Supermarket rejects selling diet pills to kids

September 19, 2005

Food Stores which has 274 markets across six states has rejected the sale of diet supplements to buyers who are below the age of 18. The new corporate policy was implemented after the store received a complaint from the father of a teenage girl who bought a bottle of diet pills from one of their stores.

Every Food Stores cash counter now carries a sign, “Attention Customers: You must be 18 years old to purchase certain dietary supplements.” The super market has reprogrammed their cash register computers in order to ask for ID when the products are scanned. They have also picked 46 diet products which needs age verification from customers before it’s sold, beginning with Acutrim weight loss program and ending with Xtreme Metabolife FX Caplets.

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