Walmart will deliver groceries straight to your fridge

[brooklynite]

CNN

Walmart is betting it can convince time-strapped customers to let strangers deliver groceries into their refrigerators while they're away from home.

In a new service announced Friday, customers will be able to order groceries online, and then a Walmart worker will drive the food from a nearby store and deliver it to fridges in customers' kitchens or garages. It is Walmart's latest innovation in its grocery business, which makes up more than half of the company's annual sales.

Walmart piloted its new service in New Jersey for five months and is ready to expand. The option will be available to more than a million customers this fall in Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Vero Beach, Florida. Walmart charges a fee for regular grocery delivery orders, and it did not disclose how much customers will have to pay for in-home delivery.

Here's how the service works: Customers can purchase groceries online and select a delivery day. Walmart's employees will wear a camera when they enter customers' homes, allowing shoppers to watch the process live from their phones. Customers won't have to pay for a camera, but they will have to purchase a special door lock. Walmart did not say how much the lock will cost.

[underpants]

1. I thought they were already doing that

Maybe it was a test case that I had read about.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Amazon's been doing it for years.

[Hotler]

2. and while you are there......

empty the trash, load the dish washer, clean the cat box.........but stay out of my beer.

[magicarpet]

3. Mow the lawn....

Hey,... what about mowing the lawn ?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Hell no

I have trust issues

[Sherman A1]

5. Over my dead body

They will.

[MineralMan]

6. When I was a 16-year-old kid (1962), I delivered milk (in bottles) to

homes. I worked for a local dairy. I did that for two years in high school, in my junior and senior years, from 5 AM to 8 AM. The delivery truck picked me up at home and dropped me off at school.

We had a few customers who requested in-refrigerator delivery. We offered that service at no additional charge.

At one house, there was a girl who was a freshman in my high school. She made a point of always being in the kitchen when I came in the back door with my wire-rack full of milk bottles. It never failed. I'm pretty sure she had a little crush on her milkman.

I remember one day in particular. I came in the back door as usual, but she wasn't there to smile shyly and say "Hi!" to me. We were a little early that morning, I guess. So, I put the milk in the fridge, picked up the empties and started back to the door. Suddenly, she burst through an interior door, wrapped in a towel, hair wet, and with a toothbrush in her hand. "Hi!" she said, and then seemed to realize her state of dress, etc. She blushed bright red, smiled, and disappeared back through the interior door.

Home delivery is interesting.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. This could really help old, disabled people

who have money but are not able to drive or walk very far.

That is a very real problem for a lot of older folks.

The problem will be that many don't know how to order on line. But maybe friends or family could order fir them.

HyVer grocery store is already doing that here in KCMO.