Morrisons refusing to sell 12 cert dvd?

Zazen999

sayedrahul wrote: »

Nope its something called having a job where you can tell what items are purchased for whom as you serve well over 200 customers a day, you kind of get the ability to know.

Absolute piffle!

Otherwise you'd be able to map across working behind a till at Tescos for qualifications in social work. :rotfl:

Dearie you work behind a till. Scan the thing, by all means ask for ID if it is needed, and then process the payment. It ain't hard.

sayedrahul

nickyhutch wrote: »

My son, 16, was asked for ID recently when he was buying a pack of plasters. Idiocy.

I was once told to check the ID for someone purchasing tea spoons :S thankfully unlike some of the people you tend to hear stories about I used my wit and bypassed the system, some of the stuff whilst I was working was ridiculous, but Sainsburys was not too bad it is generally Tesco that you tend to see in the news for refusing silly things.

unholyangel

Go read back through your posts. I'm not nitpicking, you've contradicted yourself several times. Suspect = think something is true without proof. Know = fact.

And if cashiers were to refuse sale of anything that may or may not be given to a minor (your words in one of your previous posts), then i'm suprised they sell anything at all!

And no, it is not law to refuse to sell a dvd to a adult on the grounds that you believe they are going to let a minor watch it. It is company policy. So rather than lobby the government, our time would be better spent lobbying the idiocy that is "company policy".

Are you seriously telling me you cant see the stupidity in it? Supermarkets try and make themselves more child friendly in order to lure families in then refuse to sell them anything that they cannot sell to the children that accompany them?

sayedrahul

Zazen999 wrote: »

Absolute piffle!

Otherwise you'd be able to map across working behind a till at Tescos for qualifications in social work. :rotfl:

Dearie you work behind a till. Scan the thing, by all means ask for ID if it is needed, and then process the payment. It ain't hard.

Love I don't work behind a till or a Supermarket for that matter and I think you have hit the bottle too early your comment is hardly clear (utter gibberish) and no it ISN'T hard but we're talking about age restrictions not how impossible working at retail is ???????

Esqui

Equaliser123 wrote: »

With the offence being? Selling to a 37 year old...?

In this case, no offence. But there's the risk, and if people don't know or aren't sure of the intricacies of what "supplying to persons aged under 12" means, they'll err on the side of caution.

Could have been a very young looking 37 anyway

sayedrahul

unholyangel wrote: »

Go read back through your posts. I'm not nitpicking, you've contradicted yourself several times. Suspect = think something is true without proof. Know = fact.

And if cashiers were to refuse sale of anything that may or may not be given to a minor (your words in one of your previous posts), then i'm suprised they sell anything at all!

And no, it is not law to refuse to sell a dvd to a adult on the grounds that you believe they are going to let a minor watch it. It is company policy. So rather than lobby the government, our time would be better spent lobbying the idiocy that is "company policy".

Are you seriously telling me you cant see the stupidity in it? Supermarkets try and make themselves more child friendly in order to lure families in then refuse to sell them anything that they cannot sell to the children that accompany them?

There are thousands of items that a minor can purchase, maybe I have not read the original post but I thought we are talking about age restricted products so therefore any item that isn't age restricted (ice creams, crisps, tissues etc etc etc) can be sold to a minor how is that stopping minors? the only thing stopping them is Cigarettes, alcohol etc.

I have not contradicted myself I think you read too much into words, I shall heed your advice and see where it is that I have contradicted myself. If you are referring to when I said "...know..." if you read on you will see that I have stated that they do not always get it right and you say I contradict myself by saying suspect last time I checked that was one contradiction (if that even) not several. It is highly ironic you say that I have contradicted myself and then in the space of one post I have contradicted myself several times, which in itself is a contradiction, which is it several or once????

If it is Company policy then how about all the enraged people out there all write the big 4 supermarkets as they have the same policy regarding age restricted products even the Co-op and Somerfield and lets see if they do change it?

Don't get me wrong I can see "the stupidity" in this, but the employee and the supermarket were following procedures that are company policy so they cannot change or revoke this policy that far down in the company ladder, which is the main issue the OP asked if they can refuse to serve them and the answer after about a dozen posts is yes.

System

It is not like buying cigarettes to supply to somebody under age. There is no offence of 'procuring a 12 DVD with the intention of supplying it to an under 12'

The Video Recordings Act 1984: 
It is an offence to supply or offer to supply a video recording 
to any person who has not attained the age specified on the
recording.  This legislation applies to video films, video games
and computer games.

The maximum fine for [B]selling or renting[/B] an age restricted
cassette/DVD [B]to a child[/B] under the specified age is £5,000
and/or up to 6 months  imprisonment.

It must be a direct sale or rental to the child, not bought on behalf by an adult.

unholyangel

Matches. Knives. Medicine (even paracetamol).........there are more age restricted items than just cigs, booze and dvds.

I have never been refused sale of anything - providing i could prove my own age of course - from any of the big 4, regardless who was with me at the time (baby, tot, child, teenager). Neither were my parents ever refused when they had myself and/or my sister.

As i said, i do believe some people lack basic parenting skills so possibly need guidance, but i dont think that guidance should come from a complete stranger in the form of a cashier.

I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree tbh :rotfl:

Zazen999

sayedrahul wrote: »

Love I don't work behind a till or a Supermarket for that matter and I think you have hit the bottle too early your comment is hardly clear (utter gibberish) and no it ISN'T hard but we're talking about age restrictions not how impossible working at retail is ???????

There are no age restrictions about selling a 12 Cert DVD to an adult.

sayedrahul

sayedrahul wrote: »

There are thousands of items that a minor can purchase, maybe I have not read the original post but I thought we are talking about age restricted products so therefore any item that isn't age restricted (ice creams, crisps, tissues etc etc etc) can be sold to a minor how is that stopping minors? the only thing stopping them is Cigarettes, alcohol etc.

I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree I am not on the side of the supermarkets, having worked as a cashier I know how stupid the rule can be at times but I am merely answering what the OP asked originally, do I agree with it not necessarily but I can see why they have rules on age restricted products.