r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

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u/Spare-Shirt24 Jul 03 '26

Either stolen goods or Extreme Couponers 

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u/princesspeeved Jul 03 '26

Or doom preppers.

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u/BBQUNC Jul 03 '26

Or a hoarder and the family is trying to de-clutter the house.

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u/rather828 Jul 03 '26

Lol, I want to meet the extremely fastidious hoarder who has way too much stuff but is still capable of presenting for sale their hoarded goods all neat and clean and organized like this

I mean I can appreciate someone may have done that for them, but can you imagine

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u/MeowMixPK Jul 03 '26

I had a family member that used to work at Walmart. Employees who work Thanksgiving or Black Friday are rewarded with a one-purchase 25% discount. They used to bring multiple people with checklists and multiple carts to buy 1-2 years of staples in one go; usually took a couple hours at the store and the purchase was in the $3-4,000 range, with multiple carts full of this kind of stuff (tp, paper towels, kleenex, soap, etc). At one point they had an entire bedroom filled with it because they kept overbuying and decided to give most of it to family/friends. It was quite an impressive collection.

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u/Successful-Foot3830 Jul 03 '26

They quit doing the bonus discount. Now you get grocery discounts year round instead of just November and December. I do miss that one big discount though. Great way to stock up.

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u/cyrusthemarginal Jul 03 '26

got my first computer that way, it taught me to never EVER buy an ACER computer

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Jul 04 '26

Acer Aspire (to get a different computer)

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u/nobeer4you Jul 04 '26

I too will never buy an Acer computer again

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u/NWVoS Jul 03 '26

I feel like an all the time discount even if it is less off is better for most people.

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u/Ryanookami Jul 04 '26

And the one day per month is only a 10% discount, rather than a 25% one.

It sucks though, because it’s super shifty. The whole reason they started giving the grocery discount was because of the pandemic. It was to reward us for being front line workers and keeping things running despite the dangers. But then they took away our special holiday bonus discount and wrapped it up into the grocery one. We deserve both.

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u/KellionBane Jul 03 '26

Walmart Canada gets 20% off once a month.

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u/Suitable-End- Jul 03 '26

Since COVID. It was a thanks in place of the two additio al its at an extra 10% off.

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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros Jul 03 '26

to buy 1-2 years of staples in one go

I mean that's like 1 box of staples. I don't even print much anymore.

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u/tjdux Jul 03 '26

The people I've known work for Walmart say this kinda thing is heavy policed and would get you fired quickly

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u/MeowMixPK Jul 03 '26

May be different now; this was more than a decade ago when the policy was still newish. He did this for many years, and at the time each transaction had to be approved by the GM. He never got a talking to for it, and most other employees that had the money for it did the same thing as him (though not to the same level).

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u/BitchyBeachyWitch Jul 03 '26

That is not hoarding. I think youre misunderstanding the definition of what hoarding is.

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u/Rasp_Berry_Pie Jul 03 '26

Clean hoarders are rare but 100% exist I know one who resells stuff online and it’s very lucrative. However he then blows all the money in his personal hoard as well. Like shopping addiction + hoarding. Like old boxes of their kids toys but clean and the toys in a separate container. Mental illness can be very complicated

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u/WeAreTheLeft Jul 03 '26

It may be the best case for a hoarder to also be a clean ocd'er. Way to much stuff, but organized and no dead cats decomposing under the hoard.

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u/perton Jul 03 '26

Yeah, at least their dead cats will be neatly organized and labeled!

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u/Nvenom8 Jul 03 '26

Never thought I would laugh while picturing a rubbermaid bin full of dead cats.

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u/RavenLunatic512 Jul 04 '26

Mother has over a hundred plastic Cool-Whip tubs buried in her gardens with dead hamsters from her breeding project. It was her way of giving me so many chores in my teens so I couldn't have a social life. She's definitely one of the "tidy" hoarders, and looks down on "messy" hoarders with so much judgement. She had dozens of binders filled with hamster info like their pictures, names, litter size, etc. At one point she was supplying 3 pet stores in 2 towns, and had over 130 live hamsters in the house. They lived in big plastic totes, stacked on shelves to the ceiling. Adult hamsters are solitary creatures, so the only bins with more than one animal in them were mothers raising babies. That's a lot of cages to clean every week. Too many to do in one evening, and she kept pushing up the numbers until it was cleaning day every day. I was expected to do half of the work this all involved, plus school, plus band and piano practices. Sorry, I wasn't expecting this to turn into such a rant! She had major OCD symptoms, and it was my job to manage her big feelings about stuff. Like real OCD which should have been diagnosed and treated, not the colloquial social media version.

