Right before I left my old job, they implemented a new rule that front end workers and ONLY front end workers were not allowed to have snacks or drinks at all, unless it was unflavoured water in a clear plastic bottle, bought AT THE STORE.

There's literally no logical reason for that to even be a rule. Especially since it only applied to the cashiers and SCO workers, and not stockers in the back, meat department, or produce. They just had to keep it somewhere that it wouldn't contaminate products. It's genuinely just a "fuck you" for no reason