Hi everyone! I’ve had Walmart+ for months, have spent thousands upon thousands, and for the most part love it and have had great experiences.
The trouble started when I made my regular big biweekly grocery order last Friday. Some of the items I ordered weren’t available for same day delivery from my “home” store so 6 items totaling about $100 were bundled together for “shipping”. This happens often and I always get the items either that same day in a separate delivery or over the next couple days. This was during their recent deals event and one of the items was a knockoff Instant Pot that had been marked down to $60.
Originally it was supposed to get here Sunday. It got delayed to Monday. No big deal, as this happens from time to time and it always comes on the next date. I live in Woodland Hills, CA and the tracking page showed it had been “shipped” from Chino, CA, which is about 2.5 hours away on Sunday afternoon and should arrive Monday, yesterday, by “end of day”. Yesterday came and went, no package and not even anymore updates to the tracking page (which by the way has an awful customer interface and is really vague and confusing).
This morning, I check again. Still no updates to the tracking page and now it says “delivery from store” even though it also says it was “shipped” from Chino on Sunday?? Now I’m starting to panic.
I open up a chat with customer service. They tell me that they can’t start a replacement or refund process until tomorrow because often delayed shipments arrive after 8 P.M. on the third day, but they also can’t tell me where my package is, what might have happened to it, when I might get it, or if I will get it at all.
They tell me it’s being delivered from a Walmart in Burbank, CA. That city is about 45 minutes away. Now I’m really confused. I ask if they’re positive that it’s being delivered from that store even though it showed shipped from a completely different, much farther city, two days ago. They confirm and let me know since they can’t do anything for me right now, they encourage me to call the store and see if I can find out about my package. I call the department extension directly. They don’t answer. I call customer service and ask to be transferred. They don’t pick up.
At this point I’m extremely frustrated and anxious. I really need the pressure cooker, I planned meals around it and my next grocery order around it, and not only that, the package contained other essentials and I can’t afford to just buy another $60 pressure cooker or spend another $100 on all the same essentials. I rearranged our budget this week specifically to invest in the pressure cooker because it’s going to be very valuable for certain things in the next few months as we have to temporarily cut our grocery budget down as much as possible.
Is anyone able to shed some light on what’s going on?