No shit its so annoying having to ask a worker to unlock the damn glass door just for $5-$10 item.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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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.
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
But the power tools are locked up and make noise. Bolt cutters are silent and not locked up in store.
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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.
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...
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.
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
"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
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...
Remember: You get a business degree because you're not talented enough for the arts and not smart enough for engineering or medicine.
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Bonus points for first bringing all your points of sale down to skeleton crews first.
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