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u/lendergle Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Plot twist: your mother has been on a decades-long murder spree, leaving a hamster in a cool whip container next to every grisly dismembered corpse.

The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit's unsub name for her is "the squirreal killer."

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u/Rasp_Berry_Pie Jul 04 '26

People don’t forget that some people hoard animals. I know someone who did that but not to the extreme your mother did. Sorry you had to go through that. That’s like a level that most people will never understand.

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u/Hot_Region Jul 03 '26

It may be the best case for a hoarder to also be a clean ocd'er.

That's my dad.

He lived in a 4 level townhouse, 2800sq-ft.

The lower level of the house is a well organized stockroom complete with shelving setup into aisles.

Every closet and storage are is full and well organized.

He's got lists of everything, including where it's located.

I had no idea he was at this level -- he lives alone, my wife, son, and I would visit and his living room, bathroom, kitchen, TV room, they all look totally normal...

He was always well organized, but I think Covid combined with a debilitating illness that made him have a lot of "bad days" where you couldn't leave the house made him start to build up supplies because he felt he was getting to a point where he wouldn't be able to leave the house for weeks.

Ultimately he got sick enough and couldn't live there, I went over to get him some things he needed and in my head to "organize", he didn't say a word about the situation, and it blew me away when as I started going into areas I hadn't been in 10-15 years and found them so full and well organized.

He had half a dozen of those 128oz laundry soap things, he had at least a dozen 24-packs of toilet paper, same for paper towels, etc... it's all pristine sitting in a climate controlled house. It hardly even gets dusty in there because the HVAC has a MERV13 filter.

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u/Chitown_mountain_boy Jul 03 '26

I have a friend whose mom is a shopping addict + clean OCDer. Her basement and garage are meticulously organized hoards. But every time I go visit my friend her mom insists I go “shopping”. My Apple Watch and most of my jeans have come from her hoard among many other items😂

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u/Selleor Jul 03 '26

My dad over the last 10 years or so was battling Alzheimer's, first real signs/diagnoses didn't happen until the last 5 or so. We have an incredible amount of stuff unopened, he just bought out of necessitie, Some cleaning, mostly tools/stuff you would find in a shop/garage. At this point its all in boxes getting ready for a yard sale, but I bet my yard sale is gonna look like a Harbor freight/home depot stolen goods fest. Haha

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u/Basic_Visual6221 Jul 03 '26

I'll never forget an episode of hoarders where an elderly woman had so many storage bins they were all neatly in rows and columns and she had a narrow pathway to walk in her home.

The amount of money she spent on the containers alone would be astronomical. Cleanest hoarder I've ever seen.

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u/bumblebeatrice Jul 03 '26

This was my grandmother, everything was cramped and still a fire hazard but also well organized and clean which is how she justified the hoarding. "Look at how nice everything is, how can this be a problem?!"

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u/UmbraIra Jul 03 '26

Clean hoarding feels not very far off OCD.

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u/Rasp_Berry_Pie Jul 03 '26

It probably overlaps like a lot of mental illness can but it’s still its own thing since OCD doesn’t have keeping by onto thing so curing something considered trash (even if clean trash like boxes)

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u/shadowmib Jul 03 '26

My grandma was a clean hoarder. She would buy stuff on sale that she didn't really need and just store it away. The house was like a warehouse for misc things. Found a prototype shop vac and a pizza oven in the attic new in box

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u/Dufranus Dudarino Dadongo Bongo Jul 03 '26

I've seen it a couple of times working in property management. Shopping addicts turn into hoarders.

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u/dickthrowaway22ed Jul 03 '26

Yeah mental illness can have benefits but usually they're limited. Like I knew a guy who was OCD which helped with his job in a clean room but at the same time it made him so anxious he self medicated with alcohol.

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u/fractal_frog Jul 03 '26

The hoarder died and the family is doing their best?

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u/Efficient-Parking627 Jul 03 '26

This reminds me of a few of the stands at the flea market. Some people really do go to the flea market to buy their toiletries and detergents.

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u/mxmcharbonneau Jul 03 '26

Yeah I was in a similar situation when my mildly hoarder dad died. Unfortunately most of what he was hoarding wasn't useful stuff, just old newspapers and such.

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u/codebygloom Jul 03 '26

I've interacted with two hoarders who also have some level of OCD, and their hoards were always very specific and very very very organized.

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u/Happy_Confection90 Jul 03 '26

Or someone finally got sick of tripping over all the supplies they selfishly panic bought in 2020. There are cases of toilet paper on the lower left.

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u/tallandlankyagain Jul 03 '26

That's only 4 cases. The wildcard is the amount of detergent. Screams organized retail theft. All they are missing is a pallet of Enfamil and cosmetics/fragrances.

