*Think 25* ? how annoying

Elle7

I got ID'd for painkillers on Friday. I'm 20, and I was with a 24 year old. Sigh...

Being ID'd is rubbish, it really is.

Tropez

j.e.j. wrote: »

LOL Tropez. I never used to get asked for ID either till recently (I'm now in my 30s!!)

Yes, that could have been what the cashier was thinking. I thought it a bit extreme, tbh. That was my take on it. And the self-righteous way the cashier said it. The customer in question didn't look like some teenager after buying booze.

BUT I know supermarkets can be very Big-Brother like and have evidently put the fear of God into their staff never to sell someone alcohol if there's even a 0.00000000001% chance that it might be for someone underage.

It just seems a pity as other posters have pointed out that genuine people now fear being humiliated when they go in to buy themselves a bottle of wine!

Yeah, the supermarkets are just watching after themselves. Better safe than sorry. It may have to do with how local papers react to incidents - with the local paper round here, any remotely "controversial" subject gets emblazoned across the front page and turned into some bizarre hate campaign - so all the local stores, at least the ones I frequent, err on the side of caution. A 13 year old bought nasal spray of all things from a local shop and proceeded to get crucified in the local rag because the spray contains some form of stimulant.

polejunkie

It is awfully embarrassing when you are trying to get the cashier to see common sense, especially when they let you buy other items that are restricted to 18's and over.

diable

Boycott buying alcohol in supermarkets and use your local off licence, that'll learn them ;o))

Gigervamp

joeblack066 wrote: »

Well the store staff don't know that it's your son! And the policy is if you look under 25 you must prove that you are over 18. End of. And if you have an under 18 with you, most shops will not sell it to you.

The policy is, if you look under 25, you need ID. The policy IS NOT, if you have under 25's with you, you need ID.

polejunkie

Gigervamp wrote: »

The policy is, if you look under 25, you need ID. The policy IS NOT, if you have under 25's with you, you need ID.

And somewhere that seems to have been lost in translation in the THINK 25 training day at sainsburies.

polejunkie

diable wrote: »

Boycott buying alcohol in supermarkets and use your local off licence, that'll learn them ;o))

I would do if there are any off licences left round here.

Any

Gigervamp wrote: »

The policy is, if you look under 25, you need ID. The policy IS NOT, if you have under 25's with you, you need ID.

I was refused to be sold alcohol coz my friend (with her own shopping and everything) had no ID on her!!
I had mine and I am 30!!
Ridiculous,shops are now just taking a p***.

Gigervamp

Tropez wrote: »

Stores are just covering their backsides from potential trouble, whether it be legal trouble or media and public trouble.

You're correct that the law doesn't say that people cannot purchase alcohol while accompanied by under 18s, but the law does state that a store can be legally culpable for supplying alcohol to a person who intends to distribute that alcohol to under 18s. Even though it is legal for children to drink privately, stores still have to protect themselves from a backlash as best they can and should an adult, accompanied by a child, buy alcohol and then that child is later found tanked up in an alley way, the police are going to want to know where that alcohol came from and with so much CCTV you can bet that there will be a video showing a shopworker selling the alcohol knowing there was a child present.

And that's part of the problem.

How likely is it that a small child is going to be found in an alleyway, tanked up? Yet people with small children are being denied alcohol.

It's got stupid.

Teens will find booze if they want it. Parents may stock up when there are offers on (see the Tesco beer and cider glitch) and the teens will nick some of it. Or (cos they're not stupid) get a mate who has ID and is over 18 to buy it, without the teens being present.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

polejunkie wrote: »

We are very much the opposite of chav's. Like mods and rockers, the other end of the underclass.

I doubt it's that far though.