I just don't know. I'm basing my review on GoPuff, which is BevMo. My very first order a few months ago, I'm called and told that they're in the process of filling my order, but they don't have Coke. I laughed because I thought he was joking, but I quickly learned he wasn't. I said dude, are you serious??? This is BevMo, how on earth could you be out of Coke? That's like Alhambra saying they're out of water. It turns out they had different types of regular Coke, but not the 12 ounce cans 12 to a pack (fridge pack). I ended up getting five 18 ounce bottles. I could make this a really long review with specific item after specific item being out of stock. But I'll make it short by telling the lowlights of my five orders from there. (I'm really trying to support a business with great potential, but I'm assuming Corporate doesn't care but the line-level workers do.
-Almost everything I've ever ordered was immediately out of stock after I ordered it. This started back in March. There are 30+ items out of stock where I've tapped the button that says "Notify me when back in stock". I've never been notified of one single item returning to stock.
-Strongly suggest DO NOT BUY any type of hot dog bun, hamburger bun, or any bread item except for a loaf of white bread or wheat bread. Those two are fresh. Literally everything else is frozen, and I'm guessing they've been frozen for months. The frozen bread items are freezer burned on one side, and soggy on the other as the interior frost in the bag melts. They actually put these items in their freezer in the thin non-freezer bags that the manufacturer puts them in. Those micro-thin bags are made for a store shelf for just a few days, they are NOT made for freezer storage. I got into an argument with customer service using their "chat" feature because she said yes they are made for the freezer. WOW. That's "Food Storage 101". How can someone in the food business not know this. I finally sent her a link on proper storage of bread in a freezer. I don't know if they fixed this issue, but I won't be trying again.
They are still out of basics that I ordered months ago. Why?? The Ben & Jerry ice cream flavor I ordered has been out of stock for four months. So I switched to an in-stock flavor (The Tonight Dough), and guess what? Yup, out of stock. The excuse is that it's hard to keep B&J in stock. SERIOUSLY???? Um, no, it is not. I checked EVERY store in a 3 mil radius using B&J's webpage. Everyone is in stock except GoPuff. In my opinion, that points to a management problem. All flavors are available right now all around them: Smart and Final, Safeway, Walgreens's, CVS, and many more. GoPuff is the only business that has this "stock" problem. Listen guys, an ice cream company is not going to crank down their output during their most profitable time of the year. They just won't.
I'll stop here because I can write so much more and you'll get bored. LOL The bottom line is that, in my opinion, skip GoPuff unless they get their issues worked out. And don't buy any of their cheese!!! I think they freeze that also but I'm not sure. I've had THREE moldy cheeses delivered. I've also had items that were beyond their "Best By" date and/or within a few days of it. Right now they're a mess as far as delivering freshness and keeping things in-stock.
I paused writing this for a few weeks and now I'm back, and I'm about to check their app to see if ANY of the 30+ items out of stock that I wanted are back in yet. Let's see what I find.....
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They're still out of every single product I ordered in March and April where I apparently took the last ONE of everything. I'm going to attach screenshots to this review so that you can see for yourselves that I can't make this stuff up! They have been out of eggs, milk, ice cream, Coke 12 packs, cereal, and so many more regular staples that people need.
Unfortunately, I really do hate to say this, but I've given up on GoPuff. I think the concept is great if they only provided what they say they have, and here is a great example from a week or two ago: I BBB had a Notification on my iPhone from GoPuff. It told me that this is National Ice Cream Day (or week, or month, or something). When I saw that, the first thing that went through my mind was, "Come on!!! Are they announcing this while being out of stock of most ice cream varieties and flavors??" I thought there's no way they would actually do that. So I went to the search box within the GoPuff app, and B I typed, "ice cream" (without the quotes). Yes indeed, they REALLY did it!! They were advertising ice cream specials without having the ice cream in stock!!
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