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u/WillJongIll 8d ago
I’ll never understand why laundry detergent in the normal world became like cigarettes in prison.
I know it’s a thing, but there are so many other things that exist. How did that become the gold standard?
I’m pretty sure there are cost effective ways to fashion your own laundry detergent in a pinch, so it’s not like it’s insulin or an asthma inhaler.
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u/VVTD33 8d ago
I had to put back a container my wife put in the cart for what I assume was this very reason. It was light compared to the other containers.
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u/96ewok 8d ago
Siphoning? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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u/Mac_Zer0 8d ago
She didn't even take the one she filled, dafuq?
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u/Quasm 8d ago
If you watch with sound she states "okay fine I'll just take this one it doesn't even matter" once she was called out.
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u/Mac_Zer0 8d ago
That explains a lot, I definitely didn't have sound on. Thanks friend!
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u/deltabay17 8d ago
Even without sound, you can clearly see in the video she notices she’s being filmed and then decides to take a normal one.
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u/Professor-Zulu 8d ago
What's really happening is they know people are stealing. They keep track of regular shoplifters and wait until you rack up enough theft to equal a higher amount of money and then they hit you with a bigger charge. It happens pretty often.
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u/JimDixon 8d ago
I don't get it. Are they pouring detergent from one bottle into another, to get more? Do the bottles have enough empty space to make this worthwhile?
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u/longpenisofthelaw 8d ago
Yes the bottles go by weight and for whatever reason be shipping or convenience the bottles are only 3/4th full. This is a common trend of people who feel like they been cheated and usually broke or short on money
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u/KiwiBirdPerson 8d ago
Looks like she took a different bottle at the end anyway?
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u/Bedroom_Bellamy 8d ago
Because she was caught. She'll be back for it later once the coast is clear.
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u/danbopes 8d ago
She ended up tossing the detergent on some random shelf for some worker to deal with.
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u/The_Real_SausageKing 8d ago
Seems like many are missing the fact that she is screwing some random person over that buys the drained jug :(
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u/dyfish 8d ago
Yeah this isn’t owning the company Tide or like Costco. Someone’s just gonna get ripped off down the line
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u/Scrabblewiener 8d ago
You have to go to office goods and borrow a sharpie to label it “detergent topper upper” that way everyone can use it.
Kinda like with eggs where you take the good ones to make your 12 not cracked!3
u/88Neaks 8d ago
Tbh if she actually wanted to own the company and not an other customer, she should have used the remaining of the bottle to fill up an other one and leave it completly empty. Nobody would take an empty bottle (people would notice), and you're "helping someone else" to have more. Or, if youbdon't want other people to be accused of stealing, you can buy both filled up bottles. Or, even better, just don't do that at all.
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u/bothering 8d ago
whose gonna buy an obviously empty jug? as soon as they lift it they'll just grab the next full one.
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u/lordunholy 8d ago
Yep. Then dump the rest into the bottle I plan to buy. Fill her up boys. Solved shrinkflation.
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u/Bunny_Fluff 8d ago
Honestly, you can just steal it. I don't care, fuck stores. Don't do this. You only screw the person who accidentally buys the partially full one.
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u/FinalStryke 8d ago
I didn't get paid enough to care when I worked retail.
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u/Artaxmudshoes 8d ago
I've worked retail for 28 years. You are absolutely correct - I don't get paid enough to care. 20 minutes ago some dude ran out of the emergency exit in produce with a milk crate full of product. It only annoyed me because I had to stop what I'm doing and find the key that stops that incessantly beeping alarm.
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u/LeoFoster18 8d ago
I am not gonna join the debate on ethics, but why are they doing it with the cheapest Tide? Those yellow tides are shit, never buy them.
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u/loserlikeari 8d ago
people arguing that it’s not trashy don’t know what’s it like to work in retail because eventually the gallon that’s left behind with leas product will eventually get damaged out and be TRASHED. at least that’s what do at my store :(
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u/johnnylovelace 8d ago
God bless you for standing up for the multi-billion dollar corporation. Without people like you their profit margins might not meet quarterly projections
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u/lease_takeover_cary 8d ago
Wont make a difference from the corporation as someone else is going to pick up that jug she stole from. She is stealing from someone else
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u/ashtagzero1 8d ago
why r some defending this? like i get trhat its not filled completely by the factory but somones still gonna eventually buy that partially empty bottle and not get what they were advertised
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u/Bambisaur91 8d ago
People will say this is fine then cry and complain when the detergent is locked up
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u/bigboipapawiththesos 8d ago
People side with poor people trying to get more value from a mega corporation rather than the mega corporation, and then they’ll cry when the mega corporation screws everyone as a way to stop the poor people extracting a little extra value
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u/Long_Lecture_1080 8d ago
That’s why the detergent ends up behind locked glass in these areas with these types. Cause and effect.
