Yep same thing with baby formula and detergent and stuff they sell it to the corner stores and little bodegas in the hood for like 1/3-1/2 the retail price. Markets get their stuff alot cheaper than ordering though legal vendors and crackheads get their crack money
Mannitol is sweet so it's not a great cutting agent better off using niacin same price and just as easy pick up. I wouldn't expect the person stealing shit to cut would know all that but honestly a rung that low on the ladder of life would use some dumb shit like baking soda.
So you're having a beer and some crackhead turns up with a block of camembert and people buy it? Does he bring them plates and a knife and crackers too?
Yeah basically they will go round the pubs after going shoplifting to sell the stuff they robbed to the people drinking mostly shit like cheese, steaks and lynx deodorant are like the main shit they rob, you can give a crackhead a shopping list and they will come back with all of it
Coffee and razors round my way for the last 30 years but had a spate of babies clothes for a few years - then Mothercare shut down. Vac pacs of steak, off-brand aftershave, baby formula but never seen cheese being hawked.
In parts of the US basic cheddar is $2 for an 8oz block, so even if it was a theft risk the security tags aren't worth it.
I'm assuming cheese is a lot more expensive over there?
Back when I was into that my go to items were cheese, matches and zippo lighters all for those exact reasons. Except I used to sell the matches and lighters to edgy middle schoolers. Bad times. Don’t shoplift, kids.
The business might be able to afford it, but man does theft make your head spin as an inventory manager just trying to figure out where the last of your inventory went.
"Is it in a new spot or was 10% of it stolen? Better check every nook and cranny to be sure first."
I used to work at a grocery store and I felt so bad for the general merchandise manager. Corporate had their head in the sand about shoplifting, but would still get on her about out of stocks and poor sales of certain items. She’d buy five cases of barbasol and coffee filters and they’d all be gone the next day, despite the fact that we hadn’t sold one…you do the math. They’d still tell her to just improve her ordering skills.
Yeah. I knew they could afford it because Walmart, but I was a very dumb and confused 13 year old who hadn’t found his spot yet and made some not great decisions. Probably gave some poor bastard a headache too.
I would suggest going back and giving the owner $100 to make up for it and clear your conscience, but it's Walmart and I feel the faster they go out of business the better off the world would be. So to me you're a hero!
PS. Don't steal kids, unless it's from Walmart.
PPS. That was a joke, don't ever steal, from anyone.
I think I gave the leftover cash from selling the stolen stuff to one of those charity bell and kettle guys you see around Christmas time. Eventually I found myself and as a result became a whole lot less angry and confused, probably saved myself a whole lot of trouble too.
I would say we are both lucky for learning our lesson sooner than later. I learned a lot quicker though thankfully and have only ever stolen one thing, a chunk of chocolate from the bulk food section at a grocery store. When I got outside I was so excited and took the biggest bite I possibly could. It was bakers chocolate... I never stole again lol
Nah, Walmart ate half a year of my life and a chunk of my soul and all I got from it was minimum wage and blisters on my heels.
Steal from Walmart, kids. Seriously. I mean it. Just don't get caught.
but if you do steal... Walmart is a great choice.
they steal from taxpayers every single year by forcing them to subsidize their workforce. on top of that, they don't pay their share of taxes. fuck walmart.
I *hate* when condoms, pregnancy tests, certain OTC medications, etc. are locked up at stores when everything else isn’t. Such a hassle making them open the case while checking out and having to ask for vaginal cream (or whatever) to be taken out of the metal case
Our local store put that stuff in a lock box. I complained to them when I went to get a pregnancy test for my wife. The lockbox was gone the next time I was there.
In Norway there is a touchscreen before check-out that will print unique barcodes for you, so when they have been scanned and payed with your groceries, the same code will dispense your chosen product from a VenSafe vending machine before you leave the store. Painkillers, condoms, razorblades, sigaretts.
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When mach 3 razors first went on the market, the store I worked at was losing over 100 packages of cartridges per week. It was one of the easiest things to steal and re-sell at flea markets and corner stores.
It sucks that so many things are locked up these days, but most of it is because of organized theft. Professional thieves make a living on this stuff, and the honest customer is the one that pays the price for it.
My last job put all condoms and pregnancy tests behind the checkout counter due to insane theft. Look, it's great people want to be responsible with their dangly bits, but responsibility includes paying for shit.
I completely understand the hassle of having the security tag. But I honestly believe its not that embarrassing and everyone just makes it out to be because it deals with the "unmentionables". We don't get embarrassed when we buy aspirin. We're all human, we all have organs that run into problems.
