And how about charging more in store than online?

On two separate occasions, I stopped by Walmart recently and spent $0.50 extra and $1.50 extra by walking in, going to the aisle, and picking up the item myself.

The Walmart app even tells you that the price on the app is only for online orders. But I didn’t want to wait for an unknown amount of time for a Walmart employee to bring it out to my car (been more than 10 to 15min a few times).

So basically, I pay extra to avoid that volatility in time to run that errand, and I do more work for it.

Yep. Wal-Mart has been that way for years now.

I rarely shop at Wal-Mart. There's only a few things that I buy there.

One of those things is motor oil: Their online pricing for 5 quarts of full-synthetic whatever is usually impossible to beat.

The only catch is that you have to go to the store, park outside, and wait for someone to bring it out. Going inside the store to buy it in person often costs several dollars more (and those dollars count towards the next cheeseburger).

It seems completely asinine for it to be this way, and I feel completely silly waiting outside for someone to bring me a single jug of motor oil and hand it to me through my car window, but it's very clear that they don't want me in the store.

And I'm cheap. So I play their game and let them do it for me.

(It's usually very fast for me, so there's that.)

I'm not sure they want us in the store anymore.

And I'm glad to stay outside.

And how about charging more in store than online?

I find your Wal-Mart anecdote interesting, because the chain supermarket that I use is the exact opposite.

I buy the same items from the same store every two weeks (then supplement at neighborhood stores). Sometimes I shop in-store, and sometimes I get delivery. But the two-week shopping list is so unchanging that I even use the shopping list on the delivery web site when I'm walking through the aisles.

Because of this, I notice that the supermarket charges more for products being delivered than those retrieved in-store. Sometimes it's enough that I'll text my wife a picture of the price tag in the store, followed by a screenshot from the store's delivery web site.

Recently from memory, a 12-pack of ginger ale was about $3 more for delivery than in the store. But I'd say overall, probably 80% of the items I buy regularly are cheaper in the store.

These days, I only get things delivered if I have other significant obligations that warrant paying a 10% delivery markup, plus the delivery fee, plus a tip.

I think the price discrepancy between in-store and delivery is the reason that so many supermarkets I've been to recently (and also Macy's) have zero cell phone service under their roofs.