Posted on 09/24/2017 5:39:35 AM PDT by 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
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It wasn’t unusual years ago to have dairy products delivered to your doorstep.
Of course that was back when you could leave your doors unlocked. Someone at Wallyworld had a New Coke moment.
In the house? no Way.
But . . .
I remember “The Milk Man”.
Dairy products delivered twice a week.
Worked out just fine for many years.
The Paperboy, Postman etc . . . all home deliveries.
(More often than not, male, hence the names. So don’t beat me up about it.)
Instead of trying idiotic ideas like this, Wal Mart should provide better service in their stores. In the several Wal Mart stores around us it is rare to find an employee to provide help when you can’t find something (unless it is restock day). Or put their efforts towards better online service/support which is severely lacking.
I can see your major was not in math! $10 x 2 = $20
Not a bad price for a restaurant quality meal for two. Even if it was $30 instead of $20. Either way, a fraction of my hourly income. I usually spend more than that on lunch in the city.
I'm very familiar with Gristedes. They are one of my clients.
Home delivery of food has gone mainstream. It's not just NYC. People are now getting meal kits delivered in Little Rock, AK and Butte, ID.
For me, it's a lifestyle choice. I'm up at 4:30am to make my morning train to Manhattan. I'm home between 7 and 7:30pm. Wife has Blue Apron meal waiting for me and it's restaurant quality. I make it up for her on weekends when I'm home. Today, I have NY strip and vegetables from the local farm markets - corn on cob, summer squash, hot peppers, some broccoli and some Kerrygold butter. This morning, I made my "homemade Egg McMuffins" which is Swiss cheese, sizzling bacon, slices of fresh tomato and fried eggs over easy on some English muffins.
It's a fact of life for people of working age. I can't expect my wife to be Donna Reed when she's working too. I suppose when we retire, We'll go back to clipping coupons and buying ingredients in bulk to cook at home - but by then, it will likely be delivered at home. I hardly ever go into a supermarket these days.
Indeed just what people need another way to be fat and lazy.
“Why in the world would anyone want to let someone else pick out their groceries?”
indeed. and not just fresh veg and fruit, but avoiding dented cans and soon-to-expire meat.
“While Apple has made billions off the smart phone, it has turned almost everyone into a non-sentient robot, stealing them of their humanity.”
All by design, Comrade. All. By. Design.
Another thing I’ve noticed lately are the ads for those companies that will test your DNA and tell you ‘what’ you are comprised of. I have YET to see ANY results that have anyone listed even as HALF-something. Like, I know I am 1/2 German, 1/4 English and 1/4 Bohemian Mutt based upon who my Parents and Grandparents are.
ALL of the results for people shown are only tiny percentages of a whole bunch of stuff.
So, to ME, what they’re trying to sell is the One World Order and EVERYONE belongs to the Globalists and we’d just better get on board with that, toot sweet!
But, the Socialists can’t have it BOTH ways - you are either an EVIL White Supremacist (which seem non-existent due to DNA pigeon-holing) or you are a Child of the World.
Well, which is it? *SMIRK*
“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.”
uh, yeah. internet-connected locks. one-time codes. notification on smart phone.
not gonna happen for most regular folks.
Thanks. My husband has 7 weeks to go till retirement, and I WOULD like a break from cooking/prepping I’ve done for the past 25+ years (since I quit work)....so 3 nights a week having someone else figure out what to eat would be great. And, my husband can follow the directions for those meals.
“For most men shopping is a necessary evil. “
indeed. I don’t “shop”, but I DO buy stuff, mostly online though, except for hardware and groceries at brick and mortar stores. for the latter, i have lists for what i need, so i don’t exactly consider that “shopping”: i consider it buying.
I’m picky about the quality of the food i buy, so specific kinds of things are bought at specific stores, so buying trips are clustered with many purchases and errands run in serial fashion to save time, money and aggregation.
i suppose if i didn’t enjoy cooking so much, particularly the creativity of creating my own dishes and recipes using my own techniques, i’d give the blue apron types of deals a try. maybe when i get too decrepit to want to cook, that’s what i’ll do.
Our Walmart here is fine for service...but, this is Oregon.
You deserve a break. And the instructions are very good and printed on double-sided glossy 8 1/2 x 11 cards. I’ve never had a problem following them. All you need is basic cooking skills which any self-respecting man should already have. We save all of them for future reference as you can make favorite dishes as much as you want if you obtain the ingredients.
Like I said:
For most men shopping is a necessary evil.
Something to be planned and carefully executed; like a raid on an enemy stronghold.
Men, approach shopping (buying), with a strategic outlook. Our list are our plans for battle. We attack shopping with a goal in mind. We achieve that goal and retreat to home base with the battle won but the war goes on.
I think what you are referring to is a “ Milk Safe ”
Originally intended to keep your delivered milk safe from animal such as raccoons from the time the delivery man left it until the customer collected it.
Just steal the whole fridge.
Don't forget posting days for EBT/SNAP/Food Stamp/Whatever they call it this week payments.
In any event, I've never had to wait at the Walmart grocery; there is sometimes a significant line at the big Walmart, but it moves quickly.
THAT might be the problem right there, "longtime", not the phone so much. :-)
We don’t have the small grocery store. Ours is in a full
sized Walmart. It takes up 25-30% of the store space. They
have gone to a lot more self scans now, 20 or so. Thus not
a lot of checkers at anyone time, sometime only 3 or 4.
The Walmart employees going in to your home alone would have to be bonded. Ain’t no bondable people that will work for $12/hour.
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