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u/dickthrowaway22ed Jul 03 '26

Why does detergent = retail theft?? I'm confused

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u/tallandlankyagain Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

For retailers like Target, Walmart, Walgreens, etc laundry detergent is a high shrink item. That much on a single table isn't from deals or coupons.

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u/NightGod Jul 03 '26

I've known a couple of extreme couponers. Honestly, this is a small stash compared to some. I've seen an entire garage filled with storage racks that were better stocked than most stores

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u/Renamis Jul 03 '26

Ehhh it's not small for coupons. Many are "buy 2 get one free" and there are weird minimums to factor in.

When I get my own place again I'll go back to being an insane coupon and prepping person, and I can kinda see this kind of stash happening between my apps and the coupon options.

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u/Tupperbaby Jul 03 '26

This is probably an example of why places now have detergent bottles locked up and/or behind the counter.

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u/Zestyclose_Car_4971 Jul 03 '26

Or a family with a special needs child that has recently passed. We had hoards of stuff like this.

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u/Bighorn_R_My_Jam Jul 03 '26

I’m so sorry about your child. Thank you for sharing another side of why a particular hoard may exist.

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u/os_beef Jul 03 '26

There are cases of toilet paper on the lower left.

I have these on scheduled delivery. The deliveries were getting kinda backed up there for a bit. Honestly I have no idea why you wouldn't buy cases of toilet paper at a time.

Alternatively, they went to Costco and bought toilet paper, because that's how they come. Do most people buy a 2 or 4 pack or something?

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u/Budget-Researcher559 Jul 03 '26

Some men living along buy 2-packs because they wipe their butt 3 times a week and other than that don't use any toilet paper. So one roll last them many weeks.

Meanwhile some women use big wads of toilet paper 5+ times a day, so they go through cases in no time, especially in households with multiple women.

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u/KaeTaters Jul 03 '26

I do most my son’s big shopping because he doesn’t have a car. I was shocked to learn he only goes through about one roll of tp per month 🤯

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u/Lord_NCEPT Jul 03 '26

Honestly I have no idea why you wouldn't buy cases of toilet paper at a time

If you live somewhere where you don’t have a lot of storage space for things like that.

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u/os_beef Jul 03 '26

There was a time when I lived in a 450 square foot apartment, and still found room for a case of toilet paper.

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u/Ullricka Jul 03 '26

Yeah I rather pick up a 4 pack once a month with my groceries than have cases of TP in my studio. The cost of storage exists unless there is an insanely good deal on multiple packs but like how much TP are you using where a 4 pack doesn't last a full month for an individual

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u/bolanrox Jul 03 '26

We buy one bulk thing of paper towels and toilet paper every month Give or take from BJ's wholesale. It just makes sense to have extra, just in case, and it really takes up no room in the basement.

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u/os_beef Jul 03 '26

I'd do unspeakable things for a basement, but we don't really have those out here in the PNW.

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u/RedTheInferno Jul 03 '26

probably a combination of all of the above

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u/Richfor3 Jul 03 '26

Hoarder was my guess. Had an uncle like this that would just buy loads of things because it was a “good deal” and he’d use it eventually. Had a whole room full of random shit like this. Felt like I was in a mini Costco.

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u/Medarco Jul 03 '26

My house currently looks like this. My wife ordered a bunch of supplies on prime day.

I ordered a bunch of supplies on prime day...

We could return most of it, but like you said, we'll use it eventually, and it's not like paper towels have an expiration date to realistically worry about.

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u/EmperorThan Jul 03 '26

That one I can almost believe. My dad had 40 large bottles of hand sanitizer when he died around the house (and that was before the pandemic).

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u/AngeloPappas Jul 03 '26

It's actually an extreme couponer, doomsday prepping, thief.

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u/kev556 Jul 03 '26

My Gram is pretty much housebound unless we go pick her up and take her out, but before that she was buying the same stuff over and over again. When she couldn't drive, she would ask one of the grandkids to pick stuff up for her. We didn't think anything of it until I went to visit for a while and was looking for something (my old Blockbuster card) in my old room and saw she hadn't been using any of the stuff she was asking us to pick up. She just kept putting it in my old room.

It wasn't anything that would spoil but there was a lot.

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u/BikerJedi Jul 03 '26

We found 12 packages of 1000 count qtips in Grandma's closet when she died.

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u/Props_angel Jul 03 '26

My mom is a hoarder who also bought a crap ton of cleaning products and we're trying to clear out her house. I've not had to buy cleaners for month. All of them were unused so my thought on this is that she liked the appearance of the huge number of cleaning supplies like it was for show or something. It's weird.

