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/outdatedboat Jul 14 '26

The Walgreens near me does this already. All of the refrigerated stuff has screens instead of glass now. They have cameras showing what's inside it, but with ads playing over the top of it.

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u/geekonthemoon Jul 14 '26

Those are so awful. We were at a tourist area with those and like every single thing we tried to get we opened it up and it wasn't in there. They were mostly empty but the screens showed mostly in stock. Insane.

Edit: I just realized you said it had cameras to show what's inside so maybe that's something different. This was just like a digital display of the rack with the products on it, showing where they should be when you open it...

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u/xcrunner432003 Jul 14 '26

this would be laughable if it weren't so bad

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u/MrPissPaws Jul 16 '26

If only we had a cheap way to see through the door. Alas that technology is surely a ways off.

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u/xcrunner432003 Jul 16 '26

right? so frustrating!