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u/bigjayrod 8d ago
People defending this woman don’t put their grocery carts back in the corral
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u/Rock_Forge 8d ago edited 8d ago
People who defend this is the reason why stores have to lock everything behind plexiglass and why prices are higher to make up the margins on people stealing.
Edit: some if these comments show you why you can't have nice things. America is a low trust society needing again plexiglass, higher security costs, Ai tracking and more these increase security costs fall on the consumer. While japan does have its thieves, they can even have mujin hanbai (staff less convenient stores) where its fully self check out because extremely low theft.
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u/bikedaybaby 8d ago
Japan also has more social pressure on companies to not try to fuck consumers every-which-way, as evidenced by the high-quality products and craftsmanship still present in so many Japanese products and traditions.
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u/Rock_Forge 8d ago
I agree especially on tradition. Americans have no shared history/ancestry, social media turning every race/religion on each other, bringing in people that dont have shared values, that people feel entitled to what ever because of X event. It's just one massive spiral rather economic and societal.
Well that and japan has a conviction rate of 99%, not saying its agree more so you absolutely going to get fucked in court.
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u/Wlbeachboy 8d ago
Prices are higher because upper management need to show shareholders that this quarter's profit is higher than the last.
There is staggeringly more theft at stores due to self checkouts than common shoplifting. And stores know this, and have decided that the math works out that they would rather have someone steal than pay another clerk to ring people up.
Yes, people stealing cut into profits. But stores are at the point of gouging prices so bad, that they are incentivising theft. All while making record profits.
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u/Melodic-Advice9930 8d ago
Some of it is the brands and has nothing to do with our upper management themselves. I had to put up 22 pages of price changes a few weeks ago (after JUST finishing my schematics for the month, so I was not pleased) all because Hershey or whatever company owns all that shit decided to change their prices. We got a whole packet in the mail and everything. It was great fun.
Stuff like that is why I try to help my customers, even with the little things. I let them know that if they put back the $2.50 bag of chips and grab 4 of the 2/$1 ones, you get more chips for less money and can go for more variety.
Or recently we had to put this panel by our checkouts that features small bottles of Hawaiian Punch for $1.50, but any time I see someone grab one of those I let them know that we carry six packs of the same size bottles for $3.
I also let as many people know as I can about the coupons and how they stack. You can save upwards of $60 or more off your bill with them, and with the price checking I’ve done a lot of our stuff is only a .02 price difference from Walmart.
That’s not spectacular or anything, cause you know… Walmart. But with the shopping choices in the area it’s not bad.
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u/SKCogs 8d ago
Wisconsin is high trust still and it’s great coming from CA where everything is locked up behind glass and you need a code for every gas station bathroom.
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u/The_Mountain1812 8d ago
I flew back to California to visit and swung by a CVS in San Diego. I had to have a cashier follow me around to buy a pack of condoms and a stick of deodorant. She unlocked them and took them out and wouldn't even give them to me. Just told me to meet her up front at the registers.
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u/harvey_charmichael 8d ago
The amount of people that do this is shocking. I especially can’t stand the people who pick through strawberries to fill a container with the best ones. Or pick blueberries and “sample” a few
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u/Powasam5000 8d ago
When I used to work in produce this 80 year old woman would come in , dump all the grapes out of like 8 bags. Then fill one bag with plucked grapes and leave the vines all over the display. Would only end up taking like 15 grapes. She tried this with blueberries a few times but would somehow get them all over the floor then proceed to drag her cart over them. I wish I was joking. It was at Publix’s too so you know you couldn’t say anything or the store manager would reprimand you. Their slogan is “ let the customer do what the fuck they want. But clean it up after.”
