My wife and I about an hour ago bought most of our weekly groceries from our local Walmart curb pickup service.
We got the last package of name brand paper towels, we discussed what was out of stock in the store with the young guy who brought our purchases out to our vehicle. They cruise the store with an order and fill it. So they know what was/is out when they checked stock for each order.
They had a few outages, nothing like their big store in another city, where the parking lot was full from Friday am to today like on black Friday.
His store is keeping up fairly well, we had 3 items out of 25, that were gone. The small cans of corn, beans and other veggies were gone.
He said the most weird event was this morning when they got a pallet of hand sanitizers refill bottles. (store has basically been out for 2 weeks).
As soon as the driver/whom ever sat the pallet of hand sanitizer down in the otc aisle, 3 guys with sunglasses came up and bought the whole pallet. They had the trucker or whom, ever take the pallet to the autocheck line and paid with a credit card. Then, they tipped the driver to take the pallet out and load it into their plain white van.
The store is basically out of tp, clorox of any type, paper towels and paper plates and hand sanitizer.
Interesting to me as I also picked up groceries this morning at Walmart. The only thing they were out of was a two pack of Barilla alfredo sauce. They simply substituted two single jars.
It really is easier doing your shopping by computer. I do wonder if it is a good thing for them. It must take up a lot of man hours for their employees for a free service.
They must be pushing it tho. The employees are unusually friendly as if that is taught to them.
Check the prices on eBay and Amazon for the stuff and you will know why they grabbed the whole palet.