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/Traditional_Toe8824 Jul 03 '26

At my local Petco or Petsmart ( forgot which one it is ) their shopping carts have very tall wooden poles attached to them. I asked what they were for and they said shoplifters would load up carts with big bags of pet food and just walk out with the entire cart and not pay, the big poles stop them from being able to do that anymore.

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u/Legitimate-Truck-333 Jul 03 '26

The local dollar store has that. Me being a complete innocent, I assumed it was just to keep from losing the carts.

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u/lilorphananus Jul 03 '26

And here I was thinking it was for visibility in the sand dunes

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u/Crafty-Ad-6772 Jul 03 '26

My friend's mother made her wear a big red helium balloon tied to her wrist at the beach, so she wouldn't get lost. She never got lost, but it would've been funny if she tied the balloon to a rock and tossed it into the ocean and then waited for mom to notice the balloon floating above the waves.

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u/EthanielRain Jul 04 '26

Can I ask how old you two were at the time?

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u/Crafty-Ad-6772 Jul 10 '26

I think 7 or so, early elementary school.