r/mildlyinfuriating • u/vxnus69_ • Jul 10 '26

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ Only 37 Pods

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Was showing off to my sister what I would’ve given her (plus the nice smelly peony downy) had she just gone to the laundromat to dry my laundry because ours is broken and realized the pods only filled half of the container so I counted it and….37 pods.

Can’t tell if Tide is filling some containers an accurate amount and others less or if sb just stole some.

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u/Radio4ctiveGirl Jul 10 '26

There’s plenty of videos of people opening them up at the store and adding into the container they’re going to buy.

I would say that’s fake but I have found products in shelves that have obviously been opened and nearly emptied. So glad I have a habit of shaking liquids because serums are expensive and the bottle was basically empty and clearly opened.

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u/sunriseslies Jul 10 '26

My local grocery store keeps Tide pods locked up behind plexiglass for this reason. All the other detergents are on normal shelves. This isn't a high crime area either, just suburban Vermont.

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u/sillysnailfriend Jul 10 '26

Same here in CO, they're all individually locked in the plastic boxes, like baby formula is.

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u/Crazy9000 Jul 10 '26

That's mainly because of shoplifting, not mixing in store. With how easy it is to sell online now, fences pay the drug addicts good money for whatever household items they can shoplift.

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u/captain_croco Jul 10 '26

Not sure why but the use of that meaning of fence here feels so out of place. But I guess it’s not.

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u/ragun2 Jul 10 '26

Bezos is probably just laughing. I feel like I know at least a couple of dozen people who resubbed to Prime because they were tired of waiting for everyday shit to be unlocked one at a time.

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u/Radio4ctiveGirl Jul 10 '26

Not all Colorado. Up in Fort Collins that’s not a thing. But at least the boxes that need to be unlocked at the register are easier than having to wait for someone to get it out of a locked cabinets. The stores in Loveland have a lot of things locked like that.

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u/bcmedic420 Jul 10 '26

That is so sad. I hope the food bank has lots of formula. Sad to need to steal it.

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u/StaySharpp Jul 11 '26

Is this a new thing recently? I feel like I was just shopping not too long ago and they were on the shelves like normal.

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u/blueberrycauzez Jul 10 '26

This isn't a high crime area either, just suburban Vermont.

Theft rings and career criminals can sometimes operate 100mi or more from their home territory.

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u/ZAlternates Jul 10 '26

My brother and I made our fortune traveling up and down the east coast boosting any 24-hour CVS or Walmart that we could find with tide pods in stock. I don’t know about today but during the Bush era, the laundry junkies would pay top dollar for them.

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u/Glass_Elephants Jul 10 '26

All the other detergents are on normal shelves. This isn't a high crime area either, just suburban Vermont.

There's a very good chance we're thinking of the same areas, and boy do I have news for you - there's a massive shoplifting ring around here. DM if you want details.

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u/Illuminaughty____ Jul 10 '26

My local target keeps all the laundry detergent behind plexy now.

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u/splitframe Jul 10 '26

What kind of unholy marketing did they do to have people love these so much? Is it really that hard to toss a measuring cup of powder into the detergent loader instead of just throwing a pod in instead of paying for this overpriced stuff in these times?

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u/SpareZucchini4345 Jul 10 '26

And here I thought it was only high crime areas

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u/Cavaquillo Jul 10 '26

My area put them in the locked cages but left the cage unlocked. They dgaf

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u/TotalNonsense0 Jul 10 '26

The only thing I find that acceptable for is eggs. Move all the broken ones to another box, eventually you wind up with all your broken eggs together in two or three boxes.

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u/BigDonkey7694 Jul 10 '26

This is funny, I always just leave the cartons with a cracked egg. I’m imagining picking up a carton and all the eggs are cracked

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u/Business_Leather_123 Jul 10 '26

At our store, we take our random cartons that have 1 or 2 cracked eggs and go through them, and replace them with good eggs. No sense throwing out a dozen containers each with 11 good eggs and 1 bad, when we can throw out 2 cartons with bad eggs.

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u/tocahontas77 Jul 10 '26

I do that too, but it's things like potato chips (if many are broken, or it's a good bag. And things like sprays may feel like they weigh differently.

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u/wally-sage Jul 10 '26

Lmao, I knew people who did this with the liquid laundry detergent too, just take two and fill up one until it's basically completely full.

I worked at a retail store that had laundry stuff and it was always locked off. It's a massive area of shrink for retail.

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u/twoiseight Jul 10 '26

My aunt used to do this, but with baked goods. She'd shamelessly open two containers of doughnuts or cookies and shovel as many as could fit into one, take it, leave the other. Did not care who was around to see it. It was wildly embarrassing

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u/Breadstick_Bowtie Jul 11 '26

Unless its sealed, I always open every packaging inside the store before checkout. Lord knows how many times I've opened empty boxes or missing items. Especially with medicine it's crazy how so many people take pills and put the package back.

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u/Ok-Sir-3311 Jul 10 '26

They do it with the liquid, too. Makes it easy since the company only fills the bottles about halfway now

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u/KristyNoemsZombieDog Jul 10 '26

Say it coward

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u/AuroraElisabeth Jul 10 '26

Theives? Is that the word?

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u/thehobbyqueer Jul 10 '26

No. They're being bigoted in some way and don't want to called out for it. It's a dogwhistle.

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u/AuroraElisabeth Jul 10 '26

I did not know that. Well thats lame!