Well the guy in front of me was being rung up and the girl kept swiping his car on the register, and it wasn't reading the card making me take notice. She was swiping his Driver's License and so I pointed out that it was his D.L. and not a credit/debit card.
She said that starting today, they have to swipe the magnetic strip on the register for everyone's Driver's License if they are buying tobacco. Previously, they would ask for just your date of birth and enter that into the register and that allowed the sale to process...
I recall leaving the house one time without my lighter, so I bought a disposable lighter and she asked for my D.O.B. for that. I exclaimed, "What's next? You want to see my I.D. to buy a newspaper?!?".
Anyways, I dunno if this is just a corporate change, or state law, but the idea of having to have my purchases tracked biometricly, and sales may be declined because I "don't have the mark" is truly Biblical. That's OK though, it's just punishment for the no good rotten smokers out there, already punished with cigarette taxes.
The girl at the register explained that this business of swiping DL's is completely screwing up things because 75% of the ID cards will not read, and so they have to swipe the card 12 times and it's holding up sales (hence the line to the back of the store to the coolers full up energy drinks and pop).
I guess I can't buy smokes there now, you see, I have an NJ D.L. still... with an optical barcode, not a magnetic one.
Maybe what I need to do is ask for the smokes and when she puts them on the counter, leave exact change, grab the smokes and run out the door? Maybe I need to just pull a weapon and demand that I am able to buy the product? I may as well. They wanna treat me like scum... why not at least act the way they expect me to?
Dang! Sucks to be a smoker...
Buy tobacco and a cigarette making machine through the internet and There are some pretty fancy filtered machines avaible. Go around the Beast!
So, maybe there is something to those old conspiracy theories. Hey Big Brother, as soon as you arrive.........
Listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDt49Xdqcb0
How true now.
I took the wife for a mini vacay last week and we stopped at a Target to get a bottle of wine (wink, wink) to cap the night off sitting on the hotel balcony overlooking the beautiful lake...
The cashier card me !!!
I'm 56 years have a full very gray beard and missing half the hair on my head...
I actually though she was joking so I played along until she explained ANY wine or beer sale needed to have birth date entered for the sale to be finalized...
It printed on the receipt my birthday information..!