toiletries, personal hygeine are the most stolen item. supplements(including and not limited to protein powders, health powders) are stolen en masse, and coffee too to be sold(not for personal use) and its often. drug addicts go for ice cream the most.
Forget letting them steal it, donate it to them, put it out there on sidewalks. Make sure people know it exists.
Hell yeah
Thank you
fuck yes
Downvoted OP and upvoted your reply
I do this on every post with self censorship as well. Keep the faith brother or sister
Eventually we’ll win. We just need to comment this every post too in order to get more people on board. No one likes this shit, and we don’t need it on Lemmy.
May your pillow be cold on both sides for the rest of your days
Thank you for your service.
Unlock the deodorant, lock up or straight up ban cologne and perfume. I’d rather smell someone’s BO than be assaulted by someone’s perfume on the bus.
I agree to a point.
There are people who use much lighter scents and don’t bathe in it. That can be pleasant.
Anyone using stupidly strong scents or just absolutely overdoing it should be charged with sensory assault or something. Also, people who don’t outgrow the high school mentality of bathing in perfume or cologne to hide BO instead of just taking a shower.
Until everyone does it and you again get assaulted by 50 different vanilla or citrus scents making the bus smell like a soap bar.
I do a single spritz of cologne on the chest before I put on clothes. That way I can smell it, and anyone that gets very close can smell it too, but i dont think I stink up an elevator.
Yeah, I also try not to go overboard with it. I try not to use too much and prefer cleaner, less overpowering scents.
I’m not trying to warn people of my presence when I’m a room away. It’s meant to be a pleasant background scent in my immediate bubble.
Censored word is: penis
Where can I steal penis? My supermarket doesn’t have them.
They don’t call it penis, they call it pizzle instead.
Nice one finding the original!
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I picked up a set of underwear and went to the self-checkout. It started freaking out about weight difference, and so a worker came to me. She noticed someone had pulled out the middle underwear of the entire set, hardly noticeable. Pretty sure some thieves needed new underwear
For when you’ve only just got away from the police
Your deodorants are locked? That’s 2€ stuff
unscented antiperspirant costs $8 now. fuck me for not wanting to smell like fake flowery bullshit i guess
I even looked into making my own but sadly aluminum zirconium salts are both really expensive and really fucking difficult to dissolve in water, so not an even remotely straightforward DIY hygiene product
I’ve been to some Walmarts with damn near the entire store behind glass.
Big city problems
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.
We can even walk in most stores with our backpacks.
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.
I’m from Berlin, the biggest city in the EU.
We sometimes have liquor and parfum locked but I think I’ve never seen it for deodorant.
Everything that is trendy or necessary for health is locled in the states. They lock fucking protein bars here. Its annoying af
Protein bars are necessary for health? I’ve been boofing them for years
Nope, just trendy. Mostly horrible for your gut biome actually
That varies entirely per region of the US.
I’d guess our supermarkets wouldn’t even have the staff for this, it’s cheaper to have some loss from theft than having only 1 more employee for the permanent unlocking.
Oh they don’t staff the stores well enough for these locks either. You can go into a Target in any big city on the west coast and you’ll see the locked cabinet doors left wide open because they don’t have enough people to respond.
There is very little common between the US and Germany.
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In Baltimore, USA and I cannot figure out the rationale for what gets locked and what doesn’t. I have seen $50 items out in the open right next to $5 items that are locked up. I guess its just based on what gets lifted the most??
From my experience in retail it’s usually the products that get stolen the most; they’re often, but not necessarily always the most expensive ones.
Also some things that have a significantly higher than average return rate.
It’s often a size vs value vs fence-ability.
I have not seen Deodorant but commonly see razor blades since a 5 pack is small and like 30 dollars.
2? Idk the last time its been that low, but my regular basic one is now $7 and if i want a unique scent by the same brand its $12 for some unknown reason. Still locking them up is weird, Ive never seen that were i live thankfully.
Here I can get the cheapest for~1,70€. I don’t want axe or such stuff, I don’t like this pungent smell. Just don’t want to smell sweaty. If I want a special scent I take parfum, smells much better and I guess is cheaper for me
You can email p and g or Unilever and ask. That should get you most deodorant brands.
Maybe the real reason some weebs and furries don’t use it is because they’re too shy to get an employee to unlock it for them. 🤔
As someone living in Japan, this seems like a perfect use case for vending machines.
That makes so much sense.
But there’s also musk.
Its funny but why are we fucking censoring shit and other shitty fucking fucky fuck cuss words? 😂
The censored word is “product.”
Excellent, exactly what I had in mind, you’re awesome.
Shit
shit
Please no. That shit is horrendous. I’d rather smell BO.
I use the unscented kind
I honestly didn’t think deodorant was stil a thing since I decoupled from advertising. I’m a man who can cook and eat well so apparently I smell great even if I go a couple of days without showering sometimes.
You either have East Asian ancestry, and therefore an ABCC11 mutation, or you reek to high-heaven and are nose blind to it. Diets are not correlated with a lack of body odor, our bodies likely produce strong odor for mating purposes so there would be no circumstance where you wouldn’t have one, sans the aforementioned mutation.
So, either you got dry-ass, clumpy ear wax (another mutation symptom) or you stink and can’t tell. Sorry bud, if it’s the latter.
Nah you smell like shit
Are you relying on your own nose or someone else’s?
If they’re saying “apparently I smell great”, that suggests they’re relying on other people’s noses.
I think they’re relying on people being polite and not mentioning how much he smells.
You either have a hormone imbalance or you’re party of the problem bud
