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Walmart Will Stock Your Fridge With Groceries While You’re Not Home (cnet.com) 59
- by aardvarkjoe ( 156801 ) on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:57PM (#58725840)
Yeah, I’m going to trust some random minimum-wage worker sent from Walmart to have full run of my home.
Anyone with a functioning brain should be able to come up with half a dozen ways to defeat the “security” provided by having the employees wear cameras.
Especially in America, where patriotism means faking it until you see the slightest opportunity to take advantage of another individual. We’re talking about the world leader in frivolous litigation, the world leader in fleecing the sick and disabled with health care expenses, the world leader in financial elder abuse, etc, etc. In this country, you’d be insane to leave anybody in your house unattended, even a house cleaner.
Wealthy people have minimum-wage workers clean their homes, take care of their children, walk their dogs, etc…
While I get your “Random” qualifier as the differentiator but I would expect most of these employees with a functioning brain to defeat the security, will also realize if people complain about stuff will be stolen, their job is probably gone, as well the police digging their homes.I expect for 99.999% there will be no problems when there is the worst thing they due is track mud into your house, an
- by lgw ( 121541 )
Wealthy people have minimum-wage workers clean their homes, take care of their children, walk their dogs, etc…
Middle-class people pay services for those things. Wealthy people have staff for this, who only work for you and who know they will be held responsible if the silver goes missing (and have a supervisor looking over their shoulder from time to time).
Have you never met a Walmart employee?
In the cases you mention, typically the homeowner will meet the people working in their home beforehand. They know who they are, and may have a personal relationship with their workers. In the case of really wealthy employers, they probably went through background checks. Even so, employees stealing from employers is incredibly common.
…I would expect most of these employees with a functioning brain to defeat the security, will also realize if people complain about stuff will be stolen, their job is probably gone, as well the police digging their homes.
They have video “proof” that they didn’t take anything, why would they fear losing their job?
For the most part Walmart Employees have a wide range personality and ability. This is often dictated based on the location of the Walmart. You actually get a lot of nice people in Walmarts in impoverished areas, because it is a more in-demand job so Wallmart can be picker who they choose. While in wealthy areas you get the bottom of the barrel.
Walmart does hire a lot of people with mental disabilities. They can do the job well, but they may not present themselves well. However I would trust these peopl
Wealthy people have minimum-wage workers clean their homes, take care of their children, walk their dogs, etc..
Sure, because wealthy people don’t want to employ people who aren’t scared of losing their job, or a lazy, self-entitled millennial who could sue them over a minor disagreement.
It also helps if the workers are genuinely scared of either losing their job or being deported.
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Even if you could trust that the delivery service will only hire perfectly responsible and respectful personnel, there’s still injury liability, issues with pets (getting let out, bites, allergies, etc.) and the potential for someone to hack/steal the keys from the store itself.
The only place I could see this working is a commons type living situation with the fridge in a quasi-private or shared space (e.g. an assisted living facility, college dorm).
The only place I could see this working is a commons type living situation with the fridge in a quasi-private or shared space (e.g. an assisted living facility, college dorm).
Really? Prior to the era of big supermarkets and whatnot having someone drop off your groceries or even put them in your fridge was kinda common in a lot of countries in the west. Here in Ontario, pretty much any house built prior to 1970 has either a milkbox or a ice-cooled grocery box built right into the wall. That is if it hasn’t been renovated out, or removed because the area has become so unsafe that it became an entry point for burglars.
This type of stuff is making a resurgence mainly because of th
Sure, why not? The yogurt that has been hiding in the back of my fridge finally evolved to a higher life form. I can’t think of a better way to feed it fresh meat when I’m not at home. What is a calories in a random walmat drone these days?
and if that minimum-wage does an slip and fail you are on the hook for that liability
Easy solution: Install Walmart cameras throughout your home and give Walmart access to view them.
- by Anonymous Coward
You donâ(TM)t get the point, itâ(TM)s a cheap way to provide your wife with fresh meat, if you understand what I mean…
- If you weren’t already, pay close attention when buying a fridge (or any other appliance) to be sure it won’t “helpfully” faciliate a service like this. Someday I’m sure “smart fridges” will be as difficult to avoid as smart TVs, but hold out as long as you can . . .
Even if you buy a Smart TV today, you can keep the “Smart” features disabled by not connecting it to WiFi. I’ve never connected any of my TVs to my WiFi. (Roku boxes/sticks, yes. TVs, no.)
- by lgw ( 121541 )
Currently, high-end fridges are distinguished by their lack of high-tech features, often faced by wood paneling that matches your cabinets and in no way calling attention to itself. Mid-range fridges have a freaking TV screen on them so you can stare at the food in your fridge without opening the door (using your phone, on the internet). I can only hope that trend continues, unlike TVs.
There’s not a single walmart employee I’d be willing to trust to load groceries in my car, nevermind coming into my home unattended to load into my fridge.
Not a chance in hell.
Sorry bruh, I’m coming in to stock your fridge and piss in it, and you can’t stop me.
Wait, you had Walmart Employees offer to help you load groceries in your car?
