CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Long-time Walmart shopper Richard Loyce was recently forced to wait for an employee to radio their manager while buying toothpaste, according to a video posted on social media by Loyce.
“Tomorrow’s my first day at a new job and this idiot won’t let me buy some toothpaste to brush my teeth. He told me it’s ‘store policy’ and that I ‘won’t find a store in the state that doesn’t lock up all the personal hygiene supplies,'” said Loyce in the video. “I didn’t get a good look at the first employee, but he after he called for his manager he walked away and I’m 90% sure that he just changed his shirt and came back pretending to be a different person, just to mess with me.”
Store manager Christopher Haynes weighed in on the situation.
“People kept stealing the toothpaste, as if they were entitled to it or something. Loss prevention wouldn’t get off their asses, so I took it into my own hands to put a stop to it,“ said Haynes, knowing full well his hourly wage was unaffected by petty crime. “I rearranged the store so the toothpaste is where the guns used to be, and vice versa. those didn’t need to be locked up anyway, if you ask me.”
Brian Thicke, another employee at the store, was interviewed by a reporter who was trying to buy toothpaste during the 36-minute process.
“At first the new policy was annoying, but we’ve started having fun with it. We like to see how much nonsense we can make a customer put up with just to get some toothpaste,” said Thicke. “We keep calling more and more employees on the radio and whisper to one another as if we have no idea how to open the damn thing. Finally we all turn the key at once as if it’s got biometrics on it. The customers hate it, but it’s the only fun part of the job.”
At press time the store was reportedly locking up bottles of water and baby formula, just to see if they could.
