Not to mention in my local Safeway, I often have to press the help button multiple times, and wait sometimes 5 minutes or more to get assistance with the liquor

Not to mention in my local Safeway, I often have to press the help button multiple times, and wait sometimes 5 minutes or more to get assistance with the liquor cabinet... ... which is still one step ahead of the battery area. Where there's no button, and when you do flag down an employee, they tell you that you have to go to customer service, because they have a key, wait in line there behind returns, lottery tickets, cigarette sales, to have them walk with you to the battery area, you point out what you want, and then they take it to a register that you then have to go through that register, regardless of the line, if you were still shopping. It's ... fucking dystopian. And I don't live in an economically challenged area.