Alcohol sales stop at 13.50

[BestB]

This is precisely why social media should come with a license and tests prior to granting access to one.

 

big wopti doo they did not allow sales 10 mins prior.

 

world is coming to an end.

 

anytime someone does not get things their way and their way only , no matter how unreasonable or illogical , off to the forums to whine.

 

As always my favourite part” I told them in Thai “

 

was every 10th word in Thai that made it I told them in Thai ??

 

and then they all were laughing, I would be too when staff speak better English than your Thai 

Edited September 23, 2018 by BestB

[Vacuum]

What is the point of this law? Can't buy before 11am and can't buy between 2-5pm?

[sanemax]

1 minute ago, Vacuum said:

What is the point of this law? Can't buy before 11am and can't buy between 2-5pm?

The law was put in place just to annoy felangs

[Vacuum]

38 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Alcohol sales do not stop at 13.50 PM

He could still have bought the alcohol right up to 2 PM

In this case, he couldn't.

[Vacuum]

1 minute ago, sanemax said:

The law was put in place just to annoy felangs

Ok, it works.

[CharlieH]

3 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

What is the point of this law? Can't buy before 11am and can't buy between 2-5pm?

Possibly to stop people drinking ALL DAY and becoming a social nuisance. Although some can achieve that within 20 minutes or less ?

[transam]

11 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Possibly to stop people drinking ALL DAY and becoming a social nuisance. Although some can achieve that within 20 minutes or less ?

I have that T-shirt....?

 

Well according to Mrs.T...?

[Cyclone88]

1 hour ago, poohy said:

The law is alcohol is for sale until 2pm

So he is perfectly entitled to obtain his goodies prior to then and then and  perambulate to the check out.... "ITS IS HERE THE POINT OF SALE CAN BE REFUSED" due to being out of time or planets not being in line or whatever. Not at some half brained whim of Somchai and his merry mates hiding in an aisle 

 

If he got there at 2.01 yep cannot! 

 

The law maybe 2pm but he is not ENTITLED to anything.

When your in somebody's house they make the rules and can or cannot serve you.

They can open and shut their door whenever they like.

[sanemax]

24 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

In this case, he couldn't.

He could have , had he manged to get to the till on time 

Edited September 23, 2018 by sanemax
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[Vacuum]

1 minute ago, sanemax said:

If could have , had he manged to get to the till on time 

No, it couldnt have as they had closed the alcohol section.

[faraday]

1 hour ago, Cadbury said:

Is that a trick comment designed just to mock the staff? Perhaps you misjudge them and maybe they do know that Shiraz and Syrah are one and the same grape variety.

Gosh, you're so clever.

 

No fooling you young man, I can see that.

 

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[sanemax]

6 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

No, it couldnt have as they had closed the alcohol section.

Yes , but the tills would have still sold it to him, had he got there before 2 PM 

[poohy]

12 minutes ago, Cyclone88 said:

The law maybe 2pm but he is not ENTITLED to anything.

When your in somebody's house they make the rules and can or cannot serve you.

They can open and shut their door whenever they like.

I hear you are the guest follow the rules blah blah blah , well he did!

 

But you go to a shop to buy something within the allotted time agreed by ministers and monks only to be thwarted by Morons i guess you would be peeved somewhat?   

I am not so sure they would have done the same to a Thai!

[chrisinth]

I have a feeling that it is something to do with information in the bar code (ironic reference in this case) that certain items are time restricted. Even if the item was picked off the shelf before 14:00, the teller couldn't check it out on the till if the purchaser arrived after said time.

[Knocker33]

This ****ing stupid law really p**ses me off. My wife holds a full bar and restaurant license but if we need just 1bottle of spirits or 1 case of beer.  Oh no you can buy 10 liters of spirits or 2 cases of beer so can get totally legless. Another brain dead law

[Bluetongue]

I might not have bothered taking it up with them, knowing how rules are here. Just could have waited til they weren't looking, lifted the rope grabbed my two bottles and off to the checkout

[Tchooptip]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

You’re blaming the Op for being 10mins before the 2pm deadline and then suggest he goes back 3 hrs later??? For what? He was well within time. 

