The Daily Campus

Originally posted by

Bob

Well said... my wife and I stopped shopping at Big Y a little over a month ago because of this ridiculous policy.

I'm sure when underage kids buy alcohol they have the common sense to wait outside. What does this policy really achieve?

I wonder if a parent and their teenage child would ever be challenged?

Vote with your feet! There's plenty of (cheaper) stores out there!

Yup! I was there a few weeks ago and a father couldn't buy a six-pack of beer because his 12 yr old daughter was with him. He was pretty pissed.

Claims of overstating a case while overstating your case! I'm sure you spend TONS of time in Big Y but even students need to do their weekly shopping, although it wouldn't take them as long as a mother (or father) toting a few kids along. It is understood that families spend a lot of time in stores shopping, but I think the point is that the policy is a double standard. If you have kids with you would the checker require you to present an ID for each individual with you who was underage? I don't think so...For being the 3rd progressive state in the country to allow gay marriage, Big Y's policy for carding everyone present during an alcohol purchase is a little archaic.

Originally posted by

Trace LeShep

You wrote: "In truth, the two local Big Y stores are largely dependent on student shoppers..."

Support for this statement please. My family spends more in one week at Big Y than most student shoppers spend throughout their complete academic "career."

The stores like Big Y can get along just fine without students buying their beer and chips there.

I think you overstated your case a bit. :-)

Originally posted by

Trace LeShep

You wrote: "In truth, the two local Big Y stores are largely dependent on student shoppers..."

Support for this statement please. My family spends more in one week at Big Y than most student shoppers spend throughout their complete academic "career."

The stores like Big Y can get along just fine without students buying their beer and chips there.

I think you overstated your case a bit. :-)

Wow good for you your so loaded, you must have a really good career. Wait, I meant to say "career." Maybe you don't see a lot of students when you go, because it is at times when students don't usually shop. When I go to Big Y, it is almost all students. Just goes to show you can't be sure about who spends more. And I wish you saw Big Y before a home football game. I went and it was the busiest I have ever seen a store. People waited in line for 10 minutes and it was almost 100% students. We are not just going in to buy beer and chips, there are a lot of us and if it weren't for us the Mansfield area would be a ghost town.