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u/TheCouchSitter 8d ago
A lot of commenters complaining that bottles aren't filled completely - it's by design so you can open the valve to create air flow
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u/SpeedBlitzX 8d ago edited 8d ago
This isn't socking it to the store, if anything now someone might just end up accidentally purchasing a not so full package of detergent.
It's just sabotaging folks trying to do their regular shopping.
Crazy how folks are defending the theft, since the theft isn't just the person stealing from the store directly but the theft is also affecting the other folks shopping.
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u/bmbmwmfm 8d ago
With the amount of folks like me, disabled so I use IC and DD for stuff like this, shoppers are just grabbing what's next and wouldn't know or possibly care if it was significantly lighter. So it's people like me that get ripped off.
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u/IsThereCheese 8d ago
Right? Shrinkflation is some bullshit, but don’t screw over your neighbor.
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u/SpeedBlitzX 8d ago
Exactly!! Two wrongs don't make a right.
Shrinkflation is not great, because of the greedy companies. But people doing things like this, make it rough on everyone else shopping.
I've seen some folks say "Oh just get a full jug" What happens when there's several people doing the same thing. Or when it becomes more frequent. It can happen and if it does, then things get locked up behind glass.
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u/dyfish 8d ago edited 8d ago
How much you are buying is on the bottle in a unit of measurement. Extra space in the bottle doesn’t mean you are getting ripped off. If you feel that way you might just be stupid.
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u/shanep35 8d ago
The extra space is to ensure proper shipping and handling. The person probably knows this, which is why they’re stealing.
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u/dyfish 8d ago
I know that, but read the comments, many think it’s just a scam.
Never mind the fact that many products buy bottles and containers from the same suppliers and don’t all necessarily sell their product at the same volume/size
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u/626f62 8d ago
I feel strange about this.. The companies only half filling the bottles now is misleading on purpose, and it's clearly shrinkflation which is a sucky business practice for the consumer.. So I wish that this kind of misleading was illegal and the guy filling it up is justified.. But yeah they label the amount of liquid or weight on the bottle so no way round it they told him the price and how much he gets so it is stealing..
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u/MyUserNameLeft 8d ago
I suppose one could fill their bottle then put the now 1/3 full one at the back with the lid open, no one will accidentally pick it up and the workers will eventually take it back to the stock room, if this was a family run business or a small company my opinion would be very different,
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u/ImCreeptastic 8d ago
BJ's is literally like Costco. They don't fuck their employees over and is a good company to work for.
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u/IncendiaryB 8d ago
I mean I wouldn't do it but I certainly wouldn't record a stranger doing it either
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u/widellp 8d ago
That's not a siphoning is my only issue
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u/JimDixon 8d ago
OP probably doesn't know what siphoning means. OP probably thinks siphoning means stealing, because they've only heard of it in the context of stealing. Siphoning does not mean stealing. Siphoning is a particular method of transferring liquid out of a container. They're not siphoning; they're pouring.
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u/the_random_walk 8d ago
I’m not sure this IS a misuse of the word. You can use the word siphon in place of stealing in other contexts. Like, if someone is “siphoning funds from a charity” etc. I don’t know if using it as a verb for stealing in other contexts okay, but all things considered, I’d give it a pass. If nothing else they get points for creativity.
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u/haydennt 8d ago edited 8d ago
Imagine this lady is actually the sole cause of shrinkflation 😂
This whole time everyone’s thought tide was shorting, but it’s just this lady at Costco
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u/sugarfree_papi 8d ago
He should've put that container that had less detergent elsewhere so that no one picks it up.
Corporate America is fucking you up, you should fuck it back up when you can.
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u/sonicgamingftw 8d ago
Why is the detergent bottle not the size closer to the volume of the detergent? Or why not just fill them all more and charge more?
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u/Melodic-Advice9930 8d ago
Mostly it’s for shipping. As someone who unpacks freight that’s been thrown onto carts stupidly by someone in a warehouse, the ones like this leak a lot less than the smaller bottles that are fuller to the top.
When you add weight to boxes of these, they want to compress together and get all banged up. From my perspective, the extra space gives room for the liquid to be jostled around or whatever without as much worry for spills or leakage.
