• @[email protected]
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    172 hours ago

    Especially when you have one employee trying to cover the entire 16,000 square foot store. She isn’t able to stop checking people out to come help me get allergy medicine? It’s pretty bad when Walmart provides a better experience .

  • @Godnroc
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    404 hours ago

    I have gone to a local electronics store, Best Buy, several times in the last few years because I wanted something immediately only to be stopped at the last moment by a locked shelf and no one around to unlock it. What the fuck are you even supposed to do there? Scream and shout until someone arrives? Quietly stalk an employee until you find your moment to strike? I just fucking leave, I’ll wait for shipping.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    254 hours ago

    Just recently, my wife wanted an eyebrow pencil, so we popped into a drugstore. All the makeup stuff was behind locked cabinets. We just turned around and went to a different store.

    It seems like a particularly bad idea for anything that people might want to look at different versions of. If I wanted AA batteries that were locked, I might be okay saying, “Hey, can you grab me the batteries?” But for something that I want to look through the options, I’m not going to do that with the employee standing there tapping their foot.

  • @[email protected]
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    Last time I went to cvs (competitor to Walgreens), 3 different things I wanted were locked up. It took me too long to get someone 3 fucking different times to unlock it. On the last one I told the employee next time I’m just going to order online and might not be from cvs. Treat me like a kid or a criminal and I’ll take my business elsewhere

  • @esc27
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    627 hours ago

    Despite all the effort spent prosecuting it, there’s virtually no concrete evidence that retail theft — organized or otherwise — is on the rise. Data on retail theft provided to law enforcement and lawmakers comes exclusively from corporate retailers, or organizations funded by them, and is not independently vetted. Last year, the National Retail Federation was forced to retract its claim that organized retail theft cost its members “nearly half” of the $94.5 billion in lost inventory in 2021. One researcher put the actual figure closer to 5%.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-war-organized-retail-crime-target-cvs-victorias-secret-2024-9

  • @makyo
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    346 hours ago

    The store in my neighborhood thought it wise to lock up the fancy Italian coffee beans. I’m absolutely sure it will not stem theft and will absolutely decrease sales. The bags are big - these are the 1kg bags - so I’m fairly sure most of the theft that is happening is internal anyway.

    • WesDym
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      @makyo It might have been done for that reason, to help track shrinkage. A kind of trouble-shooting.

  • @[email protected]
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    417 hours ago

    Yeah, no shit. It’s almost like the entire fucking world was telling you this when you embarked on this ridiculous plan.

  • @Whirling_Cloudburst
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    438 hours ago

    Meanwhile, my local Walmart is expanding their caged goods selection and they have been removing call buttons.

    Its time to invest in vending machines.

    • @davidgro
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      858 hours ago

      paywalled

      Headline is right.
      'When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’

      • @[email protected]
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        157 hours ago

        I mean when you give things away you don’t sell as many of them either.

        Selling stuff works best in an environment where the goods aren’t free but the people are.

        People make money at roadside food stands based on the honor system. Anyone who just thinks “that’s naive” doesn’t know what they’re missing. A trust-based society that keeps accounts is the best society.

      • snooggums
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        43 hours ago

        More and more sites are only partially loading the reader function info so that it cuts out at the same place as the preview part.

        Used to be very helpful though!

    • Chozo
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      I’ve known people who just do their regular shopping at those stores. I’ll never understand why.

    • @Fredselfish
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      Exactly I gets over the counter kind cheaper at my local grocery store then at Walgreens.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    I went to a Walgreens to buy nail clippers since I was nearby and had a bad hangnail.

    Had to push a red button to wait for an employee to unlock the cabinet. After 10 minutes, I ran to find a random employee who was stocking and they got me what I needed.

    That was the first and last time I ever went to Walgreens.

      • @[email protected]
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        87 hours ago

        In the Soviet Union, the shopper experience wasn’t vastly different. You would stand in different lines to select, pay and collect items, so it was a good idea to bring a chair and a book with you.

        • linuxgator
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          34 hours ago

          And nearly all of the stores and restaurants that I visited while in Denver locked their restrooms and you had to either get a key or a code to enter them. I’m guessing it is related to so called anti theft measures.

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      3310 hours ago

      Yeah, I end up still using their pharmacy because the pharmacist is just a great guy and he takes care of people. But the rest of the store can fuck right off.

      • @[email protected]
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        177 hours ago

        If you have good insurance you might not notice this, but drug prices at Walgreens and CVS are significantly more expensive than many other pharmacies, like Walmart, Costco, or HEB. Compare prices on Goodrx.com and see

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          I assume their entire business model is “Hope the boomers don’t notice we jacked the price up significantly.”

        • @[email protected]OP
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          55 hours ago

          Truth.

          More and more supermarkets are opening up pharmacies to compete. And in my town, private practices are now starting to also have a pharmacy.

          I’m not supporting Walmart though.