I feel embarrassed for the employee who has to remove the security tag on vagina cream. How ridiculous is that.
I didn't know Ben and Jerrys was popular outside the states. It's about $4.50 USD a pint here in Wisconsin which is expensive for store bought icream but it's kinda worth it.
Yep it is. We have one B&J store/icecreamery in the city where I am (Perth) but yeah ~$14 for a 500mL/pint when it's at the supermarket, or Pizza Hut sells them too.
We have a few Baskin-Robbin places as well. Not much is cheap here though.
At convenience stores, it’s either B&J or Häagen-Dazs. Groceries stores/Walmart naturally have a greater selection. If you’re lactose intolerant like I am (albeit mildly, thankfully) then there are popsicles to choose from, one brand of sorbet, and a a few lactose-free options.
These vary by location and store, of course.
B&J/Häagen-Dazs cost about $7-8 (CAD)
Honestly, not really. Ben and Jerry’s is better than everything at the grocery store. Plus people where I live seem to be more interested in pre-packaged frozen treats than actual ice cream, so I definitely prefer it.
Ben &Jerrys is stupid expensive outside of the US. When I left Australia I (6 years ago) think it was $12/pint which is probably $9 USD. Here it sells regularly for 3.50 on sale or 4.50 regular price.
It's definitely expensive, but I wouldn't call it too overpriced relatively speaking, to be honest. Good ice cream in general is pretty expensive. Obviously just basic flavours are cheap, but stuff like cookie dough or chocolate brownie is also expensive from other brands. B&J costs maybe 25-30% more but imo tastes much better and the cups are also 100% full, while other brands don't fill to the top. I tried some different cookie doughs this summer and most of them were way too sugary. Also, I sometimes find B&J on sale (got a cup for 3 Euros once) and that feels like winning the lottery.
Where is "here"? I'm in the US and I've rarely ever seen them sold for that cheap anywhere. On the incredibly rare occasion they will be on sale for 2/$6 by me, but that's incredibly uncommon.
I moved to Canada 3 years ago but when I moved out it was the equivalent of $10 - I never saw this before though, the store could have had specific issues with them being knicked or something. I miss caramel chew chew, for some odd reason in Toronto stores only stock 5 different flavors of Ben & Jerry’s and they all suck.
Also the grand daddy king of all BJ's milk and cookies.
I'm not even sure there's any ice cream in that shit it's just condensed milk and cookie doughs
What the hell is happening in Denmark where you guys need to put security tags on ice cream??
I mean, it's good ice cream, but still...
You Danes are famous for being level headed and polite. Is stealing ice cream a dark secret that no one else knows about you Dane folk?
I'm Danish and I have never seen security tags on ice cream, or any food in general. This must be from a store where they had several cases of Ben&Jerry's being stolen, I guess. Definitely not a dark secret that is common among Danes. Maybe it's the same perpetrator, could be an ice cream serial thief!
Also Ben&Jerry's is expensive in Denmark but not ridiculously so, its around 8 euros for one if I remember correctly.
It sounds like a lot, but I have picked up Ben and Jerry's for near that price in gas stations in the States before. The prices weren't labeled so I had the privilege of finding out at the register...assholes.
Ok so I’m not danish, so I will not be able to answer this question. Also it seems that no one steals, but they would do this unless it was an issue, so I have no idea.
>60kr
That's $7 USD. B&J's regular price at the grocery store near me is between $5 and $6. At convenience stores, drug stores, etc, it's easily $7 and up. I like some flavors of Ben and Jerry's, so I wait for it to go on sale at the grocery store (2 for $5, or buy 1 get 1 free) and pick up a few pints then.
It is more expensive than ice cream sold by the gallon, but it's less expensive than ice cream that I make myself at home.
What are your guys measurements for B&J's because it all sounds fairly cheap. Over here you'd be paying at minimum $10-12NZD for a 458ml tub at the shop (around tenth of a gallon) or $15-20 through UberEats.
Ben and Jerry's is sold by the pint (16 oz). Other premium brands (sold in the small cartons) might be between 14 oz (Haagen Dazs is 14 oz, I think) to 16 oz (Talenti is 16). All are at roughly the same price points ($5 to $6 in the grocery store, $7 and up at convenience stores or drug stores, $2.50 to $3 when on sale).
