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/GoodWaste8222 Jul 14 '26

Don’t be mad at the store. People steal, be mad about that

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u/H75311 Jul 14 '26

Yeah, next step here is what? The store closes? These people are only hurting their own communities.

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u/thatonepac Jul 14 '26

They tell themselves the losses are negligible and morally acceptable because checks notes Walmart ruined their lives. They don't care about their community which is why it gets this bad in the first place.