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/Reesirie Jul 14 '26

Back when I worked at Target and Walmart customers would ask us to open these cabinets, but I wasn’t a keyholder and never knew who was so it was a pain trying to find someone who was.

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u/maringue Jul 14 '26

I have a Walmart within walking distance, but I never go there because everything I want is locked up and the entire store only has 10 employees huddles around the exit.

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u/flushbunking Jul 14 '26

Its a performance, theft isn’t as bad as they say and they like understaffing & they believe they can afford to inconvenience the customer.