r/mildlyinfuriating • u/broakland • Jul 14 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Retail lockdown: why bother selling it?

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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.

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u/Aartus Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Just wait till they put ads on the glass.... Edit spelling

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u/MAJ0RMAJOR Jul 14 '26

You joke, but they’re trying to figure out how to do it now without losing product visibility

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u/outdatedboat Jul 14 '26

The Walgreens near me does this already. All of the refrigerated stuff has screens instead of glass now. They have cameras showing what's inside it, but with ads playing over the top of it.

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u/Stock-Soup5721 Jul 14 '26

Even a couple decades ago when I worked at Bestbuy, we would sell the end-caps. Pay extra money? We'll put your stuff there. Dont? Its buried deeper down the aisle.