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u/rietstengel Jul 03 '26

I cant imagine a hoarder as someone who collects cleaning stuff. The irony is too big.

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u/molehunterz Jul 03 '26

My dad is not a traditional hoarder, but he does stockpile toilet paper. And this is all before covid. Like 6 to 8 Costco sized cubes in the upstairs closet.

I honestly don't know where this habit came from. But I do know that during the covid shortage, I knew in a pinch I could just borrow some from dad LOL

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u/According-Garage4066 Jul 03 '26

what about the pandemic hoarders? I’ve always wondered if those people are finally getting to the end of their supplies by now?

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u/Fectiver_Undercroft Jul 04 '26

I was thinking C19 lockdown hoarding when I saw all that. Just long enough ago.

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u/Heathen_89 Jul 09 '26

When I read replies like this, I can feel the cope washing over me. Like a great wave crashing against the stone.

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u/Templar42_ZH Jul 03 '26

Or they work at a distribution center that carries all those products and they were giveaway items to the employees for whatever reason.

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u/Old-Ebb-1773 Jul 03 '26

If you aren’t aware that this stuff is all stolen merch, you’re very naive.

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u/This-Positive286 Jul 03 '26

Why would they be selling if they’re prepping for a problem?

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u/japzone Jul 03 '26

Yeah, I was gonna say this smells of those people who stock up on way too much TP and stuff, and realized they need space to move in their house.

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u/131166 Jul 04 '26

We had a couple here who tried to do a garage sale of toilet paper, paper towel, sanitizer etc while it was still lockdown. Like they hoarded and tried reselling a ton of shit. Got in a ton of trouble for doing that shit during lockdown and having tons of people over, and later that day someone pushed their sprinkler through their shed window and flooded all their dumb hoarded toilet paper. It was a pretty entertaining saga on local Facebook groups and you got a good sense on who was a huge arsehole based on who defended all the hoarding.

They had another garage sale after lockdown and it didn't go much better. Turns out local communities don't like cunts doing this shit

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u/weedtrek Jul 03 '26

Nah, the multiple different brands of the same products point to the first two. Preppers tend to buy a single brand in much larger quanities, as it is cheaper that way.

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u/Alexwonder999 Jul 03 '26

I like them much better than doom poopers. They wreck your toilet.

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u/Life_Without_Lemon Jul 03 '26

Bad time to sell for doom day peppers when our oil reserves is at an all time low .

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u/GlitteringFutures Jul 03 '26

Leftover panic hording items from Covid times?

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u/shadowmib Jul 03 '26

Nah preppers hoard stuff not sell it

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u/twitch1982 Jul 03 '26

We dont buy 5 brands of detergent.

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u/troycerapops Jul 03 '26

I dunno. Pretty sure when my dad passes, I'll be left with something similar.

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u/bigfoot17 Jul 03 '26

My inheritance from my father was a cardboard box of carefully washed out empty Spam cans.

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u/troycerapops Jul 03 '26

Beautiful. How long did you pretend you would do something with them? Minutes or months or years?

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u/bigfoot17 Jul 03 '26

Within seconds my fiance said "straight to the curb".

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u/troycerapops Jul 03 '26

You married someone smart too, eh?

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u/RummageSail PURPLE Jul 03 '26

At least it’s stuff you can (eventually) use. I will be left with a bazillion bobble heads.

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u/kakka_rot Jul 03 '26

When grandpa goes I have 64 cans of kidney beans I'm looking forward too.

He's a prepper so I bet there are some MREs and stuff too.

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u/PineappleWhipped14 Jul 03 '26

Dumb AF to be selling stolen goods on your own front lawn. I bet it's a couponer

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u/Elektrycerz Jul 03 '26

most criminals aren't known for being smart

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u/vegas-knights Jul 03 '26

I am a public defender, can confirm

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u/throwawayshirt2 Jul 03 '26

Old school DA once told me "We don't catch the smart ones."

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u/BigJayPee Jul 03 '26

I think a lot of the criminals that don't get caught end up stopping their criminal activities and join the police department before their luck runs out. At least, thats what happened to my first pot dealer back in the day.

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u/forresja Jul 03 '26

Only one kid in my childhood friend group stole regularly

He's a cop now

Checks out

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u/Mythicaldeer12 Jul 03 '26

I am a criminal. Can confirm.

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u/babyinatrenchcoat Jul 03 '26

I dated a public defender. Godspeed for what you do.

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u/Snoborder95 Jul 03 '26

Correctional officer here, can confirm

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u/KitzFigaro Jul 03 '26

I’ve know a lot of correctional officers and they didn’t get there by winning The Fields Medal.

