Pot smoking : smell and presence

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The perfume sections must be prominent to grab our attention, as we enter the store, I am thinking.

Betcha the profit margin is very high as well
 
The conversations re perfumes takes us back to the perception regarding pot smoking.

We adjust and complain regarding the perfumes. (I remember a concern regarding a perfume wearing alto singer in the church choir who was causing people to be unable to sing).

Yet, for Pot, there is a sense of "holier than thou".
I do feel it can be over-the-top in response, and less collaborative, more accusatory or judgemental
 
paradox3 said:
Don't get me started on scented candles.
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I went to a meeting at someone's home. I sat and coughed. Then I started wheezing. Not sure why I felt embarrassed when I asked if it would bother anyone if I blew out the scented candles! Maybe I was thinking "My house, my rules".
 
I had a lot of difficulty in church with candles burning at one point. Then I switched meds from one that has coughing as a side effect. Voila! Problem solved
 
JayneWonders said:
There are some Shoppers Drug Mart ( a local drug store) that I can't go into because the perfume area is at the entrance. (Or, if I am unaware until I enter, I have to hold my breath as I walk through). It takes my breath away.
Ditto on some grocery aisles re the laundry detergent.
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Not sure why the 'newer' ones (not that new anymore) were designed that way, the old ones certainly were not.
When I was using one as my main pharmacy I just walked through the exit. Reasonable accommodation..
 
JayneWonders said:
The conversations re perfumes takes us back to the perception regarding pot smoking.

We adjust and complain regarding the perfumes. (I remember a concern regarding a perfume wearing alto singer in the church choir who was causing people to be unable to sing).

Yet, for Pot, there is a sense of "holier than thou".
I do feel it can be over-the-top in response, and less collaborative, more accusatory or judgemental
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There's also the legal aspect. If someone is wearing perfume in a scent free area, that's a problem. There are typically bylaws prohibiting smoking at a playground.
 
ChemGal said:
If someone is wearing perfume in a scent free area,
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Whoa! Scent-free area? There is such a thing? There is so much scent in everything most people use, from laundry, to fabric softener, to moisturizers, to cleansing creams, to deodorant to body washes, that a scent-free area sounds impossible. "Perfume" is not the worst offender.
 
Maybe the worst is BO covered up by perfume.

My old guy used to try this with his smelly old dog (Jazz was an old unfixed male, and he kinda reeked). I'd tell him that "smelly old dog" plus perfume does not equal "perfume"...
 
BetteTheRed said:
Whoa! Scent-free area? There is such a thing? There is so much scent in everything most people use, from laundry, to fabric softener, to moisturizers, to cleansing creams, to deodorant to body washes, that a scent-free area sounds impossible. "Perfume" is not the worst offender.
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There are some, scent awareness is more common.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Whoa! Scent-free area? There is such a thing? There is so much scent in everything most people use, from laundry, to fabric softener, to moisturizers, to cleansing creams, to deodorant to body washes, that a scent-free area sounds impossible. "Perfume" is not the worst offender.
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Most health facilities are scent-free (or try to be) around here. It's much appreciated.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Whoa! Scent-free area? There is such a thing? There is so much scent in everything most people use, from laundry, to fabric softener, to moisturizers, to cleansing creams, to deodorant to body washes, that a scent-free area sounds impossible. "Perfume" is not the worst offender.
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I had a co-worker, back in the 80's who went on short-team leave in part due to her response to office air.
She could not sit in a church, so we labelled an area in the gallery as "scent free" to stop people from sitting there if they were wearing perfume. Did it work? Who knows, but...we at least tried to be aware to the issue. (It was a sanctuary with a gallery and lots of air space, so unlikely anything from below would make it up)
I became aware that she could not go into most grocery stores or drug stores, and so her spouse did it.
Her daughter became a naturopath, i think in part due to her interest/learnign due to her mother's challenges.

So, it is rare to see a space labelled scent-free around this part of Ontario.
There is guidance on teh Canadian Health & Safety association site Scent-Free Policy for the Workplace


What i still wonder is....why is pot such a big deal when we have come to accept the others, and/or work around.
 
Re smoking pot

It is my understanding that you can smoke pot walking down a public trail or in a public park (more than 20m from playground equipment), or on a side walk in Ontario.

Cannabis laws

Learn about Ontario’s rules to keep people safe when buying and consuming recreational cannabis.
www.ontario.ca www.ontario.ca
 
I don’t see why there couldn’t be a” building code” for scented items in stores as it is for accessibility. Making sure that these items are in a part of the store that doesn’t have to be crossed if you don’t need to. I noticed our Ikea has the scented candle section just before you get into the warehouse, without any shortcut around it. That could have been easily prevented.
 
JayneWonders said:
I became aware that she could not go into most grocery stores or drug stores
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On the question of scents, who the (bleep) thought that having the entrance to basically every Shoppers in their "big box" style go through the perfume boutique was actually a good idea? I mean, seriously, I don't have serious reactions to them and walking into a blast of scent bothers me. Most people going into Shoppers are likely not there for perfume so why not stick it in a back corner or at least in a location where people don't have to pass through it to get to their scrips or OTC drugs or whatever. In fact, the most sensible thing to have at the front would, IMHO, be the mail station that most of the ones around here have now. But, of course, by making people walk through the entire bleeping store to get to the mail station, they probably think they are increasing the chance of impulse purchases or something.
 
Mendalla said:
On the question of scents, who the (bleep) thought that having the entrance to basically every Shoppers in their "big box" style go through the perfume boutique was actually a good idea? I mean, seriously, I don't have serious reactions to them and walking into a blast of scent bothers me. Most people going into Shoppers are likely not there for perfume so why not stick it in a back corner or at least in a location where people don't have to pass through it to get to their scrips or OTC drugs or whatever. In fact, the most sensible thing to have at the front would, IMHO, be the mail station that most of the ones around here have now. But, of course, by making people walk through the entire bleeping store to get to the mail station, they probably think they are increasing the chance of impulse purchases or something.
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The good thing about the setup though, at least the one I used was - the degree of separation. It almost felt like a separate store as it wasn't just an aisle but a wall separation. Just wish the scented laundry stuff was there too. Going through the exit was really effective with being separated from that area.
 
Mendalla said:
On the question of scents, who the (bleep) thought that having the entrance to basically every Shoppers in their "big box" style go through the perfume boutique was actually a good idea?
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I no longer EVER darken the door of Shopper's Drug Mart. This is reason #1, reason #2 being self-checkouts, reason #3 being their higher prices (despite #2) and #4 being Galen Weston.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I no longer EVER darken the door of Shopper's Drug Mart. This is reason #1, reason #2 being self-checkouts, reason #3 being their higher prices (despite #2) and #4 being Galen Weston.
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We rarely go in, either, but it is right next door to our No Frills so if there is something we need drug, health, or personal care-wise that we can't get in the No Frills pharmacy, we tend to pop in there. Also, it's now the closest postal station to us.
 
ChemGal said:
Just wish the scented laundry stuff was there too.
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My big scent beef with laundry are the damn dryer sheets. I can't seem to go for a walk without at least once getting blasted by the scent from someone's dryer vent.
 
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