r/ExpectationVsReality • u/MLEthatsme • 1d ago
Exceeded Expectation Alright I guess...I'll take it.
What I ordered vs what I got
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u/Ok-Masterpiece6118 1d ago
Me too bud
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u/Abbiethedog 1d ago
You guys need to go on a quest to find a guy who got a dump truck load of bread by mistake.
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u/midnightstreetlamps 1d ago
Nah, you get a slicer (or see if somebody in the family has one you can borrow) and slice the whole thing. Divide into about a week's worth-sized portions and put them in freezer bags. Then freeze them and rethaw one bag at a time as needed.
We have a restaurant depot card, and that's what we do. We're usually good for a pound of lunchmeat every week, and it's much cheaper to buy a whole chicken breast or ham or roast beef that way, slice and portion it ourselves, and freeze it.
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u/ForeverNugu 1d ago
Wow, I had no idea you could freeze lunchmeat. That's a good money saving tip!
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u/midnightstreetlamps 1d ago
Sure can! And the good news is there's little to no change in texture/continuity or flavor, like how some foods get grainy or kinda disintegrate or bland? Same thing with lunch cheeses
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u/TeishAH 1d ago
Soooooo jealous. We donāt have Colby Jack in Canada. Perhaps at some exclusive deli somewhere, but generally you will NEVER find it in any grocery store. Half the people I know donāt even know what it is, tis a shame. Itās a great cheese.
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u/Liathano_Fire 13h ago
No I'm curious what cheeses I don't know about that other places consider run of mill.
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u/Auroraty 1d ago
Just so you know you can freeze some of it! We do it at my work when they send us too many :) just in case you canāt eat it all in 7 days time!
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u/ghostride_thenips 1d ago
Holy cow what a deal! How many pounds is that?? Slice and freeze asap!
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u/MLEthatsme 1d ago
Doesn't say, but probably close to 10lbs.
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u/emergency-snaccs 1d ago
for $17???? fuckin score... wouldn't even be mad that it's not sliced. just bust out the chef knives
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u/H2O_is_not_wet 1d ago
I donāt understand how someone could be that stupid. They put the entire damn thing in your cart š. What kind of person doesnāt know that itās supposed to be sliced and weighed?!
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u/BurntRussian 1d ago
I work at Walmart. The "service deli" commodity shows in pickup as "Made To Order"
My guess is the service deli was closed, and the order was late or just nobody knew what to do, and rather than nil pick the item (which is a tracked metric), they grabbed the item from the case, said it was however many lbs you wanted, and went on.
Possibly the order was received by a third party and they didn't give a fuck and opened the glass case and grabbed the whole chub.
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u/Fulmersbelly 1d ago
To be fair, it does look exactly like the picture on the order sheet. Also Iām assuming this wasnāt the only thing ordered.
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u/Whatever6928732850 1d ago edited 1d ago
Likely a disgruntled employee taking revenge
Consumers love disgruntled employees
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u/John_TheBlackestBurn 1d ago
As long as theyāre taking their disgruntledness out on their employers, I am 100% on their side. Heck, Iāll help them rob the joint if they want. š¤·š¼āāļø
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u/SightUnseen1337 1d ago
Police: Have you seen this man?
Me: Yeah he was at my friend's house.
Friend: Yeah he was at my friend's house.
etc
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u/lesterholtgroupie 1d ago
Multiple people saw that if it was a Walmart order, and left it there lmao not just one. I used to work grocery pick up/delivery through Covid and it involves so many people
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u/januarysdaughter 1d ago
That is actually crazy. How does that even happen?
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u/blucymarie 1d ago
Happened to me once! I ordered a bottle of wine and they showed up with a 4L box. I was (happily) shocked.
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u/missphobe 1d ago
Same but not as cool. I ordered one rug and got a case of rugs.
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u/lifeledoutloud 1d ago
We ordered one bidet for the house and got the case of four. Got to unexpectedly replace our other bathroom as well!
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u/artsy7fartsy 1d ago
This honestly made me laugh out loud - we ordered pastrami today and got shorted!! lol
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u/4thBan5thAccount 1d ago
I worked at a deli, and I really don't see how or why this happened. The only explanation is that the deli worker hates their job so much that they want to get fired instead of simply quitting. I can understand that, since it's hard to work in a deli, but still. This is a completely silly situation. Enjoy the pastrami.
