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
I’m a wasteful enough person as it is, but this is just retarded. The bitch at the counter actually threatened to call the cops on me tonight, because I was refusing to create trash. I put the bottle half in the bag walked out of the store, set my beer on the curb, walked back in, and threw the bag back on the counter. “Now reuse that.” Grrrrrr.
irritatedalcoholpurchaser on March 15th, 2009 at 7:02 pm | Link
I am a convenience store clerk, i put beer in bags simply because most customers want it in a bag. We have asked atf and they said it is not required although most customers believe it is a law. My state law is this… There is no state law or ABC regulation that requires you to put any alcoholic beverages in a bag. At this point though its a force of habit. Perhaps the law varies by state. You do need to understand that cashiers are hit with the fines and or jail time. This is paid by them not their employers.
melissa on April 22nd, 2009 at 10:15 am | Link
Its as bad as some asshole wanting to buy beer and doesnt have his id. I mean u want the beer or not, then show me the ****ing id. And dont get all pissy with me just because you are over 21. I dont care, its my damn job to ask for id, and i will do it because unless you plan on paying my fine when im arrested then dont be a ****ing idiot.
melissa on April 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 am | Link
Uh, melissa, you’re complaining on the wrong string. Seek out the ‘asshole wanting to buy beer and doesn’t have his ID’ thread, or start your own. In the meantime, I’m going to start a new one for ‘complaint hijackers really piss me off.’
greg on April 22nd, 2009 at 5:45 pm | Link
Aright, here’s the skinny. Having just gotten in an argument at another store in the chain I work at (plaid plaid pantry, oregon) and having previously checked the laws at the library, courthouse, and cops that have come in, I can assure you that at least in OR, there is no law enforcing this. The paper bag is for street drinking, because the cops can’t use it for probable cause.
dustinsandwich on July 26th, 2009 at 3:35 pm | Link
I just ran into this at a local grocer. I usually don’t like the excess bag, but I had a teen lecture me about how they have to. I should have told her about the numerous times that the graveyard shift has neglected that ‘rule’ when I was already three sheets to the wind. Needless to say I disrobed my ‘red stripe’ and disposed of my bag in their recepticle.
seth on November 4th, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Link
its a branch off of the open container law. yes, i know its not open till its open.. but they say if you dont bag it, your intent is to drink it right away, as in: drinking in public, or drinking while driving.. therefore encouraging you to drink..lol! if the bag is on it (they feel) you will take it somewhere to drink instead of right away.. i didnt write the laws! another one of the B.S. things theyve come up with..grrr. i mean if a cop sees you walking out with a bare beer, he pretty much knows what your up to.
-yay! budwieser!
brianna on December 21st, 2009 at 8:17 am | Link
I work at a convenience store and when i took the job they told me it was the law to put any beer that isnt in a box (6-packs, singles) into a bag. Otherwise its considered an open container… i even once forgot to and the customer told me he once left without a bag and was immediately arrested leaving the store… i just joke around with customers saying the bag prevents drinking and driving because its impossible to take it out of the bag…customers laugh and ive never had a problem with it
Joe on May 19th, 2010 at 1:03 pm | Link