Life as Crisis Management: The Walmart Kiada

 

I really dislike Amazon but then there is a lot to dislike about Amazon. It is a monopoly. Its CEO, Jeff Beezos, is yet another one of those avoid corporate taxes liberal who likes to throw his weight--his monies, in other words--around to defeat candidates like Kshama Sawant, a socialist  member of the city council in Seattle who strongly supports union. Beezos--I am shocked, shocked--doesn't. He wines and dines with other pinky liberal elites of his political and ideological and narcissistic ilk like the Clinton's and the Obama's and even the Saudi's. He plans to join Donny "Tangholio" Trump in that "heaven" that is ruled by the self-proclaimed High Priest of the Low Church of Ideological and Political Correctness, Blarmey Ronnie DeSantis. And he now presides like the sun king over an empire that used to have one of the best websites on the internet but which now has one of the worst. For all these reasons and more I decided to try to wean myself off the overgrown and overripe pig that is Amazon. I decided, therefore, to take more of my business to Walmart.com. That decision, it turns out, was  a bad one.

During my month or so on Walmart.com I was sent an item that did not work, an item that was lost in transition, an item that was put outside my house on the steps rather than in the foyer below the post boxes, an item that was not as pictured, and an item that was supposedly delivered but, while it may have been delivered somewhere was not delivered to my. Now to be fair Walmart.con, oops Walmart.com, was only complicit in the item lost in transition, the item that was not as pictured, and the item that disappeared into another dimension. What they are complicit in is that in the last two cases they, when I contacted them, did the Pontius Pilate jig and washed their hands of the whole affair. In fact, in the case of the item lost in transition--a large bottle of Method dish soap--they told me to contact my bank to try to get the monies back. One of the problems with that scuzzy solution was that I actually put the on my American Express card, something they could have found out if they simply looked at my account.

Long story short, I deleted my online Walmart account and will no longer be making purchases from them on the web. What I will be doing is filing a complaint with the New York Office of the Attorney General to get back the monies Walmart stole from me. As to buying in the brick and mortar store I think I am going to switch my business to Target and see if they are as skanky and slaggy as Walmart. Needless to say, Target has a Herculean task in front of it if I wants to become part of the that group of slaggy corporations that includes Amazon, Walmart, CVS Health, a lingload of tax preparer corporations online, and Tracfone.

Postlude: Walmart did refund my money after much prodding and thanks to the help of the New York Attorney General’s office.