C N Brown - Big Apple Stores were always easy to get booze from when I was underage they never enforced the laws then and now big ripoff Entire State Of Maine

Now it seems even if you're 80, they ask EVERYONE for ID. This is ridiculous, but it seems to be cheaper than properly training employees. This has always been the big apple way of everything, use the cheap way out. Even with this policy, seems to be that a couple more stores got busted a few weeks ago for selling to minors again. Proof that lack of employee training will NOT work, you cannot expect your employees to ask for an ID from EVERY customer.

The last time i went into one of them stores for cigarettes, (I am 76) the lady refused to sell them to me because i didn't have my driver's license. Why don't they just spend the money to properly train employees. Another thing, every time there's a tobacco or alcohol sting around, seems to me the ONLY ones that get caught is C.N. Brown.

I think they'd be better off sticking to their watered-down heating oil business and they should not be allowed to sell alcohol or tobacco at any of their stores. I've yet to see them either spend the money for better training of employees, or pay a fine for all the alcohol and tobacco stings that they have been busted for. Maybe when an 18 year older who buys beer there one day will kill someone related to a politician in a car accident, and perhaps then, the state will finally act.

Too bad it has to happen to the relative of a politician before the state of Maine takes action.

The problem is that nobody really cares, so the company will not change. If we all took the time to write to our politicians, then and only then will things change. I once was a manager for the company, and I do agree, the alcohol and tobacco training is at best, very poor, they do it the cheapest way they know how, like anything else cn brown. Do these recent stings surprise you? Not a bit for me. I'm not even shocked about Auburn getting stung twice in one night. Take a look at the district manager for the area and then tell me if you're surprised.