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Be careful when ordering items from Walmart

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Herr Kutz

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I ordered a few items from Walmart and I now see why half the items in the store are banged up. They sent one giant box with paper towels, 12 loose canned goods, a box of cereal, body soap, laundry detergent, and dishwashing soap in one giant box that showed up with gaping holes in the side. Of course, every single can had a dent, the paper towels were crushed, and the box of cereal is mashed pretty good. I'm a little surprised the laundry detergent and dishwashing soap appear in okay shape.

Edit: Pictures. Second one is with the paper towels pulled out.

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looked at the added pics - lol'd at the 2? inflatable padding bags they put in there

Herr Kutz said:
The whole point of this was to avoid stepping foot in walmart. 🙁

And to get 5% cashback via discover of course.
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was the shipping free?

if it was free, separate the order out
 
You mean Walmart provided you the cheapest, least we'll packaged delivery? I for one am astounded.
 
lol. That's pretty ridiculous.

I do store pickup. You get online portal cashback, CC cashback, and additional pickup discount from Walmart. Win, win, win.
 
I like the fact that the worse damage is where it says "Handle with care" lol.

Then there's Dell. They'll send you a skid with a big box on it fully bubble wrapped, for a cable.
 
Yeah, that's par for the course, ordering canned goods from Walmart. They all (well, 99% of them) arrive dented as F. Whether that's due to shipping damage, or whether they "save" the dented cans in their warehouse, to be shipped out to unsuspecting internet mail-order customers, rather than send them to their stores to be displayed, I don't know.

My personal suggestion, would be to make some egg-crate-esqe type packaging, out of cardboard, like some routers and whatnot come shipped in. It would have two halves, and fit over most average-sized cans, laying on their side in a row, and protecting them and the box from damage. Maybe wrap the two egg-crate-esque sections with tape around them.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Then there's Dell. They'll send you a skid with a big box on it fully bubble wrapped, for a cable.
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We had a thread going for stuff like that awhile back...I had a small part from Dell that came in a dog-sized box with pounds of packing material. It took me like five minutes of sifting to even find the baggie lol.
 
You actually had a store (I don't care what store) ship you cans of Campbell's Chunky soup and dishwashing soap?

Christ, the world has gone mad.
 
Carson Dyle said:
You actually had a store (I don't care what store) ship you cans of Campbell's Chunky soup and dishwashing soap?
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Yup, even Amazon does it. I've ordered everything from canned tuna to paper towels from them, either with Prime's free 2-day shipping or with Amazon Pantry. It's a lot of waste (cardboard boxes & plastic packing material), but we have a pretty good recycling program, so that all goes straight into the separate bin.

It's amazingly convenient when you can either type something onto your shopping list app, or just swipe on the Amazon app & it shows up in a couple days for free without having to do anything else!
 
Carson Dyle said:
You actually had a store (I don't care what store) ship you cans of Campbell's Chunky soup and dishwashing soap?

Christ, the world has gone mad.
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Maybe so, but it's oh so convenient, too.

I've gotten bulk canned goods (which, given the qty I ordered, of the same type, SHOULD have allowed them to just ship a shrink-wrapped cardboard-box-base OEM qty of them. But nope, they were individually thrown into a big cardboard box, and left to their own devices to dent each other, or possibly, they started out the trip that way. (The fact that they didn't ship me the OEM case qty, indicates to me that the latter is probably true.)

I've ordered case-qty of Ramen noodles, and those did come in their shrink-wrapped cardboard-box-base OEM cases. So why didn't the cans, too? Like I said, they probably already shipped them already-dented.
 
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