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Utterly despise it. I made an order with eight items in it yesterday, and today they sent a driver all the way out here to where I live in the relative boonies[1] just to deliver one of those eight items. The rest of the order indicates that it "arrives today by 10pm." I'm (half-)facetiously expecting each item to be its own separate delivery now. I would have picked the "save gas/fewer deliveries" option or whatever it is, had that been presented to me, but it was all showing as one single delivery, so I didn't even get that to select. And yet, here we are, with someone coming all the way here just to put 1/8th of my order on our porch.
As far as I'm concerned, they really can/should wait until the entire order is ready before dispatching a delivery driver, and especially not just deliver a single thing (unless it's the last thing left to be delivered that might have been somehow missing from a prior delivery, which was not the case here).
They used to allow a "shipping" option, in addition to the "pickup" and "delivery" options, in which case, things would just be sent by FedEx or UPS or whatever, and it would usually be delivered in one or two packages tops. However, I did not see the "shipping" option when I made my most recent order at all, which was annoying because I'd have picked it had it been there.
(EDIT - 4:15pm)
Just received a text saying that the remaining seven items I ordered are estimated to be delivered by "5:06pm" today. Also, the delivery driver, according to the fancy-pants active-time map associated with my order on the Walmart website, apparently is "3 stops away." However they are also approaching from a southwesterly direction, which is extremely odd considering that "my" Walmart is northeast from here. Like, seriously, the delivery driver is currently about twice as far away from here to the southwest than "my" Walmart is from here to the northeast. So, possibly, they're delivering from a Walmart that is even farther away than the one I had selected as "my" Walmart, or else they delivered first to people who live even farther away from "my" Walmart than I do. (There are definitely other Walmart stores closer to where that delivery driver is at the moment than "my" Walmart is, though... but not closer to here). Go figure.
(/EDIT)
(EDIT 2 - 5:25pm)
And then, on top of all that, the stupid motherfucker delivered it to the wrong goddamn house, and I had to walk over to the next door neighbors' house and get my shit before one of their several dogs tore it up or pissed on it or whatever. At least the first driver managed to deliver to the correct house.
(/EDIT 2)
[1] - The closest Walmart to where I live, i.e. the one I have selected as "my" store, is around 12 (driving) miles away.
As far as I'm concerned, they really can/should wait until the entire order is ready before dispatching a delivery driver, and especially not just deliver a single thing (unless it's the last thing left to be delivered that might have been somehow missing from a prior delivery, which was not the case here).
They used to allow a "shipping" option, in addition to the "pickup" and "delivery" options, in which case, things would just be sent by FedEx or UPS or whatever, and it would usually be delivered in one or two packages tops. However, I did not see the "shipping" option when I made my most recent order at all, which was annoying because I'd have picked it had it been there.
(EDIT - 4:15pm)
Just received a text saying that the remaining seven items I ordered are estimated to be delivered by "5:06pm" today. Also, the delivery driver, according to the fancy-pants active-time map associated with my order on the Walmart website, apparently is "3 stops away." However they are also approaching from a southwesterly direction, which is extremely odd considering that "my" Walmart is northeast from here. Like, seriously, the delivery driver is currently about twice as far away from here to the southwest than "my" Walmart is from here to the northeast. So, possibly, they're delivering from a Walmart that is even farther away than the one I had selected as "my" Walmart, or else they delivered first to people who live even farther away from "my" Walmart than I do. (There are definitely other Walmart stores closer to where that delivery driver is at the moment than "my" Walmart is, though... but not closer to here). Go figure.
(/EDIT)
(EDIT 2 - 5:25pm)
And then, on top of all that, the stupid motherfucker delivered it to the wrong goddamn house, and I had to walk over to the next door neighbors' house and get my shit before one of their several dogs tore it up or pissed on it or whatever. At least the first driver managed to deliver to the correct house.
(/EDIT 2)
[1] - The closest Walmart to where I live, i.e. the one I have selected as "my" store, is around 12 (driving) miles away.
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Date: 2026-04-22 10:40 pm (UTC)From:Did they also pack your item into a small box and then pack that small box into a larger box?
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Date: 2026-04-22 11:18 pm (UTC)From: