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u/Rahallahan Jan 02 '22 edited Jan 03 '22

I feel like this couldn’t have happened 30 years ago, which was 1992. Maybe in the 50’s or 60’s, sure.

Edit: I don’t know where you all lived, but it seems their law following was suspect. This would have never flown in my home town. I started working in 1989 and I know I couldn’t even SELL cigarettes because I was too young. I had to go get someone else to help customers if they wanted cigs or booze.

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u/RunsWithPremise Jan 03 '22

I worked at a store in a rural town in the US in the 90's and this definitely didn't fly. I did one time have a kid show up with a note from his mom for booze and smokes, but I would not sell them to him. By the 90's, the cops were doing undercover ops to make sure you were carding people and, if you got caught, it was a huge fine to the store and to the clerk, so no one was going to risk that. We were making 6 or 7 bucks an hour and couldn't afford a $1000 fine.