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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."
You realize the Amazon has been trialing same-day delivery of orders? This simply provides them with a cheaper (and more secure) way to deliver to you - you don't have to worry about the neighbor kid stealing stuff off your front porch, and they only have to deliver to one location rather than to 50 different houses.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Why the hell do I want to drive across town to a Walmart to pickup my stuff when I can have a guy deliver it to my door?
You might not want to do it, so don't.
Personally, I'm at work all day, and don't want someone stealing something delived off my porch while I'm at work. I'd prefer a locker I can pick up things from that will be secured until I can get at them.
Not everyone works at home, has a stay-at-home spouse, or lives in an are where they trust no one will every steal a delivery left out.
Please.
Last year, the USPS raised my 6 month P.O. box rental fee by 41%. It seems strange that they raised the rental rates even while fewer P.O. boxes were being rented in a down economy.
It just shows how the USPS (or Congress, who sets the rates) are disconnected from reality.
It is called death throes if I'm not mistaken.
Forced to swallow a poison pill and forbidden to spit (or vomit) it out.
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