Helliquin wrote:
DavHamm wrote:
trail wrote:
Indirectly, probably forever. As in I'll probably continue doing significant teleworking even after everything goes away.
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Our company has implied, that work from home may also become a more standard thing. I think many companies are seeing that the work is still getting done, and they don't really need all these offices.
Also, I'll do curbside pick up forever what a great thing.
Assuming you do curbside pick up for groceries after ordering online? Who do you shop with?
Do you mind running me through the process? Where you park, how do they know you're there, does a store member come out to you? etc
I use Walmart. Place order, pick a 1hr window I want to pick up the stuff in (interesting, thats when the shoot to have it ready now they hit the beginning or early, but you can actually pick up anytime after. Anyhow they shoot a text / and or email, saying they are picking and then a list of items they did not have. If you choose to substitute (you check that box when you order- for each item individually) they tell you what item they are subbing (if you don't want the item they subbed with you can start a return and then when you pick it up tell the person you are returning that item -- I have never done a substitution the only thing we check the box for is banana's and they just sub with the organic. )
Then when it is ready to pick up the app ping's your phone you hit the check in. it tells you how far from the store you are (this helped me once as I have 3 walmarts I shop at and i started heading to the wrong one once) when you the there they have dedicated spots, the app detects you in the lot, you select the spot number and the color of your car.
I then pop my trunk, and put my drivers license in the window. Eventually(within a minute or so if they are not loading another car) they come out, with your order (with alcohol they need to see the license) without it's just the easiest no verbal way for them to check its the right person, sometimes they do, other times, if I am the only car, they just load up the trunk, close it, we give each other the thumbs up and I drive away. Sometimes I'll be playing or reading on my phone, and all of the sudden feel a thud or hear it from the back and it startles me, as they have started loading the car and I didn't even notice.
for the past month or more I would say I am in the parking lot, less then 10 min 100% of the time, less than 5 min 90% of the time. Now its slowed down so much, i can put an order in online around noon and select a 4 or 5pm pick up same day. So lately if the store I had chosen for the Sat. Pickup ends up out of something the wife wants, we place an order that day with one of the other nearby (within 15 min drive) find enough stuff to get us to $35 and pick it up that evening.
When this started you had to pounce on openings a week out. and then as they expanded they could not handle it so your order might not be ready for several hours after your selected time. But not an issue at all anymore.
I had thought of and others do. Put an envelope in the trunk labeled tip and put some cash in there. But like I said in other post, Walmart does not allow employees to accept tips, so I skip that part. (early on it was always the same person, now it seems to be someone different each time)
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Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
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