Is there any way for multiple people to actually add items to a single Walmart shopping list at the same time without the whole thing glitching out or deleting half the stuff? Honestly I am so fed up with the app right now because it feels like it is actively fighting against us. My husband and I are trying to get ready for this huge family reunion next weekend down in Orlando - we have about 22 people staying at this rental house - and trying to coordinate a massive grocery haul is becoming a total nightmare.
We both have the app open and we are logged into the same account since that seems to be the only way to even try to share a list but its just not working. Every time he adds something like the bulk packs of water or the paper plates and then I add the snacks on my phone, one of us gets a something went wrong error or the list just refreshes and his items are gone. It is so frustrating because I feel like we are doing double the work just constantly checking and re-checking if the milk actually stayed in the cart or if it got booted out by a sync error.
I have already put about $450 into this order and I am terrified that I am going to miss something crucial like the hot dog buns or the specific vegan burgers for my niece because the app cant handle two people typing at once. We are on such a tight timeline too because we have to do the curbside pickup Friday morning before the first round of guests arrive at MCO and I just dont have time to sit there and manually verify 60 items one by one. I really thought a company as big as Walmart would have figured out real-time syncing by now... I mean even the basic notes app on my phone lets us both edit a list at the same time without exploding.
Is there some setting I am missing or a specific way we need to be doing this so it actually saves both our inputs... or am I just stuck doing this whole thing by myself at midnight while he reads things off a piece of paper to me...
The short answer is that the Walmart app simply isnt built for concurrent multi-user cart editing. I have been using the platform for years and the sync issues you are seeing happen because the software uses a snapshot system rather than real-time data streaming. When you both have the cart open on the same account, your devices are essentially fighting over which version of the truth to save to the cloud. If he adds water and your phone doesnt see it yet, your next action can easily overwrite his whole session. Honestly, your best bet is to avoid the cart until the list is finalized. I usually recommend using a shared note to coordinate first. Once your 60 items are confirmed there, have just one of you move everything into the Walmart cart in a single sitting. It is the only way to guarantee those vegan burgers actually make it to the pickup without the app glitching out.