I work at a Meijer... pre pandemic, when we were still open 24hrs, there was A guy...would come in in the middle of the night, load up a cart with tide pods, and run right out the door, where he had a van waiting with a ramp. He'd run right into the van cart and all, and take off.
we're not allowed to stop thieves. only management, and LP can do that.
that guy would then sell the tide pods on marketplace.
so around here it's either that situation, or, some one who works at P&G. - A couple times a year, they give the employees car trunk fulls of free product..some former neighbors who worked out there tried to pay dad for snowblowing their driveway with the big bottles of Tide..." Sorry, My snow-blower doesn't run on Tide"
( Lima has the Primary P&G Laundry bottling plant for the US. if you buy any P&G liquid laundry product in the continental US, there is a greater than 95% chance it was bottled here. Both the Pods, and the "unstoppable" scent Boosters were invented there, and they are currently building an expansion to bring the "unstoppables" line in house, where it is currently farmed out.)