I’m forced to have my beer in a bag when I leave the store. They won’t give me the beer unless they put it in a bag.
If I pay for it and try to grab it real quick without a bag, they grab it simultaneously and stuff it in a bag.
If I tell them I don’t won’t a bag for the beer, they tell me they have to put it in a bag. Or what? Is there a beer-in-a-bag law? If there is, somebody should ask about that at the next youtube debate.
Get over it, America. Beer is what made this country great. Well… beer and the freedom to [insert freedom lover thing here]. So why are we hiding the beer?
I don’t need a bag for cigarettes. In fact, you would probably have to ask for a bag for cigs. You don’t have to have condoms in a bag or tampons for that matter. Beer is way lower on the shouldn’t be buying / should be embarrassed about buying scale as far those bagless items are concerned.
Give me my beer. Naked. I’m proud of it. I want to show it off.
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I’m betting its the loss prevention people doing this. Somewhere in their infinite wisdom I’m sure they have come up with some scenario in which if they (the bear police) can’t see whats in the bag when you hand it to a minor your buying it for then they cannot go after you and the store has prevented loss. I’m not sure its that but I bet it is some really dumb dreamed up or even it happened once idea of some self righteous (Al Gore type) intellectual wennie.
Here’s an Idea, next time you buy bear, stand and watch them put the bear in the bag with glee and joy. when the clerk is satisfied with his/her great bagging job grab your bag of bear, and gently slip it out of the bag hand the bag to the clerk thanking him/her for bagging your bear and walk out of the store with the bear unbagged!!!
mark on November 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pm | Link
“beer-in-a-bag law”
lol
what a great complaint
Yes! This one drives me nuts. I always ask them why and they give me some dance. I think it’s an urban legend propogated by the underground nation of convenience store clerks. Contrary to the glamorous and witty (irony intended) characters portrayed in “Clerks” the reality of the convenience store world is much more like a less-ambitioned bureacratic plodder, and bureacratic plodders loves-them-some rules that don’t make sense and impose meaningless restrictions on the general citizenry.
I take it out of the bag and leave the bag behind. Sometimes they get mad, but mostly they just glare at me.
greg on April 7th, 2008 at 2:14 pm | Link
Yeah bro, I just about punched this turd at the gas station earlier. He told me I would get in trouble if I didn’t stick it in a bag…
I have asked a cop while I was drunk if it was illegal to not have a bag, and he said just don’t be walking around with the seal broken… DUR. Thats why there are OPEN CONTAINER LAWS, because that way they can tell if you are drinking it.
james on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm | Link
Oh, and when I asked the cop about it I was buying whisky, and walked out with NO bag.
james on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm | Link
this country is so ****ing retarded.
do they bag your 18 pack when you walk out with it….NO
lets stop being sheep. tell everyone to **** OFF
Travis on May 30th, 2008 at 3:43 am | Link
Yes, there is some law that REQUIRES the gas station to bag your beer. If they don’t they can get a nice hefty fine. I’ve asked plenty of clerks why that law is, none know. So just take that bag they have to do it.
But keep asking maybe one day you’ll find the one that know then you can spread the answers to the masses
Dev on June 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Link
Ok so Dev, can you give a citation of that law and where it exists. Is it law or is it regulation. Is it state law, federal or local?
mark on June 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm | Link
Dev is not part of the solution.
greg on June 26th, 2008 at 1:45 pm | Link
by the way, in Israel, where you can drink anywhere legally, the clerks ask you
if you want your unbagged beer opened for you on the way out. And if you bring them the empty they give you a discount on the next beer. Just sayin…..
Me on August 17th, 2008 at 8:57 pm | Link