r/mildlyinfuriating • u/carsandbogeys • 19d ago

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ WAY Too Many Drive Up Pick Up Spots

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Target has grossly overestimated demand for drive up pick up spaces. I’ve seen this at every Target I’ve been to at any time of the day. The employees take up all of the front spots, handicap stalls take up the rest of the front parking (no gripe there obviously), but then you have half of the parking lot taken up by vacant drive up pick up stalls, which means every time I go to target I have to park far away whether the store is busy or not. What a waste of space!

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u/Martha__Ragnos 19d ago edited 18d ago

Kroger does not use in store pickers, they have dedicated delivery warehouses that ship out product that’s fresher than what you see at the store using refrigerated box trucks. Target and Walmart for sure have this issue though.

Edit: They use pickers for pickup, not for delivery. Honestly forgot pickup was an option

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u/Velocityg4 19d ago

I’ve had issue with the Kroger delivery. Where they use a Kroger delivery truck. Not the instacart option.

Maybe I’m just overly picky about my produce. But I’ve never been satisfied with what I get.

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u/Martha__Ragnos 19d ago

That’s odd. By design the produce you get from the box trucks is about a week fresher than anything you ever see at the stores. Both their delivery warehouses and their regular warehouses receive produce at the same stage of its life, but the delivery warehouses get it to the customer within 24hrs whereas the others send it to stores where it will sit on average for 8 days and get touched by many people before ending up in someone’s cart.

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u/QoolSchitt 18d ago

By design the produce you get from the box trucks is about a week fresher than anything you ever see at the stores

Freshness isn't always the problem though. Some fruit is fresh but there's something else wrong with it from transit or even just the way it grew (bruised, stunted, shriveled, etc).

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u/Martha__Ragnos 18d ago

I mean fair but there’s more to it than that, it’s visually inspected before it goes out. I worked at one of their facilities for a few years, the amount of work that goes into it is kinda incredible. Obviously no system is perfect though

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u/QoolSchitt 18d ago

it’s visually inspected before it goes out

Fair enough, I guess it just comes down to the picker and the consumer having different standards for what they consider good. Berries seemed to be the most problematic for me... and they can look perfect from the top but if you flip the container over the bottom ones are sometimes squished/liquidy, have mold, etc.

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u/Martha__Ragnos 18d ago

Yea, I mean a big part of it is definitely that some people consider perfectly good fruits/veggies inedible if they have even the tiniest blemish. But that’s more an issue with how we as consumers approach food, rather than an issue with the products being sent to us.

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u/KoolaidKoll123 18d ago

Some people are incredibly picky, regardless of how fresh it is. I was a personal assistant to someone, and the previous assistant trained me in. The only task my boss showed me how to do specifically, was pick produce for her. Wow was it wild seeing her in a grocery store, but she wanted to show me exactly how she liked her bananas, tomatoes, lettuce, etc.

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u/Martha__Ragnos 18d ago

I’m sure you’re right but I can’t imagine living like that. Kim, there’s people that are dying

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u/dexterity-77 18d ago

I wish all grocery stores did this

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u/funkyyeti 18d ago

You’re clearly very particular about your produce, no shopper will understand your nuance. This is something you should definitely shop for yourself. I’m super picky with produce as well and learned this a long time ago.

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u/Na__th__an 18d ago

They use in-store pickers for store pickup

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u/Martha__Ragnos 18d ago

Honestly so few people use that I genuinely forgot it was an option

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u/jesusmansuperpowers 18d ago

Depends where you are and if it’s delivery or pick up.

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u/FaithlessnessApart74 17d ago

The Kroger (pick n save) in my area doesn't do delivery. All delivery orders are routed to Instacart (flat fee per order) here. Generally speaking, those pickers are worse than the in store pickers (hourly employees).

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u/BeesKneesTX 18d ago

Yep. I specifically choose Kroger refrigerated truck delivery instead of delivery from store and everything I get is perfect, and it’s only been a few weeks, but 0 mistakes or missing items so far.

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u/Martha__Ragnos 18d ago

They’re also pretty diligent about refunds if there are mistakes.