the funny thing about the “shoplifting” factoid from 2022 is that recently it was revealed a ton of companies just straight-up lied about it for insurance fraud purposes and the whole thing only served to make customers’ experiences worse and retail workers’ lives more of a living hell. of course there are no consequences lmao.
@@rachelhall4808basically a store will have insurance for when ppl steal stuff then they'll take a bunch of stuff and throw it away or take it home and claim it was stolen allowing them to cash the insurance payout. This would actually explain why ppl find so much stuff in the garbage when it's not even food. Like you can go dumpster diving and find hundreds of dollars worth of make up easy
12:20 nah Etsy has also been flooded with drop shippers using different profile names to sell the same "handmade jewelery" or "handmade crafts." In fact, it's getting harder for smaller artists to function on there because of that and people just stealing art and selling it as their own stickers, framed pictures, t-shirts, etc.
Please don't give up on us makers, there's still real, hand made items! Just make sure you check shops, read about the seller. The real ones will have their story, and you can tell the fakes
@@alioldham2388 are you an Etsy seller? What do you make? At this point, I'm just bookmarking genuine stores in case I need to get something in the future 🥲
You know what pisses me off? How CHEAP everything is! When things are cheap something bad is happening. Someone is getting exploited. PERIOD. There is no logical way a bowl should be $1 new. There is no way a chickens life should be $5. Things SHOULD be expensive. That is how it SHOULD work. People should be paid WAY more for stuff and it should be higher quality and most of us should own and consume less. Our obsession with cheapness is what is destroying everything. No one wants to hear that though. Chocolate is an insane LUXURY, yet if Snickers increased their price people would freak out. We are spoiled, and we are fine with exploiting others.
It takes me hours, even days of scrolling through things sometimes, to find what I want made from a real human in their home. I mainly use it for 3d niche handmade cards, realistic food candles, and printable teaching materials. I stay away from things like water bottles, bags, or any other customizable bulk order accessories.
Oh yeah btw SHEIN constantly steals the designs from small independent artists, and the artists can’t match the prices to compete because SHEIN just uses shitty materials and child labor. Yay.
I got some things from Shein a bit ago because I wanted lace sleeved jackets, which aren't in style right now and as a result not in stores, and only like one was decent quality. I got four -.-
@naesala A youtuber that I watched today was talking about how SHEIN had scorpions, worms, dead star fish in the products. Also chemicals that can react badly to the skin.
Same for me. To me, shopping was like twice a year event to catch up on all seasonal clothes and shoes all at once, and after that it was just food and other consumables forever. Good times.
5:29 “What did you do today? Probably nothing”. Actually, I rescued a tiny little Walmart parking lot kitten and I’ve been taking care of her all night and all morning. So yes, I indeed did do something.
6:51 as a person who works retail and runs a fitting room: no they do not get washed. we take them from the fitting room when you're done trying them on and fold/hang them back and put them away where they belong. the only time we don't is if it somehow got too dirty (like if someone stepped on the item with an intense amout of dirt on their shoe, or. did something. to the item. *cough*), and we damage the item out to be sent back to the warehouse, where i'd assume they either wash the item if it's just dirty, or completely scrap it, like if it was returned and has a hole somewhere. it's nasty. i've had to start keeping lotion with me behind the counter in the fitting room because i've been using so much hand sanitizer that my hands are drying out. like, touching just one or two items of clothing leaves a dusty, almost sticky residue on my hands. so this is a PSA to always wear underwear when you're going to be trying on clothes in a retail store and to always wash the clothes you buy as soon as you get home. that shit is nasty.
I never even thought of people trying stuff on without underwear omg 🥲 And as someone who works retail part time I can confirm you are stating absolute facts
I would ask my employer for some disposable gloves. I can't imagine how dry your poor hands must have been. I worked in a retail clothing store in the early 90's. Thank goodness I never saw anything gross.
@@alltheleavesarebrownn all women's swim suits have a label in the crotch telling you to leave your panties on. I always hated trying to imagine how a bikini would look when wearing undies. 😂
@@DarkFire1536 oof, i would but we're not allowed to use them unless we're cleaning the restrooms on nights where no cleaning crew is going to be there (why they wouldn't have one on some days in insane to me, especially becaue it's on weekends), and after working for 6 months in a gas station i refuse to clean another public restroom again. and something super gross i saw one time was a bunch of dip on the floor of the fitting room. someone had dip in their mouth and just...spit it out on the floor. one of my coworkers had to clean it up, bacause there were no janitors. they're only there in the mornings. it feels illegal, but i know it isn't. i need a better job.
His descent into 'the world's fucked, we're all fucked, to hell with it, let's just dance into the end times' is a feeling I am very familiar with. Just every now and then, I hear something newly upsetting and I just wanna throw my hands in the air and give up... And the frequency of those moments in increasing, so that's great.
For me, the worst part about going shopping is going with other people. I usually I can go grab the thing I need and get out no problem, but when I'm with other people I feel obligated to hang around, and then they ask me for opinions and when I give an answer they'll ignore it for what they were thinking about, and then they'll be as slow as possible window shopping and debating buying more things as if they have the money to do so. The only person I can stand going with is my mom cause she gave me the mentality of getting shopping done quickly.
Shopping for necessities i compeltely agree. But going to the mall to show amd/or window shop for clothes used to be a past time for teenagers, it used to be fun because you could walk out with bags worth of clothes on sale. Now theres nothing worth buying becauee of online shopping and garbage retailers
Every word in his returns rant made the whole thing 20% funnier. Old woman, no receipt, nowhere to be, half a waffle maker, from 1932, not from the same store. I don't understand how he can condense so much humor into one sentence.
when i worked at michaels, i had an old ass rude ass lady come up like i wanna return this, so i go ok, and ahe hands me a falling apart velvet wreath hook that we did not sell in store, so i said hey we sont sell this maybe you got it elseqhere?, and she goes NO I BOUGHT IT HERE last christmas, so i sit there i say maam we cannot take back an item from a full calendar year ago and ahe goes WHERE IS YOUR MANAGER, so i get my manager who tells her exactly what i did and she says THIS IS RIDICULOUS and then storms out, taking her falling apart velvet wreath hook with her
"books are for nerds" says the nerd wearing a shirt from a company that donates money to libraries and literacy initiatives. Don't worry, we still love you Big Tugg!
Kroger used to have a mini daycare for kids whose parents want to shop in peace. Walmart used to have game kiosks with demos of the latest product. Target used to…exist lol
That scenario about the refund is so painfully true the only thing missing is the customer doesn’t speak English and then gets mad at you for not understanding another language or their erratic gestures
denim is a specific way of weaving cotton! it's blue because it's dyed, and always has been. modern denim often uses a combination of cotton and another material to make it more flexible, like spandex and nylon.
Im a security guard for a private security company and what you said is 100% right my job is basically stand there and look pretty ("intimidating") and then call the cops
this is a dark statement but roll with me: if the dept. stores are so abandoned im surprised people dont "break bad" in them and run a business or multiple businesses as a front to hide their real operation. The dea and other such police agencies are able to find labs based on electricity usage but i doubt a fully loaded mall uses less, malls have creepy basements and ventilation systems anyway it may require running multiple stores in a block but still, ( they can falsify the p.o.s for the sake of laundering money, have their customers appear to buy (insert retail goods) while discreetly buying illicit goods, hide in plain sight then use the capital to move to different malls and repeat the process and switch locations as needed. if they use a certain percentage from the operation to build up the mall, town and payoff the necessary people all the while circulating money into the local economy. Plus done right they'd be able to mask the electrical usage as what's required to run the mall and its various machinery and such. Plus depending on the mall they could open up w.e supplies stores such that they control and have regular access to the necessary equipment. malls use 111,000 the average lab uses 75k to 80k lol if you ever see a home depot and a pharmacy within a mall and/or strip mall, someone came to the same conclusion i did.
I think the biggest problem with this as a concept is that a "front" needs to ideally NOT attract constant foot traffic. Like, some crummy tax office or a busted-up laundromat isn't exactly somewhere that people go to hang out or meander. You'd also need to buy out the entire mall, and staff it with people in-the-know. Because otherwise someone from a legit store in the mall will notice what's going on. That's a whole lot of loose ends, and a whole lot of paychecks that the Fed is going to look at.
@@loganpennington9104 i mean its just logic and i think it'd make for a decent tv show and its all strictly hypothetical but if someone does it well they were inspired by my idea... and i deserve a small cut XD
I remember when the Chicago Macy's was still Marshall Fields. I used to go there with my grandma, it's where i learned the concept of "window shopping" AKA "put it on your wishlist." I can't remember much of it because I was like 7, but I distinctly recall a malt shoppe/ice cream parlor in there. The guy had the paper hat, served their milkshakes and sundaes in glass, there were even checkered floors and a jukebox.
@@phantmdraws4898basically because there issues are worse they think other ppl who struggle but not as much there struggle doesn't matter. I too can't find shit that fits me properly and I'm 31 31
Not to mention, clothes from places like shein, temu, and whatever else comes from places like china where they dont have the same laws in places as the usa and the clothes and other items are genuinely toxic. Currently learning how to make clothes from scratch and get land in the middle of nowhere. Id rather be a weirdo.
Honestly the US is barely any better than China when it comes to industry regulations. The main difference comes in Chinese labor being much cheaper due to high job demand and very loose labor laws If you want to buy things from countries with strict industry regulations and strong labor laws then you're looking for EU or Brazil
I once had to go through a line for checkout where the clerk was a pastor (one of the extremist ones that is always asking you stupid questions that I don’t give a fuck about), and every single bag he put in a card asking you to “turn to god to save yourself from the fires of hell”. I honestly could not care less, and I just wanted to buy some damn gummy bears in peace
Another thing about shopping is that they never have anything that cool/fun or non-clothing (at least to me and the mall I go to) because every time I go to the mall I only get snacks and maybe a plushie or a rare cool piece of clothing because every store has the same. Damn. Thing. Literally the only stores I go to is bath & body works or maybe a geek store if they have anything good. Clothing shopping is honestly a nightmare for me
Shopping sucks. People need to stop buying excess clothes and stuff because they genuinely do NOT need more. Buy good quality clothing that will last for years and take care of it and you won't have to buy another piece of that clothing unless it's damaged. Even then you can have clothes altered and repaired for way cheaper than replacing it with something new. Honestly 2 years of buying good quality clothing when necessary, especially basic clothing that is timeless, and you probably will not have to buy new clothing for YEARS if you take proper care of your clothes.
it's policy for costco to accept anything no questions asked :) membership retention is their priority because the membership is how they maintain profits
As a kid I once got a fungus infection of the skin on the left side of my right thigh. The doctor said that it may have been contacted from clothes tried on. There's no way to tell for sure that that's where I got it from. But I don't like it. That's why when I shop for trousers, I always wear my long underpants - I think you call them _long johns,_ but _john_ has too many meanings in English and I'm afraid of saying the wrong thing, so I'm not calling them that. Sometimes they're also called _leggings,_ but I feel like leggings actually are a subtly different thing and those who call them that are wrong. I have no evidence of that. I just feel like it's the case. Anyway, that's why I never spontaneously look for trousers when I'm at some place where they are sold. I have to go out specifically for that and dress accordingly. You may think that when it's cold I would wear my long underpants anyway and could try on some trousers spontaneously. But I don't want to go try on clothes when I wear a thick jacket - one that gets too hot when inside so I'd have to take it off and hold it while I'm inside the shop.