When I was a Teenager I use to work in a Hardware store, and my Job was to load the heavy stuff into peoples cars and trucks. I don’t remember anyone refusing my help, at least because they couldn’t trust me to do it, but just because it was a small thing they just didn’t want me to bother.
I did get some tough customers, who ordered Cement and wanted it placed carefully in their clean luxury cars. Which I would do my best, but woul
No they won’t.
- by RickyShade ( 5419186 ) on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:04PM (#58725884)
People who honestly think a Wal-Mart employee wearing a bodycam is going to become a burglar.
And I thought this site was for smart people. It’s true what I was told growing up: there’s a difference between being ‘smart’ and being ‘intelligent’.
People who honestly think a Wal-Mart employee wearing a bodycam is going to become a burglar.
And I thought this site was for smart people. It’s true what I was told growing up: there’s a difference between being ‘smart’ and being ‘intelligent’.
If you really can’t figure out some way for a bodycam-wearing employee to successfully steal from the homes they enter, you’re not as intelligent as you apparently think you are.
- The employee doesn’t have to burgle anything. They will just tell their cousin what kind of stuff you have, when you are usually not home and what kind of alarm system you have (if any).
Because the body cameras will never “fail” or “not be turned on.”
A burglary doesn’t even need the Walmart employee to do it themselves. Walmart employee enters house and stocks fridge. On their way out, they text an accomplice with a code word and “accidentally” leave the front door unlocked. Accomplice (who definitely is NOT wearing a body camera) enters house after Walmart employee is gone, takes some valuables, and locks the door as they leave. Reviewing the footage of the Walmart employee body camera sh
There is more risk of these guys getting fired because the customer complained about something they had misplaced being stolen. The risk for the employee is actually much higher then the risk to the customer.
Because unless you live in some sort of mansion, you probably don’t have much that people will want to steal, that would be worth their jobs.
People who honestly think a Wal-Mart employee wearing a bodycam is going to become a burglar.
True, it works for law enforcement, there’s not been a single incident of unnecessary police violence or bullying racial discrimination since LEOs started wearing bodycams…
- by Anonymous Coward
I rented a town home and the management company had the water softener people come in when I wasn’t there to fill up the tank.
No thanks to that!
It seems you have some trust issues.
- It used to be that most urban houses had a cold box that is accessible from the outside, so a delivery employee would open latch by your side door, put groceries in and then you can open internal latch and take them out.
I think this approach was abandoned during 50-60s ‘everything canned’ craze that now have passed. There is no reason why similar, only refrigerated, cold box could not be installed today.
Most people would not allow strangers into the house no matter how well tracked/recorded these people a
the “stranger” will be from their town and after a while everyone will know them. they’ll have no police record…so I think many people would be okay with it.
My house actually has something like this by the rear door. There’s a cabinet that can be opened from the outside, have something placed in it, and then have it be retrieved from the inside.
Then again, my house also has a fold-out bench by a “phone storage cabinet” where people would sit as they spoke on the phone.
Back in the ’40s most people would probably know the delivery person personally.
Also there were no laptops/tablets lying around. What would they do? Steal your sofa or dining table?
You have to provide a shed with a fridge having a combination lock you can change combination on.
There, fixed it!Or is a foreign corporation? That they swear is not controlled by the state.
(Note, despite my joke, Wal-mart is about 50% owned by insiders, most of whom are related to Sam Walton, the founder)
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- by Anonymous CowardI’ve had my credit card information stolen and used on three separate occasions. 2 out of the 3 times, the card information was entered manually by an employee at Walmart making $250+ purchases. Clearly I do not trust Walmart or their hiring practices. I cannot imagine handing over the keys to my house to the likes of a Walmart employee. Why you ask? Because they don’t have to steal anything. All they have to do is scout the home, see what value there is and tell their cousin(s) (I use the term loosely) on
- by Anonymous Coward
Americans are now so lazy, sickly with diabetes and obesity, that the next logical step from here is to have Walmart employees come to their house and feed them while they’re lying immobilized under their own weight on the couch.
Will they be taking their street shoes off and washing hands with soap before stomping around my house and touching foodstuffs and food contact surfaces?
More to the point, will walmart camera film *inside my home*, and if so – who owns the footage?
And does giving an entire corporation access to one’s house constitute, perhaps, a permission to search said house by authorities? If my understanding of law is not too far off, they can follow anyone with authorized access. I am sure walmart will be a great stewa- by EvilSS ( 557649 )Sounds like your store sucks. I pick up from 2 stores (one is smaller but closer, but sometimes I want stuff they don’t stock and use the other superstore) and have had very few issues. Make sure you fill out the surveys they email you and let them know. Those go to corporate. If you are just going in and taking it up with store staff, corporate won’t be aware of the problems.
- and note down suggestions for what else to online-market to you.
Such as “stylish window treatments – fix up your hovel to impress guests”….
or
“Replace that ghetto fiberboard chest of drawers while our sale lasts…”
Walmartians are getting nowhere near my house when I’m not home, let alone inside of it.
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