Most of the products on the drug store shelf are behind lock and key, even everyday items such as deodorant, toothpaste, candy, dish detergent, soap and aluminum foil. Manufacturers that supply lock cases and devices to chain stores have seen their businesses boom.
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Funny, but I'm not seeing that here at all. I've noticed security tags on a few items like beauty products that I pick up for Lisa, but nothing I've had to buy is locked up.
Of course there's a serious lack of colored folks and homeless people as well as zero gangs here. That might have something to do with it.
How racist to equate colored folks, homeless people and gangs as the problem.....
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Sometimes you've just gotta call a spade a spade...
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Which one are you?
DeleteIf the shoe fits...
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And there they go...you had to say it. Racist? I don't think so. Realist? Yup.
ReplyDeleteAny responsible gun owners in your neighborhood?
ReplyDeleteGee, what demographic uses hair straightener? Must be those Amish people again. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt makes their horses tails and manes soft and manageable.
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There used to be a discount house in the Northeast, I think it was called Lechmere's. But it didn't have a showroom - it was just a warehouse. You would walk into the small lobby, open the catalog, fill out a little slip of paper with the items you wanted, take it over to the cashier & pay. Pretty soon, your box would come down the roller-conveyor and through a small opening in the wall, where you could pick it up and leave. I wonder if that's in our future - probably would have people shooting it out in the lobby, robbing each other.
ReplyDeleteAxe deodorant is in the same catagory as bear spray. It's designed to repell not attract.
ReplyDeleteHere in my city, they were building places like Riteaid next door to Walgreens. Trying to compete with them head to head. But they found out that they could not compete in most of the neighborhoods that had a high minority makeup. The shoplifting and homeless people hanging out around them made it so that eventually they closed up all but 1 of the 4 places that Riteaid opened. Only one of the places are still open, with most of them just empty buildings. The one that was converted into something else, is a plasma donation center, in one of the bad neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteWhen my wife and I saw them building all of the new Riteaid drug stores, we said to each other that they would not make it, due to the places where they were built
Around here the only thing they lock up is razor blades. I have no idea why.
ReplyDeleteSounds wonderful. Here in Chicago, you need a gun to go to the grocery store.
ReplyDeleteThe Great White North is getting a few snow-fleas in the landscape, but wolves and The National Gutbird have to eat, too.
ReplyDeleteMore of a problem here are those that never had to live around it and welcome it, but they're mostly still wearing masks and MPR, so there's that.
Shit. They're putting security tags on packages of steak -especially carne asada- here in Kaliforniastan!
ReplyDeletecorrect, you answered your own question. live anywhere where there are low or no numbers of negros and life is safer and cleaner.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in San Jose all the health and beauty stuff was locked up.
ReplyDeleteSome places in California, the LawEnforcementOfficials are behind 2" security glass.
DeleteSo people cannot steal them?