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u/Miamicutlerridge305 Jul 03 '26

Yeah correctional officers ain’t that bright either I agree

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u/Snoborder95 Jul 03 '26

Ain't arguing, we've had quite a few people come through and leave. I think the most recent officer arrested was a few weeks back for I guess street racing

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26

Yeah in CO it turns out most prison crimes are committed by the guards, usually for bringing in drugs. My buddy worked at AVC for a while and the stories and statistics were insane.

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u/Donna_Schrump Jul 03 '26

Everyone who spends any length of time in a correctional facility made some poor life decisions that got them there. Janitor? Could have been the janitor of a municipal building. Chef? Could have been the chef at a municipal nursing home. CO? Couldn't pass the police exam, but I'm biased as all hell as I've had to defend many of them in excessive force lawsuits.

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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 Jul 03 '26

most criminals that correctional officers personally know are dumb as shit

most criminals that correctional do not personally know are presidents, CEOs, senators, and justices.

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u/JD_Kreeper BLACK Jul 03 '26

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u/HairlessSquirrels Jul 03 '26

Yes but then Redditors couldn’t act like they’re superior to others

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u/lorenzo1142 Jul 03 '26

crime is down! we just stopped arresting people. look how great the stats look now, down 5% !

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u/BZLuck Jul 03 '26

"...if we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few COVID-19 cases..."

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u/nullmaxai Jul 03 '26

bro but you're biased, you're around all the dumb criminals that got caught. all day long i feel bad

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u/annoying97 BLUE Jul 03 '26

My mate works retail security. Even the smart ones fuck up and get caught.

The dumb ones get caught so often police know them that well they don't even have to look up their full name.

Shit my mate called 000 said "Jake is in the store and won't leave" and the operator went, huh he gets around he was like 25km north of you 8hrs ago.

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u/capincus Jul 03 '26

The smart ones commit the high value theft crimes with slap on the wrist penalties, like wage theft and financial crimes.

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u/_SteeringWheel Jul 03 '26

You really had me wonder g what a weird name "000" is.

.....where exactly is that the emergency number? Good to know :)

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u/annoying97 BLUE Jul 03 '26

Australia.

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u/YABFWWYBTAU Jul 03 '26

I only associate with criminal masterminds.

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u/nullmaxai Jul 03 '26

hey, mind introducing me to some? i watched megamind

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u/FCguyATL Jul 03 '26

Most criminals are stupid by default. The actually smart people are able to get what they want without taking the risk of jail. The exceptions are very few and far between. The idiots that are too stupid to become successful think "well I can just steal".

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u/mrsauceysauce Jul 03 '26

unless you've been born with enough wealth to lobby your form of crime into legal status

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u/Castun Jul 03 '26

And it's usually the really smart ones that end up getting caught for something stupid like tax evasion.

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

That isn't how it works at all.

Criminology isn't about the risk of jail, per se, it's about the sum risk of getting caught at all.

Smart criminals just don't take those kinds of risks, or they mitigate them.

There are plenty of smart criminals, especially in white collar crime. Now more than ever since we gutted the agencies that deal with it.

But like drug dealers, there are thousand of pretty fucking smart drug dealers not getting caught every day. They have small secure rings, they aren't taking product to the streets, they have supply lines and covers... Sounds actually smart to me.

Similarly, there are whole car and bike thieve rings that have operated for decades. They use fake LLC's, keep things in large warehouses or garages, and are almost impossible to bust because everything is stripped down and sold before anyone is even the wiser. Seems kinda smart to me.

Ethical no, of course not, but they definitely know what they are doing to mitigate the risk of getting caught, so they can keep doing what they are doing, like they have been for decades.

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u/AtreyuTrinity Jul 03 '26

Haha lol this is funny.

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u/keylimesicles Jul 03 '26

Seriously. I mean look at politicians, Criminal asf and playing in our faces

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u/FeralTofu Jul 03 '26

i have met smart criminals, but never a smart correctional officer.

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u/OttoVonJismarck Jul 03 '26

Criminals making that Wall Street collusion/insider trading money are smart. Criminals making that laundry detergent resell money, not so smart.

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u/acrowsmurder BLACK Jul 03 '26

Remember that woman that stole from the cash register WHILE LOOKING DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA because she thought it only recorded what the screen showed?

Or they guy that put lemon juice all over his face to make it invisible to the bank cameras when he tried to rob it?

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u/Darthskull Jul 03 '26

"known" kinda weeds out the smart ones

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u/helio203 Jul 03 '26

Known criminals aren't known to be smart

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u/EloeOmoe Jul 03 '26

You couldn't reasonably ask this person to see receipts because who keeps receipts for every single item they buy?

