Submitted by facktoetum t3_z6kajf in newjersey
We've been doing Shop Rite from Home since the pandemic, and we've had some disappointing results, with poor substitutions, and out of stock items, but nothing compares to this. We ordered 3/4 lb of string beans and they legit gave us one string bean and charged us 5 cents for it.
What was this person even thinking? I'm not even mad, it's hilarious.
Looks like they kept 3/4 of one and gave her the remaining 1/4
Opposite energy of my friend who ordered 6 bananas and received 26
Better than when I ordered bananas and received mens xl underwear (but was from Walmart not ShopRite) 😩😂
You're a better person than me. That would infuriate me, haha.
Picking my own fruits and veggies is the main reason I continue to shop in-store.
This is hilarious and I experience it often with Instacart. These shoppers are not the brightest of the bunch a lot of the times in my experience.
I had someone tell me they couldn’t find shredded lettuce and then sent me a picture of the frozen food aisle asking if any of those options would suffice. He realized his “mistake” when I asked if he could just go get a head of lettuce from the produce department. Suddenly he found the shredded lettuce. Why on earth he thought it was a frozen food item is beyond me.
Iceberg lettuce?
I've never felt smarter than I have when dealing with an instacart shopper.
Maybe it's all they had and there's some silly policy that they have to attempt to give you what you ordered even if it's ridiculous?
I dunno? Are string beans out of season? Is there extreme rationing? Are they super popular and only so many to go around?
Is one bean really worth 5 cents?
So many questions
There were tons in Burlington for Thanksgiving.
I have seen some of the workers trying to fulfill orders, these kids look lost.
They look at the handheld, grab an item, scan handheld goes green, and they move to the next item.
World's heaviest string bean.
I had the same thing happen to me this week. Ordered a 5 pound bag of sweet potatoes, only to discover a single potato when i got home. I laughed hard... people doing the shopping either don't give a shit or are not the brightest.
They use a 3rd party apparently, what a staff member told me at the PBurg one. I always get just one banana. But this takes the cake.
I’ve done a lot of pickups there for a relative who uses that service. The people who work there seem to be way overburdened with orders. It is always chaos and like 2 people trying to manage it all.
Definitely. Every time I pick up it's the same two or three people. Our pickup window always changes to a few hours after it was originally set, so we order in preparation for that. Our pickup was supposed to be 9am yesterday, ended up being 2:30pm. It doesn't bother me so much. It's not the employees' fault that the operation is so poorly run, but the manager or corporate who likely caps hours and pushes employees beyond effective operation.
I was on the "opening team" years year years ago at target when they started doing order pick up, and my guess is that by giving you 1 string bean, they either:
a) didn't want to go through the questions to ask what you wanted instead, if they were truly out of string beans, so they can tell the machine, "we gave them string beans" despite just giving you one string bean, passing the burden on you.
b) they picked one string bean, to remind themselves to go in the back and get the rest of them, but than handed the order over to the next person and forgot to follow through. (I used to do this whenever someone wanted say, a dozen boxes of cereal. I didnt want to take all those off the floor, so I would get them from the back stock room.
c) they were bored and wanted to have some fun.
d) the system is incredible bulky and hard to navigate, and their hand held said 1 string bean and they dont get paid enough to fight the computer system
e) they're an idiot or in a rush and just saw 1 string bean on the screen and hit clear
I once did home delivery with Whole foods. I had about 15 items on the list that was in stock. I only received 5 when I got home. Just to be sure I went to the Whole foods that I placed the order with and sure enough the other ten items were there. A lot times these workers are too lazy too look or ask. It is quite annoying when I tip well.
We’ve gotten mixed results ordering bananas. Sometimes one single banana. I’d write more detailed instructions like ‘4 single bananas’ and get 4 bunches. I stopped ordering bananas and many fruits and vegetables.
I place the online order for 85% of groceries and then run in for fruit, vegetables, and meat because it’s easier. Was also tired of getting random amounts of meats lol
I think the worst thing that happened to me is I ordered vegan Indian and they substituted chicken. I now specify no substitutions.
We've gotten some items we haven't ordered, and occasionally they forget something of ours. If it's a big deal I call customer support they take care of it immediately. One time they forgot all the meat, so I called and they Door Dashed it to us right away.
Eek, that's pretty terrible. They are pretty good with door dashing whatever they forget though.
we specify no substitutions all the time and shoprite from home substitutes all kinds of shit
they'll pick the most expensive ground beef when we ask for the ground beef on sale
we get one banana when we ask for a bunch
one time we got salami when we asked for cheddar cheese????
That’s one bangin’ bean!!
Lol I don’t know if I would be mad or just die laughing
Lol that’s hilarious! Don’t eat it all in one shot … you’ll get too full! 😂😂😂
your delivery guy sells weed ! was thinking 3/4 was an once not pounds.
You have a shit delivery guy / shopper but he might be a great new dealer!
Do they still have that ridiculous revolving door that you have to get your cart through? Lived there for a while many moons ago and nearly gutted myself when the whole mechanism stopped and I slammed full force into the handle of the cart. I'll admit I'm not the most coordinated person, but I never suspected the whole thing would just stop.
The revolving door is there, but there are automatic swinging doors on either side as well.
We always have problems with items that are sold by weight. Deli meats always get screwed up. The app will clearly show 1 lb as the quantity but we'll get 1/4 lb. We just know if we try to adjust for this that will be the time we end up with 4 lbs of meat.
Tomatoes on the vine have been an issue too. The app seems to say its a bundle of 4 tomatoes but we'll end up with just 1 cut off the vine.
It seems like there are certain items where the specifica are left open to interpretation by the shopper.
I work for stop and shop in produce and boy, people were annoyed (not pissed) that they couldn't get strawberries before or after Thanksgiving. There's a lot of issues still going on with everything, so yeah... nothing we can do about it. Also, Shoprite still does loose string beans?
It’s not even a fresh one
Not surprising. Use that particular SR mostly for milk or last minute one item pick ups.
I’ve never been able to get a delivery slot from my Shoprite, although I stopped trying after 2 years.
I get from Whole Foods, they’re pretty good about subs, they’ll usually DM me in the app and ask if XYZ is okay.
ShopRite from home is a scam, they forget things all the time
Or they aren't on the shelf and have no time to get it for you.
Source: been involved in some form of ecommerce for 16 years.
Product on high shelf send order as is haha
I hate this shop rite. Hell hole
WeCanDoThisCNJ t1_iy1vnkk wrote
You sure it isn’t 3/4 of a string bean?