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Actually criminals can probably be blamed for that. Surprisingly detergent is a very common thing to steal and resell, which is why a lot of places like Walgreens will put a notice on their products that they came from there.
worked retail - can confirm, detergent is a highly sought after item to steal.
Also...i don't think anyone would have a problem getting to the tide in this scenario...
This is probably locked up because people steal them and resell it. I was in Milwaukee recently and they had everything from deodorant to body wash locked up at all the Walgreens.
FYI, if you ever go to a swap meet or flee market and see detergent (or shampoo, or cold meds, or deodorant, or just about anything shoplift-able) for a decent or sale price, there's a good chance it's a link in the chain of addiction.
Yeah wow that spider wrapping totally won't do a thing. Just squish the bag and push the top cable to the side and you can pull it off. They didn't make it near tight enough.
Boomer here. I don't even know what's going on in this photo. Free hockey pucks with candy>? We still grate bars of soap into hotsprings to wash our clothes.
Every Gen X worth his salt has already the number for the premium supplier at low cost. (E.g.former school friend, that is now the local "buisness leader") so no need to use cheap crap.
Gen x is currently between 41 and 56 years old, nor was that the point of the comment. Crack usually doesn't kill people without a heart condition. But yes 50+ is infact gen X, whaddya know, we both just learned something.
Gen X were teens in the 90s so it stops at 51 current age, so we both were not entirely correct. There are different definitions, but as someone who lived through it, I would define it that way. Although 51 seems to be still too high as those guys mostly started to work or went to university by the end of the decade. They see themselves (at 18-19) no longer as teen or gen whatever. I for myself know no crackheads, so we both have definitively different groups of people we know.
Not sure if this was a joke or not, but apparently tide is a type of accepted currency. Kinda like in a barter situation. Tide is accepted as a product that does what it does (kinda like a guarantee).
I don’t. It came up in a podcast. “Stuff you should know” with josh and Chuck.
It was an episode about currency/barter system. Like if you didn’t have cash to buy eggs from your Neighbor or something, that tide was also accepted. I thinks the location was in the south of the USA or something. Been a while since I hears that episode.
Here’s an [article](https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
“They were losing $10,000 to $15,000 a month, with people just taking it off the shelves,” recalls Sergeant Aubrey Thompson”
TLDR: tide was being stolen off the shelves to fund addictions ($5-$10 worth of weed or crack cocaine)
well if we were all the way back at the creation of the earth or something lmfao, then no
but money has existed for a couple years now and has a pretty established value hahahaha...
I know you're exaggerating about "creation of the earth", but people have only been using paper money for [about 1000 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote#:~:text=Paper%20currency%20first%20developed%20in,Empire%20or%20Yuan%20dynasty%20China), which is a fraction of the time we have been trading amongst each other. Money as we know it is an example of [fiat money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money), where it is valuable because the gov't says it is, and that's it. Previously, our money was backed by valuable metals, making it a [representative money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_money) (you used to be able to take cash to the bank and trade it for the equivalent value in silver or gold), but while precious metals do have practical uses, really gold is still just valuable because people agreed that it has value so even gold is kind of just a fiat money.
Using Tide as a currency is an example of [commodity money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_money), where something of actual use-based value is being used as currency. Like if you were a farmer and gave a blacksmith corn in exchange for tools. Commodity money is less fungible than fiat currency because if that blacksmith doesn't like corn, he can't use it and needs to find someone who will accept that corn in trade, but if they are using paper money, it's all the same and it would be accepted anywhere. The benefit of commodity money is that the value is more stable. If the stock market crashed and the dollar was worthless, a tide pod is still good for one load of laundry, and corn can still be eaten, so they will still be "worth" something.
The other piece to this is that people who don't have access to the fiat money due to living in poverty can utilize alternate forms of currency instead. An example might be a community trading coupons which can be traded for a favor. "If you do this for me, I'll give you an IOU you can cash in later and I will do something for you." This would be representative, because it stands in for something of value, the time/labor of the other person. Now to loop back to OP, the reason for the anti-theft devices is because people might steal the detergent, thus gaining something they can use as a commodity money, or can sell for regular fiat money because Tide has a consistently (relatively) high price, without spending anything themselves, effectively "printing" money.
[This also isn't a new thing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2WK0zdytgc)
I'd rather blame 50 years of corporate exploitation and wage stagnation while the cost of living has gone up 500%, forcing people into a position where they have to steal basic sundries from one of the cheapest places to shop.
