strange Tesco experience

movingforward2010

Earlier this evening I picked my sister (age 13) up from horse riding, on the way home i stopped at Tesco to get a few things - milk, potatoes, a leg of lamb, some doritos, dishwashers tablets, toilet roll and a bottle of red wine.

Anyway got to till and it all went thru, bagged went to pay and a supervisor came across and asked for I.D. (im 28 and look it !) i was a bit taken aback and went for my ID , she then said ' no her' and pointed to my younger sister who looks younger than 13! and in all her horse riding gear.

At this point im slightly confused, i explained i was buying the wine not her. she then went on to say 'if your with a teenager they need I.D or were not selling it, its a new policy'

so i wasnt able to buy the wine because i had my younger sister with me, and being 13 she didnt have I.D. Im not being funny but i was still in work clothes - shirt trousers, tie , not dressed like so manky chav! Even a woman in the que butted in to say it was stupid

The girl on the till said it happens a lot and gets embarrassing

so i told the supervisor to stick her shopping and went to ASDA , where I got what i wanted including the wine, trouble free

BeenieCat

Yeah i've seen them doing this, even to people with their 11 year old kids! It seems to be a case of taking policies too far and not using their discretion.

movingforward2010

i can understand if they seen me with a group of teenagers outside, then came in and bought 20 bottles of white lightning

melancholly

madness! i take it no parents will be able to buy any alcohol if they have to bring kids shopping with them in the summer holidays?! what's the lower limit on checking the age as well.... will they ask parents with babies or toddlers? might be worth a letter to the store manager, just to let them know you spent your money elsewhere instead

poet123

How ridiculous.....

hoyles10

Seems to be a few strange things happening at Tesco's this week. What they have done with you is madness.

One of my friends was out doing her weekly shopping last night and bumped into someone's child by mistake. The next thing the police turn up as the security had reported her for assaulting a child saying she had kicked it on purpose.... It all got sorted out in the end but it wasn't a very pleasant experience for her.

jamespir

wxmlad wrote: »

Earlier this evening I picked my sister (age 13) up from horse riding, on the way home i stopped at Tesco to get a few things - milk, potatoes, a leg of lamb, some doritos, dishwashers tablets, toilet roll and a bottle of red wine.

Anyway got to till and it all went thru, bagged went to pay and a supervisor came across and asked for I.D. (im 28 and look it !) i was a bit taken aback and went for my ID , she then said ' no her' and pointed to my younger sister who looks younger than 13! and in all her horse riding gear.

At this point im slightly confused, i explained i was buying the wine not her. she then went on to say 'if your with a teenager they need I.D or were not selling it, its a new policy'

so i wasnt able to buy the wine because i had my younger sister with me, and being 13 she didnt have I.D. Im not being funny but i was still in work clothes - shirt trousers, tie , not dressed like so manky chav! Even a woman in the que butted in to say it was stupid

The girl on the till said it happens a lot and gets embarrassing

so i told the supervisor to stick her shopping and went to ASDA , where I got what i wanted including the wine, trouble free

i had the smae problem i had my 5 year old with me and till women wouldnt let me buy beer because in her words were i could give it to my child im like yeah i may be stupid but i aint mad

i could understand if thyed ahve said like we have a policy for adults with children beacuse they may get drunk in front of the kids and not beable to look after them right like some pubs do

BeenieCat

Surely if the child is in your care then it's nothing to do with them if you want to give them alcohol?

I thought a parent was allowed to give their child alcohol at home anyway?

How ridiculous!

danilou21

This happened to my friend last year in tescos- she had done a massive shop as she was having a bbq- she had her 6 month old baby and her little brother whos about 10 with her. They refused to sell her alcohol as she could give it to the baby and her brother! !!!!!!! She walked out, leaving the shopping at the till- over £150 worth- as the manager said the same as the checkout girl.

LemonGrove

Something similar happend to a friend at Tesco's self service machines. Not exactly the same thing but again a case of policies going mad.

Whenever something such as wine is scanned a message pops up saying "Identification required" from which you cannot move from until staff come over. Of course the time she was there the self service counters were busy and the one staff member was constantly occupied by the "Please wait for assitance" calls from the machines. But on each of the 6 bottles she bought (multibuy offer), the message popped up for someone to check her ID. The guy checked it once and then obviously didn't the next five times but it took him a fair amount of time to get back round each time. In the end it would have been much quicker for her to use the busier staff checkouts! :rolleyes:

sidefx

It is still a ridiculous policy!

It will mean no parent who has to take their children shopping, will not be able to purchase alcohol. Utter madness