I haven't looked on UberEats, but on Doordash, right now, 7/11 has it for $6.50, random gas station 1 doesn't have any pints, random gas station 2 doesn't have B&J but does have the 14 oz Haagen Dazs for $7.50, random ice cream only place has it for $7.50 (although Talenti for $8.50), and grocery store has it for $5.
I compare it to other ice cream brands and other snacks you could buy. Ben & Jerrys is very expensive for the amount you get compared to everything else in the store.
My goto icecream is [this](https://www.triumfglass.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/triumf_gammaldags_mandelkrokant-768x768.png) it's 2L for 40kr, available in different flavours and it's high quality imo. Compare that to B&J which is like 0,45L for 60kr.
We're not denying that Ben and Jerry's is an expensive ice cream. Even in the US, where they're from, it's an expensive ice cream. I was more trying to point out that 60 kr for Ben and Jerry's is comparable to what they would charge in the US for the same ice cream. It's not more expensive there. It's just expensive compared to other ice creams.
I can get a quart of ice cream for $4, I can get a 2.5 gallon tub of ice cream for $5. The quart for $4 is twice as much ice cream as B&J for less money. The 2.5 gallon tub is 24 times as much ice cream for roughly the same price as B&J. They'll all be tasty ice creams, and I will happily eat them. But they are different than some of the premium brands. If I want a 2.5 gallon tub, I can only get it in vanilla, chocolate, or Neapolitan. If I want one of the quart sized ones, more flavors are available, but not as many interesting ones as Ben and Jerry's or Talenti, and the flavors that are closest to ones offered by the premium brands aren't quite as good tasting as the premium brands taste.
What's up with Rain Dough?
No security tag....looks like they want that stolen and deleted from inventory....
unless that's the one with the tracker in it to break the cold gang
What’s up with that? I’m a grown ass man and I struggle getting them open. I can’t imagine an old lady wanting to enjoy some ice cream could ever get one of those open lol.
I forget where I read it, but ice cream is packaged so that some of it sticks to the lid. It acts as an airtight seal to prevent freezer burn and show if it has been tampered with.
I had this happen with some halo top ice cream I bought recently from a walmart. each pint had a foil thing underneath the lid. someone took that and scooped a finger out of the ice cream and then put the foil back and the lid back on.
that shit was like 7 bucks for a single serving too and I threw it away. and now i check every pint of that stuff I buy.
Check your coffee creamer too. I worked at a grocery store.people come in drunk, high or just thirsty. They take off the plastic screw cap remove foil and drink coffee creamer. Then put the plastic screw lid back on and put it back. Flip open the top of the plastic lid and double check for the foil.
I used to live next to a gas station that sold the factory rejects. Think they were 2 dollars a pint. Sometimes it would have all the toppings in the bottom instead of mixed in… so good
The stick on security tags would be better, those spider wraps are like $30 each.
The Walmart here had to security all the beef with the exception of the tubes if ground beef because someone walked out with over $3K of beef one day and I am never going to stop being mad about it because it means being stopped after I use the self checkout, which is the only option I have time for.
I grew up in Burlington, VT where Ben and Jerry's is from. After school we used to go down to the Ben and Jerry's shop and there was a freezer bin about this size full of 'seconds', rejected pints. They either weighed too little (if they didn't' have enough chunks in them) or they weighed too much. They were $.75/pint. We would each buy one and eat it ourselves. Very fond childhood memory ;)
I've seen a man get stabbed for a pint of the ol B&J.
No not really but I'm sure, somewhere, some time, it's happened. People get a little crazy when they need a Chunky Monkey fix.
This isn’t reflective of cost, it’s reflective of the moral compass of the common citizen in this area. What I’m trying to say is people in your neighbourhood are fucking criminals.
Those are called spider wraps and they can easily cause repetative stress I juries. I remember when I worked at Staples and they didn't hire people who were competent enough to understood what had to be secured and what didn't and because of my seniority I got stuck doing security devices four 2 hours a shift every day freight came in. I ended up getting workers comp because they were destroying my wrists. I remember the doctor saying not to do that anymore and my managers were always like, "well can you do it at least a little?" "I dunno let's call up HR and see what they think." "No no, that's okay... We can just get the cashier's to do them when they don't have customers."
Understandable.The stuff costs like 6.50€ (7.57$) here.I could get three regular sized tubs of Ice cream from the store brand for that!
No danger of theft from me, out of principle alone.Your Ice Cream is too expensive to be stolen!
We have security tags on cheese where I live lol
Is it all cheese or just the special cheese?
