Putting beer and wine in bags at the convenience store

[markstanco 12577]

Why is this non-law such a deal at stores? I will say "I don't want a bag" they say "its the law" so they give me a plastic bag I dont want so I can throw it away later.

 

No it isn't. Why are they trained this way? TABC even had a tweet a while back saying it isn't a law.

 

My lawn. Get off of it.

[LebongJames 1811]

I haven’t heard that in a while. I used to get it every time. 

[retsevlys 408]

This pisses me the fuck off too.  I don't need a bag to carry an item that has a built in carrying handle, or is a bottle, that I can carry just fine in my hand.  I find it's easier just not to argue and celebrate the small victories when you don't have your six pack bagged.

I've worked in a store and I only put it in a bag if you asked for it.

[retsevlys 408]

<conspiracy theory>I think it's the bag manufacturers</conspiracy theory>

[markstanco 12577]

Great one tonight: if a bag fits it the law says it must be in a bag.

As I have mentioned multiple times i have a bro in law who is tabc. No stupid law on this.

[markstanco 12577]

[elfenix 34266]

i managed to carry this item across the store i don't need a piece of garbage to take it to my car thanks.

 

edit: if that one beer isn't in a small brown paper bag then the cops will totally know that's a beer you're illegally drinking while operating your vehicle instead of a dr pepper. 

Edited October 15, 2020 by elfenix

[mulletpelini 5211]

the horror

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

 

 Beer not in a bag= wahoo'ed.

[52-80 19162]

6 hours ago, markstanco said:

 

https://local.theonion.com/police-baffled-by-bottle-shaped-paper-bag-1819565140

 

[midtown 3346]

My local Circle K started this about 6 months ago and did it for about 2 months and then stopped. 

[Guest Lobo]

Never used to bother me either way, but during covid-19...it is nice to place your purchase on the counter with bar code facing them.  They scan, you pay, you grab it and walk out.  Really minimizes the interaction.  I was buying a single bottle of the other day at Thom's Market.  Clerk just manhandled the bottle to get it into a paper wine bag and then shoves that into a plastic grocery bag.  Then hands it to me with two hands.  And shoves the receipt in there.  

Mitch Hedberg was so ahead of his time.  "I cannot think of a scenario in which I would have to prove I bought a donut."  

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

14 hours ago, markstanco said:

 

That tweet would seem to indicate that it needs to put in a bag if it's for on-premise consumption.  It seems all of the bars I go to are breaking the law.

[Trey3216 15346]

2 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

That tweet would seem to indicate that it needs to put in a bag if it's for on-premise consumption.  It seems all of the bars I go to are breaking the law.

 

14 hours ago, markstanco said:

 

But what if my first sip is in the parking lot before I leave the premises.  

[Litig8r 414]

I was in a store buying a roadie and the clerk said, "wait sir we have to put that in a bag".  Another customer who apparently was just hanging out said, "that's the stupidest law since ten, twenty, life".  

[MissingInAction 25104]

The local grocery will stick my 12 pack of lone star in bag as I repeatedly tell them not to. Rage.

[Marfa Low Crown 2546]

Atlanta had some pretty stupid blue laws when I lived there. Bags were mandatory for alcohol purchase ; black plastic ones.
You'd see them all over the place blowing around town. 
I never understood that one. 
1. Even though you can SEE all the alcohol in the store while you're shopping, no one outside the store is supposed to see it?
2. The bag is supposed to obscure from others that you bought alcohol?
3. The fact that you're carrying a black bag out of the store certainly in no way tips people off that you bought booze. Nope.
Fucking stupid.

Worse than that one, however, was no retail alcohol sale on Sunday. They finally did away with that stupid shit the last year I was there. 
Hallelujah 

[Gil Bang 25961]

17 hours ago, elfenix said:

i managed to carry this item across the store i don't need a piece of garbage to take it to my car thanks.

 

edit: if that one beer isn't in a small brown paper bag then the cops will totally know that's a beer you're illegally drinking while operating your vehicle instead of a dr pepper. 

 

[wd40 1976]

the so-called "beer condom".

every time I see  that word, I think of the way my dad pronounces it:  "cuhndumb".  used to drive my brother and me insane.

then one day, on a roadtrip to the coast, just the three of us, I made a joke about heading to the "cuhndo".  my brother and I cracked up in hysterics.  and then we proceeded to set our dad strait.

but for some reason, thanks to the powers of the internet, I decided to look it up.  it seems you can say it either way.

 

so now I'm all fucked up.

anyway.  carry on.

[CycleTex87 2970]

 

[markstanco 12577]

Atlanta had some pretty stupid blue laws when I lived there. Bags were mandatory for alcohol purchase ; black plastic ones.
You'd see them all over the place blowing around town. 
I never understood that one. 
1. Even though you can SEE all the alcohol in the store while you're shopping, no one outside the store is supposed to see it?
2. The bag is supposed to obscure from others that you bought alcohol?
3. The fact that you're carrying a black bag out of the store certainly in no way tips people off that you bought booze. Nope.
Fucking stupid.

Worse than that one, however, was no retail alcohol sale on Sunday. They finally did away with that stupid shit the last year I was there. 
Hallelujah 

Yep. If there was a law on covering alcohol they would have to have trash bags to cover 30 packs.

Oh? Thats not the case? The 30 packs are in boxes and you can't actually see the aluminum cans so you have no idea what is inside the box! Its probably a bunch of snickers bars.

[burntorangebongos 10732]

They always ask me if I want beer bagged. 

[luke duke 6413]

Baptist’s created this “law” so they could have some deniability if they ran in to a fellow member of their congregation in the parking lot.