Someday people will forget that not everything in every store was behind a stupid locked cabinet that you have to hunt down an employee to open. You used to just be able to go to Walmart and toss a Nintendo controller into your cart with the Chex mix. It was called shopping and it was great - ThreadSky

brendelbored.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Someday people will forget that not everything in every store was behind a stupid locked cabinet that you have to hunt down an employee to open. You used to just be able to go to Walmart and toss a Nintendo controller into your cart with the Chex mix. It was called shopping and it was great

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socialmediahandle.bsky.social•14 hours ago

You take a fucking image on a slab of cardboard to the register and you get to redeem a 3d version of it out of object jail, but the object you get is equally lqcking in dimension to thr cardboard, the enjoyment dimension, gone

socialmediahandle.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It's started with the locked slider-offers. Do you remember that? They started small... you can't slide an expensive calculator off the slider-offer without help... there was a key or a widget. That's how it started.

Now, we need to pay a bond and show ID just to enter

rapbastardz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Old dude whispers…

~~ Service Merchandise ~~

chacha1847.bsky.social•1 day ago

We were a Best family. Those were the days.

augustinemerganser.bsky.social•1 day ago

Walmart keeps condoms locked up, and honestly, if you're at the point where you need to shoplift condoms, it's probably a net positive for you to use birth control

woollahra.bsky.social•14 hours ago

if this is what it comes down to, why even bother going to the shops anymore? just order everything online and get it delivered, it's the same bullshit.

dumnorix.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Fuck that noise! Lock. Every. Single. Thing. Back. Up. and let some old guy go load a cart and ring it up for me! And have his shop boy deliver it!

"Put all that on my account, Festus, I'll pay you next month!"

orin-maidanez.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Move to Europe. (Or maybe Canada)

anthonys.space•9 hours ago

Stores also have locked cabinets in Canada .

puntspeedchunk1988.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bezos has entered the chat:
....stores?

dystopian-utopia.bsky.social•14 hours ago

There have been so many times that I haven't bought something because I didn't feel like going through the hassle of hunting down someone to unlock it for me. I can pretty much guarantee that locking things up prevents more sales than it does thefts.

kukla-reaper.bsky.social•8 hours ago

one of the stores in my town is like "NO, cosmetics will be STOLEN by you heathens! to access them, you have to ENTER a special section of the store, and PAY before going to any other part of the store!" it's so annoying that i just never buy cosmetics there anymore

cidmcdp.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Remember how we moaned about the big CD boxes? Oh what sweet summer children we were.

amazingmrcat.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I had to get a manager to unlock a cabinet for me just so I could get a $10 Lego set

pulpherb.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It was called shopping and it was glorious.

gohexyourself.bsky.social•14 hours ago

We were supposed to put the stuff in our carts?

chuckbchef.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Good luck finding an employee to unlock your desired merch. More registers open for self-checkout than those staffed with human capital assets.

darkarfs.bsky.social•14 hours ago

In fairness, this is how I stole a copy of Saturday Night Slam Masters for the SNES

raggededge.bsky.social•1 day ago

Someday people won’t believe that the general public had unmediated access to goods on a shelf while shopping. Will seem extremely unhygienic in retrospect.

txstbobcat.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Don’t go to Walmart.

brendelbored.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Ok Amazon it is

txstbobcat.bsky.social•12 hours ago

brendelbored.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Yes I’m shopping at Amazon like I said now it’s fine

plasticastro.bsky.social•1 day ago

Except for snes cartridges, I remember the toys r us game display that had the little coupons you brought to the counter so the guy can get the game “from the back”.

lesbab.bsky.social•14 hours ago

'from the back' is a phrase that holds so much magic and wonder.

Capitalism must be destroyed.

fakehappy.monster•1 day ago

Viscerally remember looking at the display copy of Gunstar Heroes for the Genesis in the glass cabinet at Toys ‘r’ Us, and having an employee go get me a copy

tehdeminz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I unironically loved that shit when I was a kid. It felt special and exciting to my stupid five year old brain.

ruodthgd.bsky.social•1 day ago

It really was. Especially when I got to the point of picking out and paying for the game myself with the money I’d gotten for my birthday or whatever. That was only once or twice a year, though, not every week when I need baby formula.

mikepipper.bsky.social•1 day ago

When I worked there it was a continual joy to take a ticket from a kid and hand them their game. Positively vibrating with excitement.

plasticastro.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh man just a great memory. Holding the perfect shrink wrapped box, clutching it on the ride home and reading the back of the box over and over thinking “I can’t believe this is mine”

SNES games were not cheap so it was always a special occasion lol

rogueelephant.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This is true, and i loved it. I found out recently best buy still does it, but you scan a QR code and go to the front. But the software doesnt work really, so i ended up just walking up and asking the clerk for headphones and realized i wasted my time finding them on the shelf

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