This is just a typical Russian mart-like store for everyday needs – grocery, etc.
One of our readers had made a closer look to the goods they sell right near the cashier and was shocked with what items are freely available for everyone right at the cashier between candies and chewing gums. Let’s take a closer look:
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So this is a place near cashiers. Kids and grown ups all together pay for their goods.
And right above it there is a big ad with a kissing pair. It’s marked with a green arrow on the pic above. With the second green arrow you can see an items this ad is for. We can’t see it very clear from here, let’s look closer.
Yes, here it is. Need to get bit closer still.
So what is that? It’s a sex lubricant from a famous condom making brand, sitting on the best spots around the cashier with a word “Romantic” on it, in two colors with “Strawberry” and “Mint” flavor.
And yes there are condoms two.
The reader who submitted this wonders, how often kids ask parents questions like “What is that strawberry thing is used for?”. The Cashiers couldn’t give him any answer but said it’s forbidden to make photos. What a pity.
submitted by GG
It is very common in Lithuania and I think in all baltic countries.
Is it uncommon elsewhere?
It is very very common in Spain too!
Its also common in Slovakia and in other central European countries I think, normal stuff
You could call this “standard operating procedures” here in Europe where we do not have a problem with teenage pregnancies / abortions…
USA = hipocracy
is also next to the register in almost every bigger grocery shop in Poland – it’s a normal thing to use them and really nothing to get so Victorian about. unless you live in some super prudish country…
It depends on shops.
I remember when few years ago I made shopping with my 5 years old daughter. I was in bad humour and during reading shopping list (made by my wife) I read loudly: ‘rubber wellingtons ?!!! What the rubber wellingtons for ?!’.
My child asked: ‘daddy, what for we want the rubber wellingtons ?!’.
‘Oh … hm … I think that mummy has made mistake’.
Then I went to cosmetics section and started to take some condoms.
My daughter asked: daddy, why there is a strawberry on the item ?.
- Hm, hony, it’s wet hanky in this pack with strawberry flavour.
Then I took last few condoms from other sort.
And my daughter asked again: daddy, why there is TWO SMILING GHOST on the picture ?
yes, it’s uncommon in US… country full of too religious poeple…
Sometime I wonder if it’s not better to live in Saudi Arabia
In Brazil it’s pretty common to see condoms next to the cashiers, although I’ve never seen lube
Its common too in China, we can find condoms in many places, especially in most convenient stores (7Eleven…), just next to the cashier, and near the candies
I don’t see the problem at all. Unless the manager starts wearing them in public or organizing demonstrations.
Yes, I agree. It’s obviously a prank or mistake.
But if they are put like in 4 or 6 photo, then it’s normal.
Take a good look at images #3 and #4, you can cleary see a proper display case there
I don’t know about Detroit, but it’s common here in Canada.
You find condoms and lubricant freely available in all stores in Belgium. No need to go to a pharmacy or ask the cashier…
It’s nothing to be ashamed of… When your kid asks what it is, you just answer that you better had worn it when you had intercourse with his/her mother :p
Sorry for plurar form mistake – too quick writing.
well I also was a curious child and asked about them when I was still young and innocent
Hey, what’s wrong with that? It’s a part of one’s life, why are you so offenced? It’s normal in Czech republic where I live. And if a kid asks, he/she should get a true answer. Come on. We are not living in middle ages. It’s the same as you would be shy for buying a toilet paper.
Where I live, condoms are sold at the cash point, lubricant is sold in the same department as toothpaste, pantyliners, shaving foam etc.
What the photo suggests to me is an indecisive customer who did not bother to put the goods back to their racks, leaving them at the cashier´s instead.
Quite common.
Also common in Ukraine. What’s the point of joke? The submitting reader is too naive?
My oh my. Such a bunch of judgmental people who comment here.
Also very common in Germany…
This is normal in Slovenia, too – except the lube thing he he
Americans don’t sell condoms on the counter of a grocery stores?
It’s a question of ethics. The management should consider the type of customers that shop there. What you consider normal is nor necessarily normal to other people. I’d favor a more discreet placement of such items as tampons, condoms and sex lube.
Yes a shop where you can buy food – I have seen these
The lube is common in the US but they don’t put it where you pay for your items. It is in the back of the store.
In Finland it’s also completely normal to have comdoms next to the cashier in supermarkets.
Perhaps in the USA it would be considered weird – but then again, in USA they probably have guns for sale next to cashier’s… Whatever suits your fancy though, after all, they take care of the same thing – condoms are used to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and guns are used to take care of the results of unwanted pregnancies.
LENTA! LENTA!
wow, what a sensation…
but probably only in russia where they live with dark ages mentality…
Didn’t think you were getting much Boom Boom. She’s been dead for 25 years…..
Igor not use condoms, no need point cuz im can’t make a baby cuz the nuclear waste truck made me sterile
Although historically being criticised it is the Russian modernism that get over with the sex. May be not completely but still promising, Russians and western Asia seem to have some moral know-how for sexual liberation.
On the western side the last assault for the “perfect freedom” was that of the hippies, which short-circuited very shortly. Nothing lost and nothing gained. Overly masculine dialects just don’t let. And the wesstern extremity, the US. Sadly it is not as modern as it was back in the 1970′s.
is that LENTA or what?
You can see this in germany too
Oh this is SO unexciting. It’s somewhat unlikely to see sex products near the cash register in a grocery here in Germany, but they will be displayed visibly in the body care section. You will also find them at cash register in drugstores such as DM/Schlecker/Kaiser’s and whatnot.
What’s the problem here? Washing powder, potatoes, condoms, lube. It doesn’t say children’s store anywhere, does it? They sell alcohol in normal shops as well. They sell magazines with violence and nudity. Locking up the kids at home seems the only solution, or let them face the world we live in. And when the kids ask what stuff is for – tell them the way it is. This says more of the complexes of the commenter.
- Max, Swedish citizes livng and working in Russia since many years back.
You can see this in ROMANIA too, in Kaufland supermarkets
So what..
In canada condoms and lubes are sold in regular stores too..
In fact Shoppers Drug Mart is the place to go for this everyday product..
They got toys and diapers in one isle.. and condoms in the next… I don’t see anyone complain about that…
Really?
In all store’s I’ve been, the condoms are somewhere near other men’s hygiene products, such razors and male oriented deodorant and shampoo brands.
That said, lube hasn’t been in the selection of normal groceries. One chain recently introduced a set of sex toys (including lube) causing minor controversy, but that has diminished quickly.
If the set is discarded, that probably is because women prefer real toys of sex shops over the conventional and inobtrusive ones of market.
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