Sams Club Giving Kids Candy In Pill Bottles

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Sam's Club in Salisbury, Maryland, is promoting its pharmacy by handing out pill bottles filled with candy to kids. I guess that's better than filling Dots boxes with Vicodin. Or handing out gallon-sized jugs of Nerds.

On the downside, as a pill recipient at Salisbury News notes, "Now my 3 year old thinks all prescription pill bottles are just tasty snacks".

http://consumerist.com/5299890/sams-club-giving-kids-candy-in-pill-bottles

Not a good idea..

[SoCalDem]

1. Why am I reminded of this?

[Fumesucker]

3. My thoughts exactly....

Except this is even more cretinous..

[azurnoir]

2. we really need a facepalm smilie for this kind of stuff

WTF were they thinking?

[jimshoes]

4. Now that's a really stupid idea.

Really.

[lapfog_1]

5. Did any lawyer approve this one?

The pending lawsuits will be astounding.

[vadawg]

6. DOH!!!!!!

[SoCalDem]

8. Dad's gonna be pissed when his little blue pills are now M&Ms

& he finds out the kid fed them to the dog:)

[vadawg]

10. lol, the last thing my dog needs is more stimulus, i swear hes always horny

ive never had a dog that is this bad before.

[SoCalDem]

11. I have a neutered cat who has a "girlfriend"

Marvie & "friend"

[Javaman]

13. Ugh, I will never be able to unsee that!!! nt

[AndyA]

7. Brilliant marketing strategy!

There's no way this could ever possibly send the wrong message to a kid...right? :shrug:

What do you expect from Walmart? They don't much care for their employees or anyone else.

[Berry Cool]

9. Two words:

Marketing fail.

[Buzz Clik]

12. I hope they included instructions on how to remove the child-proof cap.

Maybe a video.

Did they print the telephone number of the poison hotline on the label?