Does your Target have a sock prison?

My two local Target stores do not have anything locked up other than baby formula and some electronics. I've seen photos of other stores, but ours is still not like that. And it was in the local news that there was a shoplifting ring broken up at one of these Target's, and they have had lots of theft. So I don't know how they pick which stores to lock up everything and which ones they don't.

I should knock on something because I don’t want it to change, but my target does not have anything locked up - not socks, not formula, not laundry stuff, not razors.

Target is my store of choice for everything (it’s my main grocery store, where we get our RXs filled, toys, household goods, etc.).

Well, that will at least satisfy everyone who loses their minds over self-check out.

Same here. There *might* be some electronics that you need help to access, but I am not even sure if that's right. I use Target for literally everything and if they start locking things up then I will quit using them. No one has time for that. 

I haven’t noticed that at my Targets but Walmart has been that way for years along with men’s underwear and some dress pants. It makes shopping difficult to say the least as it can take a while especially if looking for pants. Finding the right waist snd length because of course they aren’t in any order even though they are locked up snd people can’t ruffle through them lol. I understand the theft issue but once again it makes it harder for the normal person that is spending money to do so.

On repeat purchases like mens underwear and socks I buy through pickup so I am not standing there waiting for multiple people to unlock cabinets. Unfortunately there are a lot of locked items throughout the store and you can’t always predict what will be locked up. Not all items are things you want to pickup for sometimes you need to feel an item or you want to compare it to another. Not all items are available for pickup either.

It’s frustrating and annoying that you like most of us are on a schedule and couldn’t get what you needed because they were locked up.

it's amazing to me what they build Target and Walmart "prisons" for. i had to call an associate to release a disposable razor. it was $6.99. and yet, a couple of feet away, were some small items that cost 3x that. just sitting there, in the wild. unincarcerated and living their best lives. and yet the cheapy razor was doing time.

at another store, i saw the Tide and Gain doing time. at Wal-Mart, the underwear was also doing time. and yet some spendy (and very pocketable) electronic items were running free. talk about unfair application of sentencing. not to mention the inconvenience of waiting for someone to allow us access to the prisoners. ugh.

I wonder if stores go to a system like Costco and have people check every receipt when they go out instead of locking stuff up. I guess putting stuff in purses and such doesn't help though. Since most of Costco stuff is too large for stealing outright. Never mind. Just thinking out loud. Maybe they can change the packaging to Costco size would reduce theft. Uggg. I hate this.

What I don't understand is that they lock the things up, but just hand them to you when they unlock them. What is going to prevent me from stealing them then? And it is insanely annoying when you need several items unlocked. I felt really bad for the person after me the other day as I needed about 8 things from different lock boxes.

I normally do pick up orders but wanted to look around the other day. I won't make that mistake again.

None of my stores I shop at have anything locked up. Yet. Walmart probably does (maybe condoms and formula and razors? Those used to be locked up at my old store) but it's nothing I've been shopping for so I don't know for sure.

This is the suburbs but it's growing very quickly and there are so many more people than even when I moved here 5 1/2 years ago!

My Target is always a hot mess. I only do drive ups or have it shipped now. They can deal with the merch that is locked up.

I read that one of the Targets in San Francisco has everything locked up.

I will say that Target has been aggressively promoting their buy online, drive up or pickup in store program. Personally, I don’t want to do that because there are usually more items I want to look at and consider than what I have on my list (and more often than not I see things in the store that remind me I’m almost out of something and need to restock).

If I have to go into the store anyway, what’s the point of doing drive up? The only reason I can think of for me doing drive up is if I know there is a limited quantity of something specific available and I want to make sure I get one, and even then there’s no guarantee. Last year I was looking for a Ninja XL food processor that was on sale. I tried to order it online to make sure I’d get one and still ended up having to drive to three different stores before one actually had one to pick up.