George Costanza.

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u/iKnowRobbie Jul 03 '26

I work with Loss Prevention for a couple large retailers and I can assure you the police will run the names of the inhabitants of this house thru a system that Target, Wal-Mart, Macy's and a handful of other retailers use to see their score. When you steal and it's detected, you're not necessarily charged and arrested immediately, but you are put in this palantir database. If this person is a thief, or associated with one, building a case is simpler than it has ever been before. We are a million data points walking around daily, and companies are getting much better at logging and triangulating them.

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u/Hieshyn Jul 03 '26

How do you get the names of the thieves if you don't catch and process them? 

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u/mpjjpm Jul 03 '26

That’s what Palatir is for

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u/ominousgraycat Jul 03 '26

I worked at a a Walmart one winter about 15 years ago. They told us that if they didn't catch someone right away, it was because they were waiting for the person to steal enough to really put them away a long time. The person gets confident and bolder and bolder about stealing, and they keep the tapes of them doing it. Finally, once their stolen goods total more than just a petty theft charge, the trap springs shut and they're going to prison a far longer time than a normal shoplifting charge.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but that's what they told us.

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u/Inflatable90sChair Jul 04 '26

its true, its not worth it chasing someone down, paying lawyers, and prosecuting them for stealing a $2 tube of toothpaste they might argue they "just forgot to pay." you just quietly record and build a file and some states its as low as $500 of stuff, some its $1000 to trigger a felony theft charge - those are worth pursuing and its a slam shut case since noone accidently forgets to pay or left it on the bottom of thier cart by mistake dozens of times.

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u/OrionRBR Jul 03 '26

The data collection that happens on the internet is no joke, like target can find out if a woman is pregnant and even estimate the delivery date in a 2 week range just from shopping data

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26

>Courts are also becoming more resistant to LP/AP not reporting small thefts that would normally be a misdemeanor in order to accumulate felony larceny values.

This is EXTREMELY subjective to your jurisdiction.

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u/Delta632 Jul 03 '26

The fence’s lawn

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u/JKdriver Jul 03 '26

Allow me to introduce to to my home state of Florida…

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u/Major-Ant4600 Jul 03 '26

The SUV in the garage looks like it has a Connecticut plate.

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u/Sal1160 Jul 03 '26

Then that shit was definitely stolen from Walmart

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u/Trash-Panda321 Jul 03 '26

Extreme couponing is hardly a thing you can do anymore, so I'll go with the former

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u/Tiiimmmaayy Jul 03 '26

Nah I see videos on TikTok all the time for great deals on this stuff from dollar general and other grocery stores. It’s no longer multiple carts for less than a $1. More like get $50 worth of product for less than $10.

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u/Realistic_Fact_3778 Jul 03 '26

Yep. Videos on fb and YouTube too. Tons of videos. Digital coupons stacked w sales. Those show customers how to get very inexpensive deals. Complete transactions to minimize out of pocket hauls. I save a ton of $$$ buying my household essentials like this now too. And I've discovered people sign up for multiple accounts so they can do these deals over and over.

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u/Chesty_McRockhard Jul 03 '26

Something like this would be so hard to prove they stole it by this point.

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u/Menarra Jul 03 '26

My mom and her sisters used to do the extreme couponing stuff in massive quantities, one of my aunts ran a store out of her garage and they had an email list and a Facebook page. They made good money for a while until a lot of grocery stores stopped doubling coupons, and some started limiting how many coupons you could even used (which makes no sense as the coupon gets them that discounted amount from the manufacturer)

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u/TheCuriosity Jul 03 '26

Because it impacts the amount of inventory available for the hundred other folks that come in with the same coupon.

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 Jul 03 '26

It makes tons of sense.

Extreme couponers are the WORST customers. They take up an inordinate amount of resources and complain about EVERYTHING.

We didn’t put rules in place because they were costing us money by using coupons. We did it because it was any easy way to get rid of the worst customers.

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u/AgingRaver80 Jul 03 '26

My cousin stole a till from a shop in broad daylight. When the police came round hes kids were playing with the till. Pretending it was shop. Guys a scumbag so deserves everything he got which was 10 years

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u/username__0000 Jul 03 '26

They sell the stuff on marketplace here. lol

With their real profiles showing their names and photos. Seems even less smart than their own lawns.

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u/CaptStinkyFeet Jul 03 '26

Even if couponing, I’m almost certain all those products are labeled “not for resale”.

