A customer recently faced a truly bizarre delivery situation after placing a bulk order for 165 pool noodles from Walmart, only to have the shipment arrive as 165 individual cardboard boxes. The incident quickly blew up after a video of the massive delivery was shared on Reddit. It showed a doorstep completely buried in an army of identical boxes that looked like something out of a cartoon. Per the Daily Dot, Walmart’s automated systems went completely off the rails.
The logistical breakdown occurred because Walmart’s system processed the order by assigning every single pool noodle to its own separate box. Each box contained just one nearly weightless foam item, resulting in a mountain of deliveries. Many people have weighed in on why this might happen, pointing toward the heavy reliance on automated packing algorithms used by large conglomerates.
