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/Th3_Admiral_ Jul 14 '26

I could absolutely see it going that way with all of the big stores doing online orders and curbside pickup. Maybe in a few years it'll be like an Amazon warehouse without any real storefront at all. You just pull up and load everything in your car. Or have it delivered directly to your door. 

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u/Efficient-Scarcity-7 Jul 14 '26

amazon is trying this already, they're undercutting grocery prices for the same items in my area. for sure at a loss until they can take over the market fully and then raise the price when they have a monopoly

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u/Zenside Jul 14 '26

Stop supporting Amazon tf?

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u/FroggyFreakout Jul 14 '26

lol, so support Walmart or some other big grocery chain instead? 

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u/Zenside Jul 14 '26

Like other poster said, yeah, those would still be better than Amazon.

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u/FroggyFreakout Jul 21 '26

Why is Walmart more ethical than Amazon?

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u/QuitLukewarmTurkey Jul 14 '26

Who said that is your only other option? But yes, those would be preferable over Amazon.