With regard to returning unopened containers where the customer only wants a store credit perhaps there are exceptions in my state. I know I’ve done this once or twice at a local grocery store where I’m known as a regular customer.
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Give/sell the stuff to a teenager; tell him its perfect for a beach party. Girls just love the stuff; he is now a sure buyer.
If I was a patron in a liquor store and saw an employee accepting an open bottle I’d wonder about the rest of his stock.
Depending on the local laws, you may be cheerfully doing something very illegal.
I doubt that it’s illegal anywhere on the planet for a store owner to give a refund of money back to a customer.
In some states, it can be when it comes to alcohol.
No it can’t.
They may not be able to take back the bottle but they can certainly give you back some money. You can’t tell me that it would be illegal for the owner of a liquor store to give a private citizen $15.
Booker Noe, descendant of Jim Beam, was quoted as saying
"If you are unsatisfied with our product, return the unused portion and we’ll drink it!"
Thought the OP might get a chuckle out of that.
So, the scenario here is, I walk into a store and say, “I bought {product} and I did NOT like it!” and the store owner is going to just … hand me some cash?
How long do you think a store owned by someone like that is going to stay in business? :dubious: Don’t forget, liquor stores have a pretty built-in market; it’s not like folks are gonna just stop drinking entirely.
What pisses me off is I’ve gotten beer that was skunked up to high hell. But it is illegal in Wisconsin for stores to accept returns of liquor, I don’t know any that will bend the rules, and it would look pretty bad if I of all people asked a store to ignore the law. So I’m stuck.
I’ve learned that if I’m going to buy beer that is in clear or green bottles. to buy a 12 pack or case where the bottles are completely enclosed in card board rather than exposed like 6 packs are. This reduces the chances of light skunking up the brew.
Except for Miller branded beers. They use a special kind of hop extract in their beers that does not skunk (just in case you like Miller).
No. The scenario here is that it is not illegal for the owner to do that anywhere. You claimed that it could be.
Not relevant.
No. I can’t stand High Life & Genuine. And I believe they’re the only ones that use the extract rather than hop pellets. They taste like dish water to me. It’s too bad, too. I saw High Life @ the Pick n’ Slave yesterday for $5.49 a 12-pack. Beast was going for $6.59 a twelver. At one time High Life was Millers flagship brew, now it’s cheaper than the Beast? WTF? I must not be the only one who doesn’t like it!
Whoa. High Life cheaper than Milwaukee’s Best? That’s crazy. The Beast is one of the worst beers I’ve ever had, and I’m not a fan of Miller products, either. A bar by my house has $1.50 draft pints on Wednesdays, but there’s only three beers on tap: MGD, Miller Lite, and Bud Light. This is the one instance where I order Bud Light by choice. I will drink Miller if nothing else is around, though.
In what way? It doesn’t really taste like anything beyond water.
It’s just foul. I don’t know what the flavor is, but something in there, just like with Busch Lite (my vote for worst beer), I just can’t stomach.