Originally Posted by Q.E.D. View Post
Okay, we can argue about pie.
We have something better at our house.
Tripler, had it not occurred to you that perhaps the staff in the store is aware of the regulations with regard to sales of restricted items? It’s kinda the responsibility of the store (if they want to keep their licenses) to know that sort of thing.
There are other age-restricted items throughout the store that are also easily accessible, yet you don’t seem to be upset about that. Examples include fireworks (of a certain class, and only seasonally), medications containing dextromethorphan (Robitussin DM, Mucinex DM, among others – easily and entertainingly abused), beer and wine (including things like wine coolers and Smirnoff Ice), and in some places cigarette lighters.
What the hell’s the big deal about cigarettes in the markdown bin? We did it at three of the five locations of the company I work for and no one ever said a word about it. In Florida, the law only requires that tobacco be within the line of sight of an employee of the retailer. Beer and wine, fireworks, lighters, and DM-containing cold medicine can be wherever the heck we want to put them.
He was confused because he thought it was illegal to do that. I think he’s over it now.
That said, I don’t see what the big deal is, either; they don’t keep the beer under lock and key.
I’m in Nevada, and shop at a “Smith’s” (Kroger brand) and noticed the same thing! A shopping cart full of smokes, right out there for everyone to grab!
Cept Carry was guardin’ them. Carry is a big goofy guy, maybe goes 240, 5’11" (but TOTALLY HARMLESS). Near the “self checkout” area.
Damn, I can’t type when drinking…
This thread is full of retards and retardedness.
DRAMA! FAINTING COUCHES! The world needs at least a bit of that straw for horses, you bastards.
Cigs for kids are supposed to be a mythical, hard-to-reach thing. That’s why we have, I dunno, federal fucking laws against selling them to minors. Same thing for alcohol. Except that alcohol comes in big fuckoff jugs and bottles that clink together if you shove them in your pockets to make wet stains on pants and big bottle-shaped bulges.
Cigarette packs, however, are dry and pocket-shaped, and, oh-look, they’re right at waist height on this nice clearance table here.
Do we have to put two-and-two together for you people?
“You must be that type of person who complains about–!” No, stop. Go directly to STFU. Making cigarettes available to kids is illegal, end of fucking story. Making them available by negligence and convenience is also illegal, and even if it’s too petty to prosecute over, it’s not too petty to Pit, because, as I think we all know, nothing is. 
For your own safety, Tripler, please stay in your own country, because you’d surely have a stroke if you ever came here. Not only can you find tobacco out front next to the candy, we even still have the vending machines right out on the street. Right where kids can see them!
Once that sinks in I’ll show you the outdoor vending machines that sell beer, sake and whisky.
Three people explained the situation to you, three people who work with the merchandise on a daily basis and are responsible for being familiar with any laws regarding said merchandise. Three people assured you that the placement of the cigarettes was intentional and done with full knowledge of the management.
You then pitted those three people for not “getting it”, when in fact you are the one who didn’t get it. You didn’t get it even after having it explained to you by three people.
Know when you might have been tipped off that you were wrong?
When three people told you that you were wrong.
You’re the one who decided that this topic reqired Pit level dialogue.
You want MPSIMS responses, open the Thread in MPSIMS.
That made me want to smoke them more.
Worse still, everything in the store is within arms’ reach: a self-imposed massacre waiting to happen! The entirety of their inventory must be sequestered in an evidence locker manned by round-the-clock armed guards, to ensure that some little mucus-dripping hoodlum of a future Darwin Award candidate won’t execute a five-finger* discount on a bottle of lighter fluid, package of plastic forks, or quarter bag of dried catnip.
*Occasionally four, in cases where expediency may prevent the uncorking of our young prodigy’s thumb[s] from his or her rectum prior to the snatch & grab.
Ahhhh, I long for the good ole days. Around 1962, when Matt and I went up to the local Rexall store and picked a couple jars out of the rack of chemicals they used to sell. Walked right on up to the checkout with our purchase of sulfur and potassium nitrate…we were seven and could barely see over the counter. The pharmacist peered at us over his reading glasses and said, “You boys wouldn’t be planning to make gunpowder now, would you?”* “No SIR!” was our emphatic reply. He rang it up and bagged our little jars of booty. We already had charcoal at home.
- Now that I’m older, I often wonder if he was just planning to give us some pointers.
You take a tube filled with carcinogens and toxins, stick it into your mouth, set it on fire and inhale the vapors of the resulting chemical reaction. I’m pretty sure that your definition of “idiot” may be slightly different than other people’s.
As regards Tripler’s complaint, I’m with him. Whether this is illegal or not, it seems damned foolhardy on several different levels. And while I appreciate the profit motive on the part of the store, when we’re talking about cigarettes, I think they could put doing what’s right above what may (or may not, given “shrinkage”) be the most money-making.
This rant only makes me feel sorry for the employees who had to put up with this condescending self-righteous jackass (the OP).
Pff. Encounters like this are barely a blip on the daily radar for most retail workers. Trust me, this is nothing.
What is it with Missouri? We had a brief visit to the state, and as far as we could see, the big selling feature about it was FIREWORKS!!! (I’m sure they had GUNS-AMMO-BEER and SMOKES too). We could practically hear the dueling banjos faintly on the wind as soon as we crossed the state line. Yup, we’re not in Canada any more. :eek:
I have to say I would have been just as baffled and ooked-out as you, Tripler. I may not have bothered to tell them about it, but I would have assumed they would get fined eventually by whatever organization (I know better, now).
My smoker friend, when told the story, also thought it was against the law and extremely weird.
I am still trying to figure out why cigarettes would be on clearance. Were they past their freshness date or something? Or were the packs damaged in some way?
I haven’t smoked a cigarette in years, but when I did, freshness wasn’t a big concern.
Regards,
Shodan
Self-righteous much? :rolleyes:
Of course smoking is an idiot decision - my point was that smokers are completely aware of the damage smoking can cause. They do not need “courageous” non-smokers to point it out. In the same way that store-owners do not need shoppers to treat them like jerks and try to tell them how to run things.
The Douche is strong with this one.
And if I were the owner of the store, my response would have been, “We are obeying the law, and since this is private property, if you don’t like it, please feel free to leave and not come back.”
Freshness is a big concern for the tobacco companies. Stores are in violation of their promotional agreements (or used to be) if the cigarettes they sold were not within a certain date, and the companies would send mystery shoppers round pretty frequently checking on this (amongst other things, predominately signage size and positioning).
Hahahaha! Goddamn!
You must be a hit at parties:
“I’m sorry, but this, what did you call it? Music? Yes, that. It’s just not doing it for me. It would appear to be just a collection of notes prearranged in some way to be pleasing to the human ear, but I can see right through that little cash scam, and I am, most emphatically, not buying.”