WWYD? Groceries delivered to wrong address and kept by neighbor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
KNOCK AND ASK!

In the typical busy household where several people order deliveries, without necessarily consulting each other, an order can easily be confused for another.

We've received other people's orders, and neighbors have received ours. We could not trace the order that came to us by mistake, as the buyer was out of our area and no one came to claim it, but we've retrieved our orders from neighbors.

You need to add knock if you are white. Bc otherwise you could be shot at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be mad at my husband for being such a pansy that he's afraid to knock on the door and ask for the groceries that were delivered two hot seconds ago, and then I'd walk over and ask for them, show the picture if necessary.

This

I would be mad at my spouse if he did knock. With all the gun lovers wanting to kill people and claim self defense

[Anonymous]

Do you live in a nice neighborhood? If so then I would have knocked and politely asked, because it’s possible this could happen in the future and maybe it’s best to meet your neighbor. I would see what the reaction is - defensive? Angry? Indignant?
Then leave it at that..
If they offer to give it back because it’s still in bags, untouched, I would probably take it.
If they had already unpacked it and put it way, I would probably say never mind, and get a new order from WF.

[Anonymous]

This happened to me recently, except it was a delivery from a clothing store. I had a photo of the box at my neighbor's front door, so I went to the neighbor and knocked. She wouldn't open the door, but spoke through it, and claimed she didn't have the package when I mentioned that it was mistakenly sent to her. I called security and he joined me at the door. The neighbor then called security (ie the guy standing next to me, outside her door) to complain that she was being harassed. Eventually the cops came, she opened the door and handed them the package, and they arrested her for theft.

[Anonymous]

It's a condo, of course randos in their are going to steal. Move to a nice upscale neighborhood with SFHs if you want neighborly neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry not worth getting shot over. Would just call WF. All y’all who are saying confront are probably white

Knocking an a neighbor's door looking for a misdirected package isn't a confrontation. FFS.

Plenty of adult Americans are firm believers in “finders keepers”.

Yes, a relative sent me earrings and a note as a thank you and whoever got them, kept them. Same month an angry young white lady came demanding her package with a picture of the delivery on some ugly porch that was a clear mismatch. She flushed upon realization and slunk away flustered but the correct approach would be assuming the best and asking kindly. I sent her to the other place (I recognized the porch) and I'm sure she had a change of attitude for them. Vile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry not worth getting shot over. Would just call WF. All y’all who are saying confront are probably white

Knocking an a neighbor's door looking for a misdirected package isn't a confrontation. FFS.

Plenty of adult Americans are firm believers in “finders keepers”.

So they’re fine with being thieves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry not worth getting shot over. Would just call WF. All y’all who are saying confront are probably white

Knocking an a neighbor's door looking for a misdirected package isn't a confrontation. FFS.

Plenty of adult Americans are firm believers in “finders keepers”.

So they’re fine with being thieves?

Yes, because they care more about "being right" than "doing the right thing".

Op, did you use instacart? Whatever you used, you should be extremely specific with how to get to your door and which door you are. I had to describe minute details, since a really big delivery went to my neighbor's house. Our places do not look alike, the instacart person was just not paying any attention, and dropped it off wherever - so now, I give them no excuse.

[Anonymous]

We get so many packages. I think if we got a food delivery, Dh or kids would just put it away assuming I ordered it.

I don’t think groceries have an address on the bags.

I occasionally get packages that do have an address. For example, I have one pair of sneakers that was delivered to us around Xmas. It took us a while to figure out it wasn’t ours or a wrong item that we ordered. It has been sitting in our garage and I totally forgot about it until now. I think I am going to drop it off at neighbors (2 blocks away) but forget. Same for a box of contacts except this is just a random address and I never mapped out how far the house was.

[Anonymous]

This thread was started a year ago but a similar situation happened to us recently. A different grocery store left the wrong order. I called and they couldn’t tell me who’s I got or where our order went so they told me to keep or donate all of the food. They refunded my order. I wouldn’t have had no way to know if they order was a mix up from down the street or a different area. When we looked outside we didn’t see bags on any other door near us and they leave all the bags out front now.

[Anonymous]

We have some nasty neighbors who are so horrible to us that if we got their packages we would just leave it on the street next to the trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have some nasty neighbors who are so horrible to us that if we got their packages we would just leave it on the street next to the trash.

What have they done that you would react that way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To those that are responding that the OP should reclaim the groceries, if you read the post it says that she does not want the food since it has already been in the home of someone else.

I would initially be a little peeved.

Then OP was wondering if she could somehow force a same-day second delivery? lol...

OP doesn't need to "force" anything. WF will redeliver when they can fit the order in. Yes, same day.
Lol indeed.

[Anonymous]

Ugh- didn't notice this was a year old thread when replying. Hopefully the OP has gotten her groceries by now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a garden-style condo community and just received the text that my Whole Foods order had been delivered. The photo in the message is not my front door but there were several identifying items - a mat, bike and pair of shoes. DH ran out right away and was able to place it as the same unit number in the next building over. The problem is that the bags had already been taken inside by the owner. This seriously happened within a couple of minutes! Whole Foods drivers don't even knock when they leave your order so the occupants clearly worked fast.

We don't know these neighbors at all or even what they look like. DH wasn't sure if he should knock but ended up doing nothing. I wouldn't necessarily want to food anyway after it had been in someone else's home.

I know I can get a refund, but this situation still aggravates me as it was over $100 worth of food, some of it slated for dinner tonight. WWYD in this situation if you were me or the neighbor? Would you automatically take in and keep an order you didn't place/pay for? Would you confront someone who took your order?

I would contact you as there should have been contact information and returned to you. No, I would not confront but call police and have an officer knock on door, show them the proof that it was delivered to them by mistake. If they played innocent then police could ask for proof of payment. I would also raise holy hades with Whole Foods.