Tide laundry detergent highly shoplifted item at Walmart

[Creepy Green Light]

So I'm out here in Oregon visiting relatives and I just got back from Walmart to pick up some items and when I went down the laundry detergent isle they have Tide locked in a glass case to where you need an employee to come and open it for you which is ludicrous. I know things like razor blade cartridges are under lock and key but Tide?

Also, my checkout person had long, wavy purple hair, dresses as a woman, had an artificially high voice along with a mustache that was growing in - his name was "Haley". Welcome to Portland.

 

[The shadow]

Where my son works tide and laundry soap Is under lock and key! Other items locked up are female hygiene and men's birth control items

 

[pigfarmer]

the name was Troy you say?

 

[Creepy Green Light]

Where my son works tide and laundry soap Is under lock and key! Other items locked up are female hygiene and men's birth control items

Wow, I had no idea. But I like how other brands of laundry detergent were not locked up - I guess Tide is the high grade crack cocaine of laundry detergent.

 

[pigfarmer]

what do they know that we don't know?

 

[Todd Feinman]

Wow, I had no idea. But I like how other brands of laundry detergent were not locked up - I guess Tide is the high grade crack cocaine of laundry detergent.

Pretty much..

How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency -- New York Magazine - Nymag

Tide detergent: Works on tough stains. Can now also be traded for crack. A case study in American ingenuity, legal and otherwise.

nymag.com

 

[pigfarmer]

I had assumed it was somehow drug related because in Breaking Bad cold medication - or some other OTC stuff - was being used to cook meth.

To paraphrase Tim Waltz, that's just weird.

 

[Todd Feinman]

I had assumed it was somehow drug related because in Breaking Bad cold medication - or some other OTC stuff - was being used to cook meth.

To paraphrase Tim Waltz, that's just weird.

Vicks inhaler, muriatic acid, distilled water....

 

[Shadowprophet]

It's a reflection of the state of the collective conscious.. people have been ripped off in every conceivable way by their government. This issue is a symptom of a deeper unrest. The price gouging on an already overtaxed collapsing system, people are working two and three jobs and barely meeting their families needs..

Yes, society has reached a point via neglect and lack of real security and support. That they no longer view the theft of something they consider a necessity as unwanted...


Honestly, As long as we tolerate the system bleeding us dry and forcing people to work multiple jobs just to feed their kids. This is not only going to continue to happen, but the fact that people aren't already rioting , Shows incredible Discipline and reserve...

 

[pigfarmer]

On my 'real' job I saw a couple of people over the years get fired for real theft - like well over 100K in a few instances and that was back in the dim 20th. Never led to criminal charges because the company was covering up their own stupidity that allowed it to happen in the first place.

While working in Home Depot for no good reason I saw some of those most egregious, the most ridiculous examples of theft you could possibly imagine. Like, two really scary individuals who raided on a regular basis right in front of me and would literally drag away a sack so big they couldn't carry it full of expensive crap. I used to tally all that up and $6-9K was not uncommon. They never even bothered to lock the exact same stuff being stolen up. In fact other employees overnight would so massively overpack shelves for different reasons and these guys knew it.

Then there was internal theft. One of the overnight freight managers very proudly told me one day - and bear in mind this is a person I really don't know at all - that he shoved four $400 tool kits into a secretly marked bathroom vanity in a box that his wife came and bought the next day, removed the items, then returned the vanity.

The problem there was that they lived in such a*****e quaking fear of litigation that they refused to do anything about it. They got loss prevention people there as a fig leaf but that's holding back the ride with a broom. The thievery is the result.

Point behind all that is that thievery seems to be a normal human condition in any environment at any time and if opportunities present themselves, as they are with literally incompetent wokeish management at many levels in chain retail environments where it's blatantly obvious, then shit like this happens.

 

[Shadowprophet]

On my 'real' job I saw a couple of people over the years get fired for real theft - like well over 100K in a few instances and that was back in the dim 20th. Never led to criminal charges because the company was covering up their own stupidity that allowed it to happen in the first place.

While working in Home Depot for no good reason I saw some of those most egregious, the most ridiculous examples of theft you could possibly imagine. Like, two really scary individuals who raided on a regular basis right in front of me and would literally drag away a sack so big they couldn't carry it full of expensive crap. I used to tally all that up and $6-9K was not uncommon. They never even bothered to lock the exact same stuff being stolen up. In fact other employees overnight would so massively overpack shelves for different reasons and these guys knew it.

