Posted on 05/22/2024 12:58:47 PM PDT by matt04
Where literally every item in the store is behind glass, tied town, tagged, or has a "card" to take to get the actual item...except woke books.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
"The target does a better job locking up their merchandise than San Fransisco does locking up their criminals."
Can biological men dressed as women go into the store’s women’s rest room?
After all, that’s Target’s policy. But the video doesn’t say.
Why havent they closed it? Selling too much fagwear?
.except woke books. Woke books AND work boots. They always seem to get left on the shelves when looting empties a store. Wonder why?
Lock up the crooks, not the groceries. Stupid Fv@kers.
What a lot of people don’t grok, just about everything we take for granted can only work in what is called a “high trust society”.
It will not pencil out otherwise. Ever. The business of business is business. They aren’t charities, and they will close down, mumbling about “didn’t meet performance expectations”.
hard to believe they could be selling much at all
given that everything is all locked up
(and just TRY finding a clerk to assist you in, especially, a Tar-jay store!!! ha ha. Push a call button if you can find any and then..Wait for Godot.)
Why don’t they go back to old style shops?
Leave everything out of reach of customers, and the clerk will fetch it for you and take your cash?
Interesting how stores have reverted to the earlier days style where you handed the grocer your list and he got the items for you. You did not get the items till you paid.
!916, Piggly Wiggly, Memphis, Tennesee started the first self shopping experience.
Like Mrs. Oleson’s store on Little House.
Joggers need a lot of chapstick?
Everything locked up except sunscreen, work boots and Father’s Day cards.
Service Merchandise used to do that too. You shopped in their showroom or from a catalogue and wrote down product numbers of the things you wanted to buy. The clerk got your items from the back room and you paid before got them.
“Service Merchandise” and LaBelle’s Catalog Stores
Thats the Target at the Metreon building, on Mission, just by Moscone plaza, a lovely place.
It was my supermarket, as, working downtown, it was my go to place whenever my wife wanted me to get something on my way home.
I was just there last week. Yes, everything is locked up other than the groceries. It is hell on their sales. Not too many people want to wait on a sales associate to unlock a case. Four years ago it was always crowded on a weekday evening. Not now.
I am waiting for them to announce its closing.
Other stores downtown dont go to such lengths btw, Target is an exceptionally attractive, er, target, for some reason.
It’s $1.18 on Amazon.
The amount of theft they must’ve had to justify literally locking up an entire store and obviously losing sales due to people not wanting to wait must’ve been astronomical. My local target locks up the obvious stuff, like smaller electronics, some higher end cosmetics. However, everything else is just on the shelf.. A couple miles away the local Walmart hasn’t locked up the entire HBC department yet, however, all the socks and underwear have been locked up.
From my observation as a customer at the Walmart, one day, I went in there because I I needed some new socks because mine got wet and the entire section was picked over, packages ripped open, etc. I must’ve found 15 to 20 packages ripped open and the rest of the shelf was practically bare before I found one unopened package. Since the plexiglass went up, it’s practically fully stocked
merchandise used to be behind the counter and a store clerk assisted you in selecting your items
of course, that was before stores got cheap and went to self-service like, most regretfully, “service stations” converted to “gas stations” by laying off their service staff that used to greet you, check your water, oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, belts, and hoses, and put the da**ed gasoline in your tank for you.
Question from the one clerk, guard at local store now: “Would you like to use the self-checkout?”
Answer: No, I’m not employed here.
“...Service Merchandise used to do that too...”
For those of us, who grew up in Canada, the equivalent was Consumers’ Distributing. I remember that they got Shirley Jones to do a number of their advertisements when I was a kid.
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