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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For the disabled this could be a lifechanger though. Even for the elderly who have a hard time with things, as long as they are home it could be a great service.
Then again I can picture my grandma too - “Was that the best cucumber you could have found? And you call that lettuce fresh??”
She would have been banned from the service in a week.
What could go wrong???
Exactly, but many people will go there first anyway. Kind of human nature in this day and age I guess.
No thanks. I tried Peapod for a while. The vegetables and fruits weren’t fresh, and many of the foods were at or beyond their experation date. I had to call after every delivery to complain.
Amazon is now delivering inside your car. They come with a universal key, find your car, open door and place item inside.
This happens because other terrible people steal from one’s doorstep.
“They’ve done this for decades in Japan”
Yeah well, we’re not Japan. Did you have a point you’re trying to make? /jk
Sure, then the next thing you know, the delivery boy’s/girl’s homies, are helping themselves to your personal property, because they know where you live, and the hours you keep.
Oh yeah, like all of the delivery people would look like those two females. I might have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
Older buildings (early 20th century) would have a "milk door" for the milkman, who could open the little door outside to deliver items, and the homeowner could open the cabinet from inside to get them out.
They’ve done this for decades in Japan.
Sadly, so much of the crime there was by gaijins.
I remember Ueno Park Tokyo as a muzzie controlled place.
Family is key there.
True story: a Canadian lost his wallet and passport on the train. 10k cash. ..I found it for him.
Was turned in to the train station master...by high school boys. Japan is a tough place to be.....but crime is not one of them.
Whew! For a minute I thought that Walmart had developed a cheap teleportation system... Thanks for the pix...
I'm a 71 female who worked in uniform in NY State's prison system for 25 years. The job definitely opened my eyes, and made me extremely security conscious. Even though I've been retired going on 16 years, I haven't lost any of my training.
I wouldn't trust anyone to to pick my groceries for me, or let them deliver them when I'm not at home. I understand they substitute stuff when what you want isn't available. Screw that. I'll go to another store to get what I want. Besides, the Walmart here has horrible produce. I wouldn't feed it to a pig. I do my own shopping, and even drag six-packs of Pepsi up the stairs to my apartment. If I end up with more than what I can carry up the 3 flights of stairs in one trip, then I take the perishables, and leave the rest in my car until the next time I'm going out. It's only me, so I don't have to buy loads when I do go to the store, and I'd rather rely on myself to do those things, than on someone else. I wouldn't even trust my kids to get the right products for me. They're men, and they have no idea of how to find something they've misplaced, because they don't bother moving things to see what's under them. So there's no way they'd be able to find what I'd need from the store, if it meant moving a can or two aside to look deeper into the shelf to find the correct item.
LOL! Not my house. Unless siri or alexa say it’s okay. As if either of them live in my house.
These are not the same days as when Meadow Gold delivered milk and cam in the unlocked back door to fill the ice box.
Sears had that service when you ordered from their catalog.
Walmart produce does suck.
And, it’s absolutely impossible to find an orange from Florida(I’m in GA) or California there. It’s all from South Africa, Peru, Chile, etc.
I get my produce at Kroger or Aldi.
“Walmart is now offering to have one of its employees deliver fresh groceries and put them in your refrigerator when you’re not home.”
When you’re not home.
That’s funny.
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