We used to have a good mall in my town, it was bustling when I was young, but a Chinese company bought it out and with the help of Walmart, it became a ghost town. Sometimes I walk through the mall and I think it's like liminal space. I can almost hear the laughter of children in the space where the arcade used to be. I remember the JC Penny and the JB Toys. We had a lot of good things and Walmart and all the horrible companies that are like them destroyed that. Our mall here in Muskogee used to be great. . . Now it's just a place for old people to walk in. It's in a bad place in town so bless them for even going there, especially after the shootout. . .
I am 51. I serioulsy miss the experience of shopping at the mall. I also miss the experience of being able to afford an $85 pair of designer jeans because I was still living with my parents. 😂 The returns counter at a retail place feels like a pit of despair. However the worst thing, is being behind someone in line at the post office, who apparently has never been to the post office in their life, and there is only one worker.
7:36 The mall I used to work at had a security guard that DEFINITELY wanted to be a cop, but somehow failed cause boy was he intense. Also, he fully knew I worked there and would still hassle me on my way out when I closed, but only when I was alone (I’m black, and closers walk out when the mall is empty). He wouldn’t bother me if I was walking out with a coworker. Like this man would specifically follow *me* at an uncomfortable distance (I could constantly hear the whirring of his stupid segway behind me) and I had to get his supervisor involved. And it was t like it was just the two of us, there were other non-black closers walking out of their respective stores around the same time, and some people who would just loiter. But nope, he was too busy following me around to look at any of them. Apparently he’s had issues before.
Sadly, some are like that. They have these "policies" or "protocols" that are only for some people and not others and end up in trouble because they aren't paying attention on actual shoplifters. Had that happen in a sephora where the guy was clearly around me to see if I would act suspicious. I just bought something for my sister and as I was leaving someone was also leaving and it beeped on them. He should've been paying more attention to them!
8:50 might be in a minority, but lately I’m happy if I see a cashier. My Walmart doesn’t have them anymore, and I’ll take awkward small talk if it means I don’t have to figure out how to fit all my groceries in separate bags
Unions in Sweden have required stores to have at least one human cashier. The line is longer, but until I get an employee discount, I am putting the cashier to work.
Tucker, I wanna thank you so much for this video. I worked at Woodfield Mall for 4-5 years and while trading with the neighboring food places is cool, there’s nothing so quaint yet severely depressing like going down the escalator and seeing a scarce common area with Vietnam vets getting their steps in before clocking in at 11am on a Sunday.
@@leannamt406 it’s changed quite a bit lol my first day working there was the day a guy drove his SUV through the mall lol it was a messed up situation but it makes for a great story for a dinner party
1:09 no profound comment here. i just wanted to point out the eating sound was exactly in time with tugg's cadence. solid rhythm there. well done my friend
Denim is made of cotton. You absolutely could start your own cotton farm. It's blue because indigo dye didn't penetrate more than the surface of the threads, which somehow made it softer to wear over time, as other dye often made a fabric stiffer. With each wash it made the jeans fade a little, too, which was pleasing to the eye after a while. They were also durable as heck. Old timey prospectors loved that the jeans, with each wash, would get soft and also shape themselves over time to fit their bodies better, and thus Levi's was born.
"I'm a 30/30 pants, you can't find that" I find a hell of a lot more 30/30 than I do _32/29,_ my size, that's for dingadamn sure. many manufacturers just outright do not make 32/29. 30/29? yep. 34/29? you bet. 36, 38, even 40/29? sure, fuck it, why not? but 32/29? _nope._
2 reasons I hate shopping. 1) Lottery people. They stand there, play, buy, play, buy, repeat for 40 minutes. 2) people who pay with checks. They don't write anything on it at all ahead of time, and like the Lottery people, it takes them about 40 minutes to get 3 things.
denim was created for a more durable clothing material for miners and farmers which became popular due to it wide usage. It is more durable than regular cotton pants due to the adage of additional diagonal layers of cotton in the fabric. it is died blue because at the time when blue jeans were first being made blue was the easiest pigment that didn’t require heat to work.
I used to purchase from shein and its daughter company romwe a lot during college because i was poor and needed clothes for the new season and the types of clothes i wore changed drastically (jeans and tshirts to shorts and skirts and dresses) and i like a wide variety of styles so i was always able to make a ton of outfits i like. I still have clothes i wore in high school so i definitely still have most of the clothes from those websites, even the ones i never wore because they didn't fit or didn't look right because i hope i can fix them one day. I've only had one garment fall apart, and it was mostly just a bunch of holes appearing in the fabric, idk if it was due to washing and drying or because i had mice in that apartment 😳 but all other clothes i still have and use! But now that I've graduated and have a well paid full time job, I'm glad I'll be able to purchase higher quality clothing, or the fabric to make my own
9:00 When I worked at Kohl's as a cashier, before moving to the sales floor, you would get reprimanded if you didn't get enough people to sign up for rewards or apply for the credit card. They said even if the person isn't approved, getting them to do the application still counts. On the Kohl's employee subreddit, I'd heard of some people getting fired for not meeting conversion goals.
