcha glad you asked ?

 

[protectionist]

I have no intention of ever having groceries delivered to me for so many reasons. #1 I want to make sure that what I purchase is fresh and hasn't expired already or is about ready to. Also, I don't want what I buy to be left unattended to where it could be ruined from the weather or creature infested outside my front door and there is always the possibility that things could be missing due to them being overlooked or not even there for purchase in the first place. Being at the store yourself means that you know for sure if the place is truly out of whatever it is that you are wanting to get.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

You got it right. I'm upstairs on the 3rd floor of a brand new Air conditioned bldg, so there aren't any creatures, but all the other stuff you said is spot on, plus it's just how long they take to get to you.

 

[protectionist]

You sure seem to want an awful lot of amenities and special service for someone who can’t even be bothered to tip the poor delivery guys

That was 5 years ago - can you read ? Plus all the other stuff I mentioned

 

[jacksonlamb]

Walmart+ has been OK here.

 

[hjmick]

Not that it's really your business, but I happen to have agoraphobia, although it is much less severe than when I was young. I'm 80 years old, partially disabled, have a variety of medical issues (as do all octagenarians), I have an electric scooter (souped up wheelchair), but I'm not bedridden or homebound.

I get out and about & have gone to Walmart recently, but my scooter's baskets are too small for shopping. Walmart's scooters are abysmal. They stall. They stagger... and this is if you can get one at all, waiting an hour? or so. People often leave them in the parking lot and casually drive away.

Ain'tcha glad you asked ?

Well, I'm not sorry I asked... may be a bit sheepish about being flippant in my question...

There was a time when I did all the shopping because my wife's agoraphobia was so bad. She didn't leave the house for a couple-three years. Every now and then it pops up, but not often. So I kind of get it.

 

[protectionist]

Walmart+ has been OK here.

So you prove you can't get anything right (regardless of the subject matter). LOL.

Well, on second thought, maybe YOUR Walmart deliveries (wherever you are) are OK.
Do they arrive in INSULATED BAGS ? Or maybe you live in Barrow, Alaska.

 

[jacksonlamb]

My MIL was agoraphobic after 65. She did not go out on the front porch the last five years of her life.

 

[protectionist]

Well, I'm not sorry I asked... may be a bit sheepish about being flippant in my question...

There was a time when I did all the shopping because my wife's agoraphobia was so bad. She didn't leave the house for a couple-three years. Every now and then it pops up, but not often. So I kind of get it.

There was a time when I was in my 30s, that I had it as bad as that. It got better with time. I still can't drive a car over large bridges, but then I only drive an electric scooter now.