Let me preface this by saying that I live in an apartment building. I am on the second floor. There are 4 apartments upstairs (2 in the front, 2 in the back) — same with the ground floor. 8 apartments total on our side of the building. We are attached to another building that also has 8 apartments. I moved here a year ago and I don’t know my neighbors at all. I stay to myself because I suffer from social anxiety.
Yesterday morning my husband was leaving our apt. When he opened the door there were several bags of groceries on our porch. Eggnog, eggs, milk, bags of potatos, sour cream, etc. There were no tags on the bag indicating a name or apartment number (which I have received in the past). I brought them in and put the things that needed to be refrigerated in the fridge, still in their bags in case someone came looking for them. I know that when someone delivers groceries for Walmart, they take a picture of the groceries in front of the house/apartment number and it is visible on the Walmart app under their order. I went on the Walmart app and spoke to support in chat and they had no way of telling me whose groceries they were so they told me to keep them.
Despite the fact that I sleep from 6am to Noon, I stayed up and waited in my living room to see if anyone knocked and they didn’t so I figured that the person must have just either ordered a replacement or gotten a refund. I went to bed around 11ish.
This morning I am going to take the trash out before I start cooking for Thanksgiving and my neighbor across the hall stops me and asks me if I received groceries to which I tell her that I did. She tells me that she knocked on my door and no one answered. She asks if I knocked on her door to which I tell her no, instead I placed them in the fridge and waited for someone to knock. She got an attitude with me and told me I should have came to knock. I offered the groceries back to her (I can’t eat them anyway because i don’t eat dairy) and she tells me to keep them, with a heavy attitude, before calling me an asshole and walking off.
So AITAH here?
Edit: I forgot to mention that we have private entry porches separated by doors. The groceries were placed inside my porch space beyond the door, not in the common porch area.
NTA This is between her and Walmart.
100% correct.
This. Walmart is really good at issuing refunds quickly. My deliveries have twice gone to the wrong apartment, same number but in one of the other twenty-some buildings. My advice is select the option where they have to make contact and get a code from you.
NTA. You had no idea if they had even been delivered to the right building, street or anything. How far should you have taken this? Yeah, she’s annoyed but she could have started a search for them too. She’s annoyed and has good reason to be WITH WALMART. Not with you.
Given that there was no way of telling whose groceries they were, I’ll say NTA. You didn’t know whose door to knock on. If you knew whose groceries they were, I’d say move them to that person’s door or leave a note, but you didn’t. From the original post I would have said you should have left them on the porch, but based on the edit NTA.