Post Av35TJtISdFbDNhek4 by Haste@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Av35TInaWN5dpO1aCm by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T01:52:28Z
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Today I was stopped by a grocery store rent-a-cop to check my receipt for a single 20oz bottle of Coke.As best as I can tell, there is now a mandatory queue for every customer leaving the building.I remain skeptical that the QFC is really suffering that much shoplifting loss, but even if they are, we’re talking about food. They probably need it more than your shareholders do.
(DIR) Post #Av35TJtISdFbDNhek4 by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T01:55:22Z
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Also, as if I need another reason not to shop at brick and mortar stores? You have no checkout lanes but you can afford to staff every door with two to three mall cops each?(They were also watching the elevator; I had to ask one to move in order to reach my drink coke in the freezer behind them.)Fuck it, let’s go all the way and set up a TSA queue for entrance, too.
(DIR) Post #Av35TKscmcJ6HaOdKi by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T01:58:13Z
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There was a sticker on the self-checkout machine (which is constantly malfunctioning) that asked “HAVE YOU SEEN BOB”? They had at least two per machine.I asked the overworked line monitor if that was a benefits program (I’m really sorry for bothering you by the way), and no, it’s a corporate-veiled threat reminding shoppers to check under their cart, and a reminder they’re being surveilled.(Apparently it stands for some variation of “buried under buggy”, which requires explanation to obey)
(DIR) Post #Av35TLXOL2uuK1TBsO by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T02:01:57Z
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This is to say nothing of the flat screen tv’s above every checkout lane demonstrating that a recording is in process, or the individual screen attached to every self-checkout machine with an unflattering upper-nostril camera feed of the person using it.Or the common self-care items that are locked behind cases; you now need to find one of those elusive, phantom employees and ask them for permission to buy that razor or bottle of shampoo.
(DIR) Post #Av35TMODAfASxqBNCq by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T02:04:37Z
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Even if you don’t care about your neighbors, and think this won’t affect you because you’re monied and can afford to Instacart your lunch everyday or whatever, this has knock-on effects for you.Did you notice you usually can’t buy those locked products on Instacart to begin with? It’s not that they’ve stopped carrying intuit razor refills or whatever; it’s that another app company decided to delist them so shoppers don’t have to spend the extra time.
(DIR) Post #Av35TNCY9VQxTxjZfU by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T02:08:17Z
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I feel like I’m damned either way. I’m at the point I would rather order online because they’ve made it such an intimidating pain in the fucking *ass* to pick up toilet paper, but then I know there’s another underpaid gig employee on the other end who has to do it on my behalf.It boils my blood to see earnings reports bemoaning falling profits or whatever when the error is entirely unforced.
(DIR) Post #Av35TNkw5ewJCbp2GW by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T02:10:34Z
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I hate feeling like I’m a Rikers inmate because I’m out of toothpaste.And more than anything I hate that there are people literally starving outside of these establishments, every day, without fail.Literally behind the rent a cop, within fifteen feet. Every minute of every day.But no, they keep their back to them and strip search grandma to make sure she rang up all her saltines correctly.
(DIR) Post #Av35TOMVpwzt59P2ps by Haste@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T02:12:52Z
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Nobody had to radicalize me. I walked outside with my fucking eyes open, and wasn’t afraid to talk to strangers.That’s ALL it takes for it to be plainly obvious how callous and sick we’ve become.