Food4Less Stupidity

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This was TOO hilarious...

We went to Food4Less, a local wholesale type grocer, to pick up some good deals this last weekend... As usual it was the 3 of us... Myself, my wife and our son. Our son is 25 years old and disabled...

We picked up the stuff we came to buy and a few other things we needed and decided to grab some wine on the way out also...

So we get to the checkout and the gal working the register tells my wife that she needs to see THREE ID's!

So Mrs. Warrior says "I'm buying it, not anyone else."

But this gal tells us that unless she sees THREE ID's we're not buying the wine! So Mrs. Warrior asked to speak to a manager but got the 'checker supervisor' instead lol Who told us that she "Had to back up her checkers", right or wrong apparently...

Mrs. Warrior got really pissed and was like "F you you can keep all your stuff" and we left, leaving everything on the checkout.

Moral: Don't piss off Mrs. Warrior lol

She called the manager of the store after we got home. And, as usual, he explained that we should have been able to buy it and that *he* would have sold it to us.

He also explained a bit about their policy, which is what we were really interested in to begin with...

It seems they have had, or have, a problem with young people loitering in the parking lot and grabbing "old people" (that's what he said lol) to go into the store for them and purchase alcohol...

Oh the shame of it all... lol

So, apparently, the stores 'politically correct' answer to the problem is to act as 'alcohol police' by carding everyone in a family before allowing alcohol purchases... lol

She asked what would happen had we had a 7 year old child with us! Implementing their 'policy' would require that NO ONE with children can be allowed to buy alcohol because God only knows what could happen once they leave the store. They could, if they chose to, allow a child to have a sip of alcohol. So their logic seems to be if there are any children in the line then alcohol sales should be prohibited.

This is a big part of America's problem today... We used to be the 'land of the free'... Now we have businesses policing our purchases at all times. Wal-Mart has some stupid, arbitrary, rule about carding anyone who 'appears to be younger than 40 years of age'. We usually do NOT get carded lol

So many policies in place today by businesses and by government are completely ridiculous on the face of them.

It is the 'complexity' that I talk about sometimes that causes this...

Somehow it has become the duty of government and all businesses as well to 'look out for us', to police our citizens and society at all times and at every level.

People really resent this 'control' in America... And since the fall of 2008 this government/corporate interference with the freedoms of the people of America has gotten much worse.

IMO, it promises only to get worse still...

Greg