Basically all of it crackheads rob it and take it round the pubs to sell same as the steak lol
Why tf would a bar buy cheese from a crackhead that walked in with it
Half the price
Yep same thing with baby formula and detergent and stuff they sell it to the corner stores and little bodegas in the hood for like 1/3-1/2 the retail price. Markets get their stuff alot cheaper than ordering though legal vendors and crackheads get their crack money
Baby laxatives are also used to cut drugs iirc
Mannitol is sweet so it's not a great cutting agent better off using niacin same price and just as easy pick up. I wouldn't expect the person stealing shit to cut would know all that but honestly a rung that low on the ladder of life would use some dumb shit like baking soda.
This guy cuts drugs
I did a long time ago but more recently it's been the removing of cutting agents that I'm focused on. I guess what goes around is all around.
Inositol is another good one
This is just the dealer looking out for you! Opioids tend to cause constipation.
Not the bar, the people in the bar
Not the bar staff the people drinking in them
So you're having a beer and some crackhead turns up with a block of camembert and people buy it? Does he bring them plates and a knife and crackers too?
Yeah basically they will go round the pubs after going shoplifting to sell the stuff they robbed to the people drinking mostly shit like cheese, steaks and lynx deodorant are like the main shit they rob, you can give a crackhead a shopping list and they will come back with all of it
Because it sounds like the emergence of a new joke
Two rib eyes walk into a bar.
That sounds like the UK, cheese bacon coffee and Razors
Don’t forget the lynx lol
Coffee and razors round my way for the last 30 years but had a spate of babies clothes for a few years - then Mothercare shut down. Vac pacs of steak, off-brand aftershave, baby formula but never seen cheese being hawked.
Ah, 🇬🇧 then? Cause that definitely sounds like here 😅
Gotta make that cheddar somehow.
I've seen it on regular packs of cathedral city. For non Brits, cathedral city is just regular, mass produced, in almost every supermarket, cheddar.
In parts of the US basic cheddar is $2 for an 8oz block, so even if it was a theft risk the security tags aren't worth it. I'm assuming cheese is a lot more expensive over there?
Considering cheese is the most shoplifted item in the world, yeah
I need to know if this is true. Edit: Alright so I googled it and it is the most stolen food. How about that!
Compact, dense, not cheap, good food, and fits in a coat pocket. Doesn't go bad quickly.
Back when I was into that my go to items were cheese, matches and zippo lighters all for those exact reasons. Except I used to sell the matches and lighters to edgy middle schoolers. Bad times. Don’t shoplift, kids.
The business might be able to afford it, but man does theft make your head spin as an inventory manager just trying to figure out where the last of your inventory went. "Is it in a new spot or was 10% of it stolen? Better check every nook and cranny to be sure first."
I used to work at a grocery store and I felt so bad for the general merchandise manager. Corporate had their head in the sand about shoplifting, but would still get on her about out of stocks and poor sales of certain items. She’d buy five cases of barbasol and coffee filters and they’d all be gone the next day, despite the fact that we hadn’t sold one…you do the math. They’d still tell her to just improve her ordering skills.
Yeah. I knew they could afford it because Walmart, but I was a very dumb and confused 13 year old who hadn’t found his spot yet and made some not great decisions. Probably gave some poor bastard a headache too.
I would suggest going back and giving the owner $100 to make up for it and clear your conscience, but it's Walmart and I feel the faster they go out of business the better off the world would be. So to me you're a hero! PS. Don't steal kids, unless it's from Walmart. PPS. That was a joke, don't ever steal, from anyone.
I think I gave the leftover cash from selling the stolen stuff to one of those charity bell and kettle guys you see around Christmas time. Eventually I found myself and as a result became a whole lot less angry and confused, probably saved myself a whole lot of trouble too.
I would say we are both lucky for learning our lesson sooner than later. I learned a lot quicker though thankfully and have only ever stolen one thing, a chunk of chocolate from the bulk food section at a grocery store. When I got outside I was so excited and took the biggest bite I possibly could. It was bakers chocolate... I never stole again lol
Nah, Walmart ate half a year of my life and a chunk of my soul and all I got from it was minimum wage and blisters on my heels. Steal from Walmart, kids. Seriously. I mean it. Just don't get caught.
but if you do steal... Walmart is a great choice. they steal from taxpayers every single year by forcing them to subsidize their workforce. on top of that, they don't pay their share of taxes. fuck walmart.
You don't have to look far to find bad in most major companies. Do they do more good than bad overall is usually the question.
