Posted on 06/08/2019 11:14:23 AM PDT by conservative98
NEW YORK (AP) - The online delivery wars are heating up inside shoppers' homes.
Walmart is now offering to have one of its employees deliver fresh groceries and put them in your refrigerator when you're not home.
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Crazy
NOPE
I wouldn’t want strangers in my home.
Snooping and theft are going to be rampant.
Some people will also probably hide cameras in the bedroom.
Illegals do it for room and board.
They’ve done this for decades in Japan.
Usually it’s parcels, small packages, etc.
They leave it just inside your front door.
Great — NOT.
YOU WOULD HAVE TO GIVE THEM YOUR HOUSE KEY AND THEY CAN GET IN ANYTIME YOU ARE NOT HOME.
Sorry, I did not realize my caps were on, and now it’s too much trouble to retype the whole thing.
These are not the same days as when Meadow Gold delivered milk and cam in the unlocked back door to fill the ice box.
I predict problems. Uber anyone?
The way it would go around my house -
“Ahhhhh!!! I can’t find my ring! The Walmart delivery guy must have stol...”
“Oh, here it is.”
Stuff like that only works in a high trust society. Which America is not anymore. Unknown random people coming into your home... What could possibly go wrong?
WHAT could POSSIBLY go wrong?? /s
I don’t think so.
Walmart said that the workers will go through an extensive training program that would prepare them for things like how to select the freshest groceries and how best to organize the refrigerator.
Walmart used to be smart & innovative in its early years when the old man ran the company. This is such an obvious fail...
Don’t know if I want them coming into my home, especially because of issues with my dogs, but their pickup service at the store is really great, especially for a customer, like me, with a bad back. Really nice to have them out all the groceries directly into my SUV.
We used to do that with now called snail mail. Remember the door mail slots? Some can be large.
I can only see putting the food into the refrigerators for a business and people that have problems putting them away.
I could see if one had an ‘old fashioned foyer’ where the coats and boots were stored in the ‘anteroom’ prior entering main room—or screened in porch with lock.
If you or the ‘deliver company’ would put a ‘mini fridge’ in the foyer where he can leave the perishables and other bags - with the door to interior being locked and the main door with a code??
I do deliveries and I definitely would NOT want to have access to YOUR house etc.
That ‘thievery’ works both ways, a lot of stuff can turn up ‘missing’ when one allows others access to private spaces.
After many years using maids and maid services my discovery is: they haven’t stolen anything, but they certainly do move things. Thus, especially because many of their employees are struggling low income people, it’s vital not to jump to very damaging conclusions about possible theft; instead look for where it’s been hidden. You just don’t want to ruin somebody’s life with groundless accusations.
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