Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers

If there's one thing i want, it's people that shop at Wal-Mart handling my stuff and showing up at my house.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013...E92R03820130328?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

 

If she's hot, it would be better than Zags, THAT's fer sures!!

 

Hahahahahahahaha!

 

Yeah because hot Chics would love to deliver packages for Walmart! :maris:

 

Hot chicks have been known to do more degrading things

 

Well that's for a lot of money. You suppose Walmart will pay stripper or prostitute rates?

 

This is true. Very, very true.

PS: I tip well.

 

Yup, work for free. The Wal Mart way! They supposedly get a small discount to cover gas, but if they are in an accident Wal Mart doesn't cover it or pay insurance. If they get attacked by a crazy customer it's their problem. If they get lost and wander around the gas is on them. If the package is damaged they can't prove it was OK when it left the store.

 

Pretty sure its illegal for a corporation to give away your address to a private citizen. Which is what these people delivering packages would be since Wal-MART wouldn't pay them.

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If true, this is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard a company do.

 

Seems pretty smart to me.

I would assume Walmart would vet drivers in some way. Basically, if they fuck up a delivery to your home you rate the deliverer and if that driver has a few negative ratings they discontinue using that person.

As for liability, Walmart has to price insurance into their current delivery system anyway. The only question is whether Joe Public is more likely to damage a box than a Fedex delivery person. Personally, I think it's a coin flip. If the deliverer knows he'll make an easy $20 delivering to, say, 5 house in an hour, he's probably not going to fuck that deal up.

This delivery model would seem to drastically cut down on packaging costs, fuel costs, drive time. You don't have to box anything if it's just going in somebody's trunk.

Even more interestingly, it opens up the option to eventually order things like produce, dairy, eggs and meat online, because it will deliver within an hour or two instead of days.

Online grocery shopping has never been that viable because it always relied on maintaining a fleet of vans/drivers and all the cost/headache that entails. If Walmart only has to pay for 10-15 minutes of inconvenience for the driver, suddenly it may make more sense.

Very interesting concept.

 

I used to deliver pizzas. If I fucked up a pizza, I paid for it. If I got attacked by a crazy customer, it was my problem. If I wandered around wasting gas, it came out of my wallet (Pizza Hut paid a flat $1/delivery to cover my gas/car). Sounds like pizza delivery is a massive scam aimed at beating down the working man. I hope you never ordered pizza.

Anyway, I think a lot of people here are assuming the Walmart stereotypical 400lb mumu-wearing Rascal driver would be doing the delivery. I suspect it'd be more like guys like me. I sometimes shop at Walmart. I own a minivan that's never really too full. I'm polite and have a great credit history. I think it'd be fun to take a few minutes to deliver groceries a couple times a month to make beer money, as long as the houses are on my way and the pay was significant enough to be worth my time. If a customer gets all confrontational about something (I doubt it'd happen--it rarely did delivering pizzas 20 years ago) I'd laugh it off.

 

You were still employed with those companies though. Will they be piss testing these people? Will they be doing background checks? This just seems like it will open up a can of worms. What's to stop someone from stealing your shit? What's to stop someone from casing your house? What's to stop someone from tampering with your item, and if it's food possibly poisoning it or something? How about that person seeing that a woman lives alone and coming back to rape them later?

I understand that there's a similar risk when you have a UPS guy or a Fedex guy delivering to you, but those people are known to the company. They are tested, they are checked, and they are accountable. If Wal-mart plans on using regular people in a similar fashion, they have to perform similar checks to ensure some psycho isn't delivering my package to me. And if they have to perform these checks, what's the difference with actually employing someone and doing it right?

All seems gimmicky and like some stupid idea that was thrown out as a joke at a meeting by some underling.

 

Lol, sounds like a horrible idea. Good luck with a driver follow up if a package gets lost

 

Lol, sounds like a horrible idea. Good luck with a driver follow up if a package gets lost

 

Lol, sounds like a horrible idea. Good luck with a driver follow up if a package gets lost

 

Lol, sounds like a horrible idea. Good luck with a driver follow up if a package gets lost.

 

Lol, sounds like a horrible idea. Good luck with a driver follow up if a package gets lost

 

Lol, sounds like a horrible idea. Good luck with a driver follow up if a package gets lost.

 

Padding our post count, are we?