Also avoid Toyglobe at all cost

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I hate to break it to the National Retail Federation but NONE of this stuff is stored in any type of controlled environment in any store I have worked in. Their concern is NOT consumer safety but rather consumers not buying stolen merchandise, enriching thieves at the expense of their member stores. In the drug store chain at which I used to work, ALL of this merchandise was stored on open shelved carts in the stockroom, mostly for months on end, getting dusty, sometimes expiring without ever getting to the sales floor. There is no way most of these chains store this stuff in any controlled manner. It's all about money.

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To suggest that they released this list purely to "protect" we consumers is a bit disingenuous.

Were I to stumble across a couple of made guys who were selling replacement razor cartridges out of the back of a truck, I might be worried about the morality of purchasing stolen goods, but I certainly wouldn't be worried that the cartridges might've "expired".

Obviously the primary concern the National Retail Federation has is that we consumers might buy stolen goods, and thereby deny retailers our money. This would've been a more effective warning had they more carefully vetted the list to only include things that truly become dangerous when handled improperly. Rather than things that truly include outrageous markups and price points to support endless ads in a competitive market niche (like disposable razor blades).

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Then you better close down EBay..........!!

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Hopefully the poor people in India that Walmart pays 15.00 a day to make a million dollars worth of clothes will sell some of their goods on the internet

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for real. i won't be too concerned about the bumble and bumble i'm gettin' ready to get off ebay for half retail...

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Maybe these things are all overpriced, If they sold these items at realistic pricing in this economy or in dollar stores maybe they would be sold at true value [no pun intended], meanwhile these items are very available cheap at any Flea market, or at Walmart. I guess the larger cities like NY still have street vendors? The point is moot since all profits go to China. They seem to own us nowdays.

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It seems like a lot of these things are used to make methamphetamine's. sudafed, and benadryl.

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PLEASE......................God gave us a brain....USE IT! If it sounds too good to be true.......DUH! Come on America - step up and take responsability for your own decisons! Get Real!!!

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Theft is their problem, not mine. Their "asset protection advisor" should get his "assets" out of the office and do something more than just berate consumers for trying to stretch their dollars. These same companies don't have any problems manufacturing in third world countries employing next to slave labor. They move jobs overseas and then tell us we have to spend our hard earned dollars buying their goods with over inflated prices? I'll take a carload of those razor blade cartridges.

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How does someone steal a Dyson vacuum???

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On one of those caught on tape shows they showed a rather large woman wearing a house dress shuffling into a store, squatting over a good sized tv box and then shuffling out of the store. I guess they'd been suspicious of her and someone was paying attention this time when she came in. Turns out she had quite a collection of big-box items from various stores!
Also, theft does affect all of us, the more merchandise shrinkage retailers experience the more they raise their already grossly inflated prices to cover the losses.

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A deal is a Deal.Who really cares where it comes from.If i can save a few $$$$ all the better for me.
What would Obama do ?
He would buy the WHOLE truck load.

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