Why is Walmart locking up detergent?!

[Bob Juch]

Are people shoplifting jugs?

[Ritterskoop]

Isn't that one of those products teens huff, and accidentally kill themselves?

I'm not against cleaning out the gene pool, but I can see why a retail store would rather not feel responsible if a death could have been prevented.

[Beebs52]

Maybe the Tide pod thing that little kids think is candy?

[Beebs52]

omg. There was/is a meme fad thing Tide pod challenge. Unfortunately some teens actually ate them.

[littlebeast13]

Are people shoplifting jugs?

That's a new one on me. The high end detergent must be a high theft item in your neck of the woods.

We don't even lock up our baby formula, and that's the one big consumable item that is such a high theft risk that it would actually warrant it...

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[littlebeast13]

Isn't that one of those products teens huff, and accidentally kill themselves?

I'm not against cleaning out the gene pool, but I can see why a retail store would rather not feel responsible if a death could have been prevented.

Kids can kill themselves with all kinds of stupid things. I found out a few years ago when my AC was stolen that huffing freon was a cool thing to do (no pun intended), and several had literally frozen their lungs up and died...

Mecca isn't going to lock something up unless it's a theft risk. I don't even think they'd lock up the ammo if people wouldn't steal the crap out of it when left out...

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[silverscreenselect]

A few years back, grocery stores were locking up razor blades because people were using them to cut cocaine with.

I'm not even sure you can find a standard razor blade at most retail outlets nowadays.

[littlebeast13]

A few years back, grocery stores were locking up razor blades because people were using them to cut cocaine with.

I'm not even sure you can find a standard razor blade at most retail outlets nowadays.

Razor blades (the shaving kind) are another high theft item... though they usually just have those alarm devices clipped onto the package rather than putting them behind glass.

This is meth central, and outside of the high grade Benadryl, none of the ingredients are kept behind lock and key...

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[Bob Juch]

I'll have to ask the next time I go in. I'm doing online ordering with pickup or delivery mostly now.

[a1mamacat]

Sure, make people jump through hoops to buy detergent, but when they want a gun....

[BackInTex]

Sure, make people jump through hoops to buy detergent, but when they want a gun....

They are locked up, too. And require background checks.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2 ... the-season

[goongas]

Maybe P&G is paying Walmart to lock it up so Tide looks more desirable? (If it is under lock and key, it must be a great product...). But, it makes it harder to buy, probably not what P&G is looking for.

[littlebeast13]

Maybe P&G is paying Walmart to lock it up so Tide looks more desirable? (If it is under lock and key, it must be a great product...). But, it makes it harder to buy, probably not what P&G is looking for.

No company, particularly a consumer basics company, is going to request their product be placed under lock and key.

That modular for most of the Tide section (Not all of it since all of the Free in the white bottles is outside the box) was obviously specifically designed to be placed in a locked cabinet, though. Tide products are always at least double faced, and almost every item in that cabinet is single faced. High theft items are supposed to be deliberately understocked to deter large quantity shoplifting. It's also odd that the Gain pod products were moved to be in the lock box above the Tide... those have always been sold with the basic Gain detergent, which is third in line down the aisle after the Tide and Persil in every store (You can see a lone green bottle at the very edge of the photo).

Mecca generally defers to customer convenience over theft prevention for very highly consumable items like Tide, which makes this extremely odd. It has to be some kind of localized issue...

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[tlynn78]

Sure, make people jump through hoops to buy detergent, but when they want a gun....

They are locked up, too. And require background checks.

Would you just keep those pesky FACTS to yourself, young man! You'll never be woke.

[Bob Juch]

Sure, make people jump through hoops to buy detergent, but when they want a gun....

They are locked up, too. And require background checks.

Can you use the same background check you need to buy breakfast cereal?