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Default Label size at Stop & Shop

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:41:31 -0600, "MaryL"
> wrote:

>
> I think you're right...but one way to stop their laughter would be to inform
> the manager that you are changing your shopping habits and will now
> patronize one of the stores that uses *readable* labels. And then do it.
>
> On a related note (and this isn't anything that an individual pharmacy can
> control), one of my pet peeves is the way some over-the-counter
> pharmaceuticals have (1) reduced the size of print so that it is now
> basically unreadable and (2) sometimes have labels where the
> dosage--including maximum use--can only be read by peeling back the label
> and reading underneath. That is inconvenient and can even be dangerous. Of
> course, there are also those stores that paste the price tag on top of the
> instructions!
>


I never blame people at the store level for that sort of thing, it's
always corporate and they only care about the bottom line. They'll
fire people or move them around for losing customers but they won't
blame their wrong headed policies.

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