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Temu — Does the lowest price survive when delivery time, returns and refund speed are hard requirements?

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with memoryno readable brand-owned pagerefused by walmart.comobserved2026-09-20
  1. 1Customer missionTemu decision — same customer with relevant memory
    • set of five matching containers with lids
    • each container 1-2 litres (glass or BPA-free plastic)
    • delivered total at most the customer's budget ceiling
    • delivery within 8 days, as stated on retailer's own pages
    Remembers: “A 2025 order from a discount marketplace arrived after 26 days, and the refund for a wrong item took six weeks and three”
  2. 2Evidence16 searches, 8 pages: amazon.com, walmart.com, target.com
  3. 3BeliefNothing established about the brand
  4. 4DecisionNever entered the comparisonNONEAfter 24 page/search actions, no offer could be confirmed against all required facts using the retailer's own pages. Walmart.com and Amazon.com blocked every direct page …
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Every option the agent weighed

Room Essentials 10pc (Set of 5) Glass Rectangle Meal Prep Set Target · unresolved

Price seen on Target's own search page, but container capacity (liters/oz) and delivery timing could not be confirmed on any Target page reached; refund-day timing also not stated on the return-policy page read.

  • return window days: 90 target.com not the brand’s own page

Unresolved: total_price_usd; delivery_days; refund_days

Pyrex Simply Store 6-Cup Rectangular Glass Food Storage (purchase 5 units) Walmart · unresolved

Capacity (6 cup ≈1.4L) fits the range per third-party search snippets, but every direct Walmart product and policy page fetch was blocked by a bot-check page, so price, delivery, returns and refund could not be established as reported facts; conflicting unit prices ($10.55-$29.99) seen only in search snippets, not on a readable Walmart page.

Unresolved: total_price_usd; delivery_days; return_window_days; refund_days

Generic 5-Pack 34oz Glass Meal-Prep Containers (e.g., C CREST, CZUMJJ) Amazon (third-party marketplace sellers) · unresolved

34oz (~1.0L) sits at the low end of the required range per listing titles, but every Amazon product and help-page fetch attempted returned unreadable JS shell or HTTP 503, so no field could be confirmed. Unbranded third-party marketplace listing pattern matches the customer's prior bad experience (wrong sizes, slow refunds), so this candidate carries elevated risk even though no fact has been established to formally fail a requirement.

Unresolved: total_price_usd; delivery_days; return_window_days; refund_days

Rubbermaid Brilliance 5-Piece Food Storage Container Set (3.2 Cup) Rubbermaid / Walmart · rejected

Reported container size is 3.2 cup (~0.76L) per repeated search-result descriptions, below the required 1-2L per container; brand page itself was not directly fetched so this is a search-snippet-level fact, but it independently fails the explicit size requirement.

Unresolved: total_price_usd; delivery_days; return_window_days; refund_days

OXO Good Grips 5-Piece POP Container Set OXO · rejected

Reported set composition is one 2.1L, one 1.6L, two 1.0L and one 0.4L container; the 0.4L piece falls outside the required 1-2L range and the set is not five equally-sized matching containers, so it fails the explicit size/matching requirement. Fact taken from search-result description of oxo.com listing, not a direct fetch of oxo.com.

Unresolved: total_price_usd; delivery_days; return_window_days; refund_days

What this customer remembered

Confidence

Observed: a single journey.

Provenance

Every journey run on the live web. Every source, belief and decision published. Scorer version 4; model cost 0.86 USD.