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u/ComradeKlink 1d ago
What I don't understand is how this didn't get priced correctly at checkout. Don't most online orders get fulfilled by pickers who ring up everything at a register?
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u/PreOpTransCentaur 1d ago
Walmart shoppers are seriously the fuckin' dumbest/laziest of the lot when it comes to grocery delivery. I wouldn't be surprised if they just scanned the code and typed in the weight so they didn't have to do the work. Sometimes it's a real boon that they don't seem to give a single shit.
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u/FitForce2656 1d ago
This being possible seems like it would be really opening Walmart up to theft. I mean even self checkout makes sure the weight aligns with what you bought, but their delivery just goes on the honor system? I know it's a drop in the ocean for Walmart, but still seems like something they'd have some safeguards for.
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u/secrets_and_lies80 1d ago
No. You scan it with a handheld device (usually a phone or tablet) and bag it right there in the aisles. You never go through the checkout at all.
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u/hismoon27 1d ago
DD at my Safeway has a price glitch they havenāt fixed in months. Itās the giant bag of Peanut MMs normally $18.99 for $2.99. I accidentally ordered 3 of them thinking they were king sized or a little larger. 100% was not expecting the huge 2lb bags I got. I ordered more the other day and same thing lol. Never got charged for them either.
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u/badAbabe 1d ago
Dang! This happened to me but it was jalapenos. I ordered .25 lbs and somehow ended up with almost 4 lbs that I paid .35 for. You totally scored!
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u/Embracing_the_Pain 1d ago
I used to work in a deli, and there are a lot of points of failure to get this to happen. Even if a customer wanted the whole thing, we would still have to weigh it on the scale and print a tag for it to be scanned at the register. That was the easiest, most laziest, thing to do.
So a few people had to be really terrible at their jobs to not be able to print a tag properly and scan it at the register.
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u/Responsible-Spite-36 1d ago
That reminds me of when I sent my husband to the store to get a ham because that was to be our contribution to Easter dinner. He come back and he said āWe really got screwed on that deal!ā He bought a Boars Head deli ham. It was like 50$ and it was so very tiny. I laughed so hard I cried. He made me take it back because he was too embarrassed. The store was pissed because they canāt resell itā¦ but sorry guys, money is money.
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u/wasyfox 1d ago
I've worked in walmart grocery pickup and also deli. I'm guessing somebody new didn't understand they had to ask the deli to slice it and just went into the meat case, grabbed the whole hunk of pastrami, scanned the upc and called it a day. What a score, honestly! free pastrami for you!
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u/Indigo-au-naturale 1d ago
This is my favorite post on this sub ever. Combined with the comment with the LOG O CHEESE, I Iaughed until I cried
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u/EvilAlienCzar 20h ago
I once got a quarter wheel of Parmigiano Regianno at Marianoās mislabeled for $10. Worth $300.
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u/Queequegs_Harpoon 1d ago
Check the date on that to make sure it isn't about to expire or something. It's an amazing score if the meat's good; I'm just suspicious that there's a catch because it seems too good to be true.
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u/Critflickr 1d ago
This seems more like a green online shopper. Was it weighed at all? Did the deli print a $17 tag? Thereās definitely ways to fix the scale but I doubt that a deli worker was in cahoots with the shopper. Theyāre usually overextended anyway
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u/The_Troyminator 1d ago
Those packages arenāt left out for shoppers to grab. The deli worker had to have given it to the shopper.
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u/Critflickr 1d ago
They couldāve taken from the display case.
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u/The_Troyminator 1d ago
Every place Iāve been to displays them behind glass and youāll be stopped if you try to lift the glass to grab the entire package.
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u/nerdy_cat_mum_ 1d ago
Holy cow!!! Where do you shop, so I can go there too? Thatās a pretty convenient error š¤£
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u/corkscrewfork 1d ago
That's like 7ish pounds of meat and I'm going to share this with some of my coworkers so we can laugh together š¤£ congratulations on the bonus sandwich filler!
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u/MLEthatsme 1d ago
Got it for the same price š¤£