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The Walgreens near where I life (Bush and Fillmore) has a padlock on the red bull fridge. It was pretty shocking to get back from spending awhile in Korea where convenience stores are plentiful, 24/7, and fast to find this new development.

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Please don’t chalk me up as some kind of Marxist activist, but: that padlock probably says a lot about the addictive nature, pricing, and perhaps engineered scarcity of Red Bull.

This would be a compelling point, if the shampoo wasn't also under padlock.

> This would be a compelling point, if the shampoo wasn't also under padlock.

Maybe the shampoo is really as appealing as the advertisements suggest.

What's frequently under lock and key isn't items thieves themselves want, but items that are easy to fence. A lot of people have no objection to buying say unopened, brand name, but obviously stolen laundry detergent for pennies on the dollar.

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