I always thought modern shopping was weird and you can't live without money to buy food and other necesities I want to support mom-and-pop stores but I just LOVE malls
I will say that, back in the early to mid thousands, malls were a pretty great place to be, still. People were starting to prevent pre/teens from loitering elsewhere or be alone walking the streets so the mall was a place you could go with friends and just wander around. Bring $20 and you'd have money for food and a snack or small item. My friends and i would go to the mall and hang around in the book store, then go to those random stores that always had a wide variety of stuff but never anything we thought people would actually buy, then finish our trip at the hot topic because they had fun cheap stuff and candy. Last time i went to that mall, there was only food, clothing, and books. One place sold nostalgic candy so i checked that out, but the lack of things to look at really meant there wasn't much to do so there was essentially no one there. I go to a mall in another state sometimes and even then i go to a full 2 stores (one the book store, the other an anime/east asian popular things). Anytime anything else has been interesting there, they're closed within the year. I think half that mall's empty stores now
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wassup tugg?
its not the diet that's unhealthy . its the being lazy
the funny thing about the “shoplifting” factoid from 2022 is that recently it was revealed a ton of companies just straight-up lied about it for insurance fraud purposes and the whole thing only served to make customers’ experiences worse and retail workers’ lives more of a living hell. of course there are no consequences lmao.
Yeah I was comment this! The propaganda that stores put out clearly worked well cause it fooled a lot of people
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What? Seriously. I don’t understand.
@@rachelhall4808basically a store will have insurance for when ppl steal stuff then they'll take a bunch of stuff and throw it away or take it home and claim it was stolen allowing them to cash the insurance payout. This would actually explain why ppl find so much stuff in the garbage when it's not even food. Like you can go dumpster diving and find hundreds of dollars worth of make up easy
12:20 nah Etsy has also been flooded with drop shippers using different profile names to sell the same "handmade jewelery" or "handmade crafts." In fact, it's getting harder for smaller artists to function on there because of that and people just stealing art and selling it as their own stickers, framed pictures, t-shirts, etc.
I used to get my parents gifts from etsy and appreciated the artisans and crafters, now there’s 10 sellers selling the exact same product images :(
Please don't give up on us makers, there's still real, hand made items! Just make sure you check shops, read about the seller. The real ones will have their story, and you can tell the fakes
@@alioldham2388 are you an Etsy seller? What do you make? At this point, I'm just bookmarking genuine stores in case I need to get something in the future 🥲
Ebay has improved at the pace etsy has gone down
now etsy having way too many dropship and scams.
"Wear a nice little ballgown to the end of the world" Tugg.. tugg you can't be this poetic it's not your style
I love the act of shopping; what I hate is the price of everything and how broke I am.
if you’re broke don’t go shopping. Stick to walmart and save your money, even if it sucks.
This! 😂
me to :/ also how little quality I get now for way more money..
You know what pisses me off? How CHEAP everything is!
When things are cheap something bad is happening. Someone is getting exploited. PERIOD.
There is no logical way a bowl should be $1 new. There is no way a chickens life should be $5.
Things SHOULD be expensive. That is how it SHOULD work. People should be paid WAY more for stuff and it should be higher quality and most of us should own and consume less.
Our obsession with cheapness is what is destroying everything. No one wants to hear that though.
Chocolate is an insane LUXURY, yet if Snickers increased their price people would freak out. We are spoiled, and we are fine with exploiting others.
@@loganpennington9104 walmart is still shopping tho
I hate to say it, but Etsy is now mostly just drop shipped garbage priced like handmade stuff
Came to say this
It takes me hours, even days of scrolling through things sometimes, to find what I want made from a real human in their home. I mainly use it for 3d niche handmade cards, realistic food candles, and printable teaching materials. I stay away from things like water bottles, bags, or any other customizable bulk order accessories.
Oh yeah btw SHEIN constantly steals the designs from small independent artists, and the artists can’t match the prices to compete because SHEIN just uses shitty materials and child labor. Yay.
Yes the Chinese business model lol
I got some things from Shein a bit ago because I wanted lace sleeved jackets, which aren't in style right now and as a result not in stores, and only like one was decent quality. I got four -.-
@naesala A youtuber that I watched today was talking about how SHEIN had scorpions, worms, dead star fish in the products. Also chemicals that can react badly to the skin.
I steal the designs from Shein and make them myself. For myself, not for sale.
@@randomwolfygirl r u a haylo hayley fan too?
7:20 bro, you're aware of the fact that you have to keep your underwear on when trying clothes, right?
I don’t think he understands anything tbh
was thinking the same! imagine to zip up while things are all loosey goosey down there 😰
no you dont?
@@Theironminer-ky2pg WHAT THE HELL?!?!
some people don't wear underwear.
Tugg what doesn't suck at this point
Edit: oh fu@k
Everything sucks to tugg
Same exact thought
Frogs. He loves frogs.. adores them actualy.
He doesn’t suck, he tuggs
cats?
lowkey shopping is NOT what movies made it like
5:29 "what do you do today?" It's not even 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday. I barely crawled out of bed in an hour ago.
Hi I'm from the future. It's 18:00 over here. get your life together man
It’s 16:00 here get your life in order!
U were up at 9 on a Saturday? Ambitious
@@JujFujfr. I got up at 10 lol
@@Yellow_The_Nerd and still, by my reckoning, a task that requires herculean effort
I'm from a time when going shopping was a true event. School clothes shopping at Sears was a big day for me.
Damn you are old
Sears has been bankrupt for like 15 years lol
JC Penney for me 😊.
