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Anyone else hate those online pickup parking spots at stores?

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WTH knows what you're buying and whether you ordered it online? The stores don't monitor the spaces and neither do police as there's no way for them to know an online customer from a deadbeat. Just man up and park in the spot rather than whining about it.
 
OccamsToothbrush said:
WTH knows what you're buying and whether you ordered it online? The stores don't monitor the spaces and neither do police as there's no way for them to know an online customer from a deadbeat. Just man up and park in the spot rather than whining about it.
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Yeah! Screw morals and general rule following!

Tomorrow I'm parking in an expecting mother spot. Screw em'! Snooze you lose!
 
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SKORPI0 said:
Hate this since it is abused by people not actually picking up anything from the store
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This is abused too, by non veterans.
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Of course you'd be difficult to know who is and who is not a veteran.
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well, there are actually veteran tags, so I imagine it would default to "no vet tag" = "no parky" ...not that all vets would have them, but it's at least a sensible means of identification and, if you want to take advantage of your perks, maybe jump that extra hoop to qualify?
 
JimKiler said:
My theory is if you are only going to the customer service counter to pick up an order you can walk more than the rest of us who want to peruse the store. Why do online pickup customers get preferential parking? If I see them and my kids are not with i will park in them when i do not use online pickup. #screwtheman!
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A lot of places are now taking it to your car so it makes it quicker for them to bring it out to you. The other is that it puts it up at the forefront so you see it and know that you can order online and pick it up in store. That enables them to be able to start cutting cashiers if people order online. This way they get what they want, bypass the lines (that has always been a big complaint about people with regards to shopping especially grocery shopping). Its also a step on the way towards automated systems (you order something, it gets delivered by drone/self driving vehicle/etc).

I see a lot of people say that they'd shop at Wal-Mart if they didn't have to deal with the people and the lines. This takes care of both of those.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
A lot of places are now taking it to your car so it makes it quicker for them to bring it out to you. The other is that it puts it up at the forefront so you see it and know that you can order online and pick it up in store. That enables them to be able to start cutting cashiers if people order online. This way they get what they want, bypass the lines (that has always been a big complaint about people with regards to shopping especially grocery shopping). Its also a step on the way towards automated systems (you order something, it gets delivered by drone/self driving vehicle/etc).

I see a lot of people say that they'd shop at Wal-Mart if they didn't have to deal with the people and the lines. This takes care of both of those.
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Self-check lines piss me off. If they want me to do their fucking jobs...they need to give me at least a 10% discount. (1-2 items I'll use them, not a full cart)
 
Never seen it myself but does seem like a stupid idea. I hate reserved parking spots in general unless it's for something actually valid like handicap parking. Reserved parking cuts into the number of available parking spaces especially when it's for oddly specific things that don't warrant having dedicated parking. A person picking up an online order is just as capable of walking from any other spot than a person going in to shop.
 
I avoid self checkouts. They take away jobs. I noticed our Walmart installed some recently and think they are trying to force it as they only have the small cash area now (with single line). Not that there is much difference since there has always only been 1 cashier anyway... lol.
 
BoomerD said:
Self-check lines piss me off. If they want me to do their fucking jobs...they need to give me at least a 10% discount. (1-2 items I'll use them, not a full cart)
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A small amount of items is how it should be for these.

The problem is you get idiots who go to them with full cart loads and don't know how to work them very well so it makes things even worse.
 
Yeah here in Ohio all I've seen are sections of the parking lot carved out, usually like 8-12 spaces. At my local Kroger, it's right outside the door closest to the checkouts, as their Click List or whatever spot is right there too.
 
Newbian said:
A small amount of items is how it should be for these.

The problem is you get idiots who go to them with full cart loads and don't know how to work them very well so it makes things even worse.
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where I live in MD, this county at least, it is self-checkout or bust. ...it's fucking insane. 12-20 banks of check-out lines, but only ever 2, at most of them open...at EVERY MAJOR GROCERY STORE in this county. You are basically forced to go to self-checkout, and it's a disaster. One of the many garbage stores, Giant, has designed them on top of each other, in one large shared bank of ~15 registers...so you've got these assholes (with no other choice, really), using them, clogging up the line, and of course their full-size carts parked in front of an empty checkout, as they take their time--because the registers don't work, anyway, and all need random approval if, god forbid!, you actually buy real food from the outer walls of the store, that doesn't come in a fucking box.

It's simply a nightmare trying to get food, or do any kind of simple shopping these days.
 
Local grocery store (Jewel-Osco) has self checkout with a cashier to verify what you scanned everything or to help if a problem rises. Long lines of shoppers for that, doesn’t help and it takes longer to checkout. Go in the weekends and lines in the regular checkout is impossible to bear. I usually shop after work, 6 am. Virtually no shoppers during that time.
 
The only places we have used the spots is at Grocery stores. Who wants to walk around a store for an hour? Easy to order online and have it brought to your car. Wife uses it all the time.
 
BoomerD said:
Self-check lines piss me off. If they want me to do their fucking jobs...they need to give me at least a 10% discount. (1-2 items I'll use them, not a full cart)
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Not really "their job". I'm pretty sure if you can calculate the price of your groceries and tax you can slap the money on the counter and walk away.

Also, someone else bagging your groceries DEFINITELY ISN'T their job to do as seen in plenty of other countries where you're expected to bring your own bags and do it yourself.
 
I can sympathize with the OP. My local grocery store started doing online orders with pickup parking. They took an entire row of 45 degree parking spaces that was one row over from the entrance and dedicated it to online pickup. It was maybe 8-10 total parking spaces. When you factor in cart return spaces and handicapped spaces, the parking lot doesn't look very efficient. There are 2-3 rows packed 100% and people are either forced to park in front of a neighboring store or park in the extreme back of the parking lot when they're busy....and guess what's empty 95% of the time? Apparently I know nothing about grocery store parking lot planning because I would have done that differently.

The online pickup craze hasn't taken off at this location because it's a smaller store serving an older community...or people with lower incomes.

I've been to another store of the same chain that was newer and had parking across the drive-thru pharmacy lane on the side of the store. That configuration made the most sense because they had 6 spaces that employees typically used...or were used for storing pallets.
 
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