[CoveredinGrace]

I agree with Amanda, the majority of the tone of that paragraph is just saying, "We reserve to put up a sign saying "limit 3" b/c of a national food shortage or whatever.
It does sorta seem like they are giving the manager carte blanche to limit you by the second part of the paragraph, though, but I'm guessing that if they wanted to limit you, the burden would be on them to prove that you or other military dependants in your household CAN'T use that much of a single product. I *believe* the reason that is written that way is so that they have the ability to stop GI Joe or Mrs. GI Joe from, say, buying all of the toilet paper up and then going off and reselling it-which is totally against deCa, or giving it away (which technically is against deCa policy b/c the "benefits" are only for "dependants". And they get pretty specific on this, too. Like say if Mrs. GI Joe becomes EX-Mrs. GI Joe, but there are 2 Baby GI Joe's from the marriage, EX-Mrs. GI Joe would be given ID cards for her kids ONLY and a letter stating that she is allowed to purchase items at the commissary FOR HER KIDS ONLY...so if EX-Mrs. GI Joe picks up some tampons, they can either refuse to sell them to her b/c they are obviously not for the babies or they can have her permanently removed from being able to shop the commissary for her kids b/c she broke the rules by shopping for someone who is no longer a military dependant. So, really, I think that is more where they are going with that, but honestly, if faced with that argument from a store director, I think I would bow out of buying in bulk if it truly was excessive w/out a fight.

HOWEVER, there's only so much they can limit you. One, who are they to say how much you use of a product? And two, what if you were part of a specific religious group that required that you "stock up". LDS has this policy (it's a request, but they really, really believe in it), so who are they to say that it's okay to step on your religious beliefs by not allowing you to follow your conscience about stocking up? So it's a gray area at best.