Thats not even old, you must be retarded or a foreigner to be this stupid. @@shadowofseattle1338
Same for me. To me, shopping was like twice a year event to catch up on all seasonal clothes and shoes all at once, and after that it was just food and other consumables forever. Good times.
"Hell sucks, it sucks really bad. Hmm, maybe I'm being too emotional? I never really researched hell. Maybe it's a good place after all?" ~Tugg
5:29 “What did you do today? Probably nothing”. Actually, I rescued a tiny little Walmart parking lot kitten and I’ve been taking care of her all night and all morning. So yes, I indeed did do something.
Cute! Wishing you and the kitten the best:)
@@JaesdaesThank you so much!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 She’s currently purrfectly asleep on my chest, all nice and warm and fed.
Well done!
@@WhammytapThank you!!!!
You were chosen by the cat lottery? Lucky! I hope the little one is doing okay, good luck!
6:51 as a person who works retail and runs a fitting room: no they do not get washed. we take them from the fitting room when you're done trying them on and fold/hang them back and put them away where they belong. the only time we don't is if it somehow got too dirty (like if someone stepped on the item with an intense amout of dirt on their shoe, or. did something. to the item. *cough*), and we damage the item out to be sent back to the warehouse, where i'd assume they either wash the item if it's just dirty, or completely scrap it, like if it was returned and has a hole somewhere. it's nasty. i've had to start keeping lotion with me behind the counter in the fitting room because i've been using so much hand sanitizer that my hands are drying out. like, touching just one or two items of clothing leaves a dusty, almost sticky residue on my hands.
so this is a PSA to always wear underwear when you're going to be trying on clothes in a retail store and to always wash the clothes you buy as soon as you get home. that shit is nasty.
I never even thought of people trying stuff on without underwear omg 🥲
And as someone who works retail part time I can confirm you are stating absolute facts
I would ask my employer for some disposable gloves. I can't imagine how dry your poor hands must have been.
I worked in a retail clothing store in the early 90's. Thank goodness I never saw anything gross.
@@alltheleavesarebrownn all women's swim suits have a label in the crotch telling you to leave your panties on. I always hated trying to imagine how a bikini would look when wearing undies. 😂
@@DarkFire1536 i guess swimsuits are safe then let’s hope the rest are too 🙏
@@DarkFire1536 oof, i would but we're not allowed to use them unless we're cleaning the restrooms on nights where no cleaning crew is going to be there (why they wouldn't have one on some days in insane to me, especially becaue it's on weekends), and after working for 6 months in a gas station i refuse to clean another public restroom again.
and something super gross i saw one time was a bunch of dip on the floor of the fitting room. someone had dip in their mouth and just...spit it out on the floor. one of my coworkers had to clean it up, bacause there were no janitors. they're only there in the mornings. it feels illegal, but i know it isn't. i need a better job.
His descent into 'the world's fucked, we're all fucked, to hell with it, let's just dance into the end times' is a feeling I am very familiar with. Just every now and then, I hear something newly upsetting and I just wanna throw my hands in the air and give up... And the frequency of those moments in increasing, so that's great.
Wait until you're in your 70s. What you're doing now is practice. :)
For me, the worst part about going shopping is going with other people. I usually I can go grab the thing I need and get out no problem, but when I'm with other people I feel obligated to hang around, and then they ask me for opinions and when I give an answer they'll ignore it for what they were thinking about, and then they'll be as slow as possible window shopping and debating buying more things as if they have the money to do so. The only person I can stand going with is my mom cause she gave me the mentality of getting shopping done quickly.
Shopping for necessities i compeltely agree. But going to the mall to show amd/or window shop for clothes used to be a past time for teenagers, it used to be fun because you could walk out with bags worth of clothes on sale. Now theres nothing worth buying becauee of online shopping and garbage retailers
I like shopping alone for the opposite reason! I'm the one that likes wandering in stores aimlessly in a family of quick shoppers.
at least tugg didn’t talk about the cold war again
Or communism
He did rant about an important part of capitalism, thought
Every word in his returns rant made the whole thing 20% funnier.
Old woman, no receipt, nowhere to be, half a waffle maker, from 1932, not from the same store. I don't understand how he can condense so much humor into one sentence.
when i worked at michaels, i had an old ass rude ass lady come up like i wanna return this, so i go ok, and ahe hands me a falling apart velvet wreath hook that we did not sell in store, so i said hey we sont sell this maybe you got it elseqhere?, and she goes NO I BOUGHT IT HERE last christmas, so i sit there i say maam we cannot take back an item from a full calendar year ago and ahe goes WHERE IS YOUR MANAGER, so i get my manager who tells her exactly what i did and she says THIS IS RIDICULOUS and then storms out, taking her falling apart velvet wreath hook with her
"books are for nerds" says the nerd wearing a shirt from a company that donates money to libraries and literacy initiatives. Don't worry, we still love you Big Tugg!
Kroger used to have a mini daycare for kids whose parents want to shop in peace.
Walmart used to have game kiosks with demos of the latest product.
Target used to…exist lol
I remember that! Our Kroger turned that daycare into an extension of the game/tech section 💔
Target still has a lot of stores (unless you’re Canadian)
@@nijuuroku yeah, here in the US, (I’m in AK, which is west of Canada), we have plenty of them!
That scenario about the refund is so painfully true the only thing missing is the customer doesn’t speak English and then gets mad at you for not understanding another language or their erratic gestures
denim is a specific way of weaving cotton! it's blue because it's dyed, and always has been. modern denim often uses a combination of cotton and another material to make it more flexible, like spandex and nylon.
