In North Carolina, you cannot buy alcohol before 12:00PM on Sundays.
I dread working before 12:00. Every time I cashier, I always have to tell people "Sorry, you cannot buy this before 12:00." Every response is "OH YEAH I FORGOT!" Then, I have to take their beer/wine and put it in the already full putback cart. Usually later, it is my job to go put all the alcohol back. If you've ever been to a Harris Teeter, you'd know of the VERY extensive wine collection that we have, and how it's impossible to find specific brands because it's so huge. The beer's easy, but there are so many wine bottles to put back that it takes well over an hour and is a pretty frustrating task. Then, as I am restocking, I will get people asking me what type of wine would go well with their dinner or where a specific brand of wine is. Hey lady, I'm 17, not 21; I don't know the first thing about cherry or even what a vermouth is.
The same people forget every time. They can't get it through their thick skulls that you cannot do that before 12 on Sundays. I can fully understand if they had just moved here and stuff, but the fact that I always see the same people forgetting annoys the bejesus out of me.
I had one lady flip a shit on me one time.
Me: Sorry, you cannot buy this before 12:00 on Sunday
Her: BUT I NEED THIS FOR A PARTY!
Me: I can't do anything about it and I am sorry.
Her: GOD. Can't you get your manager to override it???
Me: ....no, we cannot do that, that would be against the law and would be very illegal. You must come back after 12:00 to buy this.
Her: THIS LAW IS SO STUPID!! Why do we have it? (rants about it for a while and then leaves)
When New Years eve approaches it's the worst. I had to work in the morning from 8:00 until 1:00 on New Years Eve. That day happened to be a Sunday last year, and holy crap, the amount of people I had to deny alcohol to was staggaring. We had 2 and a half carts full of wine, one cart full of 24 packs, and one cart full of 6 packs. It was ridiculous.
These guys just don't get it. They're not memorizing the entire constitution; they're memorizing one law that was passed a loooooooong time ago. If I can remember all of the trigonometric properties and identities from Algebra 2 then I think these people can remember one law: Don't buy alcohol before 12:00PM on Sundays.
I dread working before 12:00. Every time I cashier, I always have to tell people "Sorry, you cannot buy this before 12:00." Every response is "OH YEAH I FORGOT!" Then, I have to take their beer/wine and put it in the already full putback cart. Usually later, it is my job to go put all the alcohol back. If you've ever been to a Harris Teeter, you'd know of the VERY extensive wine collection that we have, and how it's impossible to find specific brands because it's so huge. The beer's easy, but there are so many wine bottles to put back that it takes well over an hour and is a pretty frustrating task. Then, as I am restocking, I will get people asking me what type of wine would go well with their dinner or where a specific brand of wine is. Hey lady, I'm 17, not 21; I don't know the first thing about cherry or even what a vermouth is.
The same people forget every time. They can't get it through their thick skulls that you cannot do that before 12 on Sundays. I can fully understand if they had just moved here and stuff, but the fact that I always see the same people forgetting annoys the bejesus out of me.
I had one lady flip a shit on me one time.
Me: Sorry, you cannot buy this before 12:00 on Sunday
Her: BUT I NEED THIS FOR A PARTY!
Me: I can't do anything about it and I am sorry.
Her: GOD. Can't you get your manager to override it???
Me: ....no, we cannot do that, that would be against the law and would be very illegal. You must come back after 12:00 to buy this.
Her: THIS LAW IS SO STUPID!! Why do we have it? (rants about it for a while and then leaves)
When New Years eve approaches it's the worst. I had to work in the morning from 8:00 until 1:00 on New Years Eve. That day happened to be a Sunday last year, and holy crap, the amount of people I had to deny alcohol to was staggaring. We had 2 and a half carts full of wine, one cart full of 24 packs, and one cart full of 6 packs. It was ridiculous.
These guys just don't get it. They're not memorizing the entire constitution; they're memorizing one law that was passed a loooooooong time ago. If I can remember all of the trigonometric properties and identities from Algebra 2 then I think these people can remember one law: Don't buy alcohol before 12:00PM on Sundays.
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