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Brah, with those prices?! id add some more glass too ngl 😭
Walmart is starting to put large amounts of random merchandise behind locked glass as well. You go ask for the item, they give it to you, you put it in your cart and finish shopping. How does this prevent shoplifting?
One of my neighbors does loss prevention in pharmacy stores in cities in the mid-atlantic region. At locations where theft is really bad (downtown Philly, Baltimore, etc), he will deploy a few techniques. First, he will reorganize the store by putting the most valuable items in the rear of the store, farthest from the exits. Second, he will install lock-up cases for half the items in the store, if not more (seen above). It is always a trade-off between the cost of installing these plus the payroll for extra employees to be on-hand to unlock them versus the cost of merchandise shrinkage. Businesses will choose the option that costs them less money in the long run.
This = neighborhood I don’t want to live in.
So how long until we go back to the old school general store where you put in your order and they brought it out to you?
You ring for the cashier and they eventually materialize, angry that you’ve summoned them. “What?” They ask, pissed. You struggle to point to a single tube of toothpaste through the safety glass. They produce an enormous ring of keys, try one meant for the locked up Oreos in another aisle, finally find the correct key, slide open Fort Knox, and hand you the wrong toothpaste. You accept the toothpaste made for denture wearers because you just want to get out of this nightmare. As you leave, you realize you’ve forgotten to get laundry detergent.
A perfect system!
I always suspected people with gleaming white teeth were thieves.
Just remember, if you go to any flea market or swap meet and see toiletries (among other things) for sale at good prices, more than likely it came from the drug trade.
My Walmart has an entire checkout section just for HBC items.
Gosh, we get it, you live in California
Locking up toothpaste reflects a pathetic amoral lawless decay.
Prepare for this, everyone keeps stealing things in droves. Soon you’re going to need an associate to unlock a cabinet so you can buy a banana.
At this point, I would just buy all these things on Amazon. Understand why they do it, but I’m not going to go hunt for an employee to open it up.
That’s what all our Targets, CVSs, Walgreens, etc. look like in in NYC.
r/dystopianfuture
I mean if you’ve been following the news, there’s literally people coming in with black trash bags and clearing all these sections out
And then stores close. And then there are no stores. And then people who live near those stores complain there are no stores.
Easily stolen merchandise.
Not high value, but very commonly stolen.
I was at Walgreens a month ago and they had deodorant locked up. The funny thing is that the next product just outside the case was some $80 hemp or CBD thing.
LA?
I mean if someone just walked into your house, opened your fridge and took your ketchup and every time you replaced it they’d come back and take the replacement. You’d have that fridge locked down pretty quick.
If enough of it goes it becomes highly valuable eventually.
I’m so glad I got a Costco membership. Haven’t been down these isles at a Target for years now.
Same in NYC.
This is a symbol of a system in collapse, but we are still not focused on the real causes.
The “war on drugs” is an abject failure.
Corporate profits are at an all-time high.
CEO pay is at an all-time high.
Real wages have been falling since the 1970’s.
Basic necessities are no longer affordable for ordinary people.
Something has to change before violence is the only answer.
The liquor store nearest my house has Hennessy and Patron behind the counter, but they’ve got shelves of high end whiskey and scotch just sitting out.
The restrict what’s being stolen, not necessarily the most expensive stuff.
Is this in Phily?
I’ll repost this photo tomorrow
No, highly stolen merchandise.
It is more “easy to steal” than “high value”.
Obviously pic not taken in Appalachia
Well they must be if people were willing to risk incarceration for it…No wait…..🤣
but i’ve been reliably told there is no shoplifting problem
Ah yes, the Targét “Top Shelf” collection.
I live in bumfuck, nothing is locked up, no one is checking receipts at Walmart, gotta go hunt down associates if something goes wrong at the self checkout, home improvement stores leave all sorts of unsecured merchandise sitting outside all night. And it’s not like it’s an affluent area, most of the county is low income/poverty level with a humongous meth problem.
But there’s totally not a crime problem in big cities you guys. They promise.
If it’s stolen enough, then this happens. I’m shocked Pokemon cards aren’t behind glass in my Walmart.
ITT: people who don’t live in big cities where retail theft is rampant and often part of organized crime.
Imo, to everyone that brushes there teeth. This is very valuable merchandise. Don’t you see what’s goin on in Philly, NY, L.A. looting.
It happening in odd ways. I live outside NYC and in a Bronx Rite Aid they have almost nothing behind bars but in my local CVS (westchester) everytime I go something else is behind the bars…across the street at Walgreens, very little is behind.
We have a brand new Target opening a a couple of weeks and I am very curious to see what that looks like. MY BIL said the one in the Bronx by him may close (Throggs Neck) but I haven’t heard that.
And I have to say that when I am at the CVS and do need something I get help fast but at the Walgreens with very little locked up I didn’t. (Kids allergy medicine is locked up at walgreens but not at the CVS that locks up soap)
It is all very confusing
The Target by my house got so fed up with constantly unlocking these that they are now just leaving them wide open at all times.
Europe, at least Italy, has this figured out. When you enter the store you enter through turnstile. Then when you exit you have to scan your receipt to open a gate.
This is unfortunate, but it is a logical result of these stores literally being robbed in broad daylight.
It is easier to just buy from [target.com](https://target.com) and have it delivered for free.
If people stopped stealing, it wouldn’t be locked up…
[I read an article recently that Target is to close 9 stores this month primarily due to excessive theft and crime.](https://www.retaildive.com/news/target-closing-nine-stores-over-theft-safety-concerns/694896/)
This is what happens when prosecutors decline to prosecute for retail theft. The rest of us are inconvenienced and pay higher prices.
So… Targets shrink rate is 3.5% and only 36% of that is from theft. 1.26% of their gross profits now require me to wait for an employee that statistically is more likely to steal from them to get deodorant. This is insanity to me.