Im a security guard for a private security company and what you said is 100% right my job is basically stand there and look pretty ("intimidating") and then call the cops
0:55 Nike was the goddess of victory....
Anyone else here just watch videos of Greek mythology all the time?
@@UnwantedWeaselleave. A person can know a greek goddess without being a fan of a horny degen "hehehe, BEWBS AND ASSES" gacha trashcan.
My thought exactly
NUH UH
@@blueshadows684yes,
this is a dark statement but roll with me:
if the dept. stores are so abandoned im surprised people dont "break bad" in them and run a business or multiple businesses as a front to hide their real operation. The dea and other such police agencies are able to find labs based on electricity usage but i doubt a fully loaded mall uses less, malls have creepy basements and ventilation systems anyway
it may require running multiple stores in a block but still, ( they can falsify the p.o.s for the sake of laundering money, have their customers appear to buy (insert retail goods) while discreetly buying illicit goods, hide in plain sight then use the capital to move to different malls and repeat the process and switch locations as needed.
if they use a certain percentage from the operation to build up the mall, town and payoff the necessary people all the while circulating money into the local economy. Plus done right they'd be able to mask the electrical usage as what's required to run the mall and its various machinery and such. Plus depending on the mall they could open up w.e supplies stores such that they control and have regular access to the necessary equipment.
malls use 111,000 the average lab uses 75k to 80k
lol if you ever see a home depot and a pharmacy within a mall and/or strip mall, someone came to the same conclusion i did.
hey fam i think you’re on a list now
Dude
I think the biggest problem with this as a concept is that a "front" needs to ideally NOT attract constant foot traffic.
Like, some crummy tax office or a busted-up laundromat isn't exactly somewhere that people go to hang out or meander.
You'd also need to buy out the entire mall, and staff it with people in-the-know. Because otherwise someone from a legit store in the mall will notice what's going on.
That's a whole lot of loose ends, and a whole lot of paychecks that the Fed is going to look at.
this the kinda comment you keep to urself lol
@@loganpennington9104 i mean its just logic and i think it'd make for a decent tv show and its all strictly hypothetical but if someone does it well they were inspired by my idea... and i deserve a small cut XD
I remember when the Chicago Macy's was still Marshall Fields. I used to go there with my grandma, it's where i learned the concept of "window shopping" AKA "put it on your wishlist." I can't remember much of it because I was like 7, but I distinctly recall a malt shoppe/ice cream parlor in there. The guy had the paper hat, served their milkshakes and sundaes in glass, there were even checkered floors and a jukebox.
As a person with a 28 waist, 34 length, hearing you talk about having trouble finding 30x30 is maddening
How???…
Ok longlegs
@@phantmdraws4898basically because there issues are worse they think other ppl who struggle but not as much there struggle doesn't matter. I too can't find shit that fits me properly and I'm 31 31
are you fucking slenderman?
Used to be 28 waist 36 length, now I'm 34 waist... Online shopping has saved my life
i love how tugg says reading is for nerds but he stands in front of a camera and read scripts he writes all day like a theater kid
"how did they get there, did they drive?"
Yes and I'm perpetually stuck behind them no matter when or where I am going
Not to mention, clothes from places like shein, temu, and whatever else comes from places like china where they dont have the same laws in places as the usa and the clothes and other items are genuinely toxic. Currently learning how to make clothes from scratch and get land in the middle of nowhere. Id rather be a weirdo.
Honestly the US is barely any better than China when it comes to industry regulations. The main difference comes in Chinese labor being much cheaper due to high job demand and very loose labor laws
If you want to buy things from countries with strict industry regulations and strong labor laws then you're looking for EU or Brazil
I once had to go through a line for checkout where the clerk was a pastor (one of the extremist ones that is always asking you stupid questions that I don’t give a fuck about), and every single bag he put in a card asking you to “turn to god to save yourself from the fires of hell”. I honestly could not care less, and I just wanted to buy some damn gummy bears in peace
Eeew! That sounds awful. I hope you enjoyed your gummy bears, nonetheless.
Tugg, stop avoiding the question. What are your thoughts on the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka, and what do you think we can do to fix it?
When will he tell me how to fix myself :(
Dude we need him to tell us
@@The_Sri_Lankan_economyhe never thinks of the little guy 😢
this is a serious matter. he needs to respond
he already answered this in his one million q&a, keep up man
14:24 my mentality exactly
Another thing about shopping is that they never have anything that cool/fun or non-clothing (at least to me and the mall I go to) because every time I go to the mall I only get snacks and maybe a plushie or a rare cool piece of clothing because every store has the same. Damn. Thing. Literally the only stores I go to is bath & body works or maybe a geek store if they have anything good. Clothing shopping is honestly a nightmare for me
Shopping sucks. People need to stop buying excess clothes and stuff because they genuinely do NOT need more. Buy good quality clothing that will last for years and take care of it and you won't have to buy another piece of that clothing unless it's damaged. Even then you can have clothes altered and repaired for way cheaper than replacing it with something new. Honestly 2 years of buying good quality clothing when necessary, especially basic clothing that is timeless, and you probably will not have to buy new clothing for YEARS if you take proper care of your clothes.
12:28 soooooo Etsy often times no longer has truly made by the person. They often times will drop ship from China.
apparently denim is made of cotton fibers ( though it can also be made of synthetic fibers)
Fun fact: The mall Tugg used for this video is a mall in Lithuania in Europe, called: Akropolis Mall, it has very nice food.
I was not expecting my local mall, Cabot circus, Bristol to be in your video!! Just down there on the left is my favourite shop! THE LEGO STORE!!
