At least two Walmart locations in Anchorage — the Dimond Walmart and DeBarr Walmart — are now keeping Spam and other staples, such as canned corned beef hash, in a locked display. Shoppers must press a button and ask for a store employee to help them if they want to buy the canned meat product, which is popular in rural Alaska and in homeless encampments around Anchorage. Culturally, the spice ham in a can is very popular among Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
TikTok video user @akwildrose_beadwork documented the Anchorage display, as she was planning on buying Spam for her breakfast menu.
The employee explained that certain cans are kept at designated registers, such as register six, rather than allowing customers to place them directly in their carts.
This practice of locking up high-theft target items is part of a broader trend among retailers like Walmart to combat the shoplifting. It’s not just guns that are behind locked cabinets anymore. It’s now becoming more common to lock up every-day staples.
Walmart has more security for Spam than the DOD has for classified info using Signal
Good thing Biden was only in office for four years.
And even Spam, vile as it is, is far more digestible than your invariably pro-establishment, pro-globalist, pro-deep state trolling, “Frank”.
Hint… They are doing you a favor… Stay away from that poison… ***
Ya know, if they would start actually PUNISHING theives, there would be a lot less of it! How can y’all not understand this?
How true. And when the whole store is locked behind glass and clerks shop for us, prices will more than triple and we will truly look like the soviet union. Make stealing shameful again.
When doing work at the different Carrs Safeway places, we find that the spam is also kept under lock and key. I was told by the manager that when people from our Villages are returning home, many return loaded with Spam to resell. We’ll, “re”sell isn’t accurate since no sale was made.
And she told me the other group mentioned above was the other high theft group for Spam. As she was Hawaiian as well, she was very dismayed how angry the thief of the same descent just short of demanded a pass because they were both Hawaiian.
I don’t know how far a culture (US Western) built on trust can stray before it can never return.
Go down south, all kinds of things are under lock and key. Food, spray paints, over the counter meds, higher end alcohol. Even toiletry items like some shampoos and deodorants. There is a growing market for stolen goods at a discount so no surprises here.
Eventually, everything will be locked up and an employee will escort the buyer to the register.
Why am I not surprised, the law doesn’t or can’t do anything about it. I was at Fred Meyers last year to buy a few things and I watched a lady walk right out the front door with a shopping cart full of groceries obviously not paid for as every item was loose in her cart. As I was walking to the bus stop I saw her in the parking lot throwing all these loose items into her nice bright shiny $30,000 SUV. nobody from the store did anything. With all these cameras everywhere in the world we live in I find it hard to believe nothing is done and if so they get a slap on the wrist. I wondered how may times has she done this and how many others as well. Of course the stores have to make up the loss by raising their prices.
The PROBLEM is not the locking up of the food. The problem is ALLOWING the homeless and others openly walk into stores and steal the food.
C’mon Whitekeys! We all know there’s a song in there somewhere!
Same story for canned corned beef. I had to go find a kid with a key and then after he opened it, he had to carry the cans to the register, would not put it in my cart.
Spam is good ……….in the dog food section. Couldn’t the thieves just grab a few cans of Alpo or Purina One?
Walmart employees say they can’t do anything neither can the hired Secuirity anchorage laws prohibit it.
These parents aren’t teaching their kids to not be thieves. Instead they’re teaching them they’re victims. They teach them they’re entitled.
Some of them grow up in homes where they’ve never seen their “dad” work.
This is a byproduct of the cradle to grave welfare system.
Other items under lock and key at WalMart are batteries, hair clippers and -riddle me this- lanolin. Lanolin is oil from lamb’s wool sold in 2oz tubes as a remedy for sore, cracked nipples for breastfeeding moms.
When Spam is finally outlawed, only outlaws will still eat Spam.
Yet another ridiculous knee-jerk reaction. Why not just enforce the law? Are we this stupid?
The things I need from society are locked up: Razors, family planning items, and Spam
The roast beef at Arby’s is like SPAM