strange Tesco experience

mustrum_ridcully

lufcgirl wrote: »

I don't care what the hell anyone says about the policy, regardless of my OH's age and wether they had ID, Tesco have no idea what I'll do with that alcohol once I leave that store. I could walk outside and give it to a group of Chav's and what could they do...nothing. But I'm persecuted for being with someone who looks their age on the basis I'm supplying an alcohol to a minor, when they actually have no proof at all of that.

Innocent till I'm proven guilty in this country my backside.

Kind of goes to prove what I said in an earlier post on this thread "...if you start treating innocent people like criminals they're more likely to start behaving like criminals..."

Sooner or later an otherwise law abiding citizen will get so pee'd off with being refused service because <insert daft reason here> that they'll just snap and go into a supermarket buy 24 cans of stella and just give it to the local chavs.

kudos_ni

Well, that all seems absurd - not selling to people who have their children with them. Surely if someone purpose was to buy alcohol for a minor they would get the minor to hide outside!

I've never had a problem buying alcohol. In fact I got served in off licenses when I was 14. I always looked older. I was going to bars in the city centre from i was 16 (with mum's permission) as I was sensible and I never got asked for ID.

However, now I'm 26. I have lived in the same flat for more than a year now and go to my local Co-op every day. This might be for groceries, a paper, a banana, whatever. It is always the same staff, and they have all served me at least a few times each. For the past year I have bought cigarettes there and, having noticed their "think 25" signs, always brought my Id with me.

Just last week, after I got home from work, I dumped all my stuff, grabbed a ten pound note out of my wallet and headed to the Co-op for some cigarattes. I queued for 20 minutes (it was busy with people stocking up at dinner time).
And what happened - yes I was asked for ID.

I was dressed in my suit from work, and as much as I wish I could, I do not look under 18/21/25 whatever. I look my age.
The girl flat out refused to serve me. I could see the guy on the other till looking over as if "I know her, she's can buy them" - but he didn't say a word. i was also paying by credit card - as I always do for eveything (cashback baby!), and I was under the impression you couldn't have a credit card til you were 18.

SO she refused me. I stormed back to my flat accross the road, got my drivers license, and just to be petty and annoying I counted out the exact money in 5p/1p pieces. (pathetic I know).

I queued up again al the while just wanting a cigarette. Eventually got to the front of the queue, I purposely went back to the same til. I showed my ID, and waited while the girl tried to work out my age from my DOB. Grrr.
Got my cigs, poured the money on the counter and walked out.

She doesn't like me much now. But she hasn't asked me for ID again. and is always with the "hello", "goodbye", "have a nice day".

I know they are just doing their job, I worked in shops and bars from I was 16-23. but common sense needs to be used... especially when I see teenagers buying cigarettes and alcohol in that shop all the time without getting ID-ed.


Rant over.

(got a bit carried away!)

MurdochMcMaster

So what happens if I send my eleven year old out of the shop before I go to the till? Or if I go to the till and they sit reading the comics (which is what they normally do)?

Helix

kudos_ni wrote: »

I was dressed in my suit from work, and as much as I wish I could, I do not look under 18/21/25 whatever. I look my age.
The girl flat out refused to serve me. I could see the guy on the other till looking over as if "I know her, she's can buy them" - but he didn't say a word. i was also paying by credit card - as I always do for eveything (cashback baby!), and I was under the impression you couldn't have a credit card til you were 18.[/I]

There not allowed to authorise someone else's sale most likely, so thats probably why the other guy didn't say anything. I know at Sainsburys where I work, if the cashier asks for ID and you don't have any that it no sale even if someone else has served you before and has seen your ID. They are not allowed to authorise the sale for another cashier.

lufcgirl

MurdochMcMaster wrote: »

So what happens if I send my eleven year old out of the shop before I go to the till? Or if I go to the till and they sit reading the comics (which is what they normally do)?

If you get a good supermarket whose till operator has common sense - Nothing

If you go to one of these ones that appear to be going barmy at the moment - they'll probably refuse to serve you on the basis you could be buying alcohol for the child. Or say they saw the child in the alcohol aisle with you and therefore your blatantly buying it for the kid and therefore you aint getting it.

To be fair, it's not the checkout operators fault, they shouldn't be given such responsibility by the store to put them in a place whereby they could lose their job.

pulliptears

I mentioned this on a thread the other day, but my local one stop ID'd me last week for ciggies....... I'm almost 36!!!
She did serve me in the end as the only ID I had was an NUS card, but she saw my reasoning that you cant be in University at 16 lol

Now Im faced with having to change my old paper licence for a photocard to prove my age

before_hollywood

pulliptears wrote: »

Now Im faced with having to change my old paper licence for a photocard to prove my age

you havent had to change it already? :eek:

i've had photo licenses for the last 10 years?

poet123

I still have a paper license too, they don't automatically send you a new one, only if you lose the old one, or request (and pay for!) a new style one.

pulliptears

before_hollywood wrote: »

you havent had to change it already? :eek:

i've had photo licenses for the last 10 years?

Nope, still on my original paper licence I got at 17
(This is a source of huge amusement at Uni as all my classmates are far to young to remember them and we have to hand in our licences etc when we borrow Macbooks etc)

barvid

My sister was ID'd when she bought a bottle of shampoo in a novelty champagne bottle wrapping. She had to point out to the cashier that it wasn't an alcoholic drink but something to wash her hair with...