It truly is the best store around! Ours has great customer service, too!❤
it's policy for costco to accept anything no questions asked :) membership retention is their priority because the membership is how they maintain profits
As a kid I once got a fungus infection of the skin on the left side of my right thigh. The doctor said that it may have been contacted from clothes tried on. There's no way to tell for sure that that's where I got it from. But I don't like it. That's why when I shop for trousers, I always wear my long underpants - I think you call them _long johns,_ but _john_ has too many meanings in English and I'm afraid of saying the wrong thing, so I'm not calling them that. Sometimes they're also called _leggings,_ but I feel like leggings actually are a subtly different thing and those who call them that are wrong. I have no evidence of that. I just feel like it's the case.
Anyway, that's why I never spontaneously look for trousers when I'm at some place where they are sold. I have to go out specifically for that and dress accordingly. You may think that when it's cold I would wear my long underpants anyway and could try on some trousers spontaneously. But I don't want to go try on clothes when I wear a thick jacket - one that gets too hot when inside so I'd have to take it off and hold it while I'm inside the shop.
I have learned to check trousers by matching seams of my current slacks. Works 95% of the time.
We used to have a good mall in my town, it was bustling when I was young, but a Chinese company bought it out and with the help of Walmart, it became a ghost town. Sometimes I walk through the mall and I think it's like liminal space. I can almost hear the laughter of children in the space where the arcade used to be. I remember the JC Penny and the JB Toys. We had a lot of good things and Walmart and all the horrible companies that are like them destroyed that. Our mall here in Muskogee used to be great. . . Now it's just a place for old people to walk in. It's in a bad place in town so bless them for even going there, especially after the shootout. . .
Security's true slogan is "observe and report"
the Tugg man has slowly but surely crawled his way into my top 5 favorite youtube channels, every video is a banger.
At this point, watching big tucker is just a tradition if i eat or want to have existential crisis. Thank you tugger.
if anxiety was a person it would be tucker
Shopping, Drugs and Dressing rooms. You never fail us Tugg. Never. Ever.
I am 51. I serioulsy miss the experience of shopping at the mall. I also miss the experience of being able to afford an $85 pair of designer jeans because I was still living with my parents. 😂
The returns counter at a retail place feels like a pit of despair. However the worst thing, is being behind someone in line at the post office, who apparently has never been to the post office in their life, and there is only one worker.
How dare UA-cam hide this from me for 9 seconds
Oh dear
Seeing this while I'm buying a blåhaj at Ikea. I was having fun. You ruin everything
blahaj does not count, he has a duty to protect trans kids
My Blåhaj "Akula" says hello to your Blåhaj
Yikes. That sounds like the noise you make when someone is holding your hair.
@@tony_tony_bobony My hubby, who speaks Swedish, says it's pronounced something like "blow-hai," but the first vowel sound is kinda weird so yeah...
7:36 The mall I used to work at had a security guard that DEFINITELY wanted to be a cop, but somehow failed cause boy was he intense. Also, he fully knew I worked there and would still hassle me on my way out when I closed, but only when I was alone (I’m black, and closers walk out when the mall is empty). He wouldn’t bother me if I was walking out with a coworker. Like this man would specifically follow *me* at an uncomfortable distance (I could constantly hear the whirring of his stupid segway behind me) and I had to get his supervisor involved. And it was t like it was just the two of us, there were other non-black closers walking out of their respective stores around the same time, and some people who would just loiter. But nope, he was too busy following me around to look at any of them. Apparently he’s had issues before.
Sadly, some are like that. They have these "policies" or "protocols" that are only for some people and not others and end up in trouble because they aren't paying attention on actual shoplifters. Had that happen in a sephora where the guy was clearly around me to see if I would act suspicious. I just bought something for my sister and as I was leaving someone was also leaving and it beeped on them. He should've been paying more attention to them!
So glad tugg gets it about mannequins.
Props to Factor for letting you say what you wanted to during the ad. I hate ads that are so scripted
Suggestion. Why grocery shopping kinda sucks.
8:50 might be in a minority, but lately I’m happy if I see a cashier. My Walmart doesn’t have them anymore, and I’ll take awkward small talk if it means I don’t have to figure out how to fit all my groceries in separate bags
CVS here is all self check-out. I can do it, but I don't WANT to do it. They do it faster and are usually nice.
@@tony_tony_bobony My CVS self-checkouts get mad when I put my personal bag on the bagging area. They view it as an unscanned item.
Unions in Sweden have required stores to have at least one human cashier. The line is longer, but until I get an employee discount, I am putting the cashier to work.
Tucker, I wanna thank you so much for this video. I worked at Woodfield Mall for 4-5 years and while trading with the neighboring food places is cool, there’s nothing so quaint yet severely depressing like going down the escalator and seeing a scarce common area with Vietnam vets getting their steps in before clocking in at 11am on a Sunday.
I love that mall! It has been 7ish years since I've been though so I'm sure it's changed a bit
@@leannamt406 it’s changed quite a bit lol my first day working there was the day a guy drove his SUV through the mall lol it was a messed up situation but it makes for a great story for a dinner party
1:09 no profound comment here. i just wanted to point out the eating sound was exactly in time with tugg's cadence. solid rhythm there. well done my friend
4:29 I feel that
I've needed 34-31 pants for a decade. I've found. One.
Same
28-32 their impossible to find
0:25 RED DEAD
Huh
@@da_duck127 it had the house building theme from red dead redemption two
Nerd
@@theskronicles4435 ok?