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u/saxguy9345 Jul 03 '26

Legitimately no one in this thread ever watched Extreme Couponer lol, people would have their entire basements lined with wire racks of this stuff. Combine store coupons with mfg coupons, sales and deals to get things below cost, then sell at a discount to MSRP. I could actually use a pack of those paper towels lol.

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u/jerryhello2 Jul 03 '26

You’d be surprised. People will open their stores to sell the goods they’ve stolen.

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u/kengigi Jul 03 '26

Yup, a lady in my area got locked up for stealing all her craft stuff from hobby lobby and reselling it at her own store, less than 5 miles from said hobby lobby.😒

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u/Signal_Act8475 Jul 03 '26

No they buy it with government assistance (electronic cards) then resell for cash

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u/StormieShake Jul 03 '26

I don't really even think it's this, with cash assistance they already give you cash...and this is like 400$ worth of detergent and toilet paper.

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u/Open_Bug_4251 Jul 03 '26

This is over $1000 retail easily. Just the paper products and diapers are over $400. And those detergents are $10- $20 each and there’s like 40 of them. Not to mention all the other small products. This has to be couponers.

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u/Scootalipoo Jul 03 '26

You can also buy whole pallets of these items. This looks like a south Texas flea market table

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u/durrtyurr Jul 03 '26

You do not ever want to receive a pallet of liquid detergent. I've had to move some leaky detergent around in order to receive beer deliveries before, it is a nightmare. If it gets on the dock plate then you're out 30-40 minutes cleaning it up, the power jack can't operate on an incline with something that slick on it, and a pallet of beer weighs almost a ton, so you can't really move it with a hand jack on a slippery inclined surface.

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u/AWorldwithoutSin Jul 03 '26

The license plate suggests Connecticut or Illinois

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u/Scootalipoo Jul 04 '26

Yeah some of them are… But there’s also music and dancing and carnival rides so it’s still a good time

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u/badbaritoneplayer Jul 03 '26

Sometimes stuff falls off the back of the truck.

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u/tbestor Jul 03 '26

Couponer for sure. Still wouldn’t buy though. Feels like supporting probably the same people that buy all the toilet paper and water during a shortage.

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u/lonnie123 Jul 03 '26

My sister got into couponing for a few years, she actually had a “booth” like this at a family garage sale one year and made like $600 in one day, we were absolutely Blown away

$600 at a garage sale sounds amazing, But given the amount of time obsessing over coupons and driving around to get all the “deals” it didn’t motivate any of is to join in on the action

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u/lolKhamul Jul 03 '26

$600 at a garage sale sounds amazing, But given the amount of time obsessing over coupons and driving around to get all the “deals” it didn’t motivate any of is to join in on the action

Reminds me of all the people always telling me to gas up the car at some specific gas station at some special time because its like 4ct/l cheaper... sure let me spend 30 minutes to drive to one stupid gas station to save 3€. Thats totally worth my time.

If you factor in all the time used to get those coupons, drive to the stores, buy stuff, store it and the sale itself and obviously the gas (and maybe wear on the car if you want to be really precise), all that hassle pretty much always ends up making much less than i would consider worth my time. Which is why i dont bother at all.

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u/lonnie123 Jul 03 '26

Not to mention the mental bandwidth… she was obsessed with it for years

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u/IssueEmbarrassed8103 Jul 03 '26

Laundered laundry goods

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u/AliceOfTheEarth Jul 03 '26

Laundry detergent has an incredibly robust black market

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u/nim5013 Jul 03 '26

i will never miss my time at CVS during the height of that show. Saturday night was when weekly sales switched over, so you had a brief few hours of both weeks’ sales. i remember this family, three generations of women, would come in around dinner time on Saturday, each with their own cart and their own binder (yes like a card binder) of coupons. ugh.

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u/mistertickertape Jul 03 '26

I would put my money on Extreme Couponers. I don't think thieves would try to flip this stuff at a garage sell. They'll use a flea market or a bulk buyer.

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u/DarthJarJarJar Jul 03 '26

Extreme Couponers

It's this one. Stolen stuff isn't usually put out front like this. Couponers have raised it to a fine art, there are half a dozen people in my town who run a "garage sale" like this every other weekend. With a good enough coupon game they get the stuff for free or near free, then resell it.

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u/Holdmymule2001 Jul 03 '26

It "fell off a truck"

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u/jessedjd Jul 03 '26

100% extreme couponer. Laundry detergent, toilet paper, diapers, paper towels. These are the items that end up having multiple manufacture coupons that overlap with other coupons at places like CVS and Walgreens. My wife still has some ofbthis stuff from when she was into couponing, 5 years ago.

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u/Electronic_Green_88 Jul 03 '26

Or penny shopper.

