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ENOUGH!!! Walmart!

I have Walmart home delivery, from a store that’s but 6 blocks away. A $200+ order every 10 to 14 days.

I can’t remember when Walmart last delivered 12 whole, intact eggs, and I order dozen or two every order. Yesterday’s delivery included 3 broken eggs. The previous delivery had 2 broken. Always one or more broken eggs for months.

What’s going on??
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Nimbus · M
Time to make an omelette?
I love Walmart home delivery but it can be hit or miss. Almost never perfect in terms of damaged items, items not in stock, mediocre substitutions.

Broken eggs could either be a shopper or driver who wasn’t careful enough. I hope you’ve been contacting customer service because it’s been my experience that money gets immediately refunded for damaged items. Which in your case would mean 9 free eggs and 10 free eggs. Several times I’ve also gotten a $10 promo code for the inconvenience.

Even if you don’t contact customer service directly and use “start a refund” from your order page, you should get the money refunded back to you. And I’ve not once been told that I have to return the item to the store to get the refund. It’s always been keep, donate or toss.

No store delivery service is gonna be perfect but Walmart’s made it right just about every time.
@OlderSometimesWiser I like a lot about Walmart. In my neighborhood they are the only retailer who has integrated the delivery with the purchase, everyone else uses a 3rd party delivery service. Also Walmart will do drop ships from other locations and mail ships from their warehouse when the store is out of that product. Overall, in person to person contact they behave much like thee old corner stores of 50 years ago, even as billion $$$ corporations. When I mentally accumulate dozen broken eggs I’ll call them and alert them.
AbbeyRhode · F
I stopped ordering anything breakable. They will pack toilet paper in an enormous box with a mile of bubble wrap, but cookies or chips just get packed in a bag, so they can get smashed into crumbs. 😕
@AbbeyRhode Good idea. They do great with frozen and ice cream, they are only six blocks away. So even on these hot days it’s fine. They also co-package the frozen with other frozen to keep it together. So almost forgivable with the eggs. Almost :)
Mmiker · 46-50, M
Seems like they’re walking in eggshells
4meAndyou · F
If you call Walmart, and notify customer service of the broken egg situation, giving them your order number, they will refund the cost of the eggs.

The people who pack the groceries are being careless. They are not checking to be sure there are no broken eggs in the cartons when they take them off the shelve...and/or they are throwing the bags with the eggs in their vehicles and then throwing heavier bags on top of them.
@4meAndyou I know. As a grocer’s son I’m probably a bit sympathetic towards retailers. There’s a tolerance level in some industries, like order 3,000 printed copies and what you get is somewhere between 2800 and 3200. When ordering a dozen eggs, I never get 13, so not everything gets the benefit of a few more or a few less.
Maybe take the "Trump.. 2024" signs down off your windows. Things might improve..😷
@Heartlander No idea who that is. But I get the idea... Every league has a team every other fan likes to hate most.. I just dont see that as a way to select your next government. The Republicans and Democrate of the 1950s were both completely different parties to who they are today..😷
@whowasthatmaskedman Had to check your location on that one. Burrow is at the top of the NFL quarterback heap here, though most Kansas Cityans believe that spot belongs to a guy named Mahomes.

Picking a president in the 50s was easy. Truman after the war tried to take the US back to the depression and apolitical General Dwight Eisenhower stepped in for the rescue. He also started the end to America’s race problem with armed military guaranteeing that black children could attend all white schools and we were allowed to sit anywhere we wished on a bus, or at a lunch counter.

Eisenhower also brought a conclusion to Truman’s Korean War failings.

Eisenhower had the US rolling, but then his term ended and :(

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@Heartlander Common ground on which we both agree...In my view it was not until Nixon that the Republicans started to lose their way.. The difference between us probably being that I would have changed my vote then.😷
in uk deliveries can be same day, why is usa so far behind europe , also all deliveries are checked and any borken things are crdited and replaced the same day,comeon usa get with the program
@jefferson Same here. We can get delivery within a few hours for a small extra fee. But usually if ordered before noon can get it by 6 p.m.
SW-User
Walmart has jacked their prices to an uncompetitive level, and I got stuck with a mouldy cheese. I won't give them much business in the future.
@SW-User Yea. have to make a change. We've been using them since pre-COVID and they were pretty reliable until a few months ago.
Lilymoon · F
Delivery people getting paid minimum wage
@Lilymoon they also get a fancy tip :) so a $200 order comes with a $30 tip.
SW-User
I would like to blame it on the signs you have hanging in your windows, but unfortunately, I cannot even blame your plight on America's abject failure to MEGA correctly... which is an acronym for "Make Eggs Great Again".

