This was 90% bad from the four hour process start to end. And it should never take four hours to try and place a simple curbside grocery order and even then not get it.
I went online to place a curbside grocery order and was told by the website that I would not be able to pick up the order for two days. This seemed ridiculously inaccurate, so I called the store to verify before I accepted that date, and the person who worked in that department said, no, that is not accurate, that had happened to a few people already that day, they were not even behind, I could place the order today and pick it up today, but it had to go through the website, so the problem was with the website. He apologized for the ordering and dates problems and said I needed to call WalMart corporate and they would fix it and then I could get the order placed for pickup on the appropriate day of today - that day. I said ok. I called corporate and immediately was placed on hold for approximately twenty minutes. Which was just ridiculous. Finally a CS rep picked up and said, ok, he would find my order, and once he did, he said, it looks like we can get your order placed for two days from now. !! So once again, I explained what the store employee said. He stated that the computer told him something different. I asked for a supervisor. He said no. We then engaged in a ten minute argument with him refusing to get me a supervisor. Then the call dropped.
So I called back, and waited another twenty minutes for a different CS representative. The same thing occurred and I first said, please call the store and just see what they said, since you are not listening to me and just stating, that is what the computer is telling me. So i was put on hold. For a long long long long long time. By now it had been almost two hours. My phone finally died.
So I drove to the store. And asked for a manager. Marshall, a manager came out and I let her know what had occurred. She said she would go look up my order. I then waited for another forty five minutes on top of the fifteen I'd already been there. (My pets were in the car, etc.) After moving over to a curbside pickup spot when an employee directed me there, an associate came over and asked me if I was waiting, and I asked him if he could go find her please, she had said she was looking up my order and then never shown back up.
A different associate finally came out and said, I am sorry, she never did anything, she didn't know you were still waiting. She said something to her boss maybe. I'm not sure what happened. I can't find your order. I'm sorry for what happened. You will have to re-order.
I was on my way out into the desert for a long drive with pets and myself and needed water and food, it was late at night. That whole process took four hours of screwups and no one fixed anything, and I left with no water, no groceries, the manager did nothing and did not apologize or fix anything. She just disappeared. The whole thing was pretty shameful and a mess. A few other people apologized for other employees but that made my trip dangerous and late at night and that was Really Bad. Really Bad. I am shocked at how badly that was handled. That was ridiculous. read more