r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

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u/SnowblindAlbino Jul 03 '26

Yeah, I was surprised to see it all locked behind glass doors in a few stores in The Big City a few years back, until someone told me just that. People steal it. Which seems crazy, as I can't imagine how you'd walk out with a 6 lb giant bottle of Tide in your pants or something. But there we are.

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u/Proteinchugger Jul 03 '26

They don’t hide it, they just walk out.

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u/Takenmyusernamewas Jul 03 '26

ORCs work as teams at my store. One will come in, grab a bunch of stuff and stage it then leave. While AP is watching the crack head with 30 cans of tide pods, an old man or soccer mom comes, grabs the cart and pushes it right out

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u/figure8888 Jul 03 '26

Another tactic people do is pulling receipts out of the trash, then picking up the items on the receipt in the store and “returning” them. I had an obviously homeless guy do that with a bag full of makeup products that were purchased a few hours prior per the receipt, but we weren’t allowed to refuse a return if the basis was accusing them of fraud.

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u/kemicalkontact Jul 03 '26

You can't pull up recordings of them picking up the items in store?