How is it possible to shop on Walmart.com? Everything is out of stock

Anecdote time: I bought a “sold by Walmart” (on Walmart.com) product and what arrived was an Amazon return—with someone else’s return slip still in the package.

I complained and got some money back, except they credited the amount twice. When I contacted them about the double-credit, their system was down so they told me to contact them again later. Then later, they just told me to keep the money :/

What’s frustrating about avoiding Amazon is that every other big retailer is trying to be Amazon, so you have to deal with the same “marketplace” nonsense you wanted to get away from.

Edit: just needed to vent, thanks.

I've encountered the same with certain food items. My conclusion is that those items aren't profitable to deliver unless they come from the nearest physical store so unless they can deliver from there they classify the item as out of stock. In your case, I suspect that the furniture you want is not available near by so they show it as out of stock.

That's my guess. I hope someone that knows will comment.

Why buying furniture is so miserable (theassemblync.com)

71 points by thunderbong 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 122 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35266271

Another anecdote: my son wanted Pokémon cards and ordered them from Walmart.com. What a mistake. What arrived were obviously counterfeit garbage. So I checked the website. What he ordered had 1.2 stars and nearly every comment was about the cards being counterfeit. Surely, Walmart and their billions and billions of dollars could write some code to flag these situations and remove the product, right? Nope…it had a nice “Walmart recommends” sticker on the listing.

Moral of the story, avoid Walmart.com like the plague.

How does HN decide which stories are on the front page? No offense to OP, but your issue was trivial (you live in a remote place, and shopping for things that Walmart doesn’t tend to carry in stores). Is there some sort of up weighting for “Ask HN” posts? I’m seeing it only has 5 votes, whereas others have hundreds…

Again just curious, hope this isn’t perceived as rude.

Edit: now it has even more votes but sits at the bottom of page 2?

Edit: and now appears to have disappeared completely.

If your shopping on Walmart.com you need to shop for things they would have in their stores everyday. Everything else is dropped shipped or fulfilled by a 3rd party I think.