Posted on 03/16/2019 2:08:07 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Locking up is protection against theft. After all, unwed mothers and illegal kids need formula but they cannot get that back where they came from so they came here to steal our products and our way of life too.
There are other high priced items in a supermarket too like vitamin pills, those little jars of caviar and even certain cheeses. In my supermarket, there are little soft packages of cheese that go for $20 or more. I wonder why those items aren’t shop-lifted too.
Wouldn’t breast-feeding be cheaper? Not to mention more nutritious for your child as well.
In Da Hood, you can re-sell baby formula very easily for cash.
Another big one is TIDE detergent —don’t ask my why.
In the case of Tide, the problem is so severe that some drug dealers have a price in US Dollars, and another one in Tide detergent.
I have to admit that sounds utterly bizarre and made-up, but there it is.
There is a third one I used to know —it could be razors— but I have forgotten that third one.
It’s Ghetto money.
Hey but whipped cream cans are not! You can do “whippets”!
They put it behind a wall to deter scofflaws
Because diversity is our strength.
I saw that happen nearly 20 years ago when my son was little. Not everywhere, but just in certain neighborhoods. It was expensive and I assumed was a prime target of shoplifters.
A lot of babies are produced by the "leisure class" and they are not breastfed, especially when grandmothers, neighbors, siblings are caring for them.
When going in to purchase such, I would ask the clerk where they kept their abusable inhalants?
They would give me a funny look.
*Model paints. You got any? Come show me where.
They would take me there and I would then point to the sign on the locked case: Abusable Inhalants.
Retailers track disappearing inventory. Only the most popular items for theft get locked up.
I’ve noticed stores in the same chain will lock up vastly different items depending on the store location.
Hair care products marketed to black people are the most commom lock up items most places.
When I was a boy in California, ZERO banks encased their cash/cashier zone with bulletproof glass.
Or any glass.
Last time I went back for a visit?
EVERY branch did that, except for one.
Oh! And they always had one armed guard hanging around out in front.
I heard that is common in Mexico, too, WHICH SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING.
I don’t buy baby formula, but one time, recently, I got some for a relative. It was not only locked up, but the clerk would not let me put it in my basket, and said it would be at a check stand for me to get it, when I checked out. I had never seen them do that with any other product, before.
We have two WalMarts.
The one next to the “housing development” has most of the electronic section and lots of other things under lock and key.
The new WalMart, outside of town, has virtually nothing locked up.
We have two WalMarts.
The one next to the “housing development” has most of the electronic section and lots of other things under lock and key.
The new WalMart, outside of town, has virtually nothing locked up.
As others have intimated it is a theft issue, especially in the case of WIC and other supplemental systems. I have a friend who has been in the grocery business in South Carlina for years and he will be opening a new location, and formula and similar WIC items are only available at a separate counter due to this syndrome
Bad for babies?
I thought they only locked up the Baby Formula at Planned Parenthood Clinics.
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