How Ready is Your Store for an FDA Compliance Check?

Take a brief survey to find out how you rate and how you can improve.

 

Laws and rules around age-restricted products have been known to change frequently with the times. It wasn’t all that long ago that the legal age for purchasing cigarettes and other similar products rose from 18 to 21. And just this September, a new rule went into effect that requires retailers to “card” any customer under the age of 30 attempting to buy FDA-regulated products like tobacco and vaping products. And with new, possibly untrained retail employees, it’s easy to see how mistakes can be made. 

 

How prepared is your store? Take our short and anonymous Best Practices Survey  to find out! At the end of the survey, you’ll be able to download a free copy of We Card’s Guide to Best Practices – practices that will help you pass the next big enforcement check.

By implementing best practices and processes within your company and at the store level, you will establish successful and time-tested strategies followed by retailers nationwide to prevent underage tobacco, vaping and other age-restricted product sales and improve compliance performance.

 

Our Guide not only details each best practice, but we provide you with a “What you can do” piece of actionable advice – easy steps and directions to put each one into practice.

 

Here are just a few of the 16 best practices and some previously written specialized articles on each one:

Best Practice #6: 

Simulate Difficult Situations That Occur at the Point-Of-Sale

See Practice Makes Perfect:  A Prepared and Confident Employee

Best Practice #8: 

Provide Employees with Age Verification Tools & Practice Using Them

See I Thought They Were Old Enough to Buy

Best Practice #9: 

Be On Guard for Adult-For-Underage Youth Purchases

See Where Do Those Underage Get Tobacco and Vapor Products?

 

And if you haven’t already, please order our FREE in-store kit on raising awareness of social sourcing which is a growing problem.   

 

We have two campaign options available for you to choose what is right for your store.  Order the kits here.

 

Take our survey today to download We Card’s Guide to Best Practices.

 

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