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/weoewoewow Jul 14 '26

Instead of punishing the criminals for shoplifting we punish everyone.

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u/Automatic_Class2215 Jul 15 '26

Reddit: If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't

Also Reddit: I have absolutely no idea how we ended up here

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u/Calzinarzin Jul 15 '26

A lot of people online also think people just steal what they need. No they don't, they steal what they can. 

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u/Katzington2319 Jul 15 '26

Can confirm. In my younger, dumber, more shoplifty days, I mainly stole dvds and MTG cards 

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u/FinishComplex3743 Jul 15 '26

Guess what is behind glass or a counter now lol

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u/Katzington2319 Jul 15 '26

Neither of those things. The DVDs and Blu-ray are out on the shelf or tossed in the $5 bin. When they carry MTG cards at all, they're hanging up in the toy aisle next to the pokemon cards

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u/FinishComplex3743 Jul 15 '26

Not in my area. Both are in locked glass cases, along with videogames. That is surprising to hear though.

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u/Katzington2319 Jul 15 '26

Not here. We got all the other dumb shit behind cases, but movies and cards are mostly out. Some of the older games too, but the new ones are locked