Repeatedly rude whenever Ive dared return deposit bearing beverage containers, as is my right, and in my opinion duty, in the state of Michigan. One attendant in particular has gone as far as claiming his system was down and couldn't sell me gas once he saw I had a bag of returnables. After seeing several people frequent the store, go inside, come out with purchases, and pump gas, I returned and he told me the same thing. This time though as he was handing someone change at the register, and so wasn't even trying to be convincing. Today he asked me if all of my bottles were purchased there, and since I couldn't be sure, why I brought them in there to return.....as though I'm supposed to keep track of each and every beverage and where it came from when I'm spending every penny in their store and so I'm not taking money away that wasn't deposited there in the first place. Then when he said something in another language and I said "I'm sorry I didn't understand you", he said "of course cuz none of us speak English right?", as though in anyway I had insinuated such. I'm sick and tired of being discriminated against for doing my part to keep as much out of landfills as possible. Michigan's bottling deposit program is hugely successful in spite of assholes like this. I can't wait to bring him another 12 pack tomorrow.
* just fyi, an excerpt from the legislation for anyone who is as misinformed as the attendant in question: A dealer who regularly sells beverages for consumption off the dealer's premises shall provide on the premises, or within 100 yards of the premises on which the dealer sells or offers for sale a beverage in a returnable container, a convenient means whereby the containers of any kind, size, and brand sold or offered for sale by the dealer may be returned by, and the deposit refunded in cash to, a person whether or not the person is the original customer of that dealer, and whether or not the container was sold by that dealer. read more