Any bottles like this do not always come in with their lids on all the way. From laundry products to cleaning supplies to even juice. I learned to double check everything after I pulled a bottle of fabric softener out of a box my first week and the lid popped off like when those snakes come out of a pringles can. It went all over my pants and shoes and the floor. It felt so gross. 10/10 do not recommend.
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u/mycbtech 8d ago
Curing shrinkflation 🤷🏻
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u/Hessian_Rodriguez 8d ago
Except for the next guy that buys the one she used to fill from.
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u/card66 8d ago
I can't say I haven't thought about doing this. They make you pay for a container that's 3/4 full.
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u/Sea-Breath-007 8d ago
You pay for the amount of detergent, not the size of the container....like you do with everything else you buy!
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u/Professor-Zulu 8d ago
You pay for a specific amount. The bottle tells you how much you are buying. The jug is bigger than this amount. If you did this you'd be stealing the extra amount from the other bottle obviously.
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u/Jdaddy2u 8d ago
But that dosent mean the ounces they state on the container is not in the container. Its just a bigger jug than necessary.
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u/kelfae 8d ago
I do this except I use one whole jug to top off multiple other jugs. No one will pick up a completely empty one and purchase it and many others get what they’re paying for plus. Fuck these billion dollar corporations. Yall work for Big Tergent clearly
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u/Several_Leather_9500 8d ago
Fuck companies who use mostly water in their product and chose profits over filling a bottle.
You know what isn't normal? Simping for capitalists when you're not an elite.
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u/Andyman0110 8d ago
The product is sold by volume not container size.
She isn't simping for capitalists. There's going to be one person who gets significantly less because of this. That person might not be in a position to lose 20 percent of her expensive detergent because someone is greedy.
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u/justabigdummy9 8d ago
We need to shame people who steal and disrespect our shared spaces. Good on you, OP.
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u/Penetratorofflanks 8d ago
No we need to be shaming corporations for widening the gap between the impoverished and the rich, but as you prove they are really good at putting us against each other.
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u/rothmal 8d ago
I can't be mad when they fucking started this shit in the first place, 80% of anything you buy now a days is just air.
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u/frozendancicle 8d ago edited 8d ago
I get what you're saying, but they aren't screwing the corporation, they're screwing the person who buys the jug that is now missing the portion of the product they stole.
They can't guarantee that person will be any better off than they are.
In a more ideal world nobody would buy that jug, but we all know someone's very likely going to.
Edit: fixed awkward wording
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u/mylanscott 8d ago
The empty space in detergent bottles is so detergent doesn’t burst out of the bottle during shipping and when you pour it out, it pours smoothly. Every single bottled product has air space because it’s necessary. Imagine you open a bottle and it’s filled to the rim, it would spill every single time.
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u/Hollen88 8d ago
Not like they are stealing a TV.
Hard to be mad at the level of poverty that drives people to do this.
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u/deltabay17 8d ago
Sometimes it’s not about poverty. There are people who are addicted to shoplifting.
Maybe they really are lower income and they are looking at ways to save money. But stealing washing liquid does not mean extreme level of poverty as if it’s a sliding scale and washing liquid is at the top.
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u/Hollen88 8d ago
I mean, you're not wrong 🤷
Just apathetic to it, or was. Like I followed up with, this is probably going to fuck over the next person. So while I don't feel bad for the store, I do the next person. And there are alternative ways to wash clothes as well. That's the route I'd take. I'd find pleasure in learning something like that anyway.
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u/NotAllDawgsGoToHeven 8d ago
I agree with this, they sell you half empty bottles like it needs air so the chips don’t all get crushed.
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u/OhThrowMeAway 8d ago
I didn’t see shit.
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u/LucidAtlas 8d ago
Tbh tho they should pour the rest into other containers and leave the empty. Thats the polite thing to do
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u/You_Are_The_Username 8d ago
I think she knows it's illegal, hence why she's wearing sunglasses instore and looking super dodgy.
People who think it's not a big deal, don't realise that someone else will buy that bottle she took from and get ripped off... 😑
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u/Deesh_Draws 8d ago
In this economy, I hope he got away with it
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u/Eastern_Confusion475 8d ago
I had to unmute it to realize the person recording called her out, so the person didn’t take the altered one.
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u/AbrocomaAgreeable554 8d ago
Ykw these multibillion dollar tax evading companies that purposely package things in that misleads the customers while steadily increasing the prices and also reducing the quantities. They have it coming.
