American woman’s wild find in pharmacy freezer aisle
A shopper has taken to social media with a “public service announcement” after finding a wild detail in her local freezer aisle.
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A shopper has taken to social media with a “public service announcement” after heading over to her frozen food aisle to purchase some ice cream.
The American woman was shopping at CVS, a pharmacy and retail store in the United States, when she wanted to pick out a tub of her favourite frozen treat.
However, she was forced to ring a buzzer and wait for an employee to unlock the fridge so that she could access the ice cream section.
“This is a public service announcement, stop stealing from these people’s store because why do I have to push a button to get some ice cream?” she asked.
“That’s crazy.”
When the employee came out, the woman tried to ask why it was locked up but the employee didn’t answer.
The move to lock up supermarket items isn’t one solely seen in the US, with both Coles and Woolworths placing items such as Manuka Honey, deodorant and other beauty items behind locked screens.
Social media users’ jaws dropped while watching the clip, with many confused as to why the frozen treat was locked up.
“Who the hell is stealing ice cream,” one person blatantly asked.
One defended the employee, saying, “She’s probably over it, too. These decisions to lock up things aren’t decided at store level, but higher level. Especially if the location has a lot of theft in the area.”
“They’re not stealing ice cream I’ve seen people LICKING and taking chunks from the tubs and putting them back,” one person revealed.
One added: “Girl, I had to push for face wash and they made me leave it at the service desk until I was finished shopping. $9 Cetaphil. insane.”
“It’s not even so much as people stealing it, but they will pick it up out of the freezer, then set it somewhere on the other side of the store, and when we find it, it’s made a mess,” another added.
One said: “If it’s locked up I simply will not buy it. I’m not standing here for 10 minutes waiting for the one employee scheduled on the floor when I can do a drive up pick-up.”
“I don’t understand … it’s not stopping anything. You can walk away with it, eat it and leave it. If you unlock the makeup, they just hand it to you. you can still steal it! locking it up does nothing,” another commented.
Someone else weighed in: “I think the reasoning for locking up ice cream was because of that one girl who went to a supermarket and licked all the ice cream that people were going to purchase.”
Originally published as American woman’s wild find in pharmacy freezer aisle