I don't know whether it's driven by shoplifting, or maybe the company being "proactive". At least 2 Target stores here, in a very expensive university town, ha

I don't know whether it's driven by shoplifting, or maybe the company being "proactive". At least 2 Target stores here, in a very expensive university town, have recently installed rows of locked glass door cabinets, for securing products like... soap. One of the locations, I'd expect to have some shoplifting shrink, though not too bad. The other location, a lot less. (Also, anecdotally, the employees seem more aggressive lately about approaching people to "help". Which tends to come across as insincere and likely a Loss Prevention tactic, which is creepy and offensive, and makes me leave ASAP. Which I guess they might chalk up as an LP win. Nope, I was there to conduct commerce. Now they've made me dislike in-store shopping as much as I dislike their often abysmal Web order pickup experience. They're not nearly the worst store, brick&mortar or online, but I don't understand why they're moving in the direction of trashy with the image.)