Yep. Here in the US there is a gas station across from a high school and they make all the kids leave their bags in the entrance before coming in. And I think limit the kids that can come in at peak hours.
Unfortunately yes. It’s kind of a reverse “big city” problem here. In towns and small cities a lot of stores are demanding people to leave their backpack at the front counter and grab it back when they leave. I grew up in a town of ~7000 people and everyone has a car, just like in the US. Everyone is dependent on a car. So stores don’t want backpacks because they’re associated with mischievous students. Why don’t you just leave your backpack in your car? In fact, why don’t you have a car? Why the fuck do you need a backpack?! Are you a kid or something?!
I moved to Montréal nearly two decades ago and I’m happy to be car free. But every time I go back to my hometown, I get reminded that adults walking around with a backpack is not the norm in that part of the world. In bigger cities and dense areas, there’s enough people without a car to just walk everywhere with a backpack and it becomes impossible to demand everyone to leave them at the counter. And people might protest it anyway. It’s one thing to demand teenagers to leave a backpack with a random store employee, but it’s another to demand office workers to leave their backpack containing a corporate laptop with a random store employee.
Whenever I encounter this practise, I get a bit insulted and usually refuse to play their game if I have a backpack with me.
I also wonder why men can’t bring a backpack in the store but a woman can bring their purse/bag without any problem, (at least here where i live it happens) it make no sense!
Typically downtown in big cities, or lower income areas l. I have been in a few stores where the entire health and beauty dept. was behind some kind of case.
US problem. I live in Montréal and locked items in pharmacies is generally not a thing here. We can even walk in most stores with our backpacks.
Rje only thing locked in Germany behind glass is high value alcohol.
what? there’s some stores you can’t?
Yep. Here in the US there is a gas station across from a high school and they make all the kids leave their bags in the entrance before coming in. And I think limit the kids that can come in at peak hours.
Unfortunately yes. It’s kind of a reverse “big city” problem here. In towns and small cities a lot of stores are demanding people to leave their backpack at the front counter and grab it back when they leave. I grew up in a town of ~7000 people and everyone has a car, just like in the US. Everyone is dependent on a car. So stores don’t want backpacks because they’re associated with mischievous students. Why don’t you just leave your backpack in your car? In fact, why don’t you have a car? Why the fuck do you need a backpack?! Are you a kid or something?!
I moved to Montréal nearly two decades ago and I’m happy to be car free. But every time I go back to my hometown, I get reminded that adults walking around with a backpack is not the norm in that part of the world. In bigger cities and dense areas, there’s enough people without a car to just walk everywhere with a backpack and it becomes impossible to demand everyone to leave them at the counter. And people might protest it anyway. It’s one thing to demand teenagers to leave a backpack with a random store employee, but it’s another to demand office workers to leave their backpack containing a corporate laptop with a random store employee.
Whenever I encounter this practise, I get a bit insulted and usually refuse to play their game if I have a backpack with me.
I also wonder why men can’t bring a backpack in the store but a woman can bring their purse/bag without any problem, (at least here where i live it happens) it make no sense!
Never seen it for deodorant and I’ve lived in the US for decades.
Typically downtown in big cities, or lower income areas l. I have been in a few stores where the entire health and beauty dept. was behind some kind of case.
Never seen this at all, having lived in low-income areas of the two biggest cities of austria. So far it seems like a US problem to me.
I live in midtown manhattan, all the drug stores here have locked up all of the deodorant. Even Irish Spring bars are locked up now lol.
It doesn’t even work; turns out retails CEOs misrepresented their sources of inventory loss, and random petty theft is a tiny factor.
Oh whaaaat CEOs failed to understand a simple core problem for their companyyy~? OMG I’m so shocked I need to sit down…
Just about anywhere in the South you’ll see it.