Walmart self checkout?

[bucky]

I don’t understand all this home delivery stuff. My Son’s roommate drives for Uber Eats. He delivered a $13 Starbucks coffee 1 mile. With the tip the person paid $18 for a damn cup of coffee. My wife does use Walmart home delivery. She’ll buy a $5 item and it gets delivered in about an hour. They leave it at the door so she does not tip. How can they make a profit doing this? I guess I’m just getting old.

 

[cliffish]

I don’t understand all this home delivery stuff. My Son’s roommate drives for Uber Eats. He delivered a $13 Starbucks coffee 1 mile. With the tip the person paid $18 for a damn cup of coffee. My wife does use Walmart home delivery. She’ll buy a $5 item and it gets delivered in about an hour. They leave it at the door so she does not tip. How can they make a profit doing this? I guess I’m just getting old.

and that same person is complaining and waiting for student loan forgiveness.

 

[Chris]

I don’t understand all this home delivery stuff. My Son’s roommate drives for Uber Eats. He delivered a $13 Starbucks coffee 1 mile. With the tip the person paid $18 for a damn cup of coffee.

My sister-in-law does this all the time.

It's absurd. I have my lazy moments, but I'm never, ever lazy enough where I'd pay $18 for a drink simply because I was too lazy to go get it myself.

 

[BlueC]

I don’t understand all this home delivery stuff. My Son’s roommate drives for Uber Eats. He delivered a $13 Starbucks coffee 1 mile. With the tip the person paid $18 for a damn cup of coffee. My wife does use Walmart home delivery. She’ll buy a $5 item and it gets delivered in about an hour. They leave it at the door so she does not tip. How can they make a profit doing this? I guess I’m just getting old.

I have a younger (in his late 20s) BIL who doesn't like to come outside. I've heard more than once that he has paid $40-50 for Taco Bell to be delivered while he plays video games. I don't get it.

 

[bucky]

Yet he probably complains that he has no money.

 

[Westtown Willy]

I don’t understand all this home delivery stuff. My Son’s roommate drives for Uber Eats. He delivered a $13 Starbucks coffee 1 mile. With the tip the person paid $18 for a damn cup of coffee. My wife does use Walmart home delivery. She’ll buy a $5 item and it gets delivered in about an hour. They leave it at the door so she does not tip. How can they make a profit doing this? I guess I’m just getting old.

From what I've observed it's a younger generation's game, they've grown up with the world at their fingertips, literally, so it seems to have been a natural progression to push a button and have a taco or a smoothie show up 20 minutes later. The fact that the cost of that convenience is 10 or 20 times higher than what could be produced yourself with a modicum of effort & forethought, apparently doesn't enter their minds, & they're unable to make the connection between what they make vs. what they keep. If you do that from time to time it's not going to hamper your ability to begin to build wealth, but when it's your chosen lifestyle it most certainly will.

These kids making $20/hr & screaming on YouTube & Tiktock 24/7 about unfair the world is & how easy older people had it & how they're doomed to a life of misery & poverty are exactly the group that should be baking their own bread & brewing coffee at home & the million & one other things that can be done to spend less money. They have a defeatist attitude about them that's very destructive. I find it hilarious that a 23 year old will say some stupid shit like "I've been working my whole life and it's impossible to get ahead" . For fuck sake you've done nothing, you haven't been here long enough to do anything, you've paid no dues, you don't have standing to make such proclamations at this stage in life. Christ I had a negative net worth until probably 30 years old and I'm of the generation they would swear up & down had it so fucking easy, what a joke. It's never been easy.

 

[Shank]

My sister-in-law does this all the time.

It's absurd. I have my lazy moments, but I'm never, ever lazy enough where I'd pay $18 for a drink simply because I was too lazy to go get it myself.

I can't say I haven't pretty drunkenly overpaid to have Taco Bell delivered before....

 

[BlueC]

Yet he probably complains that he has no money.

Well, no, he actually doesn't, but that's because he is financially comfortable living at home with mommy and daddy, barely contributing to household bills while still having a steady job. He pays for his personal stuff, but has been treated like a little kid his whole life and has no clue about adulthood things like maintaining a house. He's one of those nice guys who will help if asked, but he sure as shit ain't getting off of his ass voluntarily. Not a life I, nor his sister, want to live.

 

[BlueC]

It's never been easy.

Up hill both ways in the snow?

But to your point, putting in effort is never as easy as sitting on your ass. Some people don't like sitting around. Some people don't want to do anything but sit around. I've noticed that with all ages.

 

[Westtown Willy]

Up hill both ways in the snow?

But to your point, putting in effort is never as easy as sitting on your ass. Some people don't like sitting around. Some people don't want to do anything but sit around. I've noticed that with all ages.

