How many times a month do you order your groceries on line and then go park, call them and wait for them to bring your groceries out to your car?

Is this a thing now?

Both Wal Mart and Sam's are taking out 12-15 pretty good parking spaces and then reserving them for On line order customers.

So Screw you ! walk in customers !

Sure sure , they have two or three other sides to the building that they could very well utilize for the same thing but That ! would take some thought

you already have three or four cars parked in the fire lanes, and you think this will help?

maybe I am the dinosaur , maybe you don't walk in people any more.

I've never done it, but anything that avoids direct contact with "The People of Walmart" can't be all bad.

I'd never do it.

I honestly think grocery stores can/will take advantage of people who are too lazy to get out of their cars.

Milk/meat/eggs about ready to expire. Crappy fruit, vegetables, etc...

By the time you get home and unpacked, what are you going to do? The same thing applies to drive through fast food places. What did Joe Pesci say in Lethal Weapon 2? "They always fuck you at the drive through".

My wife does it occasionally when she has a busy week. It has been perfect so far. No bad meats, etc.

we do our weekly grocery shopping that way.

On Sunday mornings we make a meal plan. Then we find the recipes and can go through the recipes while we are looking in the fridge or the cabinets. Through in a our usual consumables and double check to make sure don't need toilet paper.

Our grocery bill has fallen since this became the norm. We aren't wandering the aisles grabbing things that are good deals we don't need. Then there is the added bonus of it takes less time and I don't have to go in the grocery store with my four year old.


Way better than going in the store.

I've not used the Walmart or Sam's but here in FL our supermarket chain Publix is using a company called Shipt (recently purchased by Target) to deliver groceries.

My wife really likes the service. If I go to the effort of driving to the store, I would just go in and get my own stuff.

Krogers here in WV does a really good job at this. My wife loves it.
It's incredibly easy to do, and they make substitutions (always to our advantage) when something is out of stock, etc. We even get free stuff added to make up for them not having exactly what we ordered.
It's always fun to see "what did we get?" when unpacking at home. Always a pleasant surprise to be found.

I looked up Shipt, thats a whole different paradigm,
my nephew uses that also and likes it a lot!


But shipt does not inconvenience the walk in customers

do these stores tell you what is on special ? on their websites?

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Originally posted by bendable:
do these stores tell you what is on special ? on their websites?

Bendable, Kroger has their own app for smartphones that we use to create our order and pay for it. We choose a pickup time, and when we arrive, call a phone number to let them know we're there. The folks come out, point out any substitutions, etc. to us and the final amount.
And we go home. Maybe 5-8 minutes total spent at the grocery store.

The newest HEB in town has facilities for that, covered parking on one side. The grocery orders are collected by employees with large rolling carts and their lists, pulling items off shelves.

I’ve not used it. I take advantage of their electric carts. Although I make a list, we’re not as organized, and have ahhh, older memories, and often end up taking items we realize we need when we see them, so rolling around the aisles is important.

Hey, thanks for the tip bendable, didn't even know such a thing exists. I've been ordering my groceries online for delivery to my home now for a little while. It can be a bit more expensive but is another alternative for me. Not everybody here is able-bodied enough to motor inside to shop. I can still drive anywhere though. My health from stroking is kinda deteriorating more than I'd like these days and really restricts my endurance unfortunately. I wish things were different believe me but it is what it is. Allowing me order online, drive and park, have the groceries brought out really helps immensely for my situation. I never would want to infringe on others because of my condition but it cannot be avoided...unless you bendable can turn back time for me to before my brain injury, I'd love to be healthy once again and enjoy life as it were. Until that time I'll do the best I can.

This is a blessing for me, sorry to use up parking spaces. I've never applied for a handicap sticker, I'm still too damn proud and really don't want to stick out because I'm disabled, but these days it may be a consideration just to make it less taxing on my health. Not grocery stores because I just don't have it in me to do up and down the isles and I refuse to drive in those little electric carts, I'm not giving in to that yet.

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Originally posted by ASKSmith:
I'd never do it.

I honestly think grocery stores can/will take advantage of people who are too lazy to get out of their cars.

Milk/meat/eggs about ready to expire. Crappy fruit, vegetables, etc...

By the time you get home and unpacked, what are you going to do? The same thing applies to drive through fast food places. What did Joe Pesci say in Lethal Weapon 2? "They always fuck you at the drive through".

I'm very particular about the produce and meat I buy, I can't trust anyone...ANYONE to make those decisions for me.

as for parking, it may be your particular walmart. where we are, the 8 pickup spots are to the side. It does a great business, and keeps us out of the store. We do notice we have a lot less in last minute purchases. I guess with 5 kids we can get a bit undisciplined when it comes to purchases. so for us, the pickup saves time and money.

We don't have that in Jerkwater. If we did, I can guarantee you the stuff they'd fob off on you would be terrible.

My wife has had 100% positive experience using the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market online order system.

My brother and his wife use the HEB service. They have a 6 month old so it saves having to get in/out of the car to do their grocery shopping.

Seeing the comments above I do see how it could cut down on the amount of overage we usually run into when shopping with hungry kids. May have to give it a shot this next week.

It's the future!

Here in Michigan we have a large chain store called "Meijer", you order online, they deliver to your door for a fee.

What’s next? Are they going to thump your watermelons for me too? Are they giving up on all my impulse purchases?
If they really wanted to speed things up, they’d get rid of those #@$& wispy impossible to open plastic bags in the produce section.
Curmudgeon rant off.