YEAHHHHH
That insaniquarium revival sound at 3:43 awoke my sleeper cell training
14:45 the ending
Perfect
Absolute gold
Denim is made of cotton. You absolutely could start your own cotton farm. It's blue because indigo dye didn't penetrate more than the surface of the threads, which somehow made it softer to wear over time, as other dye often made a fabric stiffer. With each wash it made the jeans fade a little, too, which was pleasing to the eye after a while. They were also durable as heck. Old timey prospectors loved that the jeans, with each wash, would get soft and also shape themselves over time to fit their bodies better, and thus Levi's was born.
Shopping always sucked
Came for the communism stayed for for the tug
That's what she said! Ay yo!
Capitalism is at its finest or worst depending on who you are.
im doing a school project about fast fashion and that last bit just validated my entire presentation bigg tugg saving school careers
I can assure you Tugg is spot on in his assessment of capitalism. Don't let his disclaimer fool you.
0:25 To answer your question, Tugg, they dye the denim blue. It is not naturally that colour but they just do it anyway. Pretty interesting!
Finally someone who won’t pick at my fear of mannequins 😅
"I'm a 30/30 pants, you can't find that"
I find a hell of a lot more 30/30 than I do _32/29,_ my size, that's for dingadamn sure. many manufacturers just outright do not make 32/29.
30/29? yep.
34/29? you bet.
36, 38, even 40/29? sure, fuck it, why not?
but 32/29? _nope._
The older I get the more I just don’t want to spend money on anything unless if I absolutely need it like food and soap.
I get jump scared by mannequins pretty much every time I go to the mall. But it has Auntie Anne's so it's worth it
seeing tug dressed as an Alberta boy in the sponsored segment felt weird
2 reasons I hate shopping.
1) Lottery people. They stand there, play, buy, play, buy, repeat for 40 minutes.
2) people who pay with checks. They don't write anything on it at all ahead of time, and like the Lottery people, it takes them about 40 minutes to get 3 things.
An MP in the UK has made a petition to make Chocolate Freddos 5p again 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Where is it? I will sign 😂😂😂
I'm convinced that Tug is in his RDR2 Phase with all of the references to the game lol
Tugg has fed us with new content
denim was created for a more durable clothing material for miners and farmers which became popular due to it wide usage. It is more durable than regular cotton pants due to the adage of additional diagonal layers of cotton in the fabric. it is died blue because at the time when blue jeans were first being made blue was the easiest pigment that didn’t require heat to work.
I watch him while I eat breakfast
I used to purchase from shein and its daughter company romwe a lot during college because i was poor and needed clothes for the new season and the types of clothes i wore changed drastically (jeans and tshirts to shorts and skirts and dresses) and i like a wide variety of styles so i was always able to make a ton of outfits i like. I still have clothes i wore in high school so i definitely still have most of the clothes from those websites, even the ones i never wore because they didn't fit or didn't look right because i hope i can fix them one day. I've only had one garment fall apart, and it was mostly just a bunch of holes appearing in the fabric, idk if it was due to washing and drying or because i had mice in that apartment 😳 but all other clothes i still have and use! But now that I've graduated and have a well paid full time job, I'm glad I'll be able to purchase higher quality clothing, or the fabric to make my own
10:56 come to Arizona they don’t have glass on most things (not spray paint we have an issue with that)
Tugg’s back again with another amazing video 🔥🔥
I only buy off Shein cause I know they work hard on my mini skirts because I know those children worked hard on them. Dattebayo!!!
type shit
Speaking of the mall, I miss the early 2000's Hot Topic.
Me when I’m tuggin
This man is having a breakdown in every video and im all here for it
TUGG DADDY IS BACK
9:00
When I worked at Kohl's as a cashier, before moving to the sales floor, you would get reprimanded if you didn't get enough people to sign up for rewards or apply for the credit card. They said even if the person isn't approved, getting them to do the application still counts.
On the Kohl's employee subreddit, I'd heard of some people getting fired for not meeting conversion goals.
Thank the lord another video on Saturday just like every Saturday
Watched one video. Now I need tugg to make 2 more. A vid about mannequins and how much security guards suck
11:55 Next video??? Why Car Dealerships Suck??
You know when the creator is so funny you don’t skip sponsor because you know it’s gonna be funny, that’s big tugg for me😂😂
I always thought modern shopping was weird and you can't live without money to buy food and other necesities
I want to support mom-and-pop stores but I just LOVE malls
They sell jeans at Walmart. Like, the same exact jeans. Buy shirts from souvenir shops. They come loaded with awesome memories.
7:01 Your Massachusetts puritanical roots are showing...
0:29 It's made of cotton! And the indigo dye strengthens the fibers so they can withstand wear and tear better. :)
Tugg we talked about this please get back on your meds😭
I will say that, back in the early to mid thousands, malls were a pretty great place to be, still.
People were starting to prevent pre/teens from loitering elsewhere or be alone walking the streets so the mall was a place you could go with friends and just wander around. Bring $20 and you'd have money for food and a snack or small item.
My friends and i would go to the mall and hang around in the book store, then go to those random stores that always had a wide variety of stuff but never anything we thought people would actually buy, then finish our trip at the hot topic because they had fun cheap stuff and candy.
Last time i went to that mall, there was only food, clothing, and books. One place sold nostalgic candy so i checked that out, but the lack of things to look at really meant there wasn't much to do so there was essentially no one there.
I go to a mall in another state sometimes and even then i go to a full 2 stores (one the book store, the other an anime/east asian popular things). Anytime anything else has been interesting there, they're closed within the year. I think half that mall's empty stores now
i'm a little Tuggboat