 

As another poster suggested - your reply above does come across as being some what of a Thai Apologist...

 

In this the Op was well within reasonable bounds to complain, Thai’s too would complain in the same situation & why not?

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The staff were jumping the gun and just being a dash moronic. 

 At least they did not open fire this time, take care the next times maybe they will!

[smotherb]

5 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Permitting the sale (or not) should be done at the point of sale that is "the checkout" not in the dept or aisle.(IMHO) unless its actually passed the alotted time and then as an advisory.

 

In our ares they dont "rope it off" they have permanent signs displayed only.

 

The " gone to lunch" or " in a meeting" is s standard reply in most places unfortunately, in my experience.

I think the store is simply setting the time to shut-off alcohol sales at the point of stock; not at the point of sale. It is a common business practice.

 

However, there should be local liquor stores which sell at any time--at least there are where I live.

[SteveK]

I've been to 7-11 at around 13:58 or thereabouts and they have locked the fridge. But the chain they use is so big and not locked tight so I can open the fridge enough to get my arm in, still goes through the till fine at 13:59.

[Tchooptip]

The time to buy alcohol is what is print on the ticket at the cash register, not the time people get hold of the product itself.

So once a customer is in the alcohol department most probably he will take a little time to choose, decide himself,  probably not in a few seconds, then will go to pay.

So they put the rope ten minutes before because it is what the shop, not the sales assistants,  think reasonable to have still enough time to be able to pay in due time at the cash register

That's happened to me 2/3 times in a few years, I thought "grrr bad luck" and two seconds later I had forgotten it, no sorry one second later! So certainly I  would not have asked for the manager.

Called me a Thai apologist if you like, some members love that anyway,

But another problem is the incredibly ticklish egos, and I would go so far as to say pathologically ticklish ego of some expats once they are in this country.

I'm wrong?  So why OP wrote many hours afterwards  "Anyway, I just needed to get this off my chest." I'm sorry I certainly do not intend to offence OP but it is bad for his blood pressure for his liver for his sleep, and for the shop assistant only a good laugh because he called for the manager which in no case could have arrived on time given the remaining minutes before the cashier could accept the sale.

For some expats, and indeed a good number of members here, staying Zen in front of certain situations in this country would be like putting down his pants, I think they did not understand unfortunately they only hurt themselves.

At first, for many things, in the same way, I said to myself but it's completely crazy, now I tell myself it's like that, no more.

I'm going to go further I'm beginning to know how to read Thai, at the beginning I thought, psychologically it is a writing system created by mentally ill people. Why are vowels like Sara O sometimes not written between two consonants but pronounced anyway? But sometimes it's Sara A idem unwritten but pronounced.
Another example that drove me mad. in the case of a cluster of two consonants, the same vowel is partly to the right and partly to the left of the two consonants, so you have to read this sound in zigzag ... help!

I thought that's why we do not understand the Thai people, because they are bound to understand their un-understandable writing system, without questioning since early childhood. it has destroyed their brains LOL

And now, on the contrary, I think it taught me to think: OK here logical or not it is like that and not otherwise!  

Imagine for a second in your respective countries to stop on a motorcycle without a helmet just in front of a police officer, he would stop you at once.

Here if it's not the right time to do the controls for the helmets he will not even see you. At first it shocked me, today it makes me laugh, especially since I never drive without a helmet

[dave moir]

3 hours ago, sanemax said:

Its just a shop rule , to stop people picking up alcohol just before 2 PM and not getting to the check-out on time .

   They probably laughed at you, because you were making a spectacle of yourself and complaining .

