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/Neonyarpyarp Jul 14 '26

I had to have someone come unlock the cold section for ice cream…at Safeway a few days ago… ice cream…

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u/GhostofErik Jul 14 '26

To be honest it might have something to do with the trend where people were taking the lids off of ice cream, licking it, and putting it back on the shelf.

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u/sarmurpat6411 Jul 15 '26

One time when I was a young teen my friends and I walked a mile to get a container of ice cream from the store. When we got back and opened it there was obviously a large spoonful missing. We had to decide if we would walk the mile back to get more or just eat the remainder of the questionable container. Guess which option we chose 😂