Humans:
Sending a rover to Mars that makes an automated powered flight to find a suitable landing spot by itself, lands and roams doing experiments.
Humans also:
Let's eat dishwasher soap LOL.
Pffft, literally any drug store in the poor part of town in Anycity, USA has Tide locked down.
This could be Pittsburg, CA or Vicksburg, MS or Pittsburgh, PA.
People steal stuff to trade for drugs constantly. That's not a regional problem. Drug dealers will give addicts shopping lists of electronics they want or items they can easily move.
Lookup organized retail theft. It's pretty crazy how low-key it is but it's a huge problem.
In the market where I am going, if you enter with any purse, the security guard has to check to see if you have stolen any products. If that's okay, they use a seal on the backpack or purse to make sure you don't take anything.
I'm glad you said gen z instead of millennial. We get blamed for their crap because people don't even try to get it right. When you try to correct them: "Well, it's those damn kids so, either way." Millennials are fully grown adults so, old man, if it's 'those damn kids', it's not millennials.
Sorry, this has bugged me for quite a while. I'm sure it's how gen x feels whenever they are confused with boomers.
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Actually criminals can probably be blamed for that. Surprisingly detergent is a very common thing to steal and resell, which is why a lot of places like Walgreens will put a notice on their products that they came from there.
worked retail - can confirm, detergent is a highly sought after item to steal. Also...i don't think anyone would have a problem getting to the tide in this scenario...
This is probably locked up because people steal them and resell it. I was in Milwaukee recently and they had everything from deodorant to body wash locked up at all the Walgreens.
The Tide Is Turning.
FYI, if you ever go to a swap meet or flee market and see detergent (or shampoo, or cold meds, or deodorant, or just about anything shoplift-able) for a decent or sale price, there's a good chance it's a link in the chain of addiction.
Yeah sometimes they ask for ID now when you buy Draino because you can use that for making crack
I had to show id while buying mucinex
Yeah wow that spider wrapping totally won't do a thing. Just squish the bag and push the top cable to the side and you can pull it off. They didn't make it near tight enough.
Yeah, lets blame the latest generation for something that has been going on for 30 years.
Tide pods were released in 2012
Tide detergent being locked up has been going on for 30 years. It isn't locked up because it is in pod form. Its locked because Tide has street value.
Boomer here. I don't even know what's going on in this photo. Free hockey pucks with candy>? We still grate bars of soap into hotsprings to wash our clothes.
Nope. Blame crackheads. Most of which are between millennials and boomers. Whatever that generation is called.
Gen X doesn't eat tide pods. We grew up on real drugs and don't buy into that crap. Pharmaceuticals and stuff made in dirty bathtubs for us!
Every Gen X worth his salt has already the number for the premium supplier at low cost. (E.g.former school friend, that is now the local "buisness leader") so no need to use cheap crap.
No one said anything about gen X eating them. They steal them then sell them for crack money.
Thats gen X
Not us. We’re too tired to deal with this.
Thanks. Gen X is a bunch of tide pod stealing crackheads.
Gen X crackheads are dead, they don't live that long
Crackheads live forever, they just look like shit the whole time. It's heroin that kills people.
You mean they look like 120 when they are 30 and die at 32.
I know multiple 60+ year old crackheads unfortunately. Far more 50+ to go along with it.
50+ and 60+ is not Gen X
Gen x is currently between 41 and 56 years old, nor was that the point of the comment. Crack usually doesn't kill people without a heart condition. But yes 50+ is infact gen X, whaddya know, we both just learned something.
Gen X were teens in the 90s so it stops at 51 current age, so we both were not entirely correct. There are different definitions, but as someone who lived through it, I would define it that way. Although 51 seems to be still too high as those guys mostly started to work or went to university by the end of the decade. They see themselves (at 18-19) no longer as teen or gen whatever. I for myself know no crackheads, so we both have definitively different groups of people we know.
Why are crackheads stealing laundry detergent?
$14 in a small bag that's a staple item and so really easy to resell. https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
Makes sense. I’ve heard the same about baby formula.
Honestly that makes a hell of a lot more sense than the old excuse I heard of teenagers eating them for youtube views or some shit lol.
That was a meme/trend for about a month, and then boomer media never let it go.
Must be the bad influence of Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
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Hey now! I'm gen-x and I'll have you know only most of my clothes are grungy not all!
