Brave girl! It's such fun curb shopping...but I always feel as if somebody is peeking to see what weirdo stops to pick up what the owners think is junk. We don't see many curb goodies around here, but when we do, it's WOO HOO all the way! A friend gave me a brightly-painted wooden high chair last year with a plant in it. I just planted it up for this season and LOVE IT! Have fun with yours!

Love the gas can!!Wish I had 1. The plastic always end up leaking! We'll be waiting to see what you do with the flower cart!! Jan

Anglo - you would love this place. They have a vintage room with all kinds of frames from days gone by. I love the extreme cat eye frames from the 60s but I'm not bold enough to go for those. I have a friend who has them and they look great on her. i have had that same experience where they all look the same. In fact my last two pairs were way too similar. I decided now that I'm 60 I'll splurge and get just what I want which is why I went to this place.

NP. Great that you got most of your order! Even when shortages were unheard of, if I ordered from Instacart, after they were bought out (I think it was Amazon), I was lucky if I got all the items. Sometimes it came down to the employee not knowing where the item you wanted was displayed. In the original model, the picker was the driver and would call before checkout to discuss anything they couldn't find. That was heaven. Now they just plow through and do their best, and sometimes make weird choices and give you something you don't want. Before this crisis, e-mailing CS would get that taken off your bill. At stores around here, where Instacart is contracted to do their deliveries, there's a shelf unit, not much bigger than a double bookcase, where they have regular brown paper grocery bags for pending orders. You can also see the pickers in the aisles with carts with these bags in them. There are metallic insulated liners in a few of the bags. At Whole Foods, at least, there's also some space in the walk-in cooler where they put refrigerator items. They used to put your whole cartful in the walk-in when they first went to separate drivers, to hold your order until the pick-up time, but as more people started using the service they would have had to stop that. They'd also put the cart in the fridge for someone who forgot their wallet Even in the good old days, ordering anything frozen was a crap shoot. Curbside pickup uses a similar model. They pick from the store shelves. If it's run by the store itself, they often just pick and checkout the order and then keep it in the cart until pickup. With the great increase in pickup/delivery orders, they'll be finding new ways to handle the volume. It may be that they do something like coopt an empty department or aisle for holding, or use a container in the parking lot, like they do for Thanksgiving. A lot of stores are having to invent how to do this, altogether, if they didn't have pickup/delivery in the past, or had so few orders that they just just put a stocker on it to pick, see it through checkout, and stand and wait with the cart for the driver to come. Simpler days. Sigh.