Have you ever bought dry ice at Wal-Mart paying with business credit card? You have no idea what you are missing. I had to do it 3 time during past week. It seems unbelievable, but each time I faced different set of obstacles. Now looking back, I think my first time was most successful, as the cashier had no idea how to do that and the manager was rather polite. Although it took her 15 minutes and 3 trips to office to find the right key. Yesterday, I couldn’t convince cashier (different one, unfortunately) that dry ice is not the same as regular ice and I cannot pick it up on my way out. Not only because the ice is in locked container….. Today, although I insisted I need to fill up provided box, I got two larger pieces in Wal-Mart disposable bag…. Couldn’t fit the stuff in my styrofoam box to drive back to lab.
I think the quotient of cashier’s intelligence and the product price needs to be constant. Next time I will add the 3 miles to see how it works in Hy-Vee.