Then there was internal theft. One of the overnight freight managers very proudly told me one day - and bear in mind this is a person I really don't know at all - that he shoved four $400 tool kits into a secretly marked bathroom vanity in a box that his wife came and bought the next day, removed the items, then returned the vanity.

The problem there was that they lived in such a*****e quaking fear of litigation that they refused to do anything about it. They got loss prevention people there as a fig leaf but that's holding back the ride with a broom. The thievery is the result.

Point behind all that is that thievery seems to be a normal human condition in any environment at any time and if opportunities present themselves, as they are with literally incompetent wokeish management at many levels in chain retail environments where it's blatantly obvious, then shit like this happens.

You are perhaps right , most humans would probably pinch something if they thought they would never get cought , it's the undertones of the things being stolen that plagues me , little things like cleaning supplies , to me it wreaks of a collapsing economy .. but in fairness to everyone, I tend to smoke more weed than snoop dog and jump down a lot of rabbit holes too, lol

 

[pigfarmer]

Humans invented locks because of other humans, not to keep the animals of the forest away from our stuff.

Total honesty here.

At HD on an hourly basis I'd dispose of empty, partially empty or damaged product packaging. All I did was zap the bar code with a scanner and write ZMA on it and toss it in the ZMA bin. What does that stand for? No clue other than - chuck it in that bin over there. A manager will them come and verify that each zapped item is actually there ........ and then toss it right down a big chute. That chute to the dumpster is locked with a key only the manager has.

There are decent people working there but generally what happens is that anything with value winds up in a manager or one of his circle of friends cars that night. These are the managers doing that - the ones who theoretically are there to prevent it hence the key.

I could care less as I've always said you're either a thief or you are not a thief, which one is it?

My confession is that a few of these things I was tossing were really nice Klein hand tools. Seems nobody cares much about those and they go straight into the garbage. So you have a kit with ten things in it, someone steals one and you throw away the rest of the brand new high quality tools. Well screw that, three or four nice dikes, wire cutters went into my back pocket before I zapped them. Me walking around with a pair of wire cutters was normal as I cut wire all day.

Nothing huge but the truth is that I feel guilt over that. Silly but I violated one of my own rules. How you could live with yourself after doing some of that, or mass theft or any of that is beyond me. It's debasing and I couldn't live with myself.

Adversity does not define character it reveals it. Opportunities for theft does also.

BTW. They throw away tons of brand new construction materials, tools, anything you can buy in one of those stores. They throw damaged bags of dirt into the dumpster. There's a Habitat for Humanity ReStore less than a mile up the road that for whatever reason they have nothing to do with.

 

[nivek]

Humans invented locks because of other humans, not to keep the animals of the forest away from our stuff.

Total honesty here.

At HD on an hourly basis I'd dispose of empty, partially empty or damaged product packaging. All I did was zap the bar code with a scanner and write ZMA on it and toss it in the ZMA bin. What does that stand for? No clue other than - chuck it in that bin over there. A manager will them come and verify that each zapped item is actually there ........ and then toss it right down a big chute. That chute to the dumpster is locked with a key only the manager has.

There are decent people working there but generally what happens is that anything with value winds up in a manager or one of his circle of friends cars that night. These are the managers doing that - the ones who theoretically are there to prevent it hence the key.

I could care less as I've always said you're either a thief or you are not a thief, which one is it?

My confession is that a few of these things I was tossing were really nice Klein hand tools. Seems nobody cares much about those and they go straight into the garbage. So you have a kit with ten things in it, someone steals one and you throw away the rest of the brand new high quality tools. Well screw that, three or four nice dikes, wire cutters went into my back pocket before I zapped them. Me walking around with a pair of wire cutters was normal as I cut wire all day.

Nothing huge but the truth is that I feel guilt over that. Silly but I violated one of my own rules. How you could live with yourself after doing some of that, or mass theft or any of that is beyond me. It's debasing and I couldn't live with myself.

Adversity does not define character it reveals it. Opportunities for theft does also.

BTW. They throw away tons of brand new construction materials, tools, anything you can buy in one of those stores. They throw damaged bags of dirt into the dumpster. There's a Habitat for Humanity ReStore less than a mile up the road that for whatever reason they have nothing to do with.

