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Tonight I stopped at the grocery store and saw as I walked out the door the headline "Iowa Sues (grocery store)". I will be kind enough not to mention their name. It's not the one I shop at.
Without reading the paper, I know what is about. Back in my infanthood or before, Iowa began a recycling program where when one buys certain alcohols and soda pops and they are charged 5 cents extra to receive the money back when can or bottle is returned. Even so, there are plenty of cans and bottles on the ground for the homeless to collect nickels. Anyway, the past year or so this grocery store chain ceased redeeming the cans and bottles to the complaints of many customers. By law, a grocery store either takes the cans and bottles or set up a redemption center to take these stores' cans and bottles. On top of that, they must give notice to the customers (1 or 2 months) and ask permission from a state office (I forget which) to stop redeeming cans and bottles, yet still charge the 5 cent fee for each one.
The biggest complaints came from people lacking transportation who walk to the store and are angry at the idea of walking 2 miles to redeem their cans and bottles. Then others in the chain store abruptly discontinued accepting the items without notice nor permission, a woman in a past paper said not even a sign on the door was posted of the rejection. Which tiffed people more who were already tiffed. The grocery store defended their decision across the state to reject the items because of the attraction of insects and health hazards of touching gross cans and bottles. This store is a little behind in technology and does not use machines like other stores do. The redeeming machines have only been around a few years.
So anyway, seeing Iowa sue this store chain can only mean one thing: Iowa laws are worth more than scraps of paper when the courts up to the Supreme Court of Iowa uphold them. And then there is the appeal process delaying fines and actions for years. This is going to get interesting. Post later. Bye!