I quite often see foreigners who complain about rules and who feel that they should be exempt from rules and deserve special treatment because they are buying something .

   Why not just go back at 5 PM ?

He's not complaining about the rules! The rules are quite clear 14.00-17.00 he's complaining at the fact there was still plenty of time for him to purchase what he wanted! It's the staff at the supermarket that aren't sticking to (THE RULES ) seems they're prats the same as you seem to be? 

[Tchooptip]

29 minutes ago, dave moir said:

He's not complaining about the rules! The rules are quite clear 14.00-17.00 he's complaining at the fact there was still plenty of time for him to purchase what he wanted! It's the staff at the supermarket that aren't sticking to (THE RULES ) seems they're prats the same as you seem to be? 

Calling someone prat is not only is against the rules of the forums but shows a beautiful natural grossness, congratulation. NOT

[Thaidream]

The problem in Thailand is that most Thai people cannot think for themselves.  This is not being anti-Thai but realistic.  Foreigners have their own faults and ways of thinking.  Thais do not care much for customer service.  It would have been so easy to allow the customer to take his 2 bottles of alcohol, escort him to the register and say to his wife- We normally don't allow it but this time we want to assist you.  The OP would have been happy ; the store would be happy and smiles all around.

 

[Percy P]

4 hours ago, petedk said:

Yes, I agree with you.
This particular supermarket has a small room for alcohol sales, but you pay at the min cashier.

As I said it wasn't really a problem as I know we can buy at another supermarket further along the road.

I just think the staff acted so arrogantly and then laughed at me when I tried to complain.

Normally, No problem as we buy in the mornings.
Sounds like I buy a lot. No, we serve wine with food when we have guests and yesterday I wanted to please my friend and serve the whiskey he likes.

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It didn't matter to the shop floor worker whether the shop makes any money or not ,they get paid the same at the end of the week.The wine section could be paid on sales.

[mauGR1]

1 minute ago, Thaidream said:

The problem in Thailand is that most Thai people cannot think for themselves.  This is not being anti-Thai but realistic.  Foreigners have their own faults and ways of thinking.  Thais do not care much for customer service.  It would have been so easy to allow the customer to take his 2 bottles of alcohol, escort him to the register and say to his wife- We normally don't allow it but this time we want to assist you.  The OP would have been happy ; the store would be happy and smiles all around.

 

I agree with you, but some Thai friend who works as a manager in a central Bkk mall, believes that customer is god.

Simply because if you don't offer a good service, the customers will go elsewhere.

[Percy P]

7 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

I agree with you, but some Thai friend who works as a manager in a central Bkk mall, believes that customer is god.

Simply because if you don't offer a good service, the customers will go elsewhere.

I don't have a problem with alcohol .I drink lao chow(Thai rice whiskey with sprite and can get it any time of the day .Goes well in coffee too.

[HAKAPALITA]

Is it true you cant get a Beer on a long Train Journey now.?.


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[nahkit]

2 hours ago, sanemax said:

Yes , but the tills would have still sold it to him, had he got there before 2 PM 

Talk about arguing for arguements sake.

[nahkit]

I had the opposite happen to me a couple of weeks ago in Big C. Bought some groceries and 2 bottles of whisky and took it to the counter at 11:30 a.m. The cashier rang the bell and got the supervisor over to ask if they were allowed to sell me alcohol at that time.

[sanemax]

1 hour ago, dave moir said:

He's not complaining about the rules! The rules are quite clear 14.00-17.00 he's complaining at the fact there was still plenty of time for him to purchase what he wanted! It's the staff at the supermarket that aren't sticking to (THE RULES ) seems they're prats the same as you seem to be? 

You are getting laws mixed up with rules .

The law of Thailand states that alcohol cannot be sold after 2 PM

The rules of the shop state that alcohol must be off the shelf by 1 50 PM .

You should  learn the difference between rules and laws before you start calling people names, otherwise you make yourself seem to be