Co-OP and the tale of age verification

marleyboy

Maybe its the Governments underhand tactic to discreetly get us all to invest in buying these new biometric I.D. cards, it wont be long before such supermarkets ONLY accept them as I.D, which needs presenting on every or any purchase possible

Storck

Here is a link for Scotland that states the PASS logo etc.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/scotland/ssi2007/ssi_20070093_en_1

muffintop

UK2010 wrote: »

They're carrying on as if every 30 yr old gets asked for ID! Which is a complete load of rubbish!

I've been asked every time I buy alcohol in a supermarket for the last year or so. I am 33 (and look it). Last time was last week in Marks and Sparks in Reading. I do carry my drivers licence as a matter of course and hand it over in a pleasant manner, but I think the whole policy is ridiculous. Common sense truly has disappeared when it is believed that Chicken Tonight sauce can get one dangerously intoxicated.

MissMotivation

CWCDiver wrote: »

Erm, this isn't about cigrettes or booze, it is about Chicken Tonight, a tomato based cooking sauce....

I am not sure our local area has any problems with youths sitting round on street corners quaffing Chicken Tonight and causing problems.

The issue is a common sense one.

But it's a slippery slope, today it's a tomato based cooking sauce......tomorrow it a bottle of Lambrini and then, before you know it, your sitting on a park bench drinking from a bottle of meths wrapped in a brown paper bag :rotfl:

Zazen999

MissMotivation wrote: »

But it's a slippery slope, today it's a tomato based cooking sauce......tomorrow it a bottle of Lambrini and then, before you know it, your sitting on a park bench drinking from a bottle of meths wrapped in a brown paper bag :rotfl:

you missed 'sucking a screen wipe dry behind the bike sheds'......

UK2010

voiceofreason wrote: »

The links you've provided are not to the Licensing Act, they're to two "initiatives" which, as I've said, are not legal requirements.

Those links are from 1) the people that issue the license to sell alcohol and 2) the people who check it!!!!!

Is it not unreasonable then to assume those are pretty much the ID's that should be accepted to check age!!

voiceofreason wrote: »

Utter, utter clown - it's a sad reflection on you as a person.

Which, it would appear, is just about your intellectual level.

You're personal digs are just a reflection of you, more particularly your maturity level!!!! You can't assume intellect from opinion, surely if you're as bright as you think you are you should know that! Your entire tone doesn't make you sound very sophisticated.

Abbafan1972

I got asked for ID last night in ASDA to buy a box of Fybogel :rotfl: the checkout flagged it as a restricted item.

Luckily she was joking, but what she also said was that you need ID now for a tube of Bonjela.

DCFC79

Ive joined a bit late but id like to say that a credit card can not be used as a form of ID as A theres no picture on the card and B how does the assistant know that you aren't the cardholders son/grandson who is 17 and took the card without the card holders consent

UK2010

muffintop wrote: »

I've been asked every time I buy alcohol in a supermarket for the last year or so. I am 33 (and look it).

Same age as me. Last time I was asked was the 31/12/99 (this is with no grey hair, no receding hair and no lines anywhere on my face yet and 12 stone at 6 ft tall so no overweight showing of age either). Same with many of my friends! Sounds like you're very unlucky.

UK2010

DCFC79 wrote: »

Ive joined a bit late but id like to say that a credit card can not be used as a form of ID as A theres no picture on the card and B how does the assistant know that you aren't the cardholders son/grandson who is 17 and took the card without the card holders consent

Or did what I did and just lie about my age at the time!