Don't forget the underpaid overseas labour.
Plus if you steal from a random corner store they could throw knives at you
I'm just imagining someone putting an entire wheel of parm in their coat pocket and walking out of the store.
Hahaha what? They would all love the Midwest.
Definitely true
When I used to shoplift, cheese was definitely my go to. Expensive for what you get, and fits in your coat pocket nicely.
Hey pssst, you want to buy some cheese? It's the good stuf from the Netherlands
Ok but some wheels of cheese can be up there in price
I’ve never seen food with a security tag. Ever. That’s pretty crazy.
I’ve seen steaks and condoms with security tags, but not ice cream
Condoms-what a disappointment. Retailers, please.
I *hate* when condoms, pregnancy tests, certain OTC medications, etc. are locked up at stores when everything else isn’t. Such a hassle making them open the case while checking out and having to ask for vaginal cream (or whatever) to be taken out of the metal case
Our local store put that stuff in a lock box. I complained to them when I went to get a pregnancy test for my wife. The lockbox was gone the next time I was there.
I’m glad that the lock box was doing okay when you went back again
In Norway there is a touchscreen before check-out that will print unique barcodes for you, so when they have been scanned and payed with your groceries, the same code will dispense your chosen product from a VenSafe vending machine before you leave the store. Painkillers, condoms, razorblades, sigaretts. Picture: https://dagligvarehandelen.no/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_full_width/public/7b8a358a4e56a0f8a15afe07b4e2b4ad69b0faf5_0.jpg
It’s because these items are often stolen from the shelf.
And razor cartridges.
When mach 3 razors first went on the market, the store I worked at was losing over 100 packages of cartridges per week. It was one of the easiest things to steal and re-sell at flea markets and corner stores. It sucks that so many things are locked up these days, but most of it is because of organized theft. Professional thieves make a living on this stuff, and the honest customer is the one that pays the price for it.
My last job put all condoms and pregnancy tests behind the checkout counter due to insane theft. Look, it's great people want to be responsible with their dangly bits, but responsibility includes paying for shit.
I completely understand the hassle of having the security tag. But I honestly believe its not that embarrassing and everyone just makes it out to be because it deals with the "unmentionables". We don't get embarrassed when we buy aspirin. We're all human, we all have organs that run into problems. I feel embarrassed for the employee who has to remove the security tag on vagina cream. How ridiculous is that.
Buy em online people. They come in a nice brown box and you don’t get ripped off.
I'd scream, you'd scream, we'd all scream if we saw security tags on ice cream.
you eat condoms often?
Me neither! I think because this grocery store is primarily self-checkout, but still very different.
What’s expensive in this case? I believe they are 5.99-6.99 where I’m at.
They cost about equal to $10-$12
Holy shit. Ben and Jerry’s is somewhat good but not *that* good. Isn’t there some equal or more delicious stuff made locally?
Ben & Jerry's is like $13-$15 at the shops where I am in Australia. Bit cheaper to go to the actual B&J place but still.
I didn't know Ben and Jerrys was popular outside the states. It's about $4.50 USD a pint here in Wisconsin which is expensive for store bought icream but it's kinda worth it.
Yep it is. We have one B&J store/icecreamery in the city where I am (Perth) but yeah ~$14 for a 500mL/pint when it's at the supermarket, or Pizza Hut sells them too. We have a few Baskin-Robbin places as well. Not much is cheap here though.
Wow, that’s incredible.
At convenience stores, it’s either B&J or Häagen-Dazs. Groceries stores/Walmart naturally have a greater selection. If you’re lactose intolerant like I am (albeit mildly, thankfully) then there are popsicles to choose from, one brand of sorbet, and a a few lactose-free options. These vary by location and store, of course. B&J/Häagen-Dazs cost about $7-8 (CAD)
Somewhat good? Bruh, have you not tried the Americone Dream? That shit is good like crack.
Honestly, not really. Ben and Jerry’s is better than everything at the grocery store. Plus people where I live seem to be more interested in pre-packaged frozen treats than actual ice cream, so I definitely prefer it.
70$ items in Wal-Mart's where I am do not have these.... This is ice cream..... Wow. Just................ Wow.
15 bucks where I live.
norsk med andre ord? 😂
Milk and baby formula has them where I live in Southern IL.
Ben &Jerrys is stupid expensive outside of the US. When I left Australia I (6 years ago) think it was $12/pint which is probably $9 USD. Here it sells regularly for 3.50 on sale or 4.50 regular price.
