Walmart not wanting to deliver?

I understand why some don't like Amazon - but there model is built like Costco - you pay a membership. Difference is that without the membership you can't shop at Costco. I hate Costco actually - but we have a membership because I am married and the boss likes Costco.
Sure you can, you don't have to be a member to buy at Costco.com
They do have specials for club members only and only club members can buy in Costco warehouses.

I cant shop in an Amazon warehouse under any circumstance.
They are two completely different businesses.
 
PT,

I am not conceal carry motivated, but I did conceal carry on that shopping trip. I cringe having to do it, but seeing the live local crime reports I have started to carry as a duty and responsibility, not a desire.


I understand. That particular mall is not known for such events but in this day and age you just never know. Lakewood, Tacoma Mall and Westfield Southcenter are bad spots. I had to go to Southcenter earlier this year to the Apple Store. Around the entrance was a menagerie of drug addicts and gangster like thugs. We were in and out quickly thank goodness. I won’t go to the Tacoma Mall.
 
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Amazon used to deliver in my area but since late spring will no longer do so because they say its too rural, yet only 8 miles from their warehouse. They now have contracted with the postal svc to deliver. So what used to take a day or two for me to receive items now takes 5-6 days due to the inefficiency of the PO. The main PO is 4 miles away but they have to transfer to my PO which is 6 miles away and it takes 2-3 days to go from main PO to my PO and then to deliver. Welcome to the new millennium. Walmart delivers with no issues.
 
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Sure you can, you don't have to be a member to buy at Costco.com
They do have specials for club members only and only club members can buy in Costco warehouses.

I cant shop in an Amazon warehouse under any circumstance.
They are two completely different businesses.
My point was that there both membership models. Costco wants you to be a member - you need to be a member to buy in store. Their online site has only a small fraction of what they sell.

Amazon wants you to be a member. All their policies cater to membership.

Yes you can buy at Costco.com without a membership. Amazon gives free membership trial for 30 days. How they handle things around the fringes is window dressing., their membership driven business models and if your not a member they don't really care much about you, except that your a potential member - maybe.
 
PT,

I am not conceal carry motivated, but I did conceal carry on that shopping trip. I cringe having to do it, but seeing the live local crime reports I have started to carry as a duty and responsibility, not a desire.
That is the problem, the media, gun death rate is lower now than that of the 1970s.
People are being conditioned to believe everything they see and read. It's news sensationalism unless you look at the facts.
Yes the murder rate has gone up the last few years but its still lower then the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
In fact the murder rate is down 15% from the 1970s even with the huge increase during covid.

Most people do not even know that the "gun deaths" reports they see dont even tell you that 54% of those deaths were suicide.
So more people are killing themselves than each other and the ones killing each other normally know each other.
It really amazes me how the population is controlled by the media (and government special interests, aka twitter - but no politics here)



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Source = https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

Another slightly dated source but reliable = https://www.statista.com/statistics...ated-injuries-in-the-us-by-gender-since-1970/
 
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That is the problem, the media, gun death rate is lower now than that of the 1970s.
People are being conditioned to believe everything they see and read. It's news sensationalism unless you look at the facts.
Yes the murder rate has gone up the last few years but its still lower then the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
In fact the murder rate is down 15% from the 1970s.
Most people do not even know that the "gun deaths" reports they see dont even tell you that 54% of those deaths were suicide.
So more people are killing themselves than each other and the ones killing each other normally know each other.
It really amazes me how the population is controlled by the media (and government special interests, aka twitter - but no politics here)



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AG,

On a daily basis- just a mile from my residence, there are violent robberies. I access looking the other way, rolling over- may actually promote an increase in violent felonious behavior. I am in the final seven weeks of a master's course at Northwestern University. My last paper is a review and recommendations on the follow pursuit polices:
  1. If the pursuit were to result in injury or death, would a reasonable person understand why the pursuit occurred or was necessary?
  2. Is the need to immediately catch the suspect more important than the risk created by the pursuit?
  3. Do the dangers created by the pursuit exceed the dangers posed by letting the perpetrator escape?
What the research is identifying, is not pursing alleged criminals in hopes of reducing risks against unrelated parties, may actually significantly increase risk to unrelated parties over the long run.

And, as the article below shows- not all violent crimes are committed with a handgun. I study reports on a regular of physical assaults occurring with baseball bats and like objects.

"It appeared Bowles interrupted the suspect's robbery of her 2021 Lexus RX350 between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Atlanta Police Lt. Germain Dearlove said at a news conference. She lived in a gated community, according to ABC Atlanta affiliate WSB."

 
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That is the problem, the media, gun death rate is lower now than that of the 1970s.
People are being conditioned to believe everything they see and read. It's news sensationalism unless you look at the facts.
Yes the murder rate has gone up the last few years but its still lower then the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
In fact the murder rate is down 15% from the 1970s even with the huge increase during covid.

Most people do not even know that the "gun deaths" reports they see dont even tell you that 54% of those deaths were suicide.
So more people are killing themselves than each other and the ones killing each other normally know each other.
It really amazes me how the population is controlled by the media (and government special interests, aka twitter - but no politics here)



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Source = https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

Another slightly dated source but reliable = https://www.statista.com/statistics...ated-injuries-in-the-us-by-gender-since-1970/

Deaths from firearms are rising accord to CDC's data but inline with population growth. Unfortunately only 1999 to 2020.
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Page from usafacts. Website will also show suicide/homicide and different adjustments. Interestingly, the firearm deaths per capita dipped really low during our active years in the Middle East sandbox.

Total deaths from firearms
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Per Capita adjustment
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Suicide vs homicide
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Increase of active shooters.
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EDIT: did some more research since all this data is only talking about non-fatal firearm injuries. Here's a published article from NLM about the non-fatal firearm injuries. In conclusion, for every 1 fatal firearm event, there's 2 non-fatal, hospital-admitted events with non-intentional making ~58%.

In addition to the 118,171 persons shot and killed by firearms from 2016–2018, 228,380 people were shot (ratio 1.9:1) and treated at a hospital ED or admitted to hospital, a rate of 23.4 nonfatal firearm injury episodes per 100,000 population. The number of nonfatal injury episodes varied by year: 2018 had the lowest at 69,692, compared to 84,776 in 2017 and 73,912 in 2016.
 
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Holy Highjack Batman,

let’s get this back on track. Is anyone else noticing less free shipping over $35 on Walmart dot come, or is it just me?
It seems something has changed over the last 6 weeks.
Maybe they are pushing pickup in store to get some traffic for holiday impulse items in the physical stores?
 
It’s a push to sign you up for W+. I have even seen special prices in store for W+ shoppers. Walmart joined the game everyone else is playing.
 
It’s a push to sign you up for W+. I have even seen special prices in store for W+ shoppers. Walmart joined the game everyone else is playing.
I broke down and purchased it a couple weeks ago. They had it half price ($49) and it includes Paramount + streaming service which I was paying for, so I came out OK on the deal, since I no longer have to pay for Paramount +
 
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