My Dragons
Annoying Retail Policies
If you're closely related to me, you may wish to not read the following.
So today I went to the store and did the nifty Giant Eagle thing where you get a little handheld scanner. You scan your groceries as you go around and when you get to the checkout all you have to do is hand the gadget over and pay. It's nice for convenience purposes.
But one of the things I needed to get today was condoms, because hormonal birth control makes me crazy. When I scanned the box, the gadget told me I had to take it to the front to be scanned; the gadget wouldn't register it for me. This kinda ticked me off.
It's not that I care that the checkout girl saw me buying condoms--I'm an adult, I have sex, live with it. But it annoys me that, if I did care, this method of keeping my purchases to myself would be closed to me. This is not cool. I imagine that if I'd tried to take condoms through a self checkout lane, one of two things would have happened: either that wouldn't work either, or the automated voice would loudly announce that I was buying condoms, as it does everything else. Either way, not great.
It's tough enough for kids to buy birth control; why make it harder?