In most Kroger grocery stores in Nashville, the condoms and other assorted “intimate” goods are usually in a normal aisle, along with the cold medicines, cough drops, pain relievers, etc.
But at our Kroger, which is in a lower-income, somewhat-gentrified but still predominantly African-American neighborhood, they are kept right in front of the pharmacist’s window, in a recessed glass case with a lock, giving the impression that is locked (but it isn’t).
Why?
I had kind of the opposite experience: I went to CVS to buy something over $10 yesterday (a little toothbrush head– my fault for buying an electric toothbrush in the first place) and they this thing locked into the shelf, which I’d never encountered before. It was in the middle of a random aisle, and I could grab onto it… but I couldn’t pull it off of the rack. It was totally annoying. I almost ripped it right out of its packaging so I didn’t have to go bother the busy employee who, of course, rolled her eyes at me before hunting down the key. I think CVS does this so they can put the over-$10 products in the right aisle (as opposed to being way behind some counter in a locked case), and they know you’re probably willing to go to some trouble to get whatever it is, being that it’s not just a pack of gum.
Because they get uh, stolen?
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FWIW, the closest Kroger to my house, which is in a seriously-yuppified-and-always-has-been area, has the same design for storage of such products as yours, and the one out by the highway, which is in the area with all the apartments and the school that’s less highly rated than the rest of the district, has the more open design. Therefore, I suspect it may have more to do with the age of the store or its most recent remodel.