Anecdotally (I know, I know), I've ordered a few things recently from Walmart that were cheaper than they were on Amazon. Each time I received the items multiple days later than what the website told me. e.g. "2 day" shipping taking 4 business days. I've had this happen to me maybe a couple of times over several years from Amazon, but its happened each and every time from Walmart.
> Anecdotally (I know, I know), I've ordered a few things recently from Walmart that were cheaper than they were on Amazon. Each time I received the items multiple days later than what the website told me. e.g. "2 day" shipping taking 4 business days.
Meh. Amazon does that to me (yes I have Prime) ~1/4 of the time too, and I don't live in the sticks. They also don't use any of their weird non-FedEx/UPS/USPS handlers here. "2 day shipping" becomes 4-5 business days. At least if Wal-Mart does it I haven't paid a membership fee for the privilege.
Amazon does that now as a matter of course - maybe I just manage to order obscure Prime items, but it's common to see the order summary show a date > 4 days out, while having the Prime 2-day shipping also checked.
Same here. It's been a bit disappointing. I've been considering canceling my Prime membership, especially since I don't use any of the other Prime perks. But I'll wait this year out to see if it improves.
Hah. Imagine the press if they were as customer-centric and data-driven as they are portrayed, and they proactively sent compensation based on their errors of estimation (i.e. customer expectations).
That's horrible business practice, you always count on a certain number of people dropping out, not noticing, and not caring..... it's kind of like overselling seats (free revenue)
They don't do that anymore. They just say "two days is the time in transit not counting weekends" (despite them absolutely delivering on Saturday and sundays.
