The local Walmarts here have locked up a lot of their items, that requires an employee to open the cases - even things like cheap hand lotion and men's underwear! (not ladies underwear? Huh.) And many more products are behind these flip covers, mainly intended to collect fingerprints, that scream "THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT WALMART, BITCHES! BWEEP BWEEP BWEEP" when you lift them.
The entire thing is really damn insulting. And for some kinds of people that is simply a no go. Personally, I would smash one of those flip covers things if it started yelling or beeping at me. And who is going to try to find an employee to unlock a case? It's Walmart FFS, where employees would rather spit on you than help you.
I heard the other day that Costco will start only allowing "member" in to their store. Why do people put up with "membership" bullshit and tracking cards?
Walgreens? I haven't been in one of those for ages. All the shelves of stuff are just a consumer trap for idiots going to their pharmacy. They already demand twice the normal amount if you don't have their consumertard tracking card. Locking up stuff there makes zero sense.
Of course, if you want to pay two or three times the price for something, go to Publix - Shopping For Rich People!
At the rate things are going, I fully expect in a few years, stores will have tanks sitting out in front pointed at you and a TSA style anal probing before you can go in. They will probably find some reason to require that you own a smartphone too just for good measure.
Time to nuke this planet from orbit just to be sure.