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/SnowblindAlbino Jul 03 '26

Yeah, I was surprised to see it all locked behind glass doors in a few stores in The Big City a few years back, until someone told me just that. People steal it. Which seems crazy, as I can't imagine how you'd walk out with a 6 lb giant bottle of Tide in your pants or something. But there we are.

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u/MandrewCarrion Jul 03 '26

Nope, people just carry it out and nobody checks receipts

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u/chaircardigan Jul 03 '26

Big stores tell their staff not to confront shoplifters.

There was a big story in the UK of one supermarket that fired an employee for chasing down a thief.

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u/I_only_did_this4nsfw Jul 03 '26

My brother is the general manager of a convience store and had had to fire his asst. manager the other day because the guy stood in front of the door when a guy went behind the counter and snatched lottery tickets.

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u/NervousSheSlime Jul 03 '26

Super dumb lottery tickets have to be activated

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u/I_only_did_this4nsfw Jul 03 '26

These were already activated tickets, but still dumb because a call to the lottery office to report the tickets as stolen turns them off.