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No way in H*LL will I let anything like this occur in my household.
I recently was forced to spend an entire day with extended family. They talked little and had their faces in their phones 99.999% of the time.
And these are outwardly functional-looking adults in their 30’s and 40’s! I’m pretty sure they’d LOVE this service!
*Rolleyes*
Me and my old-timey flip-phone couldn’t WAIT to get out of the city and back to our farm...where I grow and/or raise a good portion of our groceries.
P.S. And I’m the ‘weirdo’ in the family, LOL!
Walmart employees in your house? What could go wrong with that?
They will also look in on your children up in their bedrooms.
This sounds like one of the stupidest ideas EVER.
On top of the danger to the consumer, how about danger to the Wal-Mart employee? Dogs? Whatever?
Just a horrible idea all around.
I could see some people signing on for this but frankly very few are going to want strangers handling the contents of their fridge let alone having them in the house unattended. Maybe somebody can come up with a fridge with an outside access panel like those firewood doors beside fireplaces. Even then there’s an ick factor. I predict a fail on this one.
STRESS?!!!
For my wife, shopping is like Zen meditation.
She can’t understand my reluctance to go with her.
Actually, it’s coming more than the story indicates.
Other high tech retailers are exploring the prospect of improved home security which can be authorized to let a particular person/business into a home within a narrow time window, with cameras ensuring be behaves & leaves. Don’t want a box left at your door for local hoodlums to steal? Order with an app that will make the arrangements via your phone & home automation.
Every time I go to Walmart the shelves and refrigerators are empty so turnabout is fair play I suppose.
No thanks. I’ll wait until they have a robot that can deliver to my house.
We used to pop into a Walmart in the city on Friday night just to watch the freak show. I always told the kids that no matter how outlandish anyone looked, they could always land a job at Walmart.
I find shopping very difficult these days, but I’d rather pay a relative if need be.
Going food shopping is one of my favorite things to do. Often my wife has to drag me out.
If Walmart would take the employees they would need to deliver food, and simply put them on the checkout registers, it would significantly reduce one of the reasons I rarely visit their store - long checkout lines despite an abundance of empty, unmanned checkout stations.
I suppose your smart refrigerator can keep track of what you use, and since it would be connected to the internet as is your front door lock, the refrigerator can place the order and let the Wal-mart delivery person in any time it wants. And since the Internet of Things doesn’t have much in the way of security, anybody with minimal hacking skills can get in, as well.
Surely gonna lead to more of those WMart Pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good examples of this is online shopping (most people on Free Republic hadn't heard of Amazon when it started), paying for purchases with a mobile device (i.e. ApplePay), and having strangers pick you up in their personal cars (Uber, Lyft).
In this case, I don't think Wal-Mart employees entering your home is ever going to be a thing. However, what I do see is more refrigerators kept in garages or some type of refrigerated device kept outside the home and accessible by a one-time keycode - probably bar-coded on your order form.
Already, millions of people (including myself) are having meal kits delivered to their doorstep each week by way of upstarts like Blue Apron, Home Chef, Hello Fresh, Sun Basket and Martha & Marley Spoon. This is a rapidly growing space and a very competitive market. This is one of the main reason Amazon acquired Whole Foods, Inc.
The next step obviously is moving beyond meal kits packed in ice (if you don't get the box inside by evening, the ice is melted and the food is getting warm) and having a food delivery system where your food will remain fresh for several days after delivery with no human intervention. You can be away for the weekend and bring your purchases inside the house (or have your servants do it).
Some here scoffed at meal delivery services as well but they are both economical and very nutritious. Speaking for myself, I get three meals delivered each week for my wife and I for under $10 per meal. The ingredients are shipped to us (including any necessary spices) and they are restaurant quality with excellent instructions (yes, you do have to know how to do some basic cooking). Takes about a half hour to prepare as you have all the ingredients pre-measured and ready to mix and cook.
So home delivery of food items is a huge market and within 10 years, most Americans, especially younger affluent consumers, will have the majority of their groceries delivered to their homes.
One vision I have is that Amazon.com trucks (and other competitors) will have refrigerated trucks circling neighborhoods laden with common food items. If you are making dinner at home and forget to get mushrooms, you can have them delivered to your doorstep in a matter of a few minutes. This is the future of food shopping as grocery stores are low-margin, inefficient and soon to be as archaic as sending telegrams, writing personal checks to pay bills, stamping envelopes and rotary telephones.
Police: Did you think they are honest? A Walmart employee?!?!
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?)
I didn’t know Walmart had a VP of Really Stupid Ideas...