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HenchmanNumber3 ,

If I have to wait for an employee to unlock an item, I’m just buying it somewhere else, whether it’s online or another brick and mortar that doesn’t make me beg to spend money there. Same with stores that have passcode locks on their bathroom doors. I’m not asking a retail worker for permission to pee.

Cosmonauticus ,

I’m not asking a retail worker for permission to pee.

Will someone please tell the Europeans having to have cash to piss or shit is a crime against humanity?

FundMECFSResearch ,

I wish our gvnts understood that. Plus I’m in a wheelchair so I can never enter those fucking doors things even if I want to pay

Cosmonauticus ,

In my travels across Europe most countries give a massive middle finger to the disabled. I hear the argument in preserving old building and architecture but you’re essentially walling off an entire sedition of ppl from living normally. As an American living in Germany I’d have a tough time choosing between German cheap Healthcare vs American handicap friendly infrastructure if I was disabled

FundMECFSResearch ,

Though problem with the US is if your disability prevents you from driving your fucked.

Speculater ,
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Bro, when I was in Norway I had to pay like $3 equivalent to piss! What the actual fuck. Greece it’s like €1.

corroded ,

The real problem is when there’s no employees available to open the cabinet. I’m sorry, Home Depot, but I’m not going to run around the store trying to find someone only to have them call someone else just so I can get a $50 roll of copper wire.

Speculater ,
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Not to mention that in some locations there’s so few employees, you’ll end up walking a mile before someone says, “I’ll have someone meet you there.” Then no one shows up.

FlyingSquid ,
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Especially in huge stores like Home Depot. Good luck finding anyone within 50 yards.

gnomesaiyan ,
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My only real issue is with health and beauty being locked up. I’m currently transitioning (MtF) and have found myself buying a lot online for this very reason. If it’s behind a glass wall, it can stay there.

FlyingSquid ,
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I never really thought about how that sort of thing would make things harder for trans people and I’m very sorry that’s yet another hurdle you and others have to jump through just to be yourselves.

Kolanaki ,
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I just bought my own key for those cabinets because even if I order something from my local Walmart for delivery or pickup that is in one of these, they will say it’s sold out even if they have a full shelf of shit.

TrickDacy ,

You’re claiming they all use the exact same key and also no one sees you on a security camera and kicks you out…? Also they just refuse to sell you things they have but lie about…?

PriorityMotif ,
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They’re shitty wafer locks, you can rake them open in 2 seconds with a random key.

Kolanaki ,
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You ever work at Walmart? Nobody actively monitors the cameras and the cabinets all use a T-shaped barrel key. Usually only a single employee carries the keys and with the time constraints set by OGP (the team that fills pickup and delivery orders), nobody wants to waste time looking for that person.

Beacon ,

Whoda thunk it?! And it's especially dumb because iirc studies have shown that shoplifting rates haven't changed much if at all in a long time

_bcron ,

I’m wondering if big corporations like Target etc underestimated the impact of tech illiterate warming up to online shopping due to COVID. People poring over old data and thinking that most people would simply deal with the inconvenience, but it turns out most people are more comfortable just using Amazon now than 5 years ago

Gullible ,

Projections won’t swing more than a few quarters ahead. Long term thinking yields short term losses, and the US stock market is a heroin addict begging at the methadone clinic for the briefest reprieve from its anguish. Long term is irrelevant and the neighbor’s window is open just enough to get the hit that the clinic denied.

Frozyre , (edited )

Edit: Oh, do the thieves not like the comment? Too bad. Stop stealing. No, you're not fucking 'The Man', you're fucking all over the hard-working and overworked retail workers and their stores. So fuck you.

Yup, incoming more salty responses from illogical dipshits with their mental gymnastics.

Here's an idea - stop planting your stores in places where crime is prominent. Threaten towns that if they don't clean their crime act, they won't get a store that'll be convenient for people living there.

Pulling back on self-checkout too? Self-Checkout can actually still be of use, if it was more modernized and monitored. Also, if people adequately did their jobs too.

Other than theft, people are online shopping for other reasons. Maybe they don't want to spend too much on gas going to a location an hour or longer away, find out that the shit they want isn't available so they've gotta now go around town just picking store after store until they get even a quarter of what they want.

Maybe people don't want to put up with all of the shitstains that manage to collect enough braincells to get up and go out, with their wailing stupid kids and their need to obstruct anyway they can while they motion around like fucking zombies.

TheTechnician27 ,
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they won’t get a store that’ll be convenient for people living there

They won’t have a big box store come in, starve out all of the small businesses, and force their town into indentured servitude where everyone has to work there, they’re not paid a living wage, and they can only afford to shop at the big box store, further increasing the problem in a vicious cycle?

The horror, I tell you.

Frozyre ,

Lemme tell you the amount of plaza chains and stuff that are built around and near big-box stores. Do you just live in a town where it's just one big box store? Please...

The ignorance of your comment.

tobogganablaze ,

Here’s an idea - stop planting your stores in places where crime is prominent

But how will Americans survive without shopping?

FlyingSquid ,
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Doesn’t everyone everywhere need to shop unless they’re subsistence farmers that weave their own clothes?

otter ,

Don’t forget the nudist hunter/gatherers.

FlyingSquid ,
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Dude, I live in Indiana. We’re not exactly a crime hub. You can go into Walmarts in towns with a population of 1200 and two cops because it’s all they need and you will still find shit like shaving products and cosmetics hidden behind glass.

systemglitch ,

I don’t know what you all wrote, but the first couple paragraphs just scream asshole.

I think whatever responses you don’t like are more in reaction to your tone.

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