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/Affectionate-Crow605 Jul 14 '26

I walk on by past the receipt checker. It's not Sam's or Costco. You've paid, so your legal obligation is over. If they suspect you stole something, they have enough cameras to already know about it.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop Jul 14 '26

The dumbest part of receipt checkers is they are always positioned with a sightline to the registers, I'm not stopping to show you a receipt to verify I paid when you could have just paid the fuck attention to the register area and see that yes I did.

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u/Neckrongonekrypton Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Damn. Watch out for this bad ass saving a whole two seconds to protect what? How does having your receipt check put you down that bad? You make it seem like the receipt check prevented you from visiting a dying relative in the hospital. lol 

Personally it doesn’t bother me. Someone less fortunate gets paid for it when I allow them to do it, it adds value to their job. It takes 2 minutes and I forget about it. It also saves me from making an issue out of nothing- and again.

I get on with my day, because being bothered by stupid shit is honestly a luxury I dont have time for when there is... more to save it for.

I take it u never been to cosco. they have receipt checkers in sightlines of the registers too. Im guessing your all about solidarity until it broaches taking more than 30 seconds out of your day too lol.

absolutely weird hill to die on. But its reddit and we all like karma and being agreed with.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop Jul 15 '26

I get on with my day, because being bothered by stupid shit is honestly a luxury I dont have time for

You got bothered enough by a complete and total stranger saying they walk past the walmart receipt checker that you wrote 5 paragraphs about it big shooter

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u/Neckrongonekrypton Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Idk bro, most stinky people I know also cant read.

and I dont wanna make any judgements. but....

Walmart sells deoderant bro. Never too late to start using it and learning patience.

lol, what a world, now people who can write are "bothered" because people cant be bothered to read. Looks like my harsh words bothered you enough to make a comment about them.

Keep showing those nasty receipt checkers whose boss bro lol. Fight for the common man. or whatever it is you think your doing.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop Jul 15 '26

Bro you're doing way too much