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A Boring Dystopia
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Beat me to this response by an hour. Who the fuck do they think they are, right? What if I can't find what I'm looking for, or was just browsing?
People go to grocery stores to just browse? I'm not defending this, I just thought it an odd argument.
If I went into a store that demanded money to regain my freedom, they'd find themselves in a precarious legal situation pretty quick. Unlawful detention quickly turns into kidnapping charges, or, an "I feared for my life" defense (2A) situation.
My wife and I just yesterday stopped at a Target while on a 5 hour drive. We were looking for a specific pharmacy item. They didn’t have it at that store. We didn’t need anything else so we didn’t buy anything. That might not be as common in a grocery store, but it’s not unheard of.
And then there’s always the chance of “I just got an emergency phone call” and need to forget about shopping…
Or the building is on fire
"Hmmm, I'm looking for this thing. I hope they have it" and then they don't
Not to browse, but I've left empty handed (without shoplifting!) plenty of times if what I wanted wasn't in stock.
People go into stores to see what it’s like. They may leave for reasons like not finding what they wanted or being offended at being treated as a criminal. If I saw this crap, I can see my reaction likely being to just leave and go somewhere I’m more welcome
Not quite like window shopping in a department store per se, but essentially the same if I can't find what I was looking for and search for alternatives on the way out. I've gotten weird looks sometimes when this happens, including cases where I'm asked for a receipt. "You didn't have what I was looking for" or "What receipt? I didn't buy anything" seem to satisfy staff inasmuch as I'm not a tiny person and aren't inclined to take shit from rent-a-cop security or management - just try to detain me, I'm not waiting for the cops, I'm dealing with it first hand right away.
Aaaaah you definitely can't resolve any situation without sprinkling a little bit of violence, that's how it should be
When the situation is a corporation imprisoning you arbitrarily, I don't think violence is unwarranted or unprovoked.
It is because no one present likely has anything to do with the decision, and even if someone is actively restraining you there's a reasonable amount of resistance and while that includes mild violence it does not include shooting someone or similar. Unless you really need to be somewhere reacting to that with extreme violence is completely unhinged.
Maybe mild violence is what you meant, but that can easily be read differently.
My thought was checking if their pharmacy has my meds in stock
This too, especially the way that a lot of retail has started to graft pharmacies onto their stores.
I have to go to a bunch of pharmacies every month to try to find Adderall
That's going to continue being a problem for the foreseeable future, apparently the phama companies rein in distribution (thereby creating shortages) in order to avoid having more pervasive "empty shelf" shortages somehow. I'm not on the inside track of exact details, but first heard about it during COVID when they were able to blame it on "distribution & manufacturing shortfalls", and people were coming up short on stuff like ADD/psychiatric/pain medication.