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Well, at least by me you can order groceries from walmart to have them delivered/picked up. They have an excellent website for it, so it's very easy. Everyone

by mrlala 7y ago

Well, at least by me you can order groceries from walmart to have them delivered/picked up. They have an excellent website for it, so it's very easy. Everyone who can should be ordering groceries.. I have been ordering groceries from walmart for the last month and it's great that I don't have to go in there. One time I had to do a pickup at the store (alcohol purchase..), it was very simple as well. But while I was there, I was appalled to see a walmart sized parking lot almost full of people going into the store...

turtlebits 7y ago
IME, grocery store pickup is essentially full (including Amazon fresh pickup). You only get to choose from pickup time slots several days in the future, and most the times I have checked, there was nothing available.
- mrb 7y ago
  I wrote a bot to snatch an Amazon Fresh delivery slot for my groceries. (One bot publicly available just notifies you when a slot is available, but mine goes the whole way including placing the order and paying for it.) What I've noticed is that delivery slots—at least for the San Diego area—are released once a day around 10pm-midnight, and sell out in about 10-20 minutes. So if you are obsessively checking manually every 10min around this time of the day, you are still relatively likely to find one.
mullingitover 7y ago
> Well, at least by me you can order groceries from walmart to have them delivered/picked up. Pickup/delivery options are a total failure across the board at all grocery stores right now. They're all generally a week out, or you just can't get any delivery slot at all. IMHO the grocery stores should be prioritizing staff to filling delivery orders, then pickup. If they have any staff left over after that they can operate cash registers. Right now there's a perverse incentive for everyone to pack into grocery stores because there's no other option for actually getting food in a reasonable timeframe.
- iso947 7y ago
  In the UK the supermarkets have massively failed to scale their delivery services. Ocado at least are treating regular customers well - guaranteed weekly slots etc. But rather than rejigging deliveries - perhaps drafting in more vans for delivery of non-frozen/coop stuff, and jiggling delivery routes to do neighbouring properties together (say increase delivery slots from hourly to daily to make drops more efficent), they’ve just carried on as normal.
  - 98Windows 7y ago
    Ocado would love deliver more groceries but the bottleneck in the delivery system isn't related to vans or routing
- shrimp_emoji 7y ago
  For me, Prime Now's been dead for days. Instacart? INSTANT order assignment and food within 2 hours. I was stunned. Also no item limit like in Prime Now. I got 8 cheeseless pizzas. '<'
  - adanto6840 7y ago
    Opposite experience here. We placed an order on a Sunday, next available delivery date was the following Thursday. We received hourly updates on Thursday, that the order was "being shopped, delivery delayed +1hr" -- Thursday came & went, on Friday we received no updates, and the order just sat there for a week or so. Canned response (understandably) from support which just asked us to "re-schedule it to another day" (which was at that point a week out min), and then after 2 weeks I got a cancelation email and they finally issued the $500 refund. We pay the "premium" yearly price to InstaCart, too. =| We now have no faith in them, because if we schedule a delivery for a week away and then the food doesn't arrive we're kind of stuck; PostMates has been decent, depending on the driver you get, and has continued to be same-day.
  - mullingitover 7y ago
    Instacart is dead for me. "We'll be with you shortly. We're taking a lot of orders right now, we'll be back soon!" -> Click 'Try again' -> loops back to that message.
twblalock 7y ago
Where I live, all delivery and pickup slots are booked and none of the stores are willing to commit to a date and time.
gowld 7y ago
In this scenario, Walmart has both an "Amazon" (warehouse+delivery) part and a local grocery store part. The warehouse+delivery part should stay.

by mrlala 7y ago

turtlebits 7y ago

IME, grocery store pickup is essentially full (including Amazon fresh pickup). You only get to choose from pickup time slots several days in the future, and most the times I have checked, there was nothing available.

mrb 7y ago
I wrote a bot to snatch an Amazon Fresh delivery slot for my groceries. (One bot publicly available just notifies you when a slot is available, but mine goes the whole way including placing the order and paying for it.) What I've noticed is that delivery slots—at least for the San Diego area—are released once a day around 10pm-midnight, and sell out in about 10-20 minutes. So if you are obsessively checking manually every 10min around this time of the day, you are still relatively likely to find one.

mullingitover 7y ago

> Well, at least by me you can order groceries from walmart to have them delivered/picked up. Pickup/delivery options are a total failure across the board at all grocery stores right now. They're all generally a week out, or you just can't get any delivery slot at all. IMHO the grocery stores should be prioritizing staff to filling delivery orders, then pickup. If they have any staff left over after that they can operate cash registers. Right now there's a perverse incentive for everyone to pack into grocery stores because there's no other option for actually getting food in a reasonable timeframe.

iso947 7y ago
In the UK the supermarkets have massively failed to scale their delivery services. Ocado at least are treating regular customers well - guaranteed weekly slots etc. But rather than rejigging deliveries - perhaps drafting in more vans for delivery of non-frozen/coop stuff, and jiggling delivery routes to do neighbouring properties together (say increase delivery slots from hourly to daily to make drops more efficent), they’ve just carried on as normal.
- 98Windows 7y ago
  Ocado would love deliver more groceries but the bottleneck in the delivery system isn't related to vans or routing
shrimp_emoji 7y ago
For me, Prime Now's been dead for days. Instacart? INSTANT order assignment and food within 2 hours. I was stunned. Also no item limit like in Prime Now. I got 8 cheeseless pizzas. '<'
- adanto6840 7y ago
  Opposite experience here. We placed an order on a Sunday, next available delivery date was the following Thursday. We received hourly updates on Thursday, that the order was "being shopped, delivery delayed +1hr" -- Thursday came & went, on Friday we received no updates, and the order just sat there for a week or so. Canned response (understandably) from support which just asked us to "re-schedule it to another day" (which was at that point a week out min), and then after 2 weeks I got a cancelation email and they finally issued the $500 refund. We pay the "premium" yearly price to InstaCart, too. =| We now have no faith in them, because if we schedule a delivery for a week away and then the food doesn't arrive we're kind of stuck; PostMates has been decent, depending on the driver you get, and has continued to be same-day.
- mullingitover 7y ago
  Instacart is dead for me. "We'll be with you shortly. We're taking a lot of orders right now, we'll be back soon!" -> Click 'Try again' -> loops back to that message.

twblalock 7y ago

Where I live, all delivery and pickup slots are booked and none of the stores are willing to commit to a date and time.

gowld 7y ago

In this scenario, Walmart has both an "Amazon" (warehouse+delivery) part and a local grocery store part. The warehouse+delivery part should stay.