Alcohol sold in Supermarkets a good idea?
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| Leifur Killjoy  Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 4 | -is it a good idea to not only sell it in the Alcohol stores, but in the supermarkets too. -wont it make stealing in supermarkets just worse? and more. -wont it just make more teen drinking/underage drinking? i know that it will be 21+ only sold alcohol, but kids from 14 years old up to 40 years old are working in supermarkets here. I'm 16 and i work in a supermarket. it will be no problem for under aged kids to buy alcohol. |
| Radio Saturday Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 3513 | I know they sell it in the supermarkets in France... But the drinking age there is sixteen.  I'm not sure whether it's a good idea. In parts of America, alcohol can only be sold in stores run by the state, so the employees don't often know what they're talking about and the stock is usually pretty poor. But I agree, with younger kids working at supermarkets, it would make it much easier for kids to just steal the booze. |
| never coming home. Bleeding on the Floor  Age: - Gender: - Posts: 1526 | ---It always surprises me to walk by and see an aisle full of alcohol in Wal*Mart. They have liqour stores where the alcohol is supervised much better than supermarkets. Having alcohol in supermarkets only furthers the temptation to drink underage. |
| whitney. Shotgun Sinner  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 7871 | -is it a good idea to not only sell it in the Alcohol stores, but in the supermarkets too? No, I really don't. I mean, I'm not from Iceland, but I if I was from Iceland than I probably wouldn't promote it. I mean, there's already ENOUGH alcohol abuse in the world. If you want liquor, go to a liquor store. -wont it make stealing in supermarkets just worse? and more. I hate to say it, but I don't think it's going to make it any worse - it's just something that people do. Steal. Just because it's in a supermarket doesn't make it any different than if it was in a liquor store. |
| victoriaelaine. Motor Baby  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 768 | alcohol has always been sold in supermarkets, well, at least here in california |
| MelancholyMisery Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 2304 | in NZ its normal to sell alchohol (and ciggarettes) in supermarkets... to me it seems pretty stupid to not sell it there, i mean, its a drink isnt it, you go to supermarkets to buy drinks and food and plasctic plates and toilet paper... -is it a good idea to not only sell it in the Alcohol stores, but in the supermarkets too. yes, then you dont have to go to two differnt stores when you do your shopping. its conveniant. -wont it make stealing in supermarkets just worse? and more. no, stealing a alcoholic drink is the same as stealing a soft drink. How many people can fit a bottle in their jacket and go unnoticed? -wont it just make more teen drinking/underage drinking? No, they arent lowering the age and making it easiar for teens to get alcohol, its only easiar for adults. |
| Leifur Killjoy Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 4 | yea, but the kids here are like madness, alcohol has only been in Alcohol stores here on Iceland, and was once banned, and the only thing people talk about is that more teen will steal alcohol in supermarkets cause they can get in to the supermarkets, but not in to the wine stores, |
| nilrebna. Awake and Unafraid Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 13115 | -is it a good idea to not only sell it in the Alcohol stores, but in the supermarkets too. here, they sell alcohol in supermarkets too and the drinking age is 16 they ask our ID so they can check. I don't really think that the problem is that they sell alcohol in supermarkets, it's more the drinking age. Is the drinking age in Iceland, 21? Cause how older the drinking age is, how mare abuse of alcohol I had to make a report about teenage drinking, the result is that the countries where there is the most abuse of alcohol are the countries with the drinking age of 18 and older. -wont it make stealing in supermarkets just worse? and more. sorry but I blame the drinking age -wont it just make more teen drinking/underage drinking? Well, in my opinion, if they ban the alcohol, it well. but I don't know how it works in Iceland, I just compare it to my country |
| tabitha Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 45 Gender: Female Posts: 1831 | Our supermarkets are allowed to sell beer and wine only. They can't sell any liquor (whiskey, gin, vodka, tequila, etc) but they can sell mixers, which is odd. And you have to be 21 to buy any of it, and the aisle is videotaped to keep people from shoplifting. It's my experience, however, that they sell pretty crappy wine and only decent beer. If you want good wine or the better imported beers, you still have to stop by the liquor store. And I do agree on lowering the drinking age. I grew up in Germany and had beer all the time. Then we moved back to America and I couldn't have anything until I was 21. There was a lot of underage binge drinking where I went to college and we had some alcohol-related fatalities. It's like a "big deal" to drink in the US, especially in college. I think if the drinking age were lower, it wouldn't be such a thrill. But I don't see having a beer and wine aisle in the supermarket contributing to that, since a lot of the binge drinking is heavy booze or kegs of beer, neither of which are sold at the supermarkets. |
