strange Tesco experience

nearlyrich

pulliptears wrote: »

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)

I still have a paper licence as does my OH, if they really want me to have a plastic one they can pay for it.;)

Pound

I think the thing to do is vote with your feet when you're at the counter, and leave your shopping and trolley where it is for the Tesco staff to put away.

Sirkent

I've had almost the same situation as the original poster.

I was queuing with loads of food and some lager with my girlfriend. I'm 24, she is 22. The chap behind the till asked for ID from us both. I showed my ID, but my girlfriend didn't have hers - she wasn't paying after all. They wouldn't allow the sale. I made it obvious I was annoyed and would have loved to have walked out but it was late in the evening and I was buying the items for a camping trip we were both going on the next day.

I have been back since and if I'm paying and my girlfriend is present without her ID, she simply goes out to the car when we pay.

Who are Tesco fooling with this? It only inconveniences people who are trying to be law abiding citizens. I think anyone who was buying alcohol for those underage wouldn't queue in the checkout with them?!

Apparently it all stems from the new 'Challenge 25' system which used to be Challenge 21.

looby75

they are doing about this on the one show now!

PinkLipgloss

mustrum_ridcully wrote: »

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.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

that's an excellent sketch idea for that "angry guy" in "Chewin the Fat"

scrimping_student

I am 23 and got ID'd for an own brand Morrisons potato peeler not so long back. It was only the cheap plastic ones. I struggles to peal potatoes so it would take me months and months to actually injure myself or someone else with it.

thepearce

Looks like my local are one of the potty ones...

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Tesco-humiliate-wheelchair-user-over.5533104.jp

A wheelchair user carried a bag of shopping to his car in his teeth because shop staff refused to let his daughter help him.

marleyboy

I dont know why Tesco bothers selling alcohol, I will gladly drop all my shopping at the till should they refuse me on the grounds of my Son has no ID.

Asda don't have such a ridiculous policy as this, as they happily accept that it is the person buying the product that is ultimately responsible for what happens to it afterwards.

Dr.Rock

He should've just carried it as far as the Customer Services and asked for a full refund on everything, then (if there was one nearby) gone to a proper supermarket. Although I would like to think if there was he'd have gone there first.