Is it normal to buy a mac now without the start up disks included?

I bought a mac last year and it didn't include the start up disk- is that normal? Should I be going back to the Apple store to get it?

No need to go to Apple Store, it's all on a bootable partition now (on your boot drive) and you have to install OS X from Apple's servers too.
Pain in the arse if you ask me.
Read here, hold option command r or command r while booting the machine to get Recovery working
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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A slim chance, only if the new Mini was running a Universal version of 10.5.x, which the newest ones cannot.
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