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Yeah no shit I'm not waiting 10 minutes for someone to unlock a cage because there are two people working and one of them is on break.
sounds like a Walgreens that is over budget on staff. just cut down to one employee, then they can't go on break ever. win win.
E F F I C I E N C Y
I went once to pick up condoms and they were behind those glass doors. I pressed the button and it announced loudly that assistance was needed in "Family Planning" and everyone nearby started looking over and despite not being a teenager the embarrassment is never any less. I was just waiting around until someone finally came and they had the wrong key or something and started yelling at someone to bring the key to family planning, only further drawing attention to my anti-volcel ass. It was pretty uncomfortable. Never went back there for that again.
Way more effective than volcel police.
The people's VOLCEL VANGUARD are on the scene! PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS FOR STRATEGIC ACTS OF MASS REVOLUTIONARY CUMMING!!!
OH, NO! TANKIES!
Waiting 10 minutes for a rite aid employee to grab a deodorant for me and I open it to smell it and don’t like the smell but she already walked away. Ok thanks for the free deodorant I guess
Yeah the deodorant getting locked up is so ridiculous, these are $3-4 items and you need to keep them behind plexiglass? Fuck you, I'm shop lifting out of principle now.
Hey but what if we made everybody’s lives worse so we could mildly inconvenience one person who might steal something that won’t impact our margins at all?