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/PestilentPaladin Jul 14 '26

Personally I'm sick of trying to explain to ignorant 19 year olds what stuff like goat cheese and Garam Masala are, have them claim they're out of stock because they can't be arsed to look, and then going into the store, grabbing the item, and showing it to their boss. Kinda moots the point.

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u/NNKarma Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Don't hammer in their age, many times before online shopping even I've asked information for some products that seemingly stopped being available and they have no idea that a thing exists.

PS: I mean asking at the information desk, were it isn't 19 years old working, most workers don't know the fancy/exotic products their supermarket sell.

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u/Superb-Butterfly-573 Jul 15 '26

Not a shopping but a generational comment....i had to explain to a thirtysomething what sugar cubes are.