Co-OP and the tale of age verification

puppet1984

peachyprice wrote: »

You think it's OK to be ID's for pasta sauce?

Doesn't matter whether it's ok or not to be id for the item. If you are asked for id then you should be able to provide it. I was asked for id in tesco's for buying a paint scraper had look over 25 as it's classed as a knife.
I didn't feel the need to get upset about it.

People seem to forget that the person asking you for id is only doing a job. A job they could lose if caught selling a prohibited item to a person under the age at which the item requires them to be.

in response to army id cards you will find alot of places that will only accept driver's license, passport (in date) and to a lesser extent the portman proof of age card.

sarahg1969

puppet1984 wrote: »

Doesn't matter whether it's ok or not to be id for the item. If you are asked for id then you should be able to provide it.

You think it's OK to be asked for ID for your 14 year-old daughter in her school uniform?

sarahg1969

puppet1984 wrote: »

People seem to forget that the person asking you for id is only doing a job. A job they could lose if caught selling a prohibited item to a person under the age at which the item requires them to be.

Perhaps they deserve to, if they are too stupid to recognise someone who is, for example, a young-looking 40-year-old. Or if they are too stupid to realise that a tomato-based cooking sauce does not require ID. Or if they are too stupid to realise that someone who was in their year at school is the same age as them, and therefore over 18. Athough they would not lose their job for any of those reasons, of course.

oldone_2

puppet1984 wrote: »

Why do people get so upset about being asked for ID?

Because we do not live in a police state. Because we are not in the middle of a world war with the fear of spies in our midst. Because some of us like the freedom to move around our country without petty officials asking us to prove who we are, or how old we are with the presumption that we are guilty until we prove otherwise.
Because some us value the freedoms won for us by our forefathers, often with their lives.

Fortunately there are still some of us prepared to fight for what we believe in, even if this fight also benefits those who would just sit back and let the erosion of our freedoms happen.

peachyprice

puppet1984 wrote: »

Doesn't matter whether it's ok or not to be id for the item. If you are asked for id then you should be able to provide it.

What, because some little upstart at the co-op is on a bit of a power trip? Sorry, that's just a spineless sheep attitude.

If someone in the street asked you for ID would you give it to them, just because they asked?

A job they could lose if caught selling a prohibited item to a person under the age at which the item requires them to be.

Pasta sauce isn't a prohibited item, that's the point of this whole thread. Believe it or not, there is absolutley no age restriction on it, wow imagine that.

puppet1984

the street comment doesn't make sense it depends who asked.

pasta sauce or no pasta sauce, power trip or stupidity just carry a form of id that is generally accepted!

Kaleidoscope27

I'm usually amused when I get ID'd. As the shop assistant often looks embarrassed (I've had apologies several times.) I'm only 23 but they often think I'm under 18.

peachyprice

puppet1984 wrote: »

the street comment doesn't make sense it depends who asked.

pasta sauce or no pasta sauce, power trip or stupidity just carry a form of id that is generally accepted!

ID'ing for pasta sauce doen't make sense either, but you think it's OK to have to provide ID to buy it?

The fact is, as pointed out above, in this country we are not obliged by law to carry ID with us at all times, so having to carry ID just to do grocery shopping is complete nonsense.

Nukumai

oldone wrote: »

Because we do not live in a police state. Because we are not in the middle of a world war with the fear of spies in our midst. Because some of us like the freedom to move around our country without petty officials asking us to prove who we are, or how old we are with the presumption that we are guilty until we prove otherwise.
Because some us value the freedoms won for us by our forefathers, often with their lives.

Fortunately there are still some of us prepared to fight for what we believe in, even if this fight also benefits those who would just sit back and let the erosion of our freedoms happen.

Very well said. I couldn't agree more!

sammy_kaye18

I am an employee of the coop and if we scan a prohibited item on the till it asks us to put in the age of the person buying the item. The rule in the coop is if they look under 25 then we have to legally ask for ID or we get an £80 on the spot fine (if its obviously a secret shopper/trial shopper etc), we face court action and the prospect of losing our job so personally I know the risk to my job is not worth it so I do ask.

Some shops if they know the shopper (ie they are a regular) and have been ID'd before then there is no need to ask again.

Also some shops do accept military ID as a form of identification but this is dependent on the store and the form of ID has to have a photograph, name and DOB of the person on it. We are not allowed to accept college cards in our store though.

We do get the command prompts for things like nail varnish, party poppers, certain magazines (this includes an XBOX magazine as well as top shelf and even the SPORT newspaper) and obviously cigarettes and alcohol but I have never had a command prompt come up for pasta sauces, sauces or chocolates containing alcohol.