5.64.020 Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
A. “Automatic checkout system” means an electronic system employing a scanning device combined with a computer and a register to read a universal product code or similar code on packaging to determine and display and total the costs of items purchased.
B. “Consumer commodity” includes:
1. Food, including all material, whether solid, liquid, or mixed, and whether simple or compound, which is used or intended for consumption by human beings or domestic animals normally kept as household pets, and all substances or ingredients added to any such material for any purpose. This definition shall not apply to individual packages of cigarettes or individual cigars;
2. Paper and plastic products, such as, but not limited to, napkins, facial tissues, toilet tissues, foil wrapping, plastic wrapping, paper toweling, and disposable plates and cups;
3. Detergents, soaps and other cleaning agents;
4. Pharmaceuticals, including nonprescription drugs, bandages, female hygiene products and toiletries.
C. “Grocery department” means an area within a general retail merchandise store which is engaged primarily in the retail sale of packaged food, rather than food prepared for immediate consumption on or off the premises.
D. “Grocery store” means a store engaged primarily in the retail sale of packaged food, rather than food prepared for consumption on the premises.
E. “Grocery chain” means a part or all of a company consisting of three or more individual grocery stores or merchandise stores containing grocery departments.
F. “Sale item” or “special” means any consumer commodity offered in good faith, for a period of seven days or less, on sale at a price below the normal price that item is usually sold for in that store. (Ord. 1913 § 1, 1980).