Alcohol Sales
Plaid Pantry, reportedly under pressure from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC), has a policy against selling alcohol to "homeless street drinkers" According to Plaid Pantry's president Chris Girard, the policy has been in place since 1997.
In the late 1990s, Plaid Pantry failed 30-40% of spot checks conducted by the OLCC to determine if the company was selling alcohol or tobacco to minors; by March 2000, they became the first retailer recognized by the OLCC as a "responsible vendor", a milestone reached due to changes to the company's training and its credit card validation system, which were updated to simplify a clerk's ability to ascertain whether a customer was of legal age.
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