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Shopping Fail
Dec. 19th, 2020 08:17 pmAs much as we dislike doing our grocery shopping on weekends, and especially on the final weekend before Christmas, a variety of factors conspired to oblige us to do so today. (The worst of which was waiting all day yesterday for a UPS delivery that never came, thus wasting my every-other-Friday off.) So this morning, relatively early (between 8 and 9 AM), we headed for Reno with a long list of shops to visit.
Cost Plus World Market is offering 20% off for curbside delivery, so this morning I put in an order with them — the first time I've done such an order. I figured that by the time we made all of our other stops, they probably would have our pickup order ready.
( Running Around Reno )
Not being able to put it off any longer, we went to World Market as our final stop, but we still had not received a pickup message. I went inside and they could not find my order. Going back out to the van, and after much wrestling with the phone, I determined that somehow the order had not gone through. Nothing we had on the order was critical, and it was now after 1 PM and the stores were getting uncomfortably crowded for us, so we decided to just go home.
After we got home and unloaded all the stuff we did manage to buy, I checked, and sure enough: while I'd entered my credit card information and it had been validated, there was one final "confirm order" step that you have to do and that I hadn't done. I've never done this sort of order before, and having to confirm the order twice wasn't something I expected. Next time I will know better.
After going through what we did get, Lisa determined that there are a small number of other things that she'd like to get for Christmas dinner that we missed this time. If we decide that we can manage a trip on Tuesday after work, I'll put that World Market order again, making sure it's confirmed and that I have an order number that I will print on paper this time, and we'll try one last crack at Reno before the holiday. And if I'm lucky, Whole Foods Market will receive another shipment of Strauss eggnog, too.
Cost Plus World Market is offering 20% off for curbside delivery, so this morning I put in an order with them — the first time I've done such an order. I figured that by the time we made all of our other stops, they probably would have our pickup order ready.
( Running Around Reno )
Not being able to put it off any longer, we went to World Market as our final stop, but we still had not received a pickup message. I went inside and they could not find my order. Going back out to the van, and after much wrestling with the phone, I determined that somehow the order had not gone through. Nothing we had on the order was critical, and it was now after 1 PM and the stores were getting uncomfortably crowded for us, so we decided to just go home.
After we got home and unloaded all the stuff we did manage to buy, I checked, and sure enough: while I'd entered my credit card information and it had been validated, there was one final "confirm order" step that you have to do and that I hadn't done. I've never done this sort of order before, and having to confirm the order twice wasn't something I expected. Next time I will know better.
After going through what we did get, Lisa determined that there are a small number of other things that she'd like to get for Christmas dinner that we missed this time. If we decide that we can manage a trip on Tuesday after work, I'll put that World Market order again, making sure it's confirmed and that I have an order number that I will print on paper this time, and we'll try one last crack at Reno before the holiday. And if I'm lucky, Whole Foods Market will receive another shipment of Strauss eggnog, too.
