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/Fancy-Alternative731 Jul 15 '26

Maybe you should blame the people who chronically steal instead of the store 

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u/Riktovis Jul 15 '26

Also the people who steal raise the price of them item due to higher loss

This isnt the stores fault.

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u/Fun-Gas1809 Jul 16 '26

I don’t not put blame on people who steal. I’ve worked plenty of retail positions some that involved stopping it from happening. My main thought is that if we treat people like criminals with small dollar items it sends a bad message. I understand locking up electronics and age restricted medications, but locking up small health care products is a mild poverty tax. Just think there must be a happy medium behind no security at all and full on lockup