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Hit the nail on the head. Walmart Plus is my goto these days. Always two day shipping, and if they have it in the store, you can have it brought to you same d

Hit the nail on the head. Walmart Plus is my goto these days. Always two day shipping, and if they have it in the store, you can have it brought to you same day. And sometimes even if you say you want it shipped, they'll still just drive it over if it's in the store. They do have third party sellers, I ignore them completely. I basically use Amazon for things Walmart doesn't carry, and things I don't like WM quality on. Hint to anyone like me that had previously avoided WM for years: they've recently started carrying higher quality, and higher priced things. It's not all bottom barrel custom garbage anymore, but that still exists and the price reflects it.

m-p-3 5y ago
> Walmart Plus Is that US-only?
- silisili 5y ago
  For the time being, it seems.
tzs 5y ago
Walmart+ has been great for pandemic shopping. It has two features that help. 1. Free delivery on grocery orders. 2. "Scan and Go". When shopping in-store you scan items using the Walmart app on your phone. At check out, you scan a QR code on the self checkout terminal, tell it how many bags you are using, hit the pay button, and you are done. It takes under 10 seconds. With Scan and Go I can do my in-store shopping at a time when the store does not have many customers (such as 9 AM on a weekday) so it is easy to avoid coming anywhere near other shoppers as I grab items, scan them, and dump them in my cart. Then it is 10 seconds through the self checkout (and the terminals are far enough apart in the self checkout area that I don't have to be close to anyone else) and I'm heading out the door. I don't bag my groceries there--I just keep them loose in the shopping cart until I reach my car. I then transfer them to my cloth bags there. It's a little slower if you have items sold by weight. When you scan those it tells you you will have to weigh them at checkout. At checkout it prompts you to put them on the scale, weighs them, and adds them to your order.
- silisili 5y ago
  Wow, I had no idea that 2 existed. I'm a bit of a Luddite it seems, I still get awkward with self checkout. But this sounds like a really cool idea. So you can bring your own tote bags and fill them as you go, then at the end just...pay? Sounds awesome. But also sounds really ripe for abuse, unfortunately.
  - callahad 5y ago
    > So you can bring your own tote bags and fill them as you go, then at the end just...pay? Exactly. It's become more or less a standard option in the UK, with most larger supermarkets even offering a wall of handheld scanners that clip onto your cart if you don't want to use your phone. Still strikes me as weird, but that's probably just me getting old. Not sure how they deal with fraud.
    - Closi 5y ago
      > Not sure how they deal with fraud. When you scan the QR code at the end it will usually tell you just to pay, but sometimes it will ask you to wait for an attendant to check that you have scanned everything correctly. Assuming everything was accurate, it then updates a ‘confidence’ score in the background for you - and if you always scan everything correctly the checks quickly become less frequent / almost non-existent. If you always scan everything wrong, the attendants will be asked to check it every time.
      - callahad 5y ago
        Ah, hence the requirement of joining the loyalty programme -- lets them track scores even when using a store-provided scanner. Makes sense. Thanks!
        ed_elliott_asc 5y ago
        They will get more value from the extra data they collect on people and basket data than from the extra % of fraud that will inevitably happen.
chaostheory 5y ago
Doesn’t Walmart do co-mingling just like Amazon now?

m-p-3 5y ago

> Walmart Plus Is that US-only?

silisili 5y ago
For the time being, it seems.

tzs 5y ago

Walmart+ has been great for pandemic shopping. It has two features that help. 1. Free delivery on grocery orders. 2. "Scan and Go". When shopping in-store you scan items using the Walmart app on your phone. At check out, you scan a QR code on the self checkout terminal, tell it how many bags you are using, hit the pay button, and you are done. It takes under 10 seconds. With Scan and Go I can do my in-store shopping at a time when the store does not have many customers (such as 9 AM on a weekday) so it is easy to avoid coming anywhere near other shoppers as I grab items, scan them, and dump them in my cart. Then it is 10 seconds through the self checkout (and the terminals are far enough apart in the self checkout area that I don't have to be close to anyone else) and I'm heading out the door. I don't bag my groceries there--I just keep them loose in the shopping cart until I reach my car. I then transfer them to my cloth bags there. It's a little slower if you have items sold by weight. When you scan those it tells you you will have to weigh them at checkout. At checkout it prompts you to put them on the scale, weighs them, and adds them to your order.

silisili 5y ago
Wow, I had no idea that 2 existed. I'm a bit of a Luddite it seems, I still get awkward with self checkout. But this sounds like a really cool idea. So you can bring your own tote bags and fill them as you go, then at the end just...pay? Sounds awesome. But also sounds really ripe for abuse, unfortunately.
- callahad 5y ago
  > So you can bring your own tote bags and fill them as you go, then at the end just...pay? Exactly. It's become more or less a standard option in the UK, with most larger supermarkets even offering a wall of handheld scanners that clip onto your cart if you don't want to use your phone. Still strikes me as weird, but that's probably just me getting old. Not sure how they deal with fraud.
  - Closi 5y ago
    > Not sure how they deal with fraud. When you scan the QR code at the end it will usually tell you just to pay, but sometimes it will ask you to wait for an attendant to check that you have scanned everything correctly. Assuming everything was accurate, it then updates a ‘confidence’ score in the background for you - and if you always scan everything correctly the checks quickly become less frequent / almost non-existent. If you always scan everything wrong, the attendants will be asked to check it every time.
    - callahad 5y ago
      Ah, hence the requirement of joining the loyalty programme -- lets them track scores even when using a store-provided scanner. Makes sense. Thanks!
      - ed_elliott_asc 5y ago
        They will get more value from the extra data they collect on people and basket data than from the extra % of fraud that will inevitably happen.

chaostheory 5y ago

Doesn’t Walmart do co-mingling just like Amazon now?