Walmart Accidentally Delivered 30 Pounds Of Cheese To A Customer
Grocery shopping can feel like a chore worth abandoning. Seriously, who on earth enjoys battling the masses to gather their weekly haul, only to stand in line for what feels like an eternity? Especially, when the reward for all that effort is a synapse-jolting bill. Thanks to this miraculous age of modern technology and stiff competition among food retailers, you can now opt to forgo this onerous task and let a store employee do your shopping on your behalf.
Yes, while you're at home watching "The Menu," someone is gathering your order. Amazing, right? There's just one problem. When it comes to online grocery shopping and delivery, mistakes can be made. One error grocery delivery apps make is substituting the wrong items. That's "wrong" with a capital "W," by the way. For instance, shopper Ajanay Barnes shared with The Wall Street Journal that when she ordered strawberry shortcake ice cream from Walmart via Instacart, she received sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast rolls, instead. What one thing has to do with the other is anyone's guess. CityNews refers to an instance where a customer ordered 10 individual bananas but received an astonishing 10 kilos of this yellow fruit. Seriously, where's a monkey when you need one?
And, in a recent TikTok video, a user shared the outlandish mistake made by her local Walmart. This one might make you scratch your head in puzzlement while laughing out loud.
Grilled cheese, anyone?
TikTok user, Courtney Deems, recently shared a video of a bizarre goof-up on her grocery order with the tagline, "When I ordered .25 lb of cheese and Walmart sent me 30 lbs." Deems can barely contain her laughter as she holds up two giant bags of sliced cheese. Who can blame her, really? Thirty pounds is a lot of cheese. Sure, mistakes can happen when shopping in person, too. Who can forget the woman who was accidentally charged $1700 for cucumbers at Whole Foods? In a video, TikTok user @rebeccaofsunnybrookfarms explains that she fell victim to the cashier entering the product code as the number of cucumbers she was purchasing, resulting in this mind-boggling total. When shopping in the flesh, however, you can spot certain mistakes more easily (30 pounds of cheese is quite noticeable) and have them rectified right away.
What did others think of Deems' cheese dilemma? One astutely said she gets constipated just thinking about it, while others shared their own online shopping mishaps: an order for half of a pound of sliced deli turkey became an entire unsliced, shrink-wrapped lump of turkey meat. A pound of grapes became "one grape for 17 cents," and a request for milk, soap, and deodorant resulted in chicken livers and drumsticks. Wait, what? Poultry in place of toiletries? It seems that online shopping provides more than just convenience and saved time. You get the added benefit of comic relief.