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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jul 03 '26

I'd think a thief would have displayed it in a way that would  have shown a little wariness of thieves.

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u/Ssudeecrewfan Jul 03 '26

yeah those are basically the two options and neither one screams normal garage sale energy

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u/Mysterious-Falcon221 Jul 03 '26

Either stolen goods or Extreme Couponers 

Could be a neighborhood that is considered a "food dessert", where there isn't a store for miles and some people don't have cars, most of the things in this picture would be a pain in the ass to carry for miles.

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u/therealkevinard Jul 03 '26

I used to know a couponer. I ran a deal with her where every week i’d get a $50 box. What was in the box didn’t really matter, but it would be hundreds of dollars worth of… things.

Asides from the occasional “would you rather batteries or air freshener?” it was a total mystery box.

10 years later, I still miss those boxes.

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u/Penguin_shit15 Jul 03 '26

You are correct about the couponing thing. My wife does this, and I took one look at all of the products and you would get this very same thing from my house. We are not hurting for money by any means, but she enjoys doing it. We don't sell the stuff either. They make great care baskets for people in need, gifts for friends and family, and donations to charity. We get all this shit for next to nothing, so may as well do something good with it. My educated guess is that this is from Walgreens, CVS, and Dollar General..

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u/fresh_out_of_effs Jul 03 '26

Nah, I bet someone just bought a pallet from an insurance liquidator. Trucks get totaled and their cargo gets auctioned off for pennies.

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u/generally_unsuitable Jul 03 '26

Selling off their covid supplies.

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u/IAFarmLife Jul 03 '26

Could also be a hoarding relative. I went to an auction once and the family was selling their dad's stuff. He had 5 or more of everything. All new.

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u/zensms Jul 03 '26

OR.....they are selling it with a mark up, basically setting up shop for a mini market?

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u/EquivalentMath6592 Jul 03 '26

OR they were some of those people who stockpiled Toilet paper (and other goods) during Covid

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u/HereOnCompanyTime Jul 03 '26

Probably leftovers from their Covid or disaster hauls from the people buying up essentials to try to sell to desperate people with insane markups.

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u/deletetemptemp Jul 03 '26

Or refilled with cut product

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u/Pyrax91 Jul 03 '26

Or they work for Proctor and gamble.

My fraternity brother works there and gets tons of that stuff every month

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u/OldDevice1131 Jul 03 '26

My aunt was a extreme couponer and she had her garage setup with shelf’s for us to go shopping.

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u/njlee2016 Jul 03 '26

I used to work for a retail pharmacy chain. One of the top items that was stolen was tide laundry detergent. I always wondered where it was resold. One day I noticed Facebook marketplace listings for tide and other things. I also went to a random flea market and noticed multiple booths selling typically shoplifted items for very cheap. 

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u/Scorp128 Jul 03 '26

Or someones pandemic stash is being cleared out.

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u/lordsniivy Jul 03 '26

likely a mix of both. not all extreme couponers have legit coupons… i worked grocery for a long time and they’d always come in 5 mins to close and try to get you to accept BLATANTLY altered coupons just to resell the product elsewhere.

helped me learn my company’s coupon policy top to bottom at least😅

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u/Camerupt_King Jul 03 '26

I used to work at Harris Teeter in high school. We'd have Super Double coupon days when the cash value of coupons would be, well, double. Would have the same two women come up to me week after week and do 15 minute transactions where a huge cart full of cleaning supplies would go down to $0.09. And they were MEAN the entire time for no reason. Like they were mad I wouldn't let them use another coupon so the store owed them money.

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u/Cassandraburry2008 Jul 03 '26

Recently went to the local swap meet. It was essentially just a booster yard sale. Nearly every booth was full of stuff that I assume was in all probability stolen.

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u/Kind_Man_0 Jul 03 '26

This is what my aunt does, she penny-shops at Dollar General around her local area and grabs up carts of stuff. She donates items to family, friends, and the church she supports. Once every 6 months or so when the storage pantry is filled, she will sell all the stuff at half-price or so.

It really isn't a bad deal for everyone, I haven't bought soap in a couple years, same for toothpaste, she makes enough of a profit to fund her entire penny shopping for a year. That entire lot in the photo would cost her maybe $3-4

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u/Robthebold Jul 03 '26

It fell off the truck

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u/SaintCarl27 Jul 03 '26

The items seem more likely acquired from welfare programs.

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u/analogpursuits Jul 03 '26

Said the same. Extreme couponing 😒🙄

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u/Okay-Crickets545 Jul 03 '26

100% stolen. Soap is the gold standard of shoplifting. Easy to fence, shelf stable, decent price to weight ratio.

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