r/mildlyinfuriating • u/BaxterRye • 19h ago

I just wanted a hot dog CVS wouldn’t just let me leave

Bought of few bottles for the family to drink for Labor Day and could not get the heck out of this CVS.

Cashier tells me the total and I say, “Oh, did you ring this one up too?” Indicating a bottle she had not rung up or bagged. A large bottle. The largest one, in fact.

She cancels transaction and restarts.

Bags the bottles, but had not rung up a totally different bottle. Cancel, begin again.

Now we have it all. I pay and gather to leave before realizing the Patron, which you get off the shelf as an empty box, then the cashier switches it behind the counter for a box with an actual bottle within—yea, box was still the empty one and cashier had walked off. I wait, she has to pull up the receipt to make sure she rung it up, then gives me the proper box.

At last I’m on my way out when the door sensors go off. Another cashier says, “It acts up sometimes, you’re fine!” So I carry on.

Upon getting to my car I see the cashier had left a security topper on a bottle, like the anti-theft tags on clothes, making it impossible to open. Back inside I went. No cashier in sight, so I wait around five minutes for someone to fix it.

I’m not exaggerating that I have never experienced time move so very slowly as it did today.

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u/CaptainAmeriZa 19h ago

Alcohol from CVS? Not by me

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u/pierre_x10 19h ago

It's almost like it can depend on different liquor laws in different states.

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u/Historical-Mix3860 19h ago

Buy your liquor at Walmart, Costco Kroger

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u/_1109 17h ago

unless you live in one of the states that doesn't allow those stores to sell liquor...

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u/Historical-Mix3860 14h ago

Hard to imagine a State government telling adults when and where to buy alcohol. Most of the western states have more freedom

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u/_1109 13h ago

I think it's just Utah, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and one of the Carolinas left. but it's a thing.

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u/Nytengayle73 12h ago

DE also only allowsl alcohol sales in liquor stores

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u/pierre_x10 12h ago

It's almost like there's 50 different state governments, with 50 different sets of laws

Hard to imagine a State government telling adults when and where to buy alcohol.

Must have failed your U.S. History, go look up the term Prohibition

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u/Historical-Mix3860 10h ago

Prohibition Never Works was initiated by busybody backwoods zealots.