Walmart and Razor Blades

[DeadAye]

My grandfather on my mom's side used the same razor everyday for years and years. I'd bet pop's dad did too.
Neither one of them died from bleeding out due to shaving cuts.

A good straight razor, a strop, and a brush & mug are all you need for a very long time.

Or do as I do - Have your barber trim your beard when you get your hair cut

 

[pluspea]

Stopped by our local family dollar store, not the same as dollar general, and bought a nice 3 blade razor that I really like, and 5 replacement blades for not quite 4 dollars. While I was there I picked up a 16 box of aa batteries, guaranteed or you money back for five dollars, I will shop there again.

 

[blujax01]

Shave just about everyday. Occasionally I might miss a Saturday now and then. I'm a two pass shaver and blades last about a week and a half to two weeks. I clean my double edge Merkur after each shave. I think that adds to the blade's life. I also use a brush and shaving soap instead of the cream. Not sure if that has an effect on blades but I like it better.

Another mug and brush man here. Two pass shaver, too. I twist open the Parker and rinse it off. Must be the blades...

Thanks!

 

[blujax01]

...

A good straight razor, a strop, and a brush & mug are all you need for a very long ...

That's a real art, right there. I'd need a volunteer to practice on before I'd try it on myself!

 

[feralmerril]

Earlier this year we bought a computer chair. We got the box home and I found close to $800s of loot stuffed in the box with the chair! Computer games, two smart phones, that type of stuff. We took it back and they gave the wife I think, a $30 gift certificate. They wer ringing up the stuff we brought back so I asked the ammount. They had just fired someone from that department that they had suspected.
I am not a walmart basher. I get a lot of entertainment there sitting on the bench a couple times a week profiling.

 

[Poodle Soup]

They lock up what people are stealing. I think it has less to do with resale and more to do with how expensive they are to actually buy. I live on the edge of a bad neighborhood. The local CVS has razor blades, condoms, formula, and a few other items behind glass. It's what poor people are walking out with.

 

[BJoe]

Look for baby formula. That is also locked up and they record your D.L. info. I was told it is like cold medicine. Drug makers/dealers use it for some kind of mixing thing.

 

[shouldazagged]

I am not a walmart basher. I get a lot of entertainment there sitting on the bench a couple times a week profiling.

It was on this forum that I first heard the splendid term "Wal-Martians".

I've been a people-watcher all my life, and was a professional observer for nearly forty years. The Martian-profiling at Wally World can be really fascinating. I just wish they would put a bench in the sporting goods department.

 

[kwselke]

I first heard about razor blades being a high theft item in graduate business school in 1986. It's not a new phenomenon. The Tide I heard about a couple of years ago.

 

[feralmerril]

Years ago I had my truck stolen right out of my driveway. I had just received a sears charge card in the mail and had left it unopened in the truck. The next day I thought I better double check with sears. Well over $4,000s had been charged in the local store plus another about 40 miles away. I went through the receipts withe the stores security woman and we found where my name was forged on all but two, and on them the woman signed her own name, a kiane neimuth. The security woman said it looks like we have a internal problem here! (Probley she knew the clerk). I took copys of everything and took it to my detective working the case. We were trying to figure out the pronouniation of the name, and I said looks like kiane neimuth to me. Another detective was walking behind us when I said that and he said I know that name! We got her on a theft about a year ago. They checked the computer and found she had just got out of jail! A couple days later my house was broke in and I lost a fortune of guns! I had just got back from wisconsin and had to put my dad in a assisted living home. I had brought a bunch of family guns back with me and couldnt get them in my already full safe so they were loose in the house. When the truck was stolen I had left a revolver slightly customised in the truck. That tipped them off I was a gun guy, I was watched and the house was hit. (I had just pulled into the driveway from my wisconsin / california trip the night the truck was stolen). They caught the woman but she wouldnt crack. She just said someone gave her a ride in the truck and she did admit she stold the CC from the truck. However I also found out she originaly got arrested for almost the same type crime orginaly. A car salesman I knew said his daughter had brought a friend and that girls friend (neimuth) to his house and a day later his house was broke into and his guns stolen. He asked neighbors and they reported niemuths didscription to him that they seen her standing in front of a car by the house while some guys were hauling stuff out. She didnt go to jail on that one but got probation which she broke and went and served a few months for breaking probation when she got out and I got hit! I went to a hearing and the judge gave her something like effectivly a few months! I got up and started to protest that I lost a lot more than just the credit card but the judge shut me up and gave me the bums rush! California is nothing but a mill to clear the docket. I have no respect for the court system in california.

 

[PALADIN85020]

I'm finding it harder to get Gillette Mach II blades with the slip-strip, so I just look 'em up on the internet and buy bulk from whoever offers them cheapest. I also don't react well to being treated like an untrustworthy child and having to say "Mother may I" for blades. I have a stock that should last me well into the second half of 2014. There's always another way; many times it involves walking away from paranoiac, overprotective, underthought and inconvenient sales practices. And yes, I know I'm a curmudgeon.

John

 

[Roadtrash]

If they have them locked up when I go in I just wait till the people get there to open up the cabinet. It's cheaper than paying for gas to go somewhere else.

 

[blujax01]

What a few people don't realize is that these new razors use replacement blades that cost $2 to $5 EACH. A pack can run almost fifty bucks (Gillette Fusion - $44.97 a dozen ) and is real pocketable.

In Ohio they're not "behind glass", they're in plastic boxes measuring about 5x5x3 and you take them to the checkout just like everything else. The clerk then uses a magnet or something to get them loose.

We are our own worst enemy. Theft costs all of us and it's a shame that these steps have to be taken.

It's a damn shame...

 

[shouldazagged]

What a few people don't realize is that these new razors use replacement blades that cost $2 to $5 EACH. A pack can run almost fifty bucks (Gillette Fusion - $44.97 a dozen...

I simply must not get started on that theme. I'm guilty of too much thread drift anyway.

 

[arjay]

I've gone back to the cheap 2 blade disposables at the grocery store.I like to think a patchy shave adds to my old guy charm.

 

[shouldazagged]

I've gone back to the cheap 2 blade disposables at the grocery store.I like to think a patchy shave adds to my old guy charm.

That's all I've used for many years--the ones without that slug-slimy lubricant strip--and I get fine shaves, using hand soap lather or the shampoo I'm using that day. My elderly kisser ain't that sensitive.