Refused booze in tesco again

sarahg1969

Helix wrote: »

At work we are told to only accept. UK Passports, UK Driving Licenses (Full or Provisional), National Identification Cards or ID Cards with the PASS Hologram. A supervisor may accept other types if called over but that is what we are told to only accept. This is Sainsburys btw but I'm sure Tesco will have the same policy.

What is the policy at Sainsbury's re serving people who provide ID that shows they are 18 or over, but under 25? Or people who have children with them? Or people who have friends with them who have no ID?

JohalaReewi

missindecisive wrote: »

how ridiculous! funny you can order a home shop delivery with tesco, and the person receiving it must be over 18 yrs of age....they don't mention that you can't have any kids in the house when they bring you your shopping and it could contain wine!

Shhhhhh. Don't give them ideas

williham

So last night I was working in my local supermarket...

2 girls came up to me and said "Do you have to be 18 or 25 to buy alcohol"
I said "you have to be 18, but you will both get IDed because you LOOK under 25."
She said "yeah but I've got ID that says I'm 18 so that'll be alright.."
I said "yeah if you BOTH have ID that says you're over 18 you'll be fine."

The girl without ID bought some stuff then walked out of the shop and the girl who had ID went to pick up some alcohol so I went over to her (Remembering my MSE training from this thread ) and told her she would not be able to buy it unless her friend could also prove her age. She walked out, leaving her 2 multipacks of crisps on the side (ohnoes).

The girl she was with didn't look 18 (neither did she but she said she had ID), so was she buying for herself or for her friend aswell? How could I know either way?

What would you have done?

(I don't agree with refusing mothers with children obviously)

Helix

sarahg1969 wrote: »

What is the policy at Sainsbury's re serving people who provide ID that shows they are 18 or over, but under 25? Or people who have children with them? Or people who have friends with them who have no ID?

Well if they provide ID and are over 18 then we will serve them they don't need to be over 25 to be served. We won't refuse someone just because they have their children with them. The group IDing applies when both people look under 25 and are around a similar age, so we would probably ID say a 23 and an 18 year old. We wouldn't refuse a 23 year old that was at the checkout with say a 12 year old unless the 23 year old didn't have ID.

The was one case where a man was refused that was probably around 50 or 60 and he was with these two girls but they were spotted choosing the alcohol off the shelf and it was all things like alcopops. They got stopped by a supervisor at the checkout and asked for ID which they clearly didn't have because they were underage and the sale was refused.

cirrusmp

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Aspiring

I bought some alcohol in Sainsburys on Sunday, had my 14yo son with me (who actually looks 12yo) and didn't have any of these issues.

Ste_C

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Its the same reason your not allowed to batter your kids till their ears bleed in the comfort of your own home. Child abuse comes in many forms not just beating up your child. There are laws to stop this. If you were pouring vodka down your child's throat then hopefully someone who actually cared about your children would report you and your kids would be taken off you and your be prosecuted. But thankfully you have no kids and lets hope you never do for their sake.

Oh dear, not too good at spotting sarcasm and exaggeration are you? Nevermind, have another go.

sagalout1954

I'd expect you to serve her if she was old enough to purchase the booze legally.

Tesco should stop selling booze altogether if they are going to involve themselves in what the age might be of the person accompanying the actual purchaser. To assume that we might pour it down the neck of someone underage just because they are accompanying us doing the shopping is, frankly, ridiculous.

So, what to do when you want to buy some plonk or beer with the weekly shop...........leave the kids standing unattended outside the shop!!!!! Is that what Tesco would prefer?

I notice they don't stop anyone buying junk food (no concerns about clogging up a kids arteries then), sweets (no concerns about kids teeth then), the list is endless I expect.

pennystretcher

Hey, does anyone have a copy of the Tesco's alcohol policy? I haven't been able to find it on their website.

Sounds like loads of people are having the same problem... I don't know what Tesco's problem is - if the person buying the alcohol is of age, Tesco are not doing anything wrong. If this adult person then gives the alcohol to and under-age person, then it is the individual who is committing a crime.

So if Tesco can prohibit the sale of the alcohol does that make it discrimination against people with children as they are treated differently and can pubs deny serving alcohol to parents if their children (or any other children) are in the premises?

Interestingly: "A spokesman for Tesco said it operated the same policy but said they would never prevent a parent shopping with a child from buying alcohol."

Print out and keep with you
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201923/RAF-officer-banned-buying-alcohol-shopping-son-17.html#ixzz0NJdZJsT9

williham

I might add that regardless of whether it is legal to let your kids drink alcohol at home.. It is the law that you can't buy alcohol for someone under the age of 18 and if you get caught it is the same fine as if you had sold to someone underage.