Tesco and their alcohol policy!

sarahg1969

I think someone (bless him) got the wrong end of the stick in Asda the other day.

I had my 14 year-old daughter with me, and I was asked if she had any ID with her. Erm no. But she IS only 14. She's wearing her school uniform. And let's be honest, how many 14 year-olds do you know who drink Chateauneuf du Pape?

Needless to say, I got my wine.

jb66

Found this from May last year

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1955793/Tesco-ban-on-alcohol-sales-to-parents.html

DCFC79

MothballsWallet wrote: »

No, not just Challenge 21: there's Task 25 (or Think 25) in some stores. (Honestly, how much did some idiot get paid for coming up with these names?)

I've said this before on MSE, and I will say it again: why don't these stores all use the same scheme? Then there's consistency, not the current mess of "which store uses which scheme".

It's the same thing with the Agewatch/Citizencard cards as well - some places accept one or the other, a few places accept both, and still others accept neither.

reason being is that not all areas of the country have the same issue with underage drinkers, theres most likely an area of the UK that doesn't have underage drinkers so they may just have a think 21 policy, yes it would be easier if think 25 was in operation all over the UK

ThinkingOfLinking

loracan1 wrote: »

ETA: the oldest bloke I've id'd was 38, he didn't look young particularly, just that he'd bleached his hair a disastrous shade of yellow..for the life of me I couldn't gauge his age and the thought running through my head was 'surely no grown man would do that to his hair?'

PMSL!! I used to work at HMV, and I ID'ed a guy for an 18 certificate game. He came back with his mum, who effed and blinded and me for being a silly b1tch because he was 21. While I wanted to tell her to get lost, I sold HER the game to shut her up and get her out my face. At HMV they have a log: Refusal Records so everyone we knock back, we make a note, eg "Looked 14, tried to buy 15 cert DVD, no ID".

I was wearing a security uniform with my SIA license you have to be over 18 to have, and for the first time ever, aged almost 24, got asked for ID. This was in Sainsburys. They were really rude about it too. I asked them to call their guard over as he had the same license too as they didn't believe me.

Pont

Whoa - if I've understood this thread, a supermarket can refuse to serve alcohol to anyone who may pass the booze onto a minor. Therefore it stands to reason that any customer, in theory, could possibly be passing the alcohol on to an underage person. Who knows for sure what happens to the goods when they leave the supermarket premises? Are all supermarkets therefore by definition negligent in selling alcohol as they obviously can't ensure who ultimately consumes the alcohol? Ridiculous - commonsense must prevail when selling any goods!

Volcano

Pont wrote: »

Whoa - if I've understood this thread, a supermarket can refuse to serve alcohol to anyone who may pass the booze onto a minor.

No, a supermarket can refuse to serve anyone, at any time, for any reason they choose to make up on the spot. The common sense is the shop assistant doing as they're instructed by their management if they want to keep their job.

Whether this makes any sense to the customer is irrelevant.

sciencegeek

so a member of staff has to be 18 to serve the alcohol right?

so if (like me) you get really annoyed at being asked for i.d. even though they are only doing their job (im 30 by the way), how about asking to see their proof of age, after all perhaps that person is not old enough to serve you.

I do a similar thing with notes, if a shop assistant holds my £20 note up to the light to check if its a fake I sometimes make a point of holding up to the light all the notes I am passed as change. They are often really flustered and indignant about this... i guess they assume a note coming out of THEIR till could not possibly be a forgery. I find this hilarious.

DrScotsman

sciencegeek wrote: »

so a member of staff has to be 18 to serve the alcohol right?

so if (like me) you get really annoyed at being asked for i.d. even though they are only doing their job (im 30 by the way), how about asking to see their proof of age, after all perhaps that person is not old enough to serve you.

Because them being 16/17 really doesn't affect you in any way, does it? And besides, they CAN sell it if they're 16/17, all they have to do is get confirmation from a member of staff over 18, which is usually just a simple nod of the head you probably wouldn't notice.

I do a similar thing with notes, if a shop assistant holds my £20 note up to the light to check if its a fake I sometimes make a point of holding up to the light all the notes I am passed as change. They are often really flustered and indignant about this... i guess they assume a note coming out of THEIR till could not possibly be a forgery. I find this hilarious.

While I don't see anything wrong with you checking notes you get as change (probably a good idea), don't you see the horrible lack of logic in your last sentence? If the cashier checks all notes as they go into the till, then all notes coming out of the till will be fine. All notes in the till are obtained from a customer, they're not obtained from a bank like change.

sciencegeek

there is no horrible lack of logic. How do i know the assistant checks all the notes, ive not sat there watching his/her activity all day. Perhaps I check all of my notes as they come into my possession - but again the assitant cant be sure and therefore is sensible to check.
My point is that they get flustered at my checking. I think its funny because they obviously think the money in their till is more reliable than the money in my pocket.

in terms of the age thing, i was not refering to a young member of staff who does actually need the nod from a supervisor - i was more refering to an obviously older staff member. I would do it as a gesture to indicate that I think the rules are sometimes ridiculous not to offend the cashier.

SpammyTheSpammer

You should ALWAYS check notes when passed to you ESPECIALLY if the cashier handing them to you thinks that they have already been checked. This is because there is a CLASSIC 100-year old scam whereby a counterfeiter goes into a shop and buys a small item with a large note e.g. a £50 for a £1 item.

They get a 2*£20 in the change whereupon they ask for smaller notes for the £20 (one or both) and hand them back. These, OF COURSE, are forgeries and have been "palmed". The cashier does not check as they have just handed them out and the forger gets aways with almost doubling their money.

For those of you who cannot count: -

They paid out £50 and got back £49
They keep the 2*£20 real notes and hand over 2 fake £20 notes for change
they get back £40 in real notes
So they have paid out £50 and get £89

OBV this works even better in the USA where they have a $100 bill!