"Family Friendly" checkout lines.

So I had to run to the store for some potatoes last night and while I'm standing in line I happen to glance up at the lit counter number sign, and above it is a small sign reading "Family Friendly." Now I have no idea what this sign was for, so I glance over at the other lines hoping to see some of these new stripper cashiers I've been hearing so much about, but there's nothing. In fact, there was absolutely no difference between the family friendly checkout line and the naughty checkout lines that I could discern, except for the absence of tabloids and women's magazines. So I wondered if that was the reason for the "family friendly" line, but that's just stupid.

But that is a bit of a misnomer - basically its a checkout lane without candies and cookies and other impulse buy items.

So in essence its not really "kid friendly" but "parent friendly"

Or have I been misled again?

to replace the space left by tabloids.

these checkouts have done away with the magazines and whatnot with "racy" covers, usually some model or celeb bearing some skin.

the other half is that I don't get any food if I don't go. Any remaing percentage is for the Weekly World News, which is the best tabloid ever (Did you know a T Rex attacked a trailer park last week :P)

IMO kids are hurt more by junk food than by a little skin. Do stupid bluenoses actually think kids are shielded from nudity in their own homes? :eyes:

You know it's gotta be RWNB bluenoses behind such a thing. I know I'm :tinfoilhat:ting, but jesus. The dingbats in Colorado are running amok, and taking all common sense with them. Moreover they hold retailers hostage: "we are large in number, and we will boycott your chain - not just your store - unless you do something to protect the children!"

Of course, that's if this is what it's all about -- saving the children from skin. :tinfoilhat: big time.

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under the guise of doing it for the chiiiillllldrennnnnn...think of the chiiiiillllldrennnn...most of these folks could give two cents for kids, if they did they'd support universal health care and an increase in the minimum wage.

And have you ever noticed that violence is perfectly fine, but someone in a belly shirt or pants for that matter is an atrocity?
Duckie

Some celeb in a tank-top and hotpants is grounds to cover a mag, but when Princess Diana died, all the violence that was fit to print was RIGHT THERE.

I hear you.

Curious if anybody else has heard about these.

I see more families doing shopping at 10PM on Fridays and Saturdays than any ordinary weeknight...

Do they use the conservative definition (i.e. a father and a mother) or the more inclusive definition of either a father and mother or two moms or two dads, one mom, one dad etc.?

and siblings ever survive to adulthood without everything being sanitize? How will these kids, whose schools call a snow day when the temps get too cold or there is a couple of inches of snow (as they do in St Louis.heck about ten years ago a suburban school district closed schools on the FORECAST of snow and not one flake dropped that day), how will the survive the adult world of work where your boss does not care about how cold it is or how much snow is on the ground...YOU HAD BEST REPORT TO WORK.

What are these kids like when they get to college?

year-old with you), and I've seen lines (or whole stores) that cover up the racy headlines, but not "family friendly" lines.

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