Co-OP and the tale of age verification

Wildside

Storck wrote: »

Till goes ping for another reason with certain medicines. Usually thing that contain certain ingredients you can only buy two of them without going to the pharmacy. So if you only got one that is fine.

Says on my receipt 'Think 25 cashier Confirmed Over 16.'
The cashier told me the till triggers a check on all sorts of things even U Certificate DVD's.

Helix

Wildside wrote: »

Says on my receipt 'Think 25 cashier Confirmed Over 16.'
The cashier told me the till triggers a check on all sorts of things even U Certificate DVD's.

Yeah all DVDs will get a prompt but they don't give an age on the prompts like they do with other products. It just says check age restriction on product which for U would be nothing.

biscit

Vaguely related story:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1191468_bank_says_no_to_national_id_card

Zazen999

This seems to have been a customer service issue

LOL!!!! Bless.

CWCDiver

Yet another letter was today sent to Customer Services, I shall see if I get any reply...

biscit

CWCDiver wrote: »

Yet another letter was today sent to Customer Services, I shall see if I get any reply...

Have you had any reply? If customer services ignore you, send it higher. It will get bounced down just to get you out of the Cheif Exec's in-tray, but the person it is bounced to will be expected to sort it rather than ignore it.

This is rather different to the people who kick off because they are asked for ID for buying products that are genuinely age restricted under the law.

Peter Marks
Cheif Executive
The Co-Operative Group Ltd
New Century House
Corporation Street
MANCHESTER
M60 4ES

emweaver

UK2010 wrote: »

No you don't. I got one at 17. It was somewhere I worked had those people outside who sign people up. They begged us to fill out the forms to help get their numbers. I got the card!

I've read on here a lot the argument that having a credit card proves your age but actually it doesn't. So although you think the shop assistant is wrong saying it's not proof they are infact correct as you can get them below the age of 18.

how on earth do you know what sort of credit card the op has?

no you cant get credit cards if your under 18 unless you put a flase dob which is illegal

el_gringo_3

Just read the first couple of pages of this thread and noticed one of my pet hates pop up so thought I would post my standard reply.

It is NOT a compliment if someone thinks I am under 18/21/25. I am male, we generally tend to be at our best appearance wise between 25 and 35. Fortunately I don't ever get asked, unless I am with my girlfriend....

Further to this when I am shopping with my 25 year old girlfriend I take offence to her being asked for ID if I am not. Why? Because it's implying that i'm a borderline !!!!!phile. Checkout operators take note.

dunclane

Can I just say thank you to everyone involved with this thread for making me laugh out loud! This has to be the funniest thing I have read this year.

This country is going to hell in a hand cart! !!!!!! ID for a tomato based sauce...... brilliant

CWCDiver

biscit wrote: »

Have you had any reply? If customer services ignore you, send it higher. It will get bounced down just to get you out of the Cheif Exec's in-tray, but the person it is bounced to will be expected to sort it rather than ignore it.

This is rather different to the people who kick off because they are asked for ID for buying products that are genuinely age restricted under the law.

Peter Marks
Cheif Executive
The Co-Operative Group Ltd
New Century House
Corporation Street
MANCHESTER
M60 4ES

Thank you for that, I shall now send it to the address you have found for me, rather than their Customer Service wallahs

dunclane wrote: »

Can I just say thank you to everyone involved with this thread for making me laugh out loud! This has to be the funniest thing I have read this year.

This country is going to hell in a hand cart! !!!!!! ID for a tomato based sauce...... brilliant

Indeed, ID for a tomato based cooking sauce I was saddened to revisit the store yesterday while wearing a covert surveillance camera in the hope of a repetition of previous events, but the shelf was bare of tomato based cooking sauces