By McLaren and Torchinsky
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”.
I can’t wait to see what’s next. Wal-Mart promoting its gun department with the Pez “suicide” dispenser?
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Totally irresponsible and/or unbelievably stupid. Let’s just hope that the parents of those kids on the receiving end just say “no thank you” when someone tries to hand them a prescription bottle filled with candy.
I’ve long thought that candy, soft drinks and other sugar products are typically marketed the way one would market narcotics. They dehumanize (Five Alive ads give many examples of this), and don’t tend to actually be about the product but rather show escapism to the extreme with the product as the doorway or a participant. From that view Halloween, bizarre already, takes on a whole new sick twist. An initiation for youngsters to participate in crime. Reinforcement of the witch slur. Peer pressure and community support (collective perception) that it’s all okay. What drug dealer wouldn’t want a Halloween every night?