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November 15, 2004 at 4:53 am #14747gossipingraeMember
Okay, I’d really like to know if anyone has had any wal-mart experiences similar to mine.
Yesterday I went to WM w/ my roommate, and as I was browsing through the 2 for $11 dvd bin, I saw one of the best movies ever, Stand By Me. I was so excited. So anyways, I was in the checkout line, and when the lady scanned it, the register beeped. She CARDED me for a freakin rated are dvd!! I didn’t think WM could do that, but apparently they can. She said, “hun, how old are you?” and I replied “20” and she asked me for ID. Hahahaha, you think she would notice my college sweatshirt but whatever. I was sooooo amused.
The same thing happened at the beginning of the semester. I bought white-out and I got ID’d. LoL.
Has this happened to anyone else? Not only in Wal-Mart, but in any other store? Please share.
November 15, 2004 at 4:58 am #104835gossipingraeMemberEDIT: that was supposed to be a rated “R” dvd. this stupid spell check. argh.
November 15, 2004 at 5:05 am #104829RabidKittenParticipantEh…maybe thats because they’re -supposed- to card rated “R” movies…that’s why there’s a ratings system. And lots of kids have college sweatshirts too…heck I have a SoCal U shirt and I live in Minnesota, never even been to SoCal.
You might wanna just hit the edit button instead of the new post next time before the mods yell at you…
Edit: *kicks the spell replacement*
November 15, 2004 at 5:13 am #104828TigerbladeParticipantyou should get a kick out of this one…
so we’re at Wal*Mart, its the only real store in this town (you’d think they’d put more stuff in, seeing as its a college town, but nooooo), we’re browsing around through the movies. my roommate and I notice they have the lord of the rings movies. they’re $15 apiece, so you could buy both of them for…. anyone wanna do the math? $30. plus tax. OR….. you could buy the “combo pack” which consists of nothing more than the two separate cases shrinkwrapped together for…. anyone wanna guess? $49.
yeah…. apparently shrinkwrap costs them $20. i’d love to be the cashier… “uh, sir, you do realize you could buy these for only $30, right? i’m gonna have to Taser you now.” *ZAP*
November 15, 2004 at 5:30 am #104826detn8rParticipantUm, I was in Staples, and was looking at the cell phones k? and the one I liked had a coard that wouldn’t come out far enough for my liking k? So I unplugged it, and the whole stores alarms went off k? So I plugged it back in.. and ran to the vacuum cantre k? 4 security gaurds came charging down isle searching for a missing fake cell phone… boy were they superised when they realised it was still there when they arrived 😀
November 15, 2004 at 6:21 am #104833AwesomeSauceParticipantMe and my friend walked to Albertsons, and he loaded up on all this candy, brought it up to the register, and apperantly, they don’t let you buy more than 4 candy bars at the same time.
I was looking around in their video-rental section, and there happened to be a previously-viewed N64 game for 5 bucks lyin’ around… and they got those Self-Checkout dealies, so I used one of those dealies, and there was a lady who monitors all of the activity on those machines, and she’s like “WTF is that?” and I had to show the game to her, and she said “Oh, I didn’t know we sold those here…”
November 15, 2004 at 9:20 am #104834BuckeyeGirl75MemberI used to work at Wal-Mart and we had to card for rated “R” movies and even some of the video games that were rated “M” for mature. We also had to card for things such as lighters, spray paint, nicotine patches, and certain cold medicines. There was also a limit of how many you could buy on certain cold medicines such as Sudafed and a few others..don’t remember which ones right off hand…because people use them to make Meth..at least that’s what I was told. With most of these things, if you don’t card, and sell them to minors, and get caught, you get a huge fine and face possible jail time. You are held individually as responsible as the store itself. You never really can tell how old someone is. I myself, was never carded for a pack of cigarettes till I was over 18 because I always looked older than I was. The weirdest thing I ever got carded for was when we went to see the Eminem movie 8 Mile. I got carded when I bought the tickets and when we entered the theater itself and I was 26 or 27 at the time.
~BuckeyeGirl75
November 15, 2004 at 10:13 am #104831QwertyMemberI have never heard the word carded before but I guess it sounds better than “asked for ID”.
I’v only ever been “carded” for movies though, nothing out of the ordinary.
November 15, 2004 at 3:15 pm #104832crotchMemberI was in wal mart once. I ran in just to buy a bottle of coke, and upon paying the lady on the cash asked me if I found everything I was looking for. Me being the smartass I am said no. I then asked where the crotchless underwear were. She’s like “um mam, we don’t sell crotchless underwear…” which at that point I said “So, then I guess I didn’t find everything I was looking for” 😀
November 15, 2004 at 5:20 pm #104836gossipingraeMemberokay so I guess it’s better to be safe than sorry. it’s so funny though. i’m not even 21, and they don’t card me when I go to the bar or beer distributor, but for a dvd and white out?? it’s just amusing.
November 16, 2004 at 3:25 am #104830RabidKittenParticipantI get carded all the time. Of course…you guys’ve seen me, so it’s understandable. Mother sends me to the store to get her some cigarettes and groceries, naturally I get carded, I look like I’m a teenager rather than a 20 year old. Movies, Cigarettes(yuck), porno, just about everything you can get carded for, including 16 year old curfew, I’ve get carded for quite regularly.
They made a HUGe stink about carding for 8 mile here. Escorts to theaters so nobody would sneak in, guarded doors where you’d have to show your ticket, the whole shabang *shrug* Stupid uptight puffs.
I like stuffing my bag of goods in my coat and acting really really suspicious and smuggling-like around the walmart greeters when I leave…just because it gives them something to do. It’s also great when you purposely go to a store and talk about private matters. Example? One day I was at the local Cub Foods and my fiancee and I were walking around aimlessly, like you do at 4 am, looking for cereal. Well there were two guys in the cereal isle, stocking the shelves and I started going on and on about who had “won” the previous night. His argument was that he got more points and mine was that they weren’t his points, they were mine because they were mine and then he was saying “FINE! you’re cut off!” To which I responded “Fine, I didnt want your stinky old mexican weenie anyway!”
The stockers nearly choked. It was great fun.
I also like just as I walk into walmart, when the greeters can hear me, talking to whoever’s with me and say “And that was the third time I got crabs”. You know, wrap up an awkward conversation right there, all that good stuff.Ah, I love awkward stares.
November 16, 2004 at 3:51 am #104827Someguy03MemberSo I’m at a store buying shoes and my mom notices after we get them that the cashier charged us 10$ less than she was supposed to. My mom, being honest, goes back and tells the cashier her mistake. The cashier rings up the shoes again, and something happens! The thing crashes. Lucky us, the girl is not computer-literate at all and has no idea how to fix it. She has to have the store manager come down and look at it for her. After literally 30 min of waiting around for the manager to fix it, and not prevailing, they just told us we could leave. I’m confident I could’ve had that thing up and running in 5 minutes tops. So much for bold honesty…
November 16, 2004 at 4:26 am #104837gossipingraeMemberMy mom and I went to a local pharmacy in our town to get some meds for my bronchitis AND strep throat (mmm fun!) and I got some throat lozenges also. The cashier only charged us for the lozenges. My mom noticed that when we got home, that we got $45 worth of prescriptions for free. So I was like “mom are you gonna call them back” and of course she was like “um no, it’s their mistake, and if they call me, I will pay. prescriptions are too expensive anyway.” I can’t believe it…my mom, who taught me honesty, just didn’t care! Haha it was great!
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