Flyover, compost bin looks great. I wish we had enough going on in the area where we could pick up thrown out materials. There is only one construction site in town and they don't have a dumpster (yet). They demolished an old hardware store but the wood was rotted and they loaded it on to trucks instead of putting it in dumpsters. They are now building a new gas station but I still haven't seen dumpsters.
I ended up going to leave with my brother early. Got into the truck and suddenly he had to go to the bathroom. So I ended up having to wait an hour. Grabbed his rx from Walmart, got mail from the post office, and then went to Sams. Since they didn't let me purchase some of the stuff online (claimed it was out of stock but it wasn't), I had to go get it. It was the heavy stuff. My brother went to the bathroom again so he didn't help. I loaded up 5 cases of water and two gallons of milk. Looked around to see if he was out of the bathroom, didn't see him, so I headed to self-checkout. Checked out, looked around for him again. Said f* it and went to the pickup area. In the past I would go there when I had online orders and they would hand me the cart with my stuff. But this time I was told that I would have to go outside, park in the Pickup parking spot and use the app on my phone to check in. I explained I don't have the app on my phone. She said that if I gave my name she would send someone out with my order. So, I did that. Went through the receipt check and item scan (to make sure everything was on the receipt) and then got to the truck and loaded everything up. Brother called on the phone, he'd been shopping and wanted to get snacks. I told him I was already outside. I said that it was getting close to 2pm and my pickup window was from 1pm to 2pm. I moved the truck to Pickup spot 1. My brother came out and sat in the truck with me. After several minutes I called the store to tell them I was there for curbside pickup but no one had brought my order out, I didn't have the app, and I had informed someone inside that I was there for my order. The person said they would transfer me. Phone rang for 5min and nobody picked up. So I called back. Phone rang again and nobody picked up. I waited another several minutes and started to get irritated. It was now well after 2pm and I had been waiting longer than 10 minutes. I went and knocked on the unloading door and an employee asked me what I needed. I told her I'd been waiting for my order. She asked if I checked in with the app. I explained I didn't have it. She said "How did you order if you didn't have the app?" I said "On my computer. I've ordered like this before and I always went inside and they handled the order" She said "It doesn't work like that now, you have to use the app." I said "Well, I don't have my password to login even if I download the app" so she said "You have to go back inside and talk to them". So I went to the pickup sorting area inside and tried to flag someone down. No one noticed. I walked in to the area and someone told me I had to leave. I explained that I needed to pickup my order, had been waiting over 10 minutes, had already called the store, had spoken to someone inside to tell them I was there, etc and nobody was bringing my order out. He took my name and said he would bring it out. So, I went out and sat in the truck another several minutes and then decided I was going to go inside and cancel the order and go find all the stuff myself. Just then the pickup guy came out with the order and apologized for the delay.
So, now I need to figure out which of the stupid apps to load no my phone for the next time. But that runaround defeated the whole purpose of curbside and when I ordered online there was *nothing* in the information on order pickup saying I could only get my order using the app.
Sorry, venting. Time to go get food for Mom.
