Something as simple as nailclippers stunned me. $3 item, locked behind glass.
“Welp, they don’t want my money I guess…” moving on.
Went to Walmart on a whim and saw everything locked up in pharmacy aisles (even deodorant) and I decided to pass. I hate shopping there.
It’s not even that, it’s their ultra short staffing that drives people away. I’m not going to go hunt for an employee and wait another twn minutes for someone with a key to open it up.
Home Depot does that and I get tired of waiting and order it from somewhere else.
Exactly! I’ve zero issues with this type of loss prevention. I have 10,000 issues having to find the call button, pressing it and then waiting upwards of TWENTY MINUTES for the Key Master to show up.
I once did that at Meijer for a switch pro controller, waited 30 minutes only for the person, who was supposed to have the key, just come over and rip the cardboard to get it off the locked hook. We only stayed because we had a Meijer gift card. Insane how long this kind of thing takes.
I don’t understand why they don’t just use a pickup ticket system. Costco does it for some smaller high end electronic products now. Hell, Toys R US did it decades ago with all of their video games and consoles. You just take the paper ticket to the cashier to pay and then the receipt to a pickup window where ALL of those products are kept.
Instead they choose the objectively worst option, extra hardware spread randomly around the store for each product, and spreading already shaky customer service even more thin with large waiting times for a manager with the keys to arrive.
Anyone else remember Service Merchandise? The whole store was just one display model of each thing. You got a ticket and waited for the item to come up a conveyor. I thought it was a great approach
I’ve had this problem at Microcenter and Best Buy too. All the salespeople have a key but there are only two and they’re both tied up helping some grandma who doesn’t know what she wants. After waiting over 20 minutes, I’m like I just need to get this one thing out of the cabinet.
I know you can order ahead and pick up but I like to sometimes pay fully or partially in cash so I get less grief about expensive purchases from my spouse. According to my credit card charge, when I bought my 4070ti the day they came out, it was only $380.
This is what happens when 100% of shoppers are treated like the 1-4% who steal.
Not to mention that employees are responsible for some of the theft too
Theft is a huge problem in some locations. Some people have no problem filling up a cart with whatever they need and walking out the door. Employees don’t get paid enough to get involved. Cops only show up afterwards. Even if they catch the culprit, there arent any repercussions.
And yet theft rates are the same as they have pretty much always been.
With the increase in prices for everything from food to housing, and the greed of large corps being completely ignored by governments, I honestly don’t gaf about shoplifting food or clothing. If I see it happening I walk away.
Are you sure you saw anything? I certainly didn’t. Especially at large corporate retail stores.
True. I may have just been remembering back to when I was a kid living on the streets and stealing food to survive.
This astounding revelation brought to you by the guy that got paid $13,282,800.00 in 2024.
You’d think a guy like that would understand how theives work more. Perhaps the disconnect comes from him not thinking he is one.
All brought to by corporate wage theftᵀᴹ!
Whenever a store locks up something I need that I could buy in 2023 off the shelf, I pull out my phone and order it from another store.
Order it from another store with curbside pickup, don’t have to even get out of the car on the way back home.
I miss the covid version of this where it didn’t cost extra. Some places still don’t charge for it but they are immensely inconvenient for me to get to
Yep, I bought some caged jeans a couple years ago and was not digging the hassle of finding somebody with a key. Basically doubled the try on time.
Sweatpants forever!
At this point I just use pickup and delivery for almost everything. I have no patience for wandering stores anyway.
