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Sam's Club Giving Kids Candy... In Pill Bottles [PIC]

consumerist.com — The Sam's Club in Salisbury, MD is promoting its pharmacy by handing out pill bottles filled with candy to kids. As a pill recipient notes, "Now my 3 year old thinks all prescription pill bottles are just tasty snacks".

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  • GemStar38, on 06/24/2009, -0/+71What an absolutely moronic marketing idea
  • Masterful1, on 06/24/2009, -1/+34this is a grand idea, make sure you link the story where some kid dies cause he downed all of grandpa's cumadin then bumped into the table and bled out internally.
  • inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+24This is so wrong. Next thing you find in the bathroom is your kid eating your medicines.
  • theexitwound, on 06/24/2009, -1/+19Stupid idea yes. But keep the medicine out of kid's reach anyway.
  • SSPink, on 06/25/2009, -0/+17No one at the meeting thought this might be a bad idea? No one raise their hand and said, "You know, it might not be a good idea to teach children to associate pill containers with candy" or "Pills can look like candy, aren't we setting up a situation where we can get blamed if a kid downs some pills and dies after we've handed out candy like this?" or "Why are we targeting children with our pharmacy promotion? How many children do you know that fill prescriptions?" or any of the other myriad reasons this was stupid. Either no objections were raised or they were ignored, I find that fact utterly stupefying.
  • OrangeTide, on 06/25/2009, -0/+17When the kids eat all of their parent's pills, the parents will have to refill their prescriptions. Brilliant.

    And as an added bonus, when the kids die from the overdose the parents will end up on antidepressants.
  • undervalued, on 06/25/2009, -1/+15The best kind of marketing idea!
  • zagatbuzz, on 06/24/2009, -0/+12Who would have thought this was a smart idea? I have a hard time believing this is authentic. And I think I'd rather hope that it isn't..
  • dvsbastard, on 06/25/2009, -0/+10When the child gets sick from ingesting actual prescription medication, where are you going to take them to buy something to soothe their stomach pain... BRILLIANT!
  • D3koy, on 06/25/2009, -1/+10I think this is worse. A kid would likely pick up a real cigarette and chew it, and spit it out because it didn't taste like chocolate. That wouldn't cause much (if any) harm to a kid, eating a bottle of pills like candy would.
  • Spamcan, on 06/25/2009, -0/+7I always get my fun size candy prescriptions from Dr. Joe Camel, that guy knows his stuff.
  • Yage2006, on 06/25/2009, -0/+6Nice they can practice being adult and psychologically damaged.
  • Urrelles, on 06/25/2009, -1/+7Yeah but a 3 year old couldn't get his hands on a cigarette easily and light it up either.

    A kid could find some pills and think its candy. Might be hard to open, but he might get lucky.
  • Squaker, on 06/25/2009, -0/+6Sam's club..I like your style.
  • MacEnvy, on 06/25/2009, -0/+5Your username makes this even more humorous.
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -1/+6Until I see this somewhere other than a blog referencing another blog I'm not going to believe that this actually happened.
    I mean with a banner from the "source" like this it has got to be legit right
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    just tells me that the original author of this garbage thinks I'm to retarded and can't figure out how to take a screen shot
  • Hellahulla, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4No, they certainly didn't. Whenever they caught us, they'd take our real cigarettes away too.
    They just don't want children to have any fun, no wonder we all grow up completely *****.
  • otbeverly, on 06/25/2009, -1/+5"Dots boxes of Vicodin" ... That's the kind of national health plan I support.

    (Rehab not included)
  • eliseville, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4And keep 'em locked up so they don't go to someone else's house and think to get into their meds.

    Anyway, I did a google and didn't find a separate source on this yet, although there's lots of blogging on this one. Warning, it could be a hoax. If anyone knows someone who lives nearby, get them to check it out please.
  • UnFriendlyFire, on 06/24/2009, -4/+8I like the blue diamond shaped ones, mommy. Why does my weenie feel funny?
  • OrangeTide, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4Yea. I'm going to use a Pharmacy ran by retards.
  • rocknog, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4Anyone who's had kids would know that there's no such thing as not-within-their-reach. Not that I've had kids myself, but I do have a lot of experience with younger siblings.
  • ShAuNiEcHuLo, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4do you get a choice of which bottle it comes in? or is it random and you're supposed to try to "collect 'em all"?
  • HeavyMedz, on 06/25/2009, -1/+5Can someone please sue this stupid idea from the marketplace before a lawsuit develops from a real death? I'm pretty drunk right now and this still sounds unbelievably stupid.
  • Soleanthia, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4I remember those from Intermediate School. The lunch aids always took them away. Heaven forbid we pretended to rather than actually smoking.
  • centran, on 06/25/2009, -1/+5He can't comment because he is too busy. Now that they think candy comes from prescription bottles the kids don't question him when he hands out... "candy"
  • Banoni, on 06/24/2009, -8/+11This isn't that outrageous. It's just like when we were kids and used to "smoke" chocolate cigarettes that were widely available in almost every store.
  • RubberChicken24, on 06/24/2009, -1/+4Well that's one way to solve the problems of overpopulation - cull the children.
  • Animan351, on 06/25/2009, -2/+5Impending lawsuit guaranteed
  • Xaevier, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Now they just need to hand them out using the company van and its complete!
  • Atario, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Well, that's Wal-Mart for ya.

    You did know Sam's Club is a Wal-Mart deal, right?
  • Talphin, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Please. When I was a kid, we had candy cigarettes. And I used to try to convince my friends that some of the candy I was eating was actually an illegal narcotic (which I knew about from seeing it in the movies)...
    Kids like to pretend to do adult stuff. I say let them have their pretend pharmaceutical bottles, and play Doctor.

  • FmyLife, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3FTA - "Gallon-sized jugs of Nerds."


    Want.
  • Nateon, on 06/25/2009, -1/+4Remember kids, there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.
  • moskrin, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2FAIL
  • OrangeTide, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2well it's not a uniquely American phenomenon.
  • stevenbrown, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2Bye bye
  • paulmer2003, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2You're right. Still pathetic, though.
  • nyxerebos, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2never worked with a committee have you? there is nothing so stupid that a committee can't sign off on if people are there for the high school politics rather than its nominal purpose.
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  • MacEnvy, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2Well you see son, when a man and a woman love each other very much, the man leaves the governor's office without telling anyone where he's going and flies to Argentina for 5 days, leaving his staff to explain to the press that he went hiking on the Appalachian Trail during nudist weekend.

    And that's how babies are made.
  • ChinezePanda, on 06/26/2009, -0/+125 years of educating America about drug safety...

    WIPED THE ***** OUT BY SAMS CLUB.

    ***** idiots.

    Is no one working in the PR or Marketing divisions? Chimps have more ***** common sense.
  • s0nicfreak, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Yeah, chewing and spitting the tobacco instead of smoking it won't cause any harm...
  • TheAirLoom, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1America, America, land of the free and drugged!
  • walshgopher, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1In before facepalm
  • Chrysalii, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Or...
    this could be undercutting a lesson from parents that drugs aren't candy.
  • ThatsNotPoetry, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Sams: Making people fatter since 1983.
  • Chrysalii, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1...again
    Lets say I'm a parent teaching my kid that pills aren't candy, and they should avoid theose orange bottles.
    Then Sams puts candy in them, and markets them to kids.
    it kind of ***** up me lesson on pills.
  • rossisdead, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1what
  • raybury, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Yeah, this was dumb. Someone figured out what they could do and failed to think about whether they should do it. That said, you rxs shouldn't be accessible to your 3-year-old, and you can probably un-teach this dumb lesson.
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