spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The number of business that just expect that everyone has already downloaded and installed their app has become ridiculous.
Best Buy now demands an app be installed for order pick up. They are so sure you’ll have already done that there are no instructions in their parking lot for pick up that don’t include the app, no way to call them, and the lot employees say, “Just use the app and we’ll get your order.” It’s like the 20% tips programmed into just about every payment machine these days. No, I won’t leave you a 20% tip for handing me a receipt.
Even when going to Best Buy’s service desk the reps looked at me like I was crazy. “No, I won’t install your app to pick up an order” was met with confusion and open irritation. Fuck that.
And don’t get me started on ‘Reddit is better in our crappy Reddit app.’
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I hate that. At an old job, sometimes people would go around and take lunch orders before running to Wendy’s, Hate Chicken, or Chipotle. I’d way rather give my coworker cash and let them have the bonuses and discounts and crap while I maintain the privacy afforded to cash-only Chads. It’s still an L though because we’re still giving the companies money.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
That’s always the case in the beginning with those apps. And once they have market dominance and/or the shareholders want their ROI, they increase price and hope people still use it. See Uber for example.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is why I hope to god when I’m living in my own we never get to the point where apps become 100% required to purchase shit from a store. I’d rather starve and miss a day’s worth of meals than order off an app.
new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Grocery shopping and food prep is always an option. Cheaper and healthier too.
If you have time to browse Lemmy, you got time to throw some shit in an air fryer/insta pot/slow cooker.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That I can totally agree, as someone who actually enjoys cooking. If I could get my family on board, I wouldn’t mind getting their help making and freezing meals on the weekend for days when we just don’t feel like cooking or my mother’s back is bothering her or whatever.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks like you’ll be foraging for food in the woods
new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jesus, it’s like they want you to order online from a third party instead of paying them.
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 1 year ago
All the best buys I know of are shutting down. Doing the ol’ circuit city.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Weird. I can just go to the mobile site , pull up my order from my account, and get the barcode they need to scan from there. No need for the app.
I can do the same with the desktop site.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It would have been nice if they put that information on the sign in their pickup area, or their pickup reps or desk clerks mentioned it when I told them I didn’t have the app. Instead they made it clear that everyone should either already have the app or install it because they said so.
Way, way too many companies and organizations (like the OP’s) are pulling this kind of crap.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit is better in our crappy Reddit app.
Oh fuck reddit for doing that.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I ordered online and picked up in store at best buy without their app. I showed them the email they sent with the info. No problems at all.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Could it be you went into a different store than I did? How about that!
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
My goodness, you’re right! 😁
I thought all best buys had the same policies for everything? Or do they differ between Canada and the US?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Policies and practices are often very different things.
TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude same here for the Reddit prompt ! I browse incognito without a profile just to see some headlines… and every ten minutes or if I got to a risque sub, it will stop me and ask for the app download or if I want to stay on the browser… if I wanted the app… I would have gotten it… I am on the browser for a reason…
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Just use third party apps. Oh wait…
TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah… Iiss boost for reddit…
royal_starfish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try to use “request desktop site”, stuff may be sized weirdly, but at least you don’t get that stupid pop up anymore
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I find that many desktop sites scale just fine, and as you stated, the most common issue is simply that the elements may be sized a little strangely. The desktop sites tend to be way more functional. I miss my old Windows Mobile PDA with the stylus that could tap the smallest of links without a problem. With most phones I’ve had in recent history being at least 1920x1080, there’s no reason a site shouldn’t be able to display in desktop landscape mode.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
When something’s flagged NSFW, you can replace the “www” with “old” (e.g. old dot reddit dot com) to bypass :)