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Co-OP and the tale of age verification

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  • UK2010
    UK2010 Posts: 373 Forumite
    frivolous_fay wrote: »
    I didn't! :D

    Well you should of lol! Made life much easier, I would have been a very disgruntled 17 year old not getting my alcohol lol!!!!!
  • CWCDiver
    CWCDiver Posts: 1,820 Forumite
    pimento wrote: »
    My 17 year old son works part time at the Co-Op and if he sells cigs or booze to an underage it isn't the Co-Op who gets into trouble, it's him. I'd rather he turned 20 people away wrongly than get done for selling something to an underage person.

    He's not a jobsworth, just a kid.

    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.
    It must be accepted as a principle that the rifle cannot replace the speed of the horse, the magnetism of the charge and the terror of cold steel.

    The British Cavalry Manual 1907.
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Did you ask to speak to the manager?
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • UK2010
    UK2010 Posts: 373 Forumite
    CWCDiver wrote: »
    The issue is a common sense one.

    But then isn't it common sense to carry ID you know they'll take! It'll save you getting annoyed and having to make another two threads on here!
  • Zazen999
    Zazen999 Posts: 6,183 Forumite
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    UK2010 wrote: »
    But then isn't it common sense to carry ID you know they'll take! It'll save you getting annoyed and having to make another two threads on here!

    No!!!

    Would YOU really expect to be ID-ed to buy a tomato based casserole sauce?
  • CWCDiver
    CWCDiver Posts: 1,820 Forumite
    pimento wrote: »
    Did you ask to speak to the manager?

    The manager was there at the start and then left when I asked him why my ID wasn't acceptable, and why I needed ID for Chicken Tonight...
    It must be accepted as a principle that the rifle cannot replace the speed of the horse, the magnetism of the charge and the terror of cold steel.

    The British Cavalry Manual 1907.
  • LemonGrove
    LemonGrove Posts: 618 Forumite
    Your ID may let you do all of those things, but I and I'm sure everyone else on this thread wouldn't have a clue what one of those looks like. Therefore I wouldn't take it for fear it could be fake.
    Male. :o
  • CWCDiver
    CWCDiver Posts: 1,820 Forumite
    Zazen999 wrote: »
    No!!!

    Would YOU really expect to be ID-ed to buy a tomato based casserole sauce?
    Thank you, someone gets the point...

    :D
    UK2010 wrote: »
    But then isn't it common sense to carry ID you know they'll take! It'll save you getting annoyed and having to make another two threads on here!

    I had come directly from work, I do not get asked for ID often and when I do the people normally display some form of common sense when I show them my warrant card and understand I am over 18. I do not carry my driving licence around with me, I have no need to do so, I never use it. Also i was buying Chicken Tonight...
    It must be accepted as a principle that the rifle cannot replace the speed of the horse, the magnetism of the charge and the terror of cold steel.

    The British Cavalry Manual 1907.
  • CWCDiver
    CWCDiver Posts: 1,820 Forumite
    LemonGrove wrote: »
    Your ID may let you do all of those things, but I and I'm sure everyone else on this thread wouldn't have a clue what one of those looks like. Therefore I wouldn't take it for fear it could be fake.

    Even when selling me Chicken Tonight sauce?

    My ID does do all of those things, and I am sure many people see it for the first time and hope it's not real, once they are cuffed though I think they see the light..
    It must be accepted as a principle that the rifle cannot replace the speed of the horse, the magnetism of the charge and the terror of cold steel.

    The British Cavalry Manual 1907.
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    I suppose it boils down to the fact that they have the sauce, you want to buy it, they want you to prove your age.

    No ID no sauce.

    Have something else for dinner.
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
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