Insurance policies I believe are dictating that policy if discarding good products like you mentioned...In order for HP or other corporations to get insurance claims paid back to them they must discard the items instead of donating or giving away...The insurance companies make that call...

...

 

[Shadowprophet]

Humans invented locks because of other humans, not to keep the animals of the forest away from our stuff.

Total honesty here.

At HD on an hourly basis I'd dispose of empty, partially empty or damaged product packaging. All I did was zap the bar code with a scanner and write ZMA on it and toss it in the ZMA bin. What does that stand for? No clue other than - chuck it in that bin over there. A manager will them come and verify that each zapped item is actually there ........ and then toss it right down a big chute. That chute to the dumpster is locked with a key only the manager has.

There are decent people working there but generally what happens is that anything with value winds up in a manager or one of his circle of friends cars that night. These are the managers doing that - the ones who theoretically are there to prevent it hence the key.

I could care less as I've always said you're either a thief or you are not a thief, which one is it?

My confession is that a few of these things I was tossing were really nice Klein hand tools. Seems nobody cares much about those and they go straight into the garbage. So you have a kit with ten things in it, someone steals one and you throw away the rest of the brand new high quality tools. Well screw that, three or four nice dikes, wire cutters went into my back pocket before I zapped them. Me walking around with a pair of wire cutters was normal as I cut wire all day.

Nothing huge but the truth is that I feel guilt over that. Silly but I violated one of my own rules. How you could live with yourself after doing some of that, or mass theft or any of that is beyond me. It's debasing and I couldn't live with myself.

Adversity does not define character it reveals it. Opportunities for theft does also.

BTW. They throw away tons of brand new construction materials, tools, anything you can buy in one of those stores. They throw damaged bags of dirt into the dumpster. There's a Habitat for Humanity ReStore less than a mile up the road that for whatever reason they have nothing to do with.

I get what you are saying. Sam was even this way, Her old Job was being a social worker for the state , At first it was just a job, then after some time something happened and it went to her head. A habit she had was , schools at least here in Kentucky get a lot of swag and freebie items that get passed on to the less fortunate kids , this can be things like shoes, toys , you would be surprised , the kinds of things that corporations and businesses donate to schools , part of her job was deciding where storage bins of these materials Go... I think you know where this story is going.. Sam ended up with all kinds of little items and objects that, she couldn't figure out a good reason to distribute to the schools
.. some of which she would even sell on Amazon.. I thought it was highly wrong to make money from these donated items , I asked her why not just donated them yet again? Somebody somewhere would need them...


Life isn't always fair people aren't always perfect .. But yeah, anywhere there is a human that can somehow benefit from a system. You will find people who would abuse that system...

 

[Dejan Corovic]

On my 'real' job I saw a couple of people over the years get fired for real theft - like well over 100K in a few instances and that was back in the dim 20th. Never led to criminal charges because the company was covering up their own stupidity that allowed it to happen in the first place.

While working in Home Depot for no good reason I saw some of those most egregious, the most ridiculous examples of theft you could possibly imagine. Like, two really scary individuals who raided on a regular basis right in front of me and would literally drag away a sack so big they couldn't carry it full of expensive crap. I used to tally all that up and $6-9K was not uncommon. They never even bothered to lock the exact same stuff being stolen up. In fact other employees overnight would so massively overpack shelves for different reasons and these guys knew it.

Then there was internal theft. One of the overnight freight managers very proudly told me one day - and bear in mind this is a person I really don't know at all - that he shoved four $400 tool kits into a secretly marked bathroom vanity in a box that his wife came and bought the next day, removed the items, then returned the vanity.

The problem there was that they lived in such a*****e quaking fear of litigation that they refused to do anything about it. They got loss prevention people there as a fig leaf but that's holding back the ride with a broom. The thievery is the result.

Point behind all that is that thievery seems to be a normal human condition in any environment at any time and if opportunities present themselves, as they are with literally incompetent wokeish management at many levels in chain retail environments where it's blatantly obvious, then shit like this happens.

Shop where I buy groceries gets robbed approximately once per day. Apparently by same persons. For some reasons police is never involved, either they are too busy or some other reason. Shop-owners are only concerned about violence against stuff members because employees can then sue them. The latest thing is that shop had now built metal and glass barrier around tills.

It seems that shop-lifting is now new normal.