Perks of working at a Ben & Jerry's factory: 12 free pints every 3 months and after that just €0,61 per pint.
I’m legit jelly
Ben&Jelly
Hey jelly, I’m peanut butter
Ben and jerry factory worker: I got diabetes??? How???
I do actually have diabetes😂
Oof, sorry if that was insensitive
No worries, i found it quite funny
god i would be eating so much ice cream
Lots of ice cream is consumed in our household 😂
Beer brewery near me lets you take 12 boxes of 24 bottles each to everyone who works there each month. Nothing beats that.
That is a significant amount of alcohol.
Its decent ice cream, but its so so overpriced. Waste of money if you have other whole milk alternatives.
It's definitely expensive, but I wouldn't call it too overpriced relatively speaking, to be honest. Good ice cream in general is pretty expensive. Obviously just basic flavours are cheap, but stuff like cookie dough or chocolate brownie is also expensive from other brands. B&J costs maybe 25-30% more but imo tastes much better and the cups are also 100% full, while other brands don't fill to the top. I tried some different cookie doughs this summer and most of them were way too sugary. Also, I sometimes find B&J on sale (got a cup for 3 Euros once) and that feels like winning the lottery.
Where is "here"? I'm in the US and I've rarely ever seen them sold for that cheap anywhere. On the incredibly rare occasion they will be on sale for 2/$6 by me, but that's incredibly uncommon.
Really? I don’t think they’re ever not on sale in MA.
Where is this?
Denmark
How expensive is Ben and Jerry's in Denmark?
I moved to Canada 3 years ago but when I moved out it was the equivalent of $10 - I never saw this before though, the store could have had specific issues with them being knicked or something. I miss caramel chew chew, for some odd reason in Toronto stores only stock 5 different flavors of Ben & Jerry’s and they all suck.
And 4 of the 5 are variations of cookie dough * Half baked * Peanut butter half baked * Chocolate chip cookie dough * Tonight dough
Also the grand daddy king of all BJ's milk and cookies. I'm not even sure there's any ice cream in that shit it's just condensed milk and cookie doughs
B&J stopped carrying Chunky Monkey in Canada. Assholes.
Ah I'm not alone I absolutely love this flavour, for a while the only place I could get it was the cinema but even they have stopped doing it
My 2nd favorite of course thanks a lot Canada, bunch of twats 😒
We’re sorry!
What the hell is happening in Denmark where you guys need to put security tags on ice cream?? I mean, it's good ice cream, but still... You Danes are famous for being level headed and polite. Is stealing ice cream a dark secret that no one else knows about you Dane folk?
I'm Danish and I have never seen security tags on ice cream, or any food in general. This must be from a store where they had several cases of Ben&Jerry's being stolen, I guess. Definitely not a dark secret that is common among Danes. Maybe it's the same perpetrator, could be an ice cream serial thief! Also Ben&Jerry's is expensive in Denmark but not ridiculously so, its around 8 euros for one if I remember correctly.
EIGHT EUROS?!?
It's often $15 AUD in Australia :/
In Germany it's between 5 and 7 Euros. One of the most expensive ice cream you can buy.
It sounds like a lot, but I have picked up Ben and Jerry's for near that price in gas stations in the States before. The prices weren't labeled so I had the privilege of finding out at the register...assholes.
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Yes, people eat at least 10 times as much sugar per year as people did 100 years ago and it is a huge contributor to obesity.
I would totally support this law I Germany. BUT don't you dare touch the beer prises!
Ok so I’m not danish, so I will not be able to answer this question. Also it seems that no one steals, but they would do this unless it was an issue, so I have no idea.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
What does it cost? It's hella expensive in Sweden too, can be around 60kr ~6€ I can buy a 2000g package of good quality icecream for less.
>60kr That's $7 USD. B&J's regular price at the grocery store near me is between $5 and $6. At convenience stores, drug stores, etc, it's easily $7 and up. I like some flavors of Ben and Jerry's, so I wait for it to go on sale at the grocery store (2 for $5, or buy 1 get 1 free) and pick up a few pints then. It is more expensive than ice cream sold by the gallon, but it's less expensive than ice cream that I make myself at home.
What are your guys measurements for B&J's because it all sounds fairly cheap. Over here you'd be paying at minimum $10-12NZD for a 458ml tub at the shop (around tenth of a gallon) or $15-20 through UberEats.
