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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default Fight at Costco!

On 7/10/2016 11:51 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 7/10/2016 7:38 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 03:23:02 -0700, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>
>>> There were a couple times when a check out clerk was being incredibly
>>> stupid, and I just walked out of the store and left the clerk with a
>>> shopping cart of unbought items.

>>
>> Last year I was at Target and I had about $130 worth of stuff on the
>> belt - electronics, clothes, some miscellaneous food. Then as I was
>> standing in line I saw that cheap Andre Cold Duck on an end-cap and
>> got a sudden nostalgic urge for a bottle. It was the last thing to
>> ring up and she asked me for ID. Sorry - I have no ID. But I look 50
>> years old, if that mattered. Nah, that didn't matter. They wouldn't
>> sell it to me. I said, "You're shitting me, right?". I left without
>> buying anything and they had to restock $130+ worth of stuff. ****
>> them.
>>
>> -sw
>>

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> you should have gone back the next day and done the same thing, with no
> ID and see what happened.


Probably the same thing. The rule was made by a lawyer behind a desk a
thousand miles away. Too risky if it was a test shopper.