[erkelly]

Our Walmart now has curbside pickup. Target has this also. Maybe this is the future. You order on-line, pay for it, wait in the parking lot and a store clerk delivers it to you. This may be the future for a lot of stores.

[pbear8]

I used this today at Target, it makes things much easier. I saw where the local Safeway is going to start a drive up/pick up service.

[Zhang Fei]

[Our Walmart now has curbside pickup. Target has this also. Maybe this is the future. You order on-line, pay for it, wait in the parking lot and a store clerk delivers it to you. This may be the future for a lot of stores.]

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I have heard that in Jamaica, you go to the store, state what you want to the clerk behind the bullet-proof counter (just like a bank), hand him your money and get what you requested from the bullet proof carousel. Maybe we’ll start doing it that way here as well.

[vette6387]

It’s how they plan to compete with on-line retailers. That and being open 24/7. Companies like Walmart have realized that since they have people restocking their shelves in the off hours, adding a sales clerk or two helps pay the light bill and allows customers the freedom of 24 hour shopping. That and seriously cutting prices on virtually everything using their leverage on their suppliers. We buy nearly all of our gas at Costco. Here in CA and NV they are always $.30 to $.50 per gallon under the market for gasoline. Plus, unlike the majors, their prices move directly with the market instead of “we have to raise prices on the cheap gas in our tanks today so we have the money to pay for the more expensive product that’s coming,” but on the downside, they say “well the gas we have in our tanks cost more so we can’t lower prices until it’s gone!”

[kearnyirish2]

We’ve been using that at our Shop-Rite, which is heavily used by residents of neighboring Newark NJ (since nobody is foolish enough to operate supermarkets there). Because of those visitors, the parking spots set aside for the pick-up service are often used by lazy sh!ts who won’t park a row further away. Otherwise, it works well and is cheap. They’ll even deliver, but I’m not that lazy...

[kearnyirish2]

Our Wal-Mart is constantly in the local police news because more and more of the mutants (it is situated between Newark and Jersey City, away from the residential part of my town) are getting arrested passing through self-checkout without scanning items. Before the self-checkout, they were being arrested for just trying to walk out with shopping carts loaded with “stuff”.

Economies collapse when property laws aren’t upheld; this is how “food deserts” were originally created.