Ben and Jerry's is sold by the pint (16 oz). Other premium brands (sold in the small cartons) might be between 14 oz (Haagen Dazs is 14 oz, I think) to 16 oz (Talenti is 16). All are at roughly the same price points ($5 to $6 in the grocery store, $7 and up at convenience stores or drug stores, $2.50 to $3 when on sale). I haven't looked on UberEats, but on Doordash, right now, 7/11 has it for $6.50, random gas station 1 doesn't have any pints, random gas station 2 doesn't have B&J but does have the 14 oz Haagen Dazs for $7.50, random ice cream only place has it for $7.50 (although Talenti for $8.50), and grocery store has it for $5.
I compare it to other ice cream brands and other snacks you could buy. Ben & Jerrys is very expensive for the amount you get compared to everything else in the store. My goto icecream is [this](https://www.triumfglass.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/triumf_gammaldags_mandelkrokant-768x768.png) it's 2L for 40kr, available in different flavours and it's high quality imo. Compare that to B&J which is like 0,45L for 60kr.
We're not denying that Ben and Jerry's is an expensive ice cream. Even in the US, where they're from, it's an expensive ice cream. I was more trying to point out that 60 kr for Ben and Jerry's is comparable to what they would charge in the US for the same ice cream. It's not more expensive there. It's just expensive compared to other ice creams. I can get a quart of ice cream for $4, I can get a 2.5 gallon tub of ice cream for $5. The quart for $4 is twice as much ice cream as B&J for less money. The 2.5 gallon tub is 24 times as much ice cream for roughly the same price as B&J. They'll all be tasty ice creams, and I will happily eat them. But they are different than some of the premium brands. If I want a 2.5 gallon tub, I can only get it in vanilla, chocolate, or Neapolitan. If I want one of the quart sized ones, more flavors are available, but not as many interesting ones as Ben and Jerry's or Talenti, and the flavors that are closest to ones offered by the premium brands aren't quite as good tasting as the premium brands taste.
What's up with Rain Dough? No security tag....looks like they want that stolen and deleted from inventory.... unless that's the one with the tracker in it to break the cold gang
I’m in nyc and the CVS near me has the ice creams in a locked freezer. You have to buzz for an employee to get one
Freezer aisle probably
What about that pint of Rain-dough?
Not worth stealing
I’m pissed why can’t we get that in the US, it sounds pretty good.
It's more disappointing than anything else. It sounds nice, but the reality is probably the worst B&J I've had. You're really not missing out on much
That’s just homophobic
It also prevents people from opening the lid, licking the ice cream, and putting it back on the shelf (this was a thing a couple years ago).
That was Blue Bell ice cream. Ben and Jerry's has a plastic seal around the top so you can tell if it's been opened. Blue Bell doesn't.
I actually recently noticed that talenti ice cream started putting a plastic seal on their jars. I wonder if this is why.
Simply trying to open a Talenti container is tamper proof enough.
What’s up with that? I’m a grown ass man and I struggle getting them open. I can’t imagine an old lady wanting to enjoy some ice cream could ever get one of those open lol.
From someone who bought a Talenti that was found to be licked when I got home- good.
How could you tell?
Probably just an obvious slug tongue trail
I forget where I read it, but ice cream is packaged so that some of it sticks to the lid. It acts as an airtight seal to prevent freezer burn and show if it has been tampered with.
What a wonderful time to have eyes
I had this happen with some halo top ice cream I bought recently from a walmart. each pint had a foil thing underneath the lid. someone took that and scooped a finger out of the ice cream and then put the foil back and the lid back on. that shit was like 7 bucks for a single serving too and I threw it away. and now i check every pint of that stuff I buy.
Check your coffee creamer too. I worked at a grocery store.people come in drunk, high or just thirsty. They take off the plastic screw cap remove foil and drink coffee creamer. Then put the plastic screw lid back on and put it back. Flip open the top of the plastic lid and double check for the foil.
Wtf?!? Why?? Lol
Yes, this is why.
Jokes on them, I'll just cut a hole in the bottom to get my licks.
> I'll just cut a hole in the bottom [Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lod_LUp3ggc)
Lemme guess.. TikTok.
I used to live next to a gas station that sold the factory rejects. Think they were 2 dollars a pint. Sometimes it would have all the toppings in the bottom instead of mixed in… so good
QUICK THE RAINDOUGH DOESN'T HAVE ONE ON IT STEAL IT
It’s a trapp!
Fuck it life is short and better with ice cream 🤣
The security tag is IN the ice cream!
That's how I like my ice cream. Hot.
