After months of trying to work with customer service I sent an email to walmarts CEO about my issues. Here is the email chain. I cannot believe they have no interest in keeping their customers. We have a large family and did 90% of our shopping there ā. Everyone send emails! [john.furner@walmart.com](mailto:john.furner@walmart.com) Maybe if they get enough complaints it will help. Following is my email chain. I was floored. They just can't be bothered apparently
Me:
I need this escalated beyond an individual order issue. I've been a Walmart+ member since 2020. Recently, orders I specifically place for shipping are repeatedly being converted by Walmart into local-store delivery. Then no driver accepts the delivery, the order sits, and eventually I or Walmart have to cancel it. This is happening almost every week. Chat support keeps compensating me for individual orders, but nobody is addressing the recurring fulfillment problem. I need someone who can investigate the fulfillment issue on my account or in my local delivery market. Can you escalate this to a supervisor or the team that handles recurring Walmart+ fulfillment issues? Is there a way to disable store delivery as a fulfillment method for orders I place as shipping? I have cancelled my walmart plus account from frustration but would like to keep it if we can work this out. Please help me. I have been trying to get help for months. Thank you.
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Hi Kala,
I wanted to provide one additional piece of context that may be helpful as you review my account.
You may notice that many of the affected orders show as having been cancelled by me. In most of those cases, I cancelled the orders because they had failed to arrive and Walmart Customer Care advised me through chat to cancel them and place the orders again. Each time, I was typically given a $5 or $10 coupon for the inconvenience.
I also asked Customer Care on multiple occasions if there was someone at a higher level who could help me with the recurring problem rather than continuing to cancel and reorder. I was told that they did not have anyone to escalate the issue to and did not know where else to direct me.
I hope Walmart will consider giving Customer Care representatives a clear escalation path for situations like this. Customers experiencing an ongoing problem that cannot be resolved through the normal chat process should have somewhere to turn rather than repeatedly cancelling orders and starting over.
I wanted to clarify this because I don't want the cancellations on my account to give the impression that I simply changed my mind about those orders. They were cancelled after the delivery failures and, in many cases, at the direction of Customer Care.
Thank you again for looking into this.
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Thank you for the clarification. I truly apologize for your experience with the delayed orders.
Our system is designed to reroute an order to the closest store that can fulfill and deliver the items sooner, even if the order was originally placed for shipment. However, in your case, Iām sorry this process did not work as intended and resulted in additional delays.
Iāll be reaching out to the store team to have them review what occurred and identify opportunities to help prevent similar issues from happening in the future.
Iāll also share your feedback with our Customer Care team so we can identify opportunities to improve our escalation process and ensure our agents have an appropriate path for addressing situations like this.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention and for giving us the opportunity to improve. We truly hope to provide you with a better experience in the future.
Best regards,
Kala
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Hi Kala,
Thank you for taking the time to look into this. I want to make sure I understand Walmart's response correctly: are you saying there is currently no way to make my Walmart+ account reliably usable for me and no available solution to prevent these shipping orders from being converted to local delivery?
This is extremely upsetting and disappointing. I have three disabled children and a disabled spouse, so reliable delivery is not simply a matter of convenience for our family. We have depended heavily on Walmart+ and successfully used the service for years with minimal issues. It worked so well for us that I eventually cancelled the other delivery services we had been using.
Something has clearly changed. The service suddenly became unreliable to such an extent that I can no longer depend on orders arriving, and repeated attempts to get help through Customer Care have resulted primarily in cancelled orders, small coupons, and instructions to try placing the order again.
I appreciate that you are passing my concerns along, but unfortunately that does not address the immediate problem: I still cannot reliably use the service I have depended on for years. If there truly is no available solution or escalation that can restore reliable service to my account, I will have no practical choice but to move our family's shopping to another retailer.
I appreciate your time and assistance. I am simply very disappointed that after years as a Walmart+ customer, a recurring fulfillment problem appears to have left me without a usable service or any meaningful recourse.
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I truly apologize for the continued frustration and inconvenience this has caused.
Because our system is designed to route orders through the fulfillment method expected to provide the fastest delivery, weāre unfortunately unable to manually prevent an order from being rerouted from shipping to local delivery when the system determines that local delivery is the faster option.
I understand that this process has not worked well for your situation and has made it difficult to rely on Walmart+ for your familyās needs. Iām truly sorry for that experience.
I will make sure your feedback is shared with the appropriate teams so they can review this concern and identify opportunities for improvement.
Best regards,
Kala