| TaraIsBack! Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 45 Gender: Female Posts: 1618 | Here in NJ there is no alcohol in supermarkets. I can't remember there ever being any. Even some towns are considered "dry" meaning the city has not issued any liquor licenses to restaurants or for a liquor store to open. Now, when I lived in Minnesota, I was surprised to see beer and wine at my local supermarket. Only thing is that it actually had a lower alcohol content than the stuff sold in a proper liquor store. As far as I know, there really wasn't a problem with people stealing the alcohol out there. But then again it was Minnesota and people were nice. Too nice actually. Coming from NJ we were expecting their niceness to be a distraction while someone else was stealing our wallets. |
| love on her arms. Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 1662 | Im Maryland, there is alcohol at supermarkets. drinking age is 21 and anyone caught selling alcohol to minors are fined/jailed |
| doctor. In The Murder Scene  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 23302 | As long as they ask for ID, I think that it's fine. They also need security in shops and outside though more to see that their not drinking it outside and causing trouble. I feel that it's fair to be sold in local supermarkets as so people can find an easier way to purchase alcohol since not everyone who drinks is, infact, an alcoholic. |
| sweet disposition. Banned  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 48272 | Painful Reality: Same. It scares me how easily I got alcohol one time. I wouldn't want that happening to my daughter. Or to me again. Security needs to be stricter. |
| MelancholyMisery Salute You in Your Grave Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 2304 | Leifur: well perhaps they could do somthing like put somthing on the bottles so that an alarm will sound as it goes through the door. Similar to the tags they put on clothes that only the person working in the shop is able to get off. .. put some kind of thing around the bottle neck- that isnt able to slip off. Then when you buy it they take it off, or if you take it out of the store without buying it and getting the thing removed the alarm will sound. Good idea? |
| F'n'stein xo Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 4520 | I used to work at a supermarket where they sold alcohol. As long as the cashier ask for id before selling it, its ok and here where i live, cashiers have every right to refuse to sell alcohol to anyone. However, if the alcohol is in a aisle where they can easily get in and run out with it or don't have tight sercurity; it most likely the store will get robbed well until the manager does something about it . Where i worked the alcohol was at easy reach. The wine was right by the door and the beer was right acrossed from the door. So like almost every other week we were robbed.We even had undercover sercurity guys and it wasn't no helped. |
| DeadInTheWater Fabulous Killjoy  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 128 | tbh i dont even know of any shops near me that only sell alchohol, all the people i know buy alchohol from supermarkets, at most of the sumpermarkets near me theres like 3 ailses just for the alchohol dont know about anywhere else xx |
| Beeblebrox Really Not Okay  Age: 44 Gender: Female Posts: 688 | I worked in a grocery store that sold beer and wine. People stole everything, food, medicine, merchandise AND beer. You can't stop theft, no matter what is or is not on the shelves. As for alcohol, most kids who wanted a drink got their legal friends to buy for them. If they wanted it bad enough, they already had ways of getting alcohol. They didn't need a supermarket. There's nothing that's going to get kids too messed up in a grocery store. You could steal all the beer one kid could carry and it wouldn't really do much harm. And I've never met a school kid who stole wine to get drunk. You kinda have to drink a whole bottle by yourself (that's a LOT) and you only really get a buzz. Not to mention wine is not something you can really chug down. |
| fire at will. Damned After All  Age: 35 Gender: - Posts: 105653 | I know that they sell alcohol in some supermarkets here in the US. I know that in Tom Thumb they do. But since they do that, I think that they should be really strict on their carding rules. And all of it should be kept in one area of the store, under strict supervision. Not somewhere that's easily accessible to younger people. Which would be under twenty one here in Texas. I mean, they sell cigarettes in supermarkets and those are just kept behind the counter. And I work at a Walgreens and cigarettes are only sold at the front counter, and I have to card everyone who looks remotely young. It should be that way everywhere. But that's just my opinion. =) |
| Jesse Lacey; Awake and Unafraid  Age: 28 Gender: Female Posts: 12077 | =/ I don't think it matters. It's almost like saying, "you can't sell meat in Wal*Mart because I'm a vegan" (no offense to vegans =] I'm a prescetarian[sp?] myself) It wouldn't bother me because I don't want to drink at this point in my life. It's not a goal of mine right now to achieve alcohol. For some people, maybe. I don't think it would increase the robberies, either, though =[ |
| DIE! DIE! DIE! Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 1067 | When it comes to encouraging kids to steal alcohol, it doesn't matter: If someone underage wants alcohol, they WILL get alcohol. It doesn't matter where it is stored, they will usually go through a heak of a lot of trouble to obtain it. In America, alcohol is sold in supermarkets. It's easier for situations where your in a rush and need to get everything (saves a liqor store trip) Alcohol has pretty much been a part of Western culture since the beginning of time, so it's not going anywhere. |
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