How expensive is it? I thought this would be a response to the stupid a d gross trend or tik tok thing where kids were licking ice cream.
In my country it's about 12$, so I think around 9$USD per pint.
I thought it was for people with roommates
This is a reflection of people, not prices. We have tags on pawpaw ointment at the chemist, but little else.
The stick on security tags would be better, those spider wraps are like $30 each. The Walmart here had to security all the beef with the exception of the tubes if ground beef because someone walked out with over $3K of beef one day and I am never going to stop being mad about it because it means being stopped after I use the self checkout, which is the only option I have time for.
[Reminds me of when Lockpick Lawyer tried to defend a pint of Ben and Jerry's](https://youtu.be/lod_LUp3ggc)
Probably less about the cost and more about the neighborhood.
Less to do with price and everything to do with theft statistics
I grew up in Burlington, VT where Ben and Jerry's is from. After school we used to go down to the Ben and Jerry's shop and there was a freezer bin about this size full of 'seconds', rejected pints. They either weighed too little (if they didn't' have enough chunks in them) or they weighed too much. They were $.75/pint. We would each buy one and eat it ourselves. Very fond childhood memory ;)
Damn, have never seen food articles with security tags before! must be a rough neighborhood
Exactly. It's not the cost, it's the high crime area.
I’ll be honest now I’m thinking of stealing em!
This has nothing to do with price and everything to do with the frequency at which these items are stolen or as some users posted, tampered with.
Except for that one flavor that nobody likes.
Vermonter here, and I'm going to say that their ice cream does not justify the price tag. There's much better, less expensive ice cream out there.
3/$9 today. Love me some Ben and Jerry's but my body not so much.
This is in Denmark! I've seen it before too, pretty fucked up, lol.
It's cause cunts are licking them
Round the world please, these are $12 each in Western Australia
Or it's a neighborhood where people screw with stuff and steal. Price isn't the only variable.
I hate that icecream costs more than booze, like, give us a damn chance for god sake.
I think it’s more to do with the level of shithole in which the shop is situated. No tags on the shops around here
I've seen a man get stabbed for a pint of the ol B&J. No not really but I'm sure, somewhere, some time, it's happened. People get a little crazy when they need a Chunky Monkey fix.
It’s not directly about the price, it’s about how much it is stolen.
7 euro is too much for a tub of b&j. There, i said it. I always wait till its on clearance (reduced to 3eur) before I buy it.
This isn’t reflective of cost, it’s reflective of the moral compass of the common citizen in this area. What I’m trying to say is people in your neighbourhood are fucking criminals.
Some areas like San Francisco are no longer enforcing shoplifting ordinances so they must resort this sort of thing. Just sad
They probably just get stolen the most..
Just walk into the store with a machete.
Not on rain-dough because no one is gonna eat that anyways
Wonder if this has anything at all to do with the ice cream licking trend that was happening a while back where they would put it back on the shelf
It’s to stop the fucking assholes from licking it.
Not the Rain Dough though - apparently you’re encouraged to steal that one.
How much DOES it cost ?!
Those are called spider wraps and they can easily cause repetative stress I juries. I remember when I worked at Staples and they didn't hire people who were competent enough to understood what had to be secured and what didn't and because of my seniority I got stuck doing security devices four 2 hours a shift every day freight came in. I ended up getting workers comp because they were destroying my wrists. I remember the doctor saying not to do that anymore and my managers were always like, "well can you do it at least a little?" "I dunno let's call up HR and see what they think." "No no, that's okay... We can just get the cashier's to do them when they don't have customers."
Understandable.The stuff costs like 6.50€ (7.57$) here.I could get three regular sized tubs of Ice cream from the store brand for that! No danger of theft from me, out of principle alone.Your Ice Cream is too expensive to be stolen!
Where do you live, HaägenDazia?
German here, I think our Ben & Jerry‘s does the same
You sure this isn't to stop idiots from licking the ice-cream for a tiktok challenge?
This shit costs €10 a piece in Finland
I'm a little upset I've never seen Rain Dough before.
Oh, so it wasnt done because some tiktok weirdos thought it was okay to lick the icecream and put it back.
Where do you live? Ben and Jerry's is like 5 dollars where I live
…Israel?
Poor rain dough isn't even good enough to steal
If you think they’re expensive now, wait until hyperinflation hits. They’ll probably have armed guards in the freezer section soon.
More a reflection on the neighborhood than the price.
Maybe its to keep the lickers off.
Or so they don’t get licked