Grocery Delivery Services

[Don Alaska]

Maybe your shopper is from Guatemala or somewhere else where they may not grow either cherries or grapes and English is not a known language. I would never order produce that I did not see first. That is one of the reasons why we never order groceries delivered, although some of the stores now supposedly do deliver this far out. It has been a recent development. I kinda like walking through the store...except for the da** old people! They plug up the aisle and never seem to know what they want.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I considered that they might be Hispanic, we have a LOT of them here in Huntsville. The thing is, they have a list of items that I ordered, so they must be able to read English and understand it if they are going to shop for the items; so not being literate didn’t seem reasonable to me, even if they have no idea what a cherry or a grape actually is.
It seems more likely that they just don’t pay that much attention to what they are putting in the carts. Most of the time, I get what i ordered, although I may have had a zucchini and a cucumber mistake before, which I can understand.

We also sometimes get whole bags of stuff that i didn’t order, and I have no idea whether it is the shopper or the driver who gets the grocery bags mixed up. Bobby goes out to the vehicle when the delivery person arrives and brings in whatever they hand him, and he has no idea what is in the bags, or is supposed to be in there; so until I start unpacking the bags, we don’t really know what we actually got.
By then, the driver is long gone, and they never come back to say we got someone else’s groceries; so I don’t know if it is their mistake, or the shopper put the orders together wrong.

If it is food that we can use, we do, and if it is something we don’t want, we give it to the neighbors, who have a family with kids and can use it. Either way, it is Walmart who comes out on the losing end of this, because whoever ordered the extra groceries they delivered wrong, is going to complain to Walmart that they are missing part of their order, and Walmart has to refund the cost to them. It would seem like it would be worthwhile to Walmart to hire good employees and train them properly.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I am beginning to think that Walmart is hiring people who can’t read !

The US is ranked at 34th in the world for literacy so it is entirely possible they really can't read. Chances are that people at a higher than a basic reading level are not applying for a dead end job at the Wally World Amusement Park. And of course, they can't hire anyone who doesn't apply. So like many US businesses, they take what they can get.

 

[Don Alaska]

The US is ranked at 34th in the world for literacy so it is entirely possible they really can't read. Chances are that people at a higher than a basic reading level are not applying for a dead end job at the Wally World Amusement Park. And of course, they can't hire anyone who doesn't apply. So like many US businesses, they take what they can get.

And we spend far and away the most on "education". The teachers' union wins.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I don't buy the literacy argument. There are plenty of pictures involves and even the word shapes are different enough for a caveman to distinguish.

A significant part of our Hispanic community knows cherries perfectly well. Migrants came to pick cherries for decades, first by hand but now also using the tarp and tree shaker method. As people settled in and became citizens, cherries became as much a normal part of the diet as among anyone here.

My guess would be lazy/rushed/distracted or just sabotaging the process out of spite or disdain for the grocer.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Maybe your shopper is from Guatemala or somewhere else where they may not grow either cherries or grapes and English is not a known language. I would never order produce that I did not see first. That is one of the reasons why we never order groceries delivered, although some of the stores now supposedly do deliver this far out. It has been a recent development. I kinda like walking through the store...except for the da** old people! They plug up the aisle and never seem to know what they want.

Jake said I always block the aisle's, I investigating all product's and forget where I'm at, he said.
We used to buy meat on sale and can it, those days are gone, it would cost a fortune. I don't like meat in the can and if power foes out we lose it all. Sometimes storms cause power loss for weeks, Helene we loss power for 9 days. ran generator continuously. We do have canned beans.
We could buy a few turkey's and can it. And we make the best fruit cakes fruit and nuts soaked in brandy overnight.