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Co-OP and the tale of age verification
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No, your perception, my perception of age does matter ! we regularly have photo`s to show cashiers to "guess" ages, yes it sucks but the age check is 25, age 24 - 30 can you honestly get it right all the time ?
If you cared to read my post i said the suace was not restricted0 -
next they will ask for id for white wine vinegar or even wine gums
common sense has not prevailed0 -
CWC; can you post a recent photo? Just for research purposes.....
I shall attempt to do so tomorrow...
But that is another issue really isn't it. I couldn't tell you what a Citizen Card looks like, but I can see that it isn't hard to get on if you are underage...It is common sense, but that also applies to the "customer", you know ( or should know) that any age restricted product will be id checked.Yes you have your id , how different froms of id do you want cashiers to remember, they are told to remember and accept -Passport, photo DL,Portman, Citizen.Anything else would be at the store managers / duty manager discretion not the cashier , and no you should not have been id`d for a cook in sauce, but the store could have been subject to a failure by trading standards/ police and were being over careful, its is very easy to to make the comments but believe me if you fail as a store any test purchase youn become very cautious /over killed about id and product sales.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 1907.0 -
Then someone else would be wrong. I look old. I had valid ID and I was buying sauce...
I am willing to bet that Chicken Sauce isn't flagged on their system, I have managed to buy it from self service tills without needing the minion to verify my age.
Maybe if you work in retail you can check in your shop.
I no longer work in retail so can't check anything. In some places these products might have simply been missed as it would be a case of checking the content of every single thing to see if it's got any alcohol in it. The vast majority of places will have ID prompts on every food/drink product they know contains alcohol.
Some places will form their lists of products from the title so if a word eg "wine" isn't in the title it could be missed. Likewise this is why "wine stopper" would have got flagged.0 -
No, your perception, my perception of age does matter ! we regularly have photo`s to show cashiers to "guess" ages, yes it sucks but the age check is 25, age 24 - 30 can you honestly get it right all the time ?
If you cared to read my post i said the suace was not restricted
I can judge that if I deal with someone while I am at work and they produce three valid forms of ID and have grey hair, a credit card and are buying Chicken Tonight sauce, peppers, chicken breasts and mushrooms then I would be on to a safe thing to judge them as being over 18 and probably making some form of dinner....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 1907.0 -
Some places will form their lists of products from the title so if a word eg "wine" isn't in the title it could be missed. Likewise this is why "wine stopper" would have got flagged.
Yeah that's what I thought, but the happy-as-Larry self service assistant didn't really seem to understand the fact that I wasn't actually buying anything restricted. She just seemed to think that because her oracles (machines) deemed it unsuitable, it was!
Male.
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Iam not disagreeing, you should not have been asked, but the cases are isolated, you get knee jerk reactions, as I said it is quite possible they had failed a check and overkill started, no it should`nt , but in every job at some stage it happens0
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Valid to you. For someone who's never seen them before how do they know they aren't fake?
Didn't Steve Martin go grey in his late teens?
A Warrant Card IS a valid form of ID. This is not altered by the fact that the person it is shown to may or may not recognise it.
Proof of age is a different matter, Met cards, for example, do not show the holder's date of birth.
Sorry to be pedantic, but you started it!0 -
Valid to you. For someone who's never seen them before how do they know they aren't fake?
But then isn't it common sense to know what ID people might have! It'll save you being annoying and having to make alot of extra work for yourself and your colleagues by putting all the products back on the shelf?
[Not only losing a sale, but losing time in sorting it out, and reputation as a disgruntled ex-customer relays it across random forums and potentially losing even more customers...]0
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