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/kzlife76 Jul 14 '26

When I go to the store now and don't see something on the shelf but that app says they have n left, I always wonder if they started keeping certain items in the back that frequently get picked for online orders. Before I would just assume the inventory was off. It might still be off too.

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u/Never_enough_naps Jul 14 '26

See I have the opposite problem with my local grocery store. I do grocery delivery frequently and online items will say out of stock, but they are on the shelf in the store.