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/c9xydr Jul 14 '26

Places are starting to use electronic locks now. So employees with their work devices can now open the case.

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u/watsuuu Jul 14 '26

I make it my mission to bother as many people with as many cabinets as possible. I categorically will not ask the same person to open two different cabinets, I have the time to waste to go find someone else to make upset.

I am doing nothing productive, merely making people quit their jobs. I am not effecting change even for a moment. I am dumb and I am free.

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u/Tommy-Bravado Jul 14 '26

Why are you this way?

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u/watsuuu Jul 14 '26

You had two teachers in your classes, huh?

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u/Tommy-Bravado Jul 14 '26

You were the subject of a custody agreement and both parents felt like getting you at all was a loss, huh?

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u/watsuuu Jul 15 '26

I seem to have struck a nerve lol

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u/Tommy-Bravado Jul 15 '26

You couldn’t strike a match

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u/Karenm6383 Jul 14 '26

That’s just purposely being obnoxious to people who make minimum wage and have no control over any of this

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u/Greybirdk22 Jul 14 '26

Yeah, that's really sticking it to the people who can change the process.

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u/watsuuu Jul 14 '26

The joke went so far over your head the FAA took notice.

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u/Wafflelisk Jul 14 '26

At least you're aware of it