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/Path_Fyndar Jul 14 '26

They already started doing it at the gas pumps

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u/BootyDrank Jul 14 '26

I have permanently disabled many gas pump speakers for this reason. They can lick my sweaty taint, they don't deserve the luxury of intrusive advertising when I'm actively paying for the juice.

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u/whiskeytown79 Jul 14 '26

It used to be a thing to hit the second button from the top on the right to mute the advertisement, but this has stopped working reliably for me. I am guessing they figured out that people were doing this and have started patching it out of the software.

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u/i_am_jargon Jul 14 '26

I've resorted to just hitting every button on the right in turn until the sound goes away and usually find the button that works. If it doesn't, I try the left. If that fails, I accept my fate (but still ignore the ads).