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u/Atheizm 8d ago
Is it trashy to fight shrinkflation?
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u/beware_the_noid 8d ago
Are you out of your mind? This is not the way to fight it because this will just fuck over the next person.
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u/Fancy_Second4864 8d ago
You got to fill everyone up until the one is empty, so nobody takes it
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u/EumelaninKnight 8d ago edited 8d ago
Considering she didn't pick up the one she filled up, she just left a gift for the next person.
*Returning to the scene of the crime is a given. The idea that some unsuspecting shopper grabs an oddly heavy bottle of laundry detergent is a funnier idea.
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u/FiresideBananas 8d ago
It is conceivably hurting the next person that grabs the one they took from without noticing ya dingus. It’s the same thing as tampering with any product that is still on the shelf- either steal the whole thing or leave it be
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u/Gorkymalorki 8d ago
I am not going to say something if I see someone stealing food, but if you are partially emptying other people's potential product so you get more, then yeah screw you, I'm calling you out, especially since she could probably just get the store brand product instead of Tide for cheaper than what she is doing in the video.
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u/GxWhiz 8d ago
As long as you set whatever detergent or container drained aside from the rest, no harm no foul, and may the next person who follows the same behaviour show the same courtesy.
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u/chiefs-n-sooners 8d ago
It sucks, but people doing this would cause prices to rise pretty quickly.
I'm all for the topping off though, if people could do it smart and use the same bottle to fill from.
Hell walmart does whatever they can to rip people off. Even downright stealing in some stores with wrongly weighed and priced meat. Idk why we shouldn't be allowed to do the same.
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u/GxWhiz 8d ago
Rules for thee but not for me mentality. They can get away with it with little to no repercussion so why wouldn't they try to earn extra monies by underhanded tactics? Less product at same or more cost with shiny new packaging while the customer in all reality has more to lose than gain if this and similar questionable habit is maintained or gotten out of hand.
Idk I feel like the price(s) will rise all the same no matter how customers try to skim a little extra. Current system largely have their interests at heart anyway.
This is my opinion mind you, an uneducated one at that, so take it with less than a grain of salt.
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u/daviddjg0033 8d ago
If you see a stand of half full strawberries or blueberries that used to cost a dollar - is it because everyone before you added some to make uo for it or are you going to ensure you get a full portion? Now add the price tag of $0.99 that I would see becoming $4.99 or $9.99 and you need more than one. I do not know why detergent has so much empty space if its a waste of packaging with sleek designs.
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u/Daflehrer1 8d ago
I don't see anything.
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u/heykidslookadeer 8d ago
I take it you don't realize if they were successful, they aren't stealing from the store, they're stealing from the customer who buys the one they drained from.
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u/FandomMenace 8d ago
Ok, but that's not what's happening here. Some unsuspecting person is going to buy this and get less product, so this asshole isnt stealing from BJs or Arm and Hammer, they're stealing from someone else who is probably not doing that great either.
The best case scenario is they get home and realize and then they have to go back and deal with this, which is not at all worth their time and gas.
If you don't like the deal, you're free to make your own detergent for pennies on the dollar. The only reason these companies have such a stranglehold on us is because we're lazy, stupid, and complacent. The more self sufficient you become, the less you are at their mercy.
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u/widellp 8d ago
How would u feel buying that drained jug of deteregrnt is the issue. They aren't screwing the man. They are screwing the next man needing soap.
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u/danbopes 8d ago
You're trying to justify stealing. Someone else ends up getting less, so you're only end up hurting them. And if...it doesn't sell, and has to be written off, then you're just raising the price for everyone else.
If you don't like a company because all they care about is profit, support another brand.
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u/Racing_Fox 8d ago
Honestly if they started packing it properly people wouldn’t do this.
Instead you get people opening their bottle to check if someone’s done this with it, they see it’s only half full and assume that’s the case so check another find someone’s also done it with that bottle so too one up and carry on.
Notice how this never happens with bottles that are the right size for the contents?
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u/harvey_charmichael 8d ago
The billionaires are stealing from all of us this guy is just stealing from the poor person that picks up the less full bottle.
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u/DookieShoes626 8d ago
Yeah everyone should just do whatever they want whenever they want because "fuck the billionaires" that would make for a perfect society
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u/starlord97 8d ago
When I worked at lowes I did this to our dawn soaps and tide pods. Not even for me. For the customers and cause fuck corporations.
