Reply #12: Only one? That's a little weird.

[Mr. Brown of MD]

I don't know why Target is really cutting it down that much. Several stores have similar variations on this policy. I used to work at the local Food Lion when they unveiled something like this. We were told it was a policy being handed down by the DEA, although I'm not sure how true that is since apparently it's not a uniform rule across different companies. At any rate, at our store you are limited to three packages of meds that come up as *MTH on the receipt tape. I can certainly understand the reasoning behind this, assuming that it's true that common cold meds being bought from stores are being used to make whatever drug it is they're trying to thwart.

My biggest complaint is that they don't have a note about this on the shelf, or indicate what does and doesn't count against the three meds, you're left to find out about it at the register from a cashier who may or may not really understand what's happened.