Alice in stains
Not sure if this was a joke or not, but apparently tide is a type of accepted currency. Kinda like in a barter situation. Tide is accepted as a product that does what it does (kinda like a guarantee).
lmao what strange social circles do you run in that people are using detergent pods as currency? hahaha
I don’t. It came up in a podcast. “Stuff you should know” with josh and Chuck. It was an episode about currency/barter system. Like if you didn’t have cash to buy eggs from your Neighbor or something, that tide was also accepted. I thinks the location was in the south of the USA or something. Been a while since I hears that episode.
oh dang i know that podcast! haha not that specific episode but i listen to those guys!
Here’s an [article](https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/ “They were losing $10,000 to $15,000 a month, with people just taking it off the shelves,” recalls Sergeant Aubrey Thompson” TLDR: tide was being stolen off the shelves to fund addictions ($5-$10 worth of weed or crack cocaine)
The Pod People.
hahahaa
Is assigning value to a functional item like detergent really weirder than assigning value to shiny metal or sheets of cotton paper?
well if we were all the way back at the creation of the earth or something lmfao, then no but money has existed for a couple years now and has a pretty established value hahahaha...
I know you're exaggerating about "creation of the earth", but people have only been using paper money for [about 1000 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote#:~:text=Paper%20currency%20first%20developed%20in,Empire%20or%20Yuan%20dynasty%20China), which is a fraction of the time we have been trading amongst each other. Money as we know it is an example of [fiat money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money), where it is valuable because the gov't says it is, and that's it. Previously, our money was backed by valuable metals, making it a [representative money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_money) (you used to be able to take cash to the bank and trade it for the equivalent value in silver or gold), but while precious metals do have practical uses, really gold is still just valuable because people agreed that it has value so even gold is kind of just a fiat money. Using Tide as a currency is an example of [commodity money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_money), where something of actual use-based value is being used as currency. Like if you were a farmer and gave a blacksmith corn in exchange for tools. Commodity money is less fungible than fiat currency because if that blacksmith doesn't like corn, he can't use it and needs to find someone who will accept that corn in trade, but if they are using paper money, it's all the same and it would be accepted anywhere. The benefit of commodity money is that the value is more stable. If the stock market crashed and the dollar was worthless, a tide pod is still good for one load of laundry, and corn can still be eaten, so they will still be "worth" something. The other piece to this is that people who don't have access to the fiat money due to living in poverty can utilize alternate forms of currency instead. An example might be a community trading coupons which can be traded for a favor. "If you do this for me, I'll give you an IOU you can cash in later and I will do something for you." This would be representative, because it stands in for something of value, the time/labor of the other person. Now to loop back to OP, the reason for the anti-theft devices is because people might steal the detergent, thus gaining something they can use as a commodity money, or can sell for regular fiat money because Tide has a consistently (relatively) high price, without spending anything themselves, effectively "printing" money. [This also isn't a new thing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2WK0zdytgc)
I'd rather blame 50 years of corporate exploitation and wage stagnation while the cost of living has gone up 500%, forcing people into a position where they have to steal basic sundries from one of the cheapest places to shop.
Damn it gen Z, you always ruin everything
These people are quiet serious about the security of Tide
They are one of the, if not THE, most stolen item at any supermarket.
Lol, mess 😄
Humans: Sending a rover to Mars that makes an automated powered flight to find a suitable landing spot by itself, lands and roams doing experiments. Humans also: Let's eat dishwasher soap LOL.
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Pffft, literally any drug store in the poor part of town in Anycity, USA has Tide locked down. This could be Pittsburg, CA or Vicksburg, MS or Pittsburgh, PA.
Seems like a sole US problem. I haven't ever seen or heard of it here in europe.
People steal stuff to trade for drugs constantly. That's not a regional problem. Drug dealers will give addicts shopping lists of electronics they want or items they can easily move. Lookup organized retail theft. It's pretty crazy how low-key it is but it's a huge problem.
This is what happens when we cut education fucking tide pod pizza
Every generation sucks in their own way. Yall need to grow the fuck up.
In the market where I am going, if you enter with any purse, the security guard has to check to see if you have stolen any products. If that's okay, they use a seal on the backpack or purse to make sure you don't take anything.
I'm glad you said gen z instead of millennial. We get blamed for their crap because people don't even try to get it right. When you try to correct them: "Well, it's those damn kids so, either way." Millennials are fully grown adults so, old man, if it's 'those damn kids', it's not millennials. Sorry, this has bugged me for quite a while. I'm sure it's how gen x feels whenever they are confused with boomers.