I work at a liquor store.
Let's talk about the shitty stuff people buy all the time, kids with fake IDs, people who think they have the lottery system figured out, why black people love Newports so much, or retail and alcohol in general.
I work at a liquor store
I buy pabts blue ribbon 30 packs, and 100 proof rum
What kind of shitty merchandise do you have on/near the counter for impulse buying? Incense? Lighters? Horoscope scrolls?
In addition to impulse alcohol products (airplane shooters etc.), lighters, candy, gum, soda/energy drinks/5 hour energy, hangover helpers
PBR doesn't even fall into the tier of 'super low tier beer' that we sell
I hate how people think they have the lottery scratch off system figured out. We have customers who ask what number a certain set of tickets is on (each pack of scratch offs being individually numbered). One ticket was on number 23. The customer said 'that doesn't work for me. now if it was 22, i'd buy it. but not 23 or 24'.
like this guy is some rainman savant and has the system all figured out. bullshit. he still loses just as much as anyone else.
Natty ice, and hams?
At my local liquor store they have cdb pills, oil, and mixer at the counter.
Any beer with "ice" in the name belongs in the god damn toilet.
Agreed. Especially icehouse
Used to work at an instrument/music store during the day and right across the street at a liquor store at night. It's amazing how people change depending on the setting. Chill and pleasant during the day when they're trying out guitars, and then drunk belligerent assholes on the verge of loading up their drawers after 8 pm and they've had a few shots. Theres a sports bar in the same parking lot and one dude left there to buy some smokes where I worked. He puked in the grate on the icee machine and started crying as he tried to fish it out with his bare hands
Whoo think was him...!?!
Jelly bro detected
are you retarted?
Why do black people love Newports so much?
Please this keeps me up at night.
I've only had to refuse sale because someone was drunk a handful of times. Doesn't happen as often as i would have though before I took the job
Who buys those thin little brown cigarettes?
also red dog, boxer, special export
we don't have any cbd or any head shop type stuff at all. just cigs, lots of cigars/wraps, chew, snuff, and some juul pod vape stuff
I wish I knew. The logical explanation would be a rapper told them to, like with a lot of the liquor they buy. But it is too the point that if a black person asks for cigarettes, I assume they mean newport 100s. If someone asks for a pack of newports, I assume newport 100s unless they ask for shorts.
A buddy of mine got away with his fake ID every time; do you think the people who check that shit just don't actually care?
some clerks don't care. some fakes are pretty darn good too that if you just gave a passing glance to them, you probably wouldn't notice anything wrong with them. Some are really bad...like when the birthdate is partially missing because its been rubbed off from use. lol
I work at a gas station, I started calling Newports Niggerettes. The only ones who buy them are niggers and or nigger lovers(aka fat bitches)
definitely blacks or those 'experiencing black culture'. white people who buy newports tend to buy the red or the menthol lights
I actually do care a lot when checking IDs. I look at more than just the birthdate. I check to make sure it is real, the person is the person in the picture on the ID, the ID isn't expired, and then I'll check the birthdate.
>isnt expired
What's the thought process for this? It's not as if someone's date of birth is going to change.
Legal thing that can get the store closed down. Also something something relative that looks almost identical is using it.
True. However, state law says that I can't accept any expired identification as a valid form of ID for the purposes of purchasing alcohol. Now, if you are some 22 year old with an expired ID, nope, no sale. If you are someone that I card who turns out to be 29 with an expired ID, I could possibly let it slide but would certainly tell the person their ID is expired. Better to hear it form me than some cop when you get pulled over who won't let you drive anymore because you don't have an expired ID.
what about steel reserve, hurricane?
This is very true. Older siblings have been known to give their expired ID to their younger sibling who looks like them so they can go buy booze.
all of that sort of beer I put into a category of 'utilitarian'. There is utilitarian beer, wine, and liquor. Utilitarian alcohol is good for providing bang for your buck without giving near any regard to how it tastes. i.e., it generally tastes horrible
Nope. Not jealous at all with all the money I haven't wasted like those people.
One of our scratch off lottery addicts lost over $350 in one day, just from buying scratch offs from our store. That money could buy a lot of booze.