u/happyluckystar

From my personal observations and LIFE EXPERIENCE, about 1 in 1,000 of you will understand what I'm saying. The rest of you will be quite loud with your stupid retarded moron opinions.

I'm done with the numbers. Average intelligence whatever. I don't believe it. I seriously think 70% of people would not be able to survive on their own without modern conveniences like grocery stores or modern healthcare.

You are carried by people more intelligent than you. They generate your electricity, they maintain systems like plumbing and sewage. They maintain society while you can barely form a coherent sentence.

Most of you are as good as zombies. That's what I feel like I'm walking amongst when I'm out in the public. You are zombies.

Not bragging, just saying I'm grateful. Lots of trickery going on, but still enough decent ones to make it worth it.

Maybe I'm in a good zone? It's not a big city, but it's not a small town either. I sometimes have to spend 20 minutes rejecting, but most of the time a decent order pops up on the way back or shortly after I get back.

As far as money goes, the truth is I make the most money on days where I focus on keeping moving. My total daily amount can go up a lot if I compromise and take some somewhat decent orders just so I can keep moving. More work, but more money.

On the other hand, if I don't feel like doing that, I can cherry pick and make a bit less. It does seem like bangers come around more if I just keep active. Like if I do a crappy one for $17, 3 miles and one drop off, I'll come back and get hit with a $27, 30 item, one drop. 🤷

11 drops, 63 bucks, 40 miles. But it was going to end pretty close to the other Walmart so it wasn't that bad.

The bulk of it was one customer. The customer who also requested a confirmation code delivery. And guess what? NOBODY'S HOME!!!

Ring ring, call, yell around back, ring ring (I can hear the doorbell inside). Waited another 5 minutes. Loaded the car, then initiated a return.

Bam! $17 off the offer. Nice. Plus it had to go back to the original Walmart, not the one I was going to be close to at the end of the trip. NOICE!!!!!

OVER 60 MILES FOR 45 BUCKS!

I complained to support. The guy said they've been getting a lot of complaints about that.

The perishables definitely went in the trash because they were already out for 2 hours, because the return was initiated when I still had seven drops left.

Decent pay. Customer was obviously an idiot. No lights on at night. Big loose dog that was obviously a pitbull mix.

I considered returning the order, but I gave the gate door a test to see how the dog would react.

Of course the dog was sniffing me every time I went in. And of course I had to make sure the gate was fully closed every trip back, because I guess it would be on me if the dog got out.

Obviously a paranoid customer who thinks the dog is protecting them from a potential weirdo.

Definitely a schizo customer.

BUT, I'm seeing more junk offers sit. I just started three and a half weeks ago. I'm seeing a lot of stuff sit now that used to be grabbed up. Like $44 for 8 drop offs 30 miles.

A lot of new people doing shopping. Grabbing stuff and throwing it in the cart. I sort through crushed boxes and broken eggs. These people aren't doing that.

Sure, at first it will look like a great decision for Walmart. Just wait until the complaints pile up. Store shrinkage, and deactivations.

No one with any common sense is going to do a shopping order for 12 bucks, 19 mile round trip, and two drop offs.

I lost an hour of working time just cherry picking today. But with the mileage and pay I think it was worth it. Let the new drivers take the losing orders. It took me a few to realize what's going on. They will see after a week or two that it's not worth shopping for 50 items with 2 drop offs for $22 pre-tax.

Here today, gone tomorrow.

Sell junk food at junk food prices and people will keep coming back.

So good food at good food prices and people will keep coming back.

If you sell junk at good food prices, people won't come back.

I rest my case.

This idea can make deliveries more profitable for Walmart which means they don't have to go cheap on delivery costs. Not saying they still won't, but it gives them less of a need to.

No one likes to get smacked in the face with a big fee on top of their order. Solution: have two different pricings for all products. An in-store price and a delivery price.

The delivery price should obviously be higher for bulky and heavy items. And for multiple quantities of small items that fee can drop.

Adding an extra dollar per case of water really isn't much. The water is already cheap anyway. Same with litter and big bags of pet food. Adding a dollar or $1.50 to each of those wouldn't be much to the customer considering what they're getting.

It helps to blend the costs.

The statistic is a lie. Not everyone has the same odds of getting into a fatal car accident. 49.9999% of the population is below average intelligence. I'm certain idiots are the majority of those killed in car accidents.

Plus those driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Elderly with dementia.

A fully functioning human, at or above average intelligence, I believe, is safer to drive across the country than to fly across the country.

Was making 33 an hour and cold quit months ago. Gigging now. I love it. I work when I want. But the money isn't as good as an hourly job.

I'm burnt with employers. I can't deal with the dynamics anymore. Employee A doesn't want to teach you, employee B is passive aggressive. Employee C thinks they should have your job. Spiteful employees for no reason. The list goes on.

And of course you're expected to do the work of three people with a smile. Management is aloof living in a fantasy world. Always floating around all happy like everything is great. It's not great. Fuck you.

I do want a good paying job with bennies again. But I don't think I can hold one. I know what the expectations are.

That whole system hasn't been rolled out in my area yet. I see the negatives in it but as someone doing this full time I think I would benefit from having priority.

Especially when it's rewarded for putting in a lot of time. Why do people who want to do five deliveries a week think they should get banger offers?

We all know energy is never lost. Only converted. But space is vast. Once all the stars burn out and all the gas giants get blown apart, the sheer spread of all the energy and matter will be so dilute that it may as well have disappeared.

I think our universe is young. So many stars. And us. There's a lot of energy to be dissipated.

Imagine being an intelligent species on the end of it. Not too many stars, not many galaxies. Mostly dark. Imagine the scientists delivering the news that you're actually in a dying universe.

No life form on the planet puts out more than it takes in. We are energy converters.

Easily three meals worth of meat from the $5 rotisserie. Easily a full 24 to 36 hours of eating from the $9 pizza.

Over two days of eating for $15.

The salted pretzels are also a calorie bomb for just a dollar. Could easily do a meal with some rotisserie and a pretzel.

I don't want to do that. Just saying it's kind of possible.

Because the workers don't care. They get paid by the hour. I spend time re-bagging things because they'll throw in bread with jars and stuff. Smashed eggs.

As far as the customer is concerned, it's on me. So goodbye tip if their bread is squished.

I usually wait 10 plus minutes for a pickup order. When that time could have been spent shopping. Pickups aren't really that great.

GMDs are better than pickups in my opinion.

The estimates are fake. 50 items is easily over an hour of shopping. Plus delivery.

Good luck with that. Yeah just a mile away. But an hour and a half in the store.

You can have it. And these types of orders get taken away really fast. Fine by me. Take it. I'm not.

Good money for low miles and small orders after 9:00 pm. But a lot of stuff is out of stock at that hour. It's kind of like a roll of dice taking these orders.

When I take these I don't bother communicating with customers. Out of stock is out of stock. Too bad for them if they didn't opt for substitutions. And if a substitution is still pending at checkout, well guess what, you're getting it.

Closed out my day with a 3-mile delivery. Two 44 lb bags of dog food, two 35 lb buckets of cat litter. Two baby food items. 7 minutes of shopping. Not bad but a lot of Labor. $21. I would not have taken it if it was far from home. 5 miles to home from the drop off. Accepted the order at 10:34. Store closes at 11.

Late night deliveries pay good but the big issue is not being able to see the addresses on the houses. And sometimes things are out of stock.