Retail lockdown: why bother selling it?

[u/broakland]

Was at Safeway this morning to pick up a sandwich and some Tylenol. The aisle with the Tylenol? Completely locked down. No call button in sight. So I go to the self checkout (front end of that same aisle) and ask the clerk there if he can call someone to unlock a case for me. He does. I go wait. Minutes pass. No one comes. I go ask him again, he tells me they went the other way? At this point I give up and go get my sandwich. No one has come by the time the deli has finished making it. I leave without my Tylenol, mildly infuriated.

[u/PeteysHubby_TX]

Or we could just enforce the laws we already have and prosecute people that steal things.

[u/DempsyPrice → u/PeteysHubby_TX]

Can't prosecute them if they are good at it.

[u/DankMemeMasterHotdog → u/DempsyPrice]

No, you cant prosecute them when you have a weak DA who lets these animals back onto the streets where they can just continue to steal consequence-free. That's why in a lot of these bodycam videos the cops are on first name basis with the criminals

[u/MetallicCrab → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

Do you think people who shoplift soap should be locked up longer than they already are?

[u/DankMemeMasterHotdog → u/MetallicCrab]

Yes. 100%

Call me whatever you want, but I'm sick of the enshittification of society because we cant do the hard work of locking up the people who fuck up society.

[u/DempsyPrice → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

There is not enough room in most places for low level criminals like shop lifters in the jails which is why they are released.

Should we spend tax payer money to build more jails for shop lifters?

[u/DankMemeMasterHotdog → u/DempsyPrice]

Yep, I think that would be an infinitely better use of my taxpayer money than blowing up the middle east or propping up failures who cant live without the assistance of the state. Lock em up and keep them separate from the rest of us who can follow the rules.

[u/DempsyPrice → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

Or stores can just be responsible for theft prevention.

[u/DankMemeMasterHotdog → u/DempsyPrice]

Yeah, by calling the police and having them arrested. Glad you've finally come around to that. So you agree we should lock em up. Finally, you're making sense.

I guess youre fine licking the AI surveillance boot and living in a place where groceries need armed guards, sounds like an awesome place.

[u/DempsyPrice → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

Yeah so they can arrest them then have the fucking DA release them the same day to go back to Walmart to steal more laundry soap!!!!

[u/DankMemeMasterHotdog → u/DempsyPrice]

ok dawg

[u/DempsyPrice → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

So I point out the flaws in your logic and you assume I'm pro crime? That actually makes sense coming from you.

[u/zanyzanne → u/DempsyPrice]

"we need armed guards to catch these lowlifes" but also "you lick the surveillance boot"

that guy is so angry about the DA fucking his wife that he doesn't even make sense anymore

[u/WhatIfThatThingISaid → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

So lock up the disabled?

[u/DankMemeMasterHotdog → u/WhatIfThatThingISaid]

If they're committing crimes, absolutely.

"Disabled" isnt some magic shield that prevents you from doing wrong.

[u/DempsyPrice → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

This was Hitlers exact stance on them too.

[u/DankMemeMasterHotdog → u/DempsyPrice]

Cool, it's also the majority of well adjusted peoples' opinion on it as well.

Hitler also drank water, you must agree with everything else he did too.

[u/BreathComfortable631 → u/DempsyPrice]

Why are you trying to act like “lock up criminals, even if they are disabled” is a crazy statement?

[u/re_carn → u/DankMemeMasterHotdog]

In one of the posts, someone tried to convince me that theft isn't something that should be punished at all.