Refused booze in tesco again

debtfreein4years

I should have learned after last time :mad:. I took my neighbours daughter to the supermarket with me and I got refused wine because i might be buying it for a ten year old. I really dont like tesco anymore and wont be gracing them with my presence in future and am even more mad cause ive not got to change where i get my contacts from :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

vent over and yes i know it was silly of me to assume i could buy alcohol when i was shopping with a minor.

kriss_boy

Ask to see the manager.

The same happened to me with my girlfriend. We are 25 and 26 but I didnt have ID, my girlfriend did and she was paying.

Ask to speak to the manager because surely the checkout staff are misunderstanding the policy.

advent1122

debtfreein4years wrote: »

I really dont like tesco anymore and wont be gracing them with my presence in future ............

Of course you wont.

Helix

kriss_boy wrote: »

Ask to see the manager.

The same happened to me with my girlfriend. We are 25 and 26 but I didnt have ID, my girlfriend did and she was paying.

Ask to speak to the manager because surely the checkout staff are misunderstanding the policy.

Tbh in your case they are understanding the policy correctly. As it is now Think 25 and it is meant when people around the same age under 25 (I know your gf is 26 but its hard to judge age and its only 1 year over.) are buying alcohol that you ID everyone that is present at the checkout with them.

Where the policy is being applied wrongly is where people are buying alchol and are present with there child.

momoyama

I just used to get frustrated with Tesco for not serving me alcohol at 03:00. I went shopping because I couldn't sleep and I might as well do something. I thought I'd buy a bottle of something to help get me off to sleep, but they wouldn't serve me. Something to do with licencing hours. I didn't understand. I just thought "how ironic - I'm there because I can't sleep and the one thing that they sell that will get me off to sleep can't be sold on the one rare occassion that I actually do want it!!"

Becles

I almost got stopped buying alcohol in Tesco yesterday. My 12 year old son was with me and had gone to look at the magazines while I was in the queue at the tills. I had grocery shopping which included a bottle of wine. I got ID'd (even though I'm 34!), and my son came back to the till as I was putting my purse away. The lady asked if he was with me and I said yes, and she said she really shouldn't have sold me the wine in case I passed it onto him. I asked if that meant mothers shopping with their children can no longer buy alcohol and she said yes!

The stupid thing is, you can legally give children alcohol at home with parental supervision. If I did open the wine at home and give my son a glass, I've done nothing legally wrong.

I can understand them being cautious if a group of young people are buying alcohol and one is over 18 but the others look younger. Stopping mothers buying a bottle of wine among their grocery shopping is just stupid!

mrcol1000

debtfreein4years wrote: »

I should have learned after last time :mad:. I took my neighbours daughter to the supermarket with me and I got refused wine because i might be buying it for a ten year old. I really dont like tesco anymore and wont be gracing them with my presence in future and am even more mad cause ive not got to change where i get my contacts from :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

vent over and yes i know it was silly of me to assume i could buy alcohol when i was shopping with a minor.

I know its an inconvenience but I would prefer that to my teenage daugther choking on her own vomit in the gutter because she had drunk a bottle of vodka an older friend had brought her.

Good on Tesco for protecting minors before profit. Or protecting their drinks licence at least.

nearlyrich

It's the checkout people misunderstanding the policy so not inconvenient but a lack of training on Tescos part.

williham

kriss_boy wrote: »

Ask to see the manager.

The same happened to me with my girlfriend. We are 25 and 26 but I didnt have ID, my girlfriend did and she was paying.

Ask to speak to the manager because surely the checkout staff are misunderstanding the policy.

A manager should always stand by what the checkout staff say. Especially in this case where you were both IDed which IS policy.

Freddie_Snowbits

Thank gos I have grey hair

pulliptears

You know, I nipped in yesterday with 11 year old DD for a bottle of rum (a friend sent me one of those facebook rum and cokes and I've been fancying it all week lol). I was so blummin nervous when I got to the till I felt about 15 again buying ciggies lol I wasn't questioned thankfully.

I don't tend to shop in Tesco now, I frequent the local market for all my shopping so I've not been in for a while. I was amazed though yesterday that staff in mine no longer take your club card and some awful malfunctioning scanning machine has been put on the checkout for you to scan your own!!