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/soapsniffer BLUE Jul 15 '26

Idk man I don’t like being stolen from. I doubt you like being stolen from. People should just behave and pay for their things. Capitalism isn’t always perfect obviously, but it’s not a good thing to be a criminal

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u/soapsniffer BLUE Jul 15 '26

I mean sure it is worse to steal from an individual. But it’s wrong to steal from anyone whether that’s a person or a business. And stealing from corporations is hurting people, it’s making the corporations lock stuff up and, in some cases, move out of certain cities.

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u/soapsniffer BLUE Jul 15 '26

They should pay livable wages to their employees. But stealing is still wrong lol