My stop at Walmart - Page 4

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@eadu4 Thank you for the lectures in all of your posts. Please don't be surprised if everyone does not agree with your theories.

EatWell · ‎12-31-2012

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@eadu4 Thank you for the lectures in all of your posts. Please don't be surprised if everyone does not agree with your theories.

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willdob3 · ‎11-01-2010

I suppose there are valid reasons for going into WalMart to do your shopping but, in these uncertain times with so many not bothering to follow safety measures, I wonder why more of you don’t simply order and do a grocery pickup (I get non-grocery things, too).

WalMart emailed and texted me when my order was ready to be picked up. It has always been ready about 15 minutes earlier than promised. I checked in on their app when I was about to leave home. I was parked & checked in at WalMart at 10:05 am.

At 10:08 am my order was being loaded in my trunk after the nice WM employee checked to make sure of my identity. At 10:10 I was driving away and it only took that long because I took the time to order coffee from Starbucks so I could pick it up on the way home!

My receipt was delivered by email.

eadu4 · ‎06-14-2011

They are not theories and I'm not giving a lecture. What was "theory"? Fact is many people don't wear their masks correctly - and they never will. Also many people don't clean them regularly and they never will. I know people with just one or two masks...the paper kind they just keep reusing them no matter what I suggest. People half wearing a mask or repeatedly touching them and readjusting them is just useless. People with a mask can still transmit the virus not all masks are created equal. And it is quite possible that someone who is maskless is negative for the virus. Restaurants are cleaner than they ever were. They have to be. Servers are more careful than they ever were. Stores are cleaner than they ever have been- again they have to be. I never once said you could not be afraid. Please do. Please take precautions if you feel they are necessary and you are at risk. Do what makes you feel safe. Not sure why you felt the need to get defensive. I just pointed out that restaurants are cleaner and have far more protocols than they did before and that no one thought twice about going out before this virus even though there was and still are plently more viruses out there that can in fact have the same tragic results in those with an immune compromised systems. My daughter had cancer when she was 3. I took precautions when her counts were low. I just feel fine going in a restaurant because they do have so many protocols they have to go through now. If you are not that's all good too.

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LonestarBabs · ‎06-26-2011

@willdob3 I agree about the curbside pickup. It has worked beautifully for me - they have the process nailed down! And, there have been very few out of stock or substitutions -- unlike my "regular" grocery store. I always hated Walmart but confess my stance has softened during this pandemic -- the customer experience of curbside pickup opened my eyes.

willdob3 · ‎11-01-2010

@LonestarBabs wrote:
@willdob3 I agree about the curbside pickup. It has worked beautifully for me - they have the process nailed down! And, there have been very few out of stock or substitutions -- unlike my "regular" grocery store. I always hated Walmart but confess my stance has softened during this pandemic -- the customer experience of curbside pickup opened my eyes.

@LonestarBabs

Even if/when we don’t need to be concerned about the virus, I plan to continue using their grocery pickup. It saves so much time and money. I just wish I’d thought to try it a year or so ago when they started offering the service.

I only allow substitutes on my hamburger meat. There are two different ones (same brand) that I order and if one is out of stock they just give me the other one and I’m fine with that. But they usually have everything I order and that is nice.

Ms Nixie · ‎08-18-2014

I don't have a problem with the arrows, but I think it should be for everyone. In my store the associates and vendors do not follow the arrows.

i agree it does take longer in the store with these arrows.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@eadu4 Thank you for the lectures in all of your posts. Please don't be surprised if everyone does not agree with your theories.

@proudlyfromNJ, you said it all. And you saved me from spending time going through each of her points.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

@eadu4 wrote:
I guess I'm just an anomoly. I do wear a mask, for the comfort of others, and go in and do my shopping. I don't get hung up or annoyed at people. I don't get bent if someone isn't exactly 6 ft from me because you are all breathing the same air, walking through the same space that hundreds have done over the course of the day. It was far riskier before covid than it is now. Before everyone and anyone was going into a store sick. there are more protocols in place now for cleaning than there ever was before. As far as masks very few wear them right, or clean them. So I don't get bent if someone isn't wearing one since they probably wouldn't wear it right anyway.

The CDC admits 10s of millions of people most likely have the virus. Millions have had it with zero to mild symptoms. This virus lives for people with underlying conditions, which is why the elderly need to be cautious. But you should have been cautious all along if you have an underlying condtion. Heck e-coli, flu, pneumonia, kill people with lowered immune systems. I understand if you're terrified. But straight up fact the world was far more unclean than it is now. And yet you were in it. I will never understand the outright hatred, and beating and useless anger at people who others feel were not far enough from them or didn't have a mask on. I have read posts where people have called them murderers and wanted them to die. Really??? Just go about your business. You cannot and never will be able to control others nor should you. No one is the same. No one shares your fears, or your medical conditon. Take care of you. Just keep walking. The fact that people are so uptight about it that they want utilities shut off and people arrested in some states just because they didn't "social distance" is beyond the pale. How does taking away someone's home or their utilities cure the virus? How does getting them punched, wishing them dead cure the virus? Just keep walking people. Seriously. It isn't worth it and in all honesty if you do get the virus, it's nearly impossible to pinpoint the cause of infection. The person without the mask could be negative and the person you thought was so safe using "precautions" actually was the carrier and the precautions didn't really work so well. And that's why I don't get worked up about it.

@eadu4

You are seriously uninformed if you think that people with "underlying conditions" are the only ones who need to be concerned about the virus. And as for it being "far riskier before COVID than it is now," I can't imagine your reasoning on that.

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on." Jimmy Buffett

germanshepherdlove · ‎04-20-2020

@eadu4 The issue as you well know, is covid19 is highly contagious. While I normally do not scold anyone for their ignorant way they wear their mask; the other day while at the checkout lane (no self serv) the woman right behind me forgot herself getting way too close and had dropped her mask to her neck. For the first time ever, I raised my hand and said "stop, get back." I make no apologies, it was completely from stress, from feeling all closed in and waiting for my very slow checkout person to stop fiddling around and doing their job. My stress level was in fact unprecedented and came without warning. I told my husband that I will never shop in that store ever again. The checkout lanes are very narrow and the checker for the lane next to you is also less than 6' away from you and though you are standing back to back, when she has to stop what she is doing and turn around to holler out a question, no I don't want to be there for that. It's unacceptable.