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[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fun fact, scopes, gun attachments, and some ammunition aren’t locked behind cages at Walmart. The gun rack doesn’t even have an attendant 95% of the time, you can just walk up.

You know what is locked behind bulletproof glass? Baby formula. Diapers. Toothpaste. Condoms. Shampoo. Bar soap. Plan B pills.

Specifically black haircare products and not white haircare products.

Socks and underwear

Pants and undershirts

[+] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was just gonna say that this has to be an urban segregation thing. Our Walmarts where I am at are mostly in predominately white neighborhoods. We don't have anything really behind glass except tobacco. Meanwhile our PoC dominant neighborhoods have barred windows on their gas stations and liquor stores. These are also coincidentally the most underfunded neighborhoods. Yet our Walmarts are by half a million dollar homes. It's by design but I think that is preaching to the choir. Solidarity for my PoC comrades.:(

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, I am near a city in the US with a 60% black population.

It used to be a bustling hub with a population of 600,000 and it was a gleaming heart of transport, steel manufacturing, and industry.

As black people moved to the city, white flight began, and now the city is a shell and husk of its former self. A population of 50,000 is all that remains, all the industry has left and has rotted away, and the stores are all barricaded and closed down.

The black population are basically interned in a city turned into an massive camp, by police officers that come from wealthier neighborhoods outside the city. The neighborhoods surrounding the city have houses worth 5+ million dollars but they are separated from the city by bridges, highways, and impassable obstacles so that you can only each them by car.

The irony is palpable. Only probably 10% live in the rich houses. The rest live in hovels on the outskirts of the rich neighborhoods, and they delude themselves that they are part of the “in group”.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

and they delude themselves that they are part of the “in group”

It really is this aspect that seems to cause a lot of the suffering. Like just in general. I see a bit of this whenever people argue against a minimum wage increase to a living wage and part of that is that they currently make some essentially arbitrary amount that is more than a minimum wage so they fear that it would put impoverished people closer to where they are class-wise. So many arguments that I have had just to lift my fellow humans even a little bit out of a shitty life and people just seem to dig in their heals. The CEO of McDonald's isn't gonna let you ride on his yacht, Travis, no matter how many times you try to reduce the workers to "burger flippers". Sorry for this turning into a tangent/rant... I'm in a gloomy place right now lol.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

You're telling me AmeriKKKan supermarkets sell birth control?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

They usually have a pharmacy section with vitamins, first aid, condoms, and the like.

Plan B is not birth control, it’s an emergency contraceptive for dire situations.

Birth control can only (and should only) be prescribed by actual doctors.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Birth control can only (and should only) be prescribed by actual doctors.

The FDA approved an over-the-counter hormonal birth control about a week ago; no doctor interaction needed.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

So what you are saying is I have to steal a gun so I can go shopping. Got it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Specifically black haircare products and not white haircare products

Is there a difference?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Yes, black hair requires very specific and specially formulated products then white hair, as the texture, roots, and form are completely different. White hair products would wreck havoc on black hair.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

What about the other way around?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Depends on the texture and thickness of your hair. But more often then not you would not want to use black product as it would ruin fine textured hair.

Some products can be used by many hair types, but the vast majority are for one hair type or another.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Remember, when you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Remember, you never see someone shoplifting.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

indeed

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

I remember hearing that condoms are also being placed behind “safeguards” too.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Store I work at, they're all locked up in magnetic security boxes. Along with much of the more expensive foodstuff and alcohol.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

doing the groceries is now called a "run"? Do the associates also loot XP? Do I get to empty the cash register when I defeat the boss? Get real.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

lol

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Target has a deranged cult like atmosphere and they attempt to rename everything they can in order to build this air of importance and uniqueness.

Having worked there, I can say it’s a literal hell.

They call shopping “Doing a Run”, customers are “guests”, cashiers are “guest advocates, and so on.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

You actually do, but the boss is Global Capitalism.

The associates only loot XP when it helps an active Communist revolution.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I don't understand this system. Can't anyone just open the glass? How does it work and what does it prevent?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I think the cabinet is locked up, and they have to get an employee with a key to open it. The sensor on top is a red herring.

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