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Wal-Mart To Join Amazon In Providing In-Store Locker Service
RougeFemme writes "Amazon has been placing lockers in brick-and-mortar retail stores, such as 7-Eleven, for pickup of online purchases. Walmart plans to pilot a similar program, presumably making it easier to pick up online purchases at Wal-Mart. 'Wal-Mart hopes its network of physical stores, which number about 4,000 in the United States, will give it an edge as consumers increasingly use smart phones while they shop. Wal-Mart has been testing the shipping of online orders from a small number of its physical stores for about two years. In 2013, the company plans to expand this program from about 25 stores currently to a total of roughly 50 stores. ... Two-thirds of the U.S. population live within five miles of a Wal-Mart store."
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Does that mean that I count more?
I mean within the store. I've done Walmart pickups at a couple stores and the pickup department is way the Hell in the back of the store, as far from the entrance as they can put it. When I do in-store pickup at a local store, I do it to reduce the time I spend walking around the store, not maximize it. :P
Wow... we may see this coming to Wal-Mart Canada in 2025!
Amazon is more likely to be used by people with money to burn, people wealthier than the average WalMart customer. This will get those types into the store, and will certainly result in more purchases by those types. The long term viability will depend on Walmart making the store attractive to those types.
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It's been terrible. I predict a time-share of these lockers because unused space = revenue lost. After all, they also only have 10 cashiers open out of the 40 they have available even on weekends (the busiest) because they figure people would rather wait to save money. I shop at Publix/ Costco now because of that (better quality and my time is more valuable, at least in my area).
Walmart's customer service area is staffed by slow folks who don't give a crap. They already look and feel like USPS workers. Yes, I've switched to UPS and Fedex because again, my time > premium charged.
Anyhoo, walmart is shit, staffed with shitty people because they get paid shitty wages. I suppose that's why prices for products are low. I refuse to be part of that misery ecology.
As for Amazon, they deliver to my UPS box. I get an actual address rather than a PO Box #. You get what you paid for.
They can barely keep their shelves stocked as it is. They should nail the basics before botching a line extension.
There are some people who cannot receive packages at work and have no one at home to sign. Not even their mom.
I travel for a living and these boxes would be wonderful. Having to schedule deliveries around my travel is a PITA. Especially, from Amazon as most of their two day prime shipping usually show up a day early.
I just signed up for the UPS service to hold a few packages that were slated to arrive on time, but I had a critical failure and had to leave before it arrived.
Haven't other brick-and-morter stores offered "Ship to Store" for a while now? Is Walmart really only just now getting into that?
A functional tracking system would be a good start. It isn't like the package market is something they just can't do. They just do a crap job of it so people use the other carriers all the time. The post office could and should improve their service and they'd probably see more use.
And get yourself hooked up.
What would be nice would be to have lockers at airports. I live out in the Pacific and it would be convenient to have stuff sent to a locker at say Brisbane airport, where I pick it up for my last leg home.
Competition is healthy... Let's see if Walmart can make it happen..
Sounds like a handy way to pick up goods purchased fraudulently on a stolen card or paypal account. Walmart does accept paypal.
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Because dealing with the drecks of society waiting in the line at the "customer service" counter is just plain old gross. Honestly, a 500 pound woman in yoga pants that smells like parmesan cheese from 10 feet away is not something you want to wait behind.
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will they then place the server in a state with no sales tax,so when you order on a computer in the store they deliver it to the lock box and pretend they don't need to
add sales tax
This is all well and good, but it still means I have to go into a Walmart. Personally I would rather drag myself over broken glass than go there to get something. At least not without a tetanus shot.
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You know, when this all started, I was only carrying 8 bits. That wasn't so bad. But then it was 16. Then 32. Now I'm always carrying 64 and what was a light purse is now clogged by these massive integers, big FP numbers and flag collections you could almost make the United Nations out of.
Thank goodness Amazon has created a locker for me to put those bits down in when I shop. My Chiropractic bill has never been lower.
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Ever try to get ANYTHING from the back of the store or the desk to pick something up? IF, and that's a huge if, IF you can find a breathing human, they're all 'on break'. If you go out on the floor everyone is instructed to give the same answer to all questions "Yo, I jus started here I dun know". If you eventually find anyone in the bowels of the store who is standing behind some counter all they will do is push a few random keys, frown and give up. So if you think THESE drones are going to get your stuff placed in the right locker or any locker at all and/or will be around and capable of addressing their own mistakes while you are there......you're as dumb as they are.
I'm always baffled in trying to understand why USPS (or others) simply leave the package at the doorstep. Is that a regulation or something? I mean, what type of parcels require signature upon receiving?
In Brazil all parcels requiring signature cannot be left without a person taking responsibility for it and the post office is required to try three times (sometimes they just pretend they tried 3 times - yay for tracking) and after that they leave a notification that you now have to go the post office to pick it up.
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THIS is why he's doing it & proof of it, here -> http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3585927&cid=43295193 when others pointed out Jeremiah Cornelius forgot to submit one of the "first post spams" (masquerading as myself, by posting as AC & using some old posts of mine or other b.s. he put up), & JC mistakenly submitted one of the impersonations of myself as his registered 'luser' name here on /. forums.
Pretty pitiful actually, but like every up to no good idiot does? He screwed up & submitted it under his registered 'luser' name here, instead of his ac submittals he's been doing.
* Jeremiah Cornelius: DO YOURSELF, and the rest of us, A GIANT FAVOR MAN: Seek professional psychiatric help!
(Since Jeremiah Cornelius obviously can't get over the fact he made a spelling error on what it is HE ALLEGEDLY DID FOR A LIVING? That's not MY fault... it's HIS!)
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P.S.=> I seriously must have dusted JC (in his mind @ least) for his BAD spelling error & it "got his goat"...
I.E.-> Catching what he claimed to do as a job, for YEARS he left "PENETRATION" (correct) spelled as "PENTRATION" (incorrect) on his resume on LinkedIn & I pointed it out as he & his friends trolled me as usual (webmistressrachel, gmhowell, & crew (probably ALL JC no doubt using alterate emails or TOR to do it as a possible - I've caught "them & theirs" doing it before, ala Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person))).
So THAT is what has gotten his goat in a technical debate & his "geek angst" could only come up with *trying* to "impersonate me" in every news thread on /. for the month of March 2013 so far!
(Just to attempt to 'discredit me' as a spammer here obviously)
Doing so, by posting that "$10,000 challenge" &/or reposts of my old posts on hosts file value to end users into EVERY SINGLE NEWS ARTICLE POSTED on /. ...
It's all I can think of that *might* cause such a mentally troubled 'reaction' like the Jeremiah Cornelius is doing & there's NO QUESTION he's the one doing this spamming of nearly every posted article masquerading as myself...!
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