I'm not that old, & with global warming there wasn't enough snow anyway

Certainly whiners & complainers are nothing new, there just seems to be far more of them now. I recall well the prevailing attitude when I was starting out was it's your problem, fix it yourself, if you want to live well, get your ass to work & figure it out. What I'm hearing today is that it's everyone else's problem & 'they' oughta fix it for you. There's a tinge of longing for socialism so many of them fell in love with in school, the "why do I have to work, why can't I just live my life" attitude, as if there's some hidden workforce that's going to build and maintain the infrastructure, keep food & energy flowing, provide housing, transportation, medical care & all the other things necessary for them to 'live their lives', & this hidden workforce is going to do all of this out of the goodness of their hearts for no other reason than you can't understand you've got to take care of your own shit or starve to death.

 

[BlueC]

school

Personally, I think the public "education" system is to blame for much of that and what's been happening over the last 20+ years. I didn't notice it, or I didn't realize what was going on, until I was in college.

 

[SouthernTJ2000]

So we hardly go to Wally World, however the majority of the time that I go by myself, is for oil and such. I'll park back by the oil center, come in the back door, grab my stuff, pay at the back counter and off I go. However when I go with the family, we have to deal with the self check out "fun." The last time I was in our local Trash-mart, they had removed at least 60% of the cashier check out lanes, which 100% of them have not been in use for at least a year, and replaced them with a mass amount of self check out. Now I understand why. Plenty of people will pay the $98 subscription just so they can stand in a diffrent line, dedicated for only them. Just so they can look down at the peasants in the non subscription line. However they will wait the exact amount of time or even longer. I do see ole Whale-mart losing business over this. Especially if they reserve say 60% of the self check out lines for subscription holders only. Or, more than likely, more people will just forego the entire check out process and walk out the door with their $400 cart of goodies. After all, the receipt checker ain't going to do anything, even if they wanted to, they cant. So in the end, they'll end up losing even more revenue.

 

[Zorba]

From what I've observed it's a younger generation's game, they've grown up with the world at their fingertips, literally, so it seems to have been a natural progression to push a button and have a taco or a smoothie show up 20 minutes later. The fact that the cost of that convenience is 10 or 20 times higher than what could be produced yourself with a modicum of effort & forethought, apparently doesn't enter their minds, & they're unable to make the connection between what they make vs. what they keep. If you do that from time to time it's not going to hamper your ability to begin to build wealth, but when it's your chosen lifestyle it most certainly will.

Ah yes, the false God of our time: "Convenience" - and damn the cost. It started with the Smartphone - you heard it here first.

Plenty of people will pay the $98 subscription just so they can stand in a different line, dedicated for only them. Just so they can look down at the peasants in the non subscription line. However they will wait the exact amount of time or even longer...

Mmmm-Hmmmm - the ever growing subscription rip-off. I won't say the smartphone started it, but it certainly refined it and made it acceptable.

I love people who pay for "Convenience" when said "Convenience" is anything but. Smartphone is exhibit A, but there are plenty of others, not the least of which are modern automobiles.

Have I mentioned lately that just about every instance of costly bullshit started with the smartphone? "The Emperor has no clothes!"

Cue irate smartphoners swarming from the woodwork to defend their oh-so-convenient pain in the ass toy, let the apologetics begin! HA!

 

[bucky]

I love my smartphone. I’ve had my iPhone 8 for 7 yrs now. I conduct all my business on it. I have not opened my laptop in years. I don’t understand the distain for them. It’s just a computer like all the rest.

 

[mxz800]

Story time again.

I was swapping stories with Debbie who has a daughter named Kendra. My son's name is Kenneth, and we figured it must be a Ken thing.

Debbie said one day she is with Kendra and she pulls into a store to get a drink. Kendra says Mom can I borrow two bucks I'll pay you back when I get home.

Debbie says why? I need a drink. No I mean why you have a bunch of money right here in your car. Kendra said that isn't money it's change.??

Debbie said her daughter's house has change all around the place.

I told her about going to the credit union years ago with my son. The teller tells my son from now on he will get ATM fees put back into his account. My son says good.

My son is shy to strangers so I said what did you mean by good? Well when I use the ATM at work it charges me 3 bucks.

I said how many times do you use the ATM? He said every night. I said how much do you take out? 10 bucks.

I said you pay 3 dollars each time you take out ten? Well not anymore. I said that isn't the point. Why didn't you go to the credit union and get 60 dollars for the week? Well it's easier to just get it from the ATM at work.

Then why not get 60 dollars rather then 10 dollars each night? Well it doesn't matter I'm going to get the 3 bucks back.

I said you have paid 18 dollars to get 60 for a year and a half, you could get a better rate from a mobster.

Then I gave up.

 

[Zorba]

I love my smartphone. I’ve had my iPhone 8 for 7 yrs now. I conduct all my business on it. I have not opened my laptop in years. I don’t understand the disdain for them. It’s just a computer like all the rest.

Overpriced, the OS sucks, the UI sucks, software is crippled, no keyboard, no mouse, and most especially a TINY screen - makes for a horrid computer. The last time I used a computer with a screen that small was in the mid 80s with the Osborne-1. It was a PITA then, completely unacceptable now. At least the Osborne had a real keyboard.