Uh, where y’all live that this is a thing? I’ll stay out the major cities, thanks.
Well in Walgreens: if you see someone shoplifting…
ask how they can help you open up the thing locked up because I pushed that god damn button and it’s been 15 minutes and I haven’t seen a god damn employee yet Jesus Christ I came here for a quick trip like wtf I could have ordered this online you fucking morons
I stopped going to Walmart for that reason.
I remember as a kid in Mexico, you had to go make a line at the store. When you finally got to the desk, you would ask for what you wanted to buy. Lol, needles to say that’s exactly how it still works in small local stores. Its a little like buying cigarettes at the gas station, but for everything minus the ID.
That’s not good for business, but hey, it’s been decades of my life and they’re still working like that. Maybe there’s something to it? I hate it though. I would never shop there unless it was the last place on earth.
My local Walmart has locked up the Lego sets… I mean I get it they aren’t cheap especially recently… But come on…
I was at a store the other day, eeddd usb-c pd cables.
The 5ft 10 dollar cables were locked up, the 10 ft 14 dollar cables weren’t.
There is nothing makes me leave a store quicker than having to wait on a worker for a basic item that shouldn’t be locked away.
Deodorant at CVS/walgreens 🙄
If it’s locked up, I won’t buy it. I don’t have time for that nonsense and large companies only understand money (or a lack of) before they will make a change.
I don’t buy locked up stuff because I don’t want to talk to people.
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The only thing worse than shaming your customer is inconveniencing them.
My favorite is home depot locking up stuff but not locking up the bolt cutters
I think with the advent of cordless angle grinders, we’ve moved on from bolt cutters, haven’t we?
Certainly makes my visits to National Trust properties a lot more interesting
When I worked on the ambulance, we once needed after hours access to a small electric company park to land a helicopter (mountainous area, not many flat spaces). That was the night I learned that the fire department keeps a “universal key” (bolt cutters) on hand for just such an occasion.
It’s less destructive than taking the gate down with the jaws of life.
But the power tools are locked up and make noise. Bolt cutters are silent and not locked up in store.
Useful on sites that require hot works permits also.
Is that some kind of porn studio?
MILF- Machinist I’d Like To…
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Nah, if I want to use a grinder in a situation where it’s not a daily thing I need to have a permit to do that. It doesn’t achieve much, it’s just an insurance thing that says that they know what I’m doing and makes me aware to do things like make sure whatever I’ve worked on cools down safely.
The permit to do work in an electric cabinet without turning off the power used to also be called a hot work permit, mainly because it was the same from.
Now work near live power more than 24VDC is banned unless the power is keeping someone alive, or the person performing the work is a contractor.
To us hot work is work that creates heat.
What you call “hot work” we call “working live”. I don’t think that there’s a limit on what you can work on live, I think everyone or most isolate first.
Christ on a bike I’d fucking hate to live in an oppressive regime like that
Where are you, North Korea or somewhere like that?
U.K., it’s an insurance thing, I think.
Bolt cutters are much quieter, and still get the point across. Hell, when I see shit like that it makes me want to pop some locks just to prove a point. Like don’t even steal anything, just crack some shackles and leave Loss Prevention scratching their heads.
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God damn they even stole the damn comment. Can’t have nothing
Shoulda locked it up
Yeah, but then you’d have to wait like 30 minutes for a mod with the key to unlock it.
Lock everything up then understaff your stores so there’s no one to ask to unlock an item even if you were so inclined to go to the trouble. Great success.
No shit its so annoying having to ask a worker to unlock the damn glass door just for $5-$10 item.
We went to Walmart to print something we needed since the staples near us was having issues with their machine. Pet cleaning spray $6-$15 dollars? Behind one of those locked cabinets of course.
There was a worker near by stacking some other items, but we didn’t bother since from what we could remember of Walmart, they never have the keys on them and have to chase someone down.
At my Walgreens there are usually some people in the pharmacy, one person on the registers and maybe one person in cosmetics. I’m not bugging the only cashier to unlock toothpaste that costs double what it does anywhere else.
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Personally it’s the pricetage that always stopped me from shopping there. Walgreens is consistently the most expensive option for pretty much their entire inventory compared to the 6 chains within half a mile that sell the exact same shit.
This. Walgreens is bad, CVS is even worse. I refuse to pay for convenience. Even if it’s just one thing I need; if it’s $5 at the cvs down the street and $2 at the Walmart 3 miles away through city traffic, I’m waiting til I need a few things and going to the Walmart every time. If for nothing else than the principle of it all. Eat shit CVS.
If you want a chuckle, look at their OTC meds and calculate price per milligram.
CostOfBottle / (#PillsPerBottle * #MgPerPill)Do this for all the basic meds you keep in your home.
Now go to Costco or Sams or something and do it again. No shit, the difference is 100-fold sometimes, especially if you compare things like name brand (aka Tylenol) at Walgreens to generic (aka Kirkland’s “Acetaminophen”). Turning it even more extreme, look at the little single-dose pouches they sell at the checkstand - folks are literally paying the same at Walgreens for like 2 pills as they are at Costco for a bottle of 500 of the same dose.
It’s fucking wild.
Exactly. Their ONLY virtue is convenience. Either you’re there for a prescription and buy something because you’re already there, or you’re just looking to do a quick stop. They’re basically a glorified convenience store that happens to have a pharmacy attached. Their prices are high, but they do have convenience on their side. You don’t have to walk across half a mile of parking before getting to the front door. You don’t have to walk into a giant warehouse store that corrals you into shopping in a giant counterclockwise loop. Walgreens does have the convenience option over shopping at a big grocery store.
And this is what is so bone-headed about these locking cases. Again, their ONLY advantage is convenience. If they’re going to slow things down by putting a bunch of barriers between me and the things I want, I might as well just spend the same amount of time, go to the full-sized grocery store, and save some money.
“But it does impact how sales work through the store because when you lock things up,” he added, “for example, you don’t sell as many of them. We’ve kind of proven that pretty conclusively.”
wow, check out the brains on this guy
Bonus points for first bringing all your points of sale down to skeleton crews first.
Just replace them with self checkout, problem solved! Wait… back to square 1.
Remember: You get a business degree because you’re not talented enough for the arts and not smart enough for engineering or medicine.
I’ve always heard “what do you call a failed med student? The hospital administrator.”
Know what they call the med student who graduated bottom of his class?
“Doctor.”
Lol. I’m guessing they earned this discovery after an agile data driven pivot away from keeping the front doors of the store locked all day…
Walgreens is God awful, 25 min In line for a prescription yesterday and everything is locked up.
Walgreens decided that underpaying and understaffing the pharmacy is their new secret to profitability.
It’s one of the faster enshitifications I’ve seen. Last time I had a prescription filled at Walgreens, I had plenty of time in line to realize that my stupid shopping choice could also actually get me killed this time.
Putting the actual issue aside for a moment, the lock pictured is pretty stupid. It would be so easy to simply unscrew the screws.
