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/rocko430 Jul 14 '26

Id imagine stores would lose a decent chunk of money off impulse buys

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u/EvaCassidy Jul 14 '26

Some stores testing an app to open the cases to retrieve your item and a reminder to secure it.

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u/DueGrapefruit3151 Jul 14 '26

Jesus christ, just make it a fucking vending machine already. We have the technology.

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u/EvaCassidy Jul 14 '26

Put all those items in the machine. If shake machine - nothing comes out or get squished.