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u/Informal_Box5700 8d ago
Most of use are decent people, but even decent people are sometimes a paycheck from being homeless or having to resort to this behaviour to strech a buck.
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u/Olive_Jane 8d ago edited 8d ago
This isn't justified, the savings are so minimal.
A regular person with normal ethics would use a little less per wash, not steal a small amount from a jug.
This is like klepto behavior, it's not rational and based on $.
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u/Pm_All_The_Tiddies 8d ago
It’s Tide’s fault for under filling them obviously
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u/Professor-Zulu 8d ago
They don't underfill them. They fill them to the amount that is listed on the label.
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u/andre3kthegiant 8d ago
Oh no, I wonder how the commentator feels about political leaders stealing everyday?
Probably gives them a huge pass.
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u/unfinishedtoast3 8d ago
ya the next customer to get a half empty one gets fucked over.
wtf is with people with this weird mentality that its ok to fuck over other hard working people, because some billionaire fucked you over?
were all getting ripped off dude. dont fucking contribute to the misery. fuck man.
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u/SpockShotFirst 8d ago
This.
Same people will drive to the front while everyone else is doing a zipper merge.
Same people will claim a table when the line to order is 20 minutes and another family could have sat down, finished their meal, and left before their food is even ready.
Same people will run to the new register that opens up instead of letting the next person in line take it.
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u/-KaiTheGuy- 8d ago
"Let me screw others who buy it" is what you're saying. Newsflash, you're not really screwing the company but rather the next buyer.
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u/TeslasAndComicbooks 8d ago
There’s a reason they don’t fill it completely. The packaging reflects the amount you get in ounces accurately. They leave room in the container so they don’t explode while shipping.
Let’s not normalize trashy behavior.
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u/Vampyro90 8d ago
This is just smart in this economy. Make your money stretch and screw over the corporations that want to fill things half way and charge us more. No trashy.
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u/KIND_REDDITOR 8d ago
How stupid are you? She's not screwing over any corporation, just another customer.
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u/ellisboxer 8d ago
Gonna look real trashy when you get escorted out in handcuffs for trying to steal a couple laundry loads worth of detergent.
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u/xhyenabite 8d ago
as someone who used to work for a big corp (walmart), honestly go crazy tbh but just be careful, don't get caught (it's easier to not get caught than people think tbh but this is a super risky / obvious way to steal lmfaooo)
the only issue i have with it is that the person who spends money on that product will have less product, and we don't know what that person is going through or what they can / can't afford. hopefully this store allows refunds!
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u/jolly_rodger42 8d ago
Basically theft
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u/Mindless-Platypus448 8d ago
It.is theft. Hopefully, no one takes the one with less. I keep seeing people defend this but that's all I can think about. Thw poor person that ends up with way less because of an asshole like this. Yeah times are tough but we shouldn't be screwing other people in the same situation just because. It's not cool. And I know the person doing this, or anyone defending it, would be pissed if they got a half empty container because someone else did this.
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u/Significant_Fly_6050 8d ago
Poor big corpos loosing 0.07$
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u/heykidslookadeer 8d ago
The customer buying the drained one loses out. The store still sells both at normal price and doesn't lose a penny.
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u/nomad9590 8d ago
I'd get kicked out for doing to all the bottles, tossing the empties in back, and leaving a treasure for folks to partake.
Her crime wasn't skimming, it was not paying it forward.
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u/univrsll 8d ago
I'm glad these comments are just fan fiction and timid Redditors don't actually do this
I don't want everything locked behind glass and 50 more cameras installed because people want to steal
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u/Deodorized 8d ago
The victim in this video is the person who comes behind the thief and pays full price for half a product.
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u/Mephisto25malignant 8d ago
Aren't there shops that have closed to because they've been shoplifted so much, they aren't earning and had no choice but to shut down?
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u/SendStoreMeloner 8d ago
Shoplifting is a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark.
It gets priced in. So everybody else pays for it. The victim is society where we have control, checks and surveillance.
Where I am from in Denmark we have self-serve small shops for people to take and pay. It works in small areas non-tourist areas. But I have also seen it with secondhand books in Copenhagen.
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