a great find at walmart!....

Can I suggest something? Why not take ONE and copy it with your scanner. I work in a drugstore and let me tell you, there is nothing more annoying than people taking things they think are free for their own use. It just makes it more work for the employee to keep putting the stuff on the shelf. (that would be me....) ;o) Also, they're not free for the store. They have to pay for them.

you can't scan them... they are hard plastic cards...... like hotel key cards and credit cards. Also like getting laminate samples from hardware stores..... It was like a phamlet with drug information on it anyway... phamlets are free to the public!.

cowchipper

Can I suggest something? Why not take ONE and copy it with your scanner. I work in a drugstore and let me tell you, there is nothing more annoying than people taking things they think are free for their own use. It just makes it more work for the employee to keep putting the stuff on the shelf. (that would be me....) ;o) Also, they're not free for the store. They have to pay for them.

oh yeah and nothing worse then then over 500 AOL (or other) cds I have taken too!!!.

cowchipper..

if ya get paid to restock then that is what ya do!...lol

cowchipper

Can I suggest something? Why not take ONE and copy it with your scanner. I work in a drugstore and let me tell you, there is nothing more annoying than people taking things they think are free for their own use. It just makes it more work for the employee to keep putting the stuff on the shelf. (that would be me....) ;o) Also, they're not free for the store. They have to pay for them.

Then don't complain about high prices. My goodness, if people would realize the amount of work stock people do and would only have to do half of, if customers would clean up after themselves (put things back where they got it from and not stash it where ever because they don't want to walk back to where they got it from), or not take what isn't rightfully theirs, then I'd only have to work part time rather than full time (I spend about 1/2 my shift cleaning up), my boss wouldn't have to hike the prices so much in order to pay me. It really does come out of the consumers pocket in the end. ;o) So in a sense, you're probably right! Take em all. I could use another raise.... ;o)

LOL... you guys are too funny! It's just one of those things. When I first came down to the states, there were a number of stores that did not have a place to return the carts in the parking lot. So I used to walk the cart back. Then my husband pointed out that if I walked the carts back and everyone did the same, someone would lose their job. A valid point as much as the one that says true but then the sotre would not have to pay him and the cost would go down. Also true. But what about the guy that lost his job and all the others like him that probably won't find another job that requires even or an equal amount of skills? Frankly, now, if there is a place to return my cart, I do and if there isn't? I leave it in the parking lot to make sure someone else doesn't lose their job. I'd rather pay a little more for something I buy, than have to support the poor guy on unemployment or welfare.

Hmmm this was a nice change from wallpaper and boxes...lol!

Heck, even *I* would have my hours cut, but I don't have a problem working 2 jobs. Or I would miss out on a raise. But then, our *big* .30 cent raises don't get us much anyways.... I've worked in the service industry my whole life. I put away my garbage when I eat in a food fair in the malls (toss out my garbage and put the tray away), I pile up the dishes at the end of my table when eating in a restaurant, and I always put things back where I got them from when I'm shopping and change my mind. You can even find me in the magazine aisle straightening up the magazines. I find myself facing shelves even in stores I don't work at. Force of habit. IMO, it's not so much with having the prices go down, or cutting ones hours, but being polite and doing the right thing. Mom always told me to clean up my own mess. I do that. Everywhere.

Except they aren't there for you to take for free!! Technically that is shop lifting...taking something that doesn't belong to you without paying for it. They are there so the consumer knows to take it to the pharmacist. When they get a new shipment of that drug then those so called "free" plastic cards are put back out for the consumer to use to request the drug they want. It also lets the consumer know if they are out of stock or not. When the cards are gone the stock is gone...unless of course someone like you took them home for free!! So NO they aren't free and aren't put there for scrappers to take!! Sorry this is one of my pet peeves...People thinking they can take what doesn't belong to them.

It was just my original intention to alert people as to what is right and wrong when shopping in a store. I did ask my employer if those cards were free. He said, "no, I pay for them". That's why they're made of hard plastic. So they can be reused.

Great idea April.

Teresa in MD