Where the egg problem actually lies is in the food supply itself that is fed to chickens which are called 'layers' in the industry, which are those chickens not destined from their humble beginnings at the 'hatchery' to form a key ingredient at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet.

Chickens which are 'free-range' birds or those who are kept in captivity 24/7 but are fed organic feed, are the ones who produce eggs which have a very high calcium content to their egg shells, thus producing near bullet-proof eggs which are found to be much more suitable to the US marketplace in particular considering 2nd Amendment Rights and all.

However, organic eggs are very expensive to produce because the organic feed is not cheap, nor is the daily egg production rate very high for a typical 'organic' egg-laying hen. 🐔

Enter the age of force-fed chickens who never see the light of day, who's environment is that of bright lights being left on 24/7, who's feed supply is imported to the USA from China which contains animal renderings from slaughter houses along with everything else except calcium, but who yield double and sometimes triple the daily egg production of that of an organic-fed hen, but who's egg shells are paper-thin as a result of their Chinese feed and who's egg yolks are a pale, pastel yellow color as a result of their Chinese feed and barely have the taste of an egg when eaten in any culinary venue because of their Chinese feed.

The same thing goes with fresh salmon one can purchase in an American fish market. Those salmon seen as whole fish in the display case in a fish market, are raised in salt water fish farms located in China and are flown-into the USA daily on FedEx.

Those salmon however, are fed pelletized food made from animal renderings as well which yields 10 times more grease (and yellow grease at that) than a wild salmon is capable of producing, considering that a wild salmon doesn't typically produce grease at all. It produces a clear salmon oil naturally, but a salmon does not naturally produce a yellow grease substance if it swims in the wilds of the ocean.

Only 2% of all salmon consumed in the USA each day are caught in the ocean by American fishermen. Those particular fish don't travel very far to find a domestic fish market on either the east or west coast of the USA, which is why 98% of all salmon found inland and thus consumed within the interior of America is flown-in from China each night.

I see it in eggs, I see it in salmon and I also see it in dairy milk.

The reason your eggs are delivered cracked or broken from Walmart has little to do with Walmart or it's egg handling protocol, or their delivery guy's driving habits unfortunately.
@SW-User Oh yes. To leap beyond the scientific explanation it’s what us old timers know as free range Vs caged eggs. So called caged because the chicken spend their entire lives in tiny cages of like 2 foot square, often shared with another chicken. The cages are stacked above and layered left to right, front to back and 5,000 caged chickens housed within a 50x200 shed, with production highly mechanized. Our laypersons explanation to the thinner, more easily broken shells of caged eggs is that the chickens are rushed by their farmers demanding faster and faster production and the chickens are just trying to keep up with demand, favoring quantity over quality.

I have known farmers of both free range and caged chickens, shared coffee with them and even visited their farms a few times. Also having grown up as a son of a grocer have a fairly good understanding of the farm to table journey.

My free range awareness suggests that they are pretty much self sustaining. The chickens form communities and form mutually beneficial relationships with their farmers for a win-win end result. Caged egg farmers however are more dependable. Non producing chickens are replaced and the farm is managed to produce a dependable numeric outcome.

50 years ago practically all eggs were free range, today practically all are caged. 50 years ago grocers sold what farmers produced; today, farms produce what grocers demand.
SW-User
@Heartlander
...so then, you're agreeing with me that your eggs that get delivered broken have nothing to do with Walmart, right?
@SW-User Maybe a tiny bit, but just possibly. The more fragile caged eggs obviously require a bit of special handling and/or better packaging, or maybe Walmart's egg suppliers should give their chickens more time to produce better quality eggs. Some of the broken eggs had signs of being broken for an extended period so likely had been broken before being assembled for my order, so where in the farmer-to-me journey they were broken is beyond my awareness or even guess.

 
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