Walmart Testing Service That Stocks Your Fridge While You’re Not Home

Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | September 23, 2017 | Gabrielle Okun

[kevcol]

Walmart announced Friday that it will begin testing a new service that allows employees to enter a customer’s home and stock their fridge, to alleviate the stress of shopping.

The retail corporation is targeting busy families looking for a more convenient option for food delivery

[Berlin_Freeper]

Yes!

It’s like a game.

[DesertRhino]

I will absolutely never do this.

[Pilated]

No way will any of the “Goobers” who work at the closest Walmart ever enter my yard, house or garage. I only shop there every other month for items I can’t get at my other rural stores. And I hate every minute I am inside the Walmart!

[Sooth2222]

"The retail giant is currently testing the service only in Silicon Valley. For customers with internet-connected locks, a delivery person is given a one-time code that grants access. Customers receive a notification on their smartphones when a delivery person enters their home."

Better there than here! And letting low skilled, poorly paid WalMart employees into the homes of overworked highly paid techies -- what could possibly go wrong? (If the techies' drug stashes are stolen, WalMart will replace them, no?)

[aquila48]

I didn’t know Walmart had a VP of Really Stupid Ideas...

[TomGuy]

Text message:

Dear Customer, you know those photos you had hidden in your sock drawer ??? You want to buy them back???

[Pontiac]

And we love you for it.

We just don’t want to join you.

It is not a criticism, it is just an observation of the inherent differences of the sexes.

[tumblindice]

Doorstep? Fine.
Coming in my home? Ix-nay.

[D_Idaho]

Uhhh... No.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

WalMart is out of their minds.

Allowing strangers to come into your home when you’re not there?

WTF?

[EBH]

Years, errr...decades ago people used to have 'milk shoot.' In fact, many of my client's homes still have the little darlings and use them for over sized mailboxes. So what I can envision is a refrigerator size milk shoot with an electronic panel/keypad on the outside. Delivery person never needs to enter the home and the interior door could be 'locked' on the inside like a freezer door with a key on delivery day.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fact is, Amazon is eating Walmart’s lunch and they have to find some way to stem the tide.

They are just throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks.

[Fungi]

This happens everywhere—walking down the street, at restaurants, driving next to someone who is looking at his phone, everywhere! I usually look at them and say: “you need a life beyond your phone.” They always look insulted and rarely respond. While Apple has made billions off the smart phone, it has turned almost everyone into a non-sentient robot, stealing them of their humanity.

[Fungi]

You have to be crazy to use this “service.” What the hell is Walmart thinking?

[dfwgator]

Have people really gotten this lazy?

[az_gila]

No thanks. I’ll wait until they have a robot that can deliver to my house.

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A bit of hacking and that becomes a great way to case out your home...:^)

[dfwgator]

Bet 99% of the deliveries will be for beer.

[smalltownslick]

Why in the world would anyone want to let someone else pick out their groceries? So many things you have to touch and see for yourself - and if the person doing the selecting doesn’t like you, they’ll probably give you the worst quality or least ripe item.

[Macoozie]

$10 per meal? $30 bucks a day for two?
Seems a bit pricey to me.

On the other hand . . .

Back in the day, Gristedes, in NYC and some surrounding up-scale neighborhoods, had a home delivery service. Bringing deliveries to the service entrance, typically the same person all the time, known personally by the daytime household staff.

You might catch a glimpse of it in some older black & white movies on TCM.

On the other hand, there is “Deathwish”.

No home delivery for me, thank you.

[Rebelbase]

A little college fridge on the porch might work. No way anyone is going to let wally world IQ into their house.

Reminds me, I saw an old galvanized milk box at an antique place last week. They wanted $40 bucks for it.