Explain to me why you can't buy alcohol before 10am

browneyedbazzi

If you want to know what times your local shop is licensed to sell alcohol to/from you can check with your local council - they are required to keep a public register of licenses that includes this information (as well as what conditions are on the licence etc) and in many areas it is available on the council's website.

scottishchick27

I think it's just Scotland Aliasjo, no alcohol can be purchased between 10pm and 10am. It's 12pm on a Sunday too, no idea why. if I get my shopping delivered before ten, they won't deliver the alcohol. Pain in the butt really.

eschaton

scottishchick27 wrote: »

I think it's just Scotland Aliasjo, no alcohol can be purchased between 10pm and 10am. It's 12pm on a Sunday too, no idea why. if I get my shopping delivered before ten, they won't deliver the alcohol. Pain in the butt really.

Some areas are 10am on a Sunday.

You would think they would keep it simple and have the same law throughout the country wouldn't you?

SNP doesn't get much right - their multibuy ban is a flop as well.

scottishchick27

eschaton wrote: »

Some areas are 10am on a Sunday.

You would think they would keep it simple and have the same law throughout the country wouldn't you?

SNP doesn't get much right - their multibuy ban is a flop as well.

I quite like the multi buy ban, instead of three bottles of wine for ten pounds Asda sell one bottle for £3.33. Much more :money:

PenguinOfDeath

1886 wrote: »

My wife got asked for ID in Tesco because she was in the alcohol aisle.... LOL. She`s 27 but looks 19/20. She complains about getting asked for ID but I know she likes it really. Better to look younger than older I tell her.
I did`nt know you needed ID to be in certain aisles!

That's got to be a jobsworth shop assistant, surely?

What if she had a child with her, would he be banned from the aisle altogether?!

C_Mababejive

Ever been in an airport departure lounge at 0700hrs and seen the Brits with their pints of lager..?

fashionlover10

1886 wrote: »

My wife got asked for ID in Tesco because she was in the alcohol aisle.... LOL. She`s 27 but looks 19/20. She complains about getting asked for ID but I know she likes it really. Better to look younger than older I tell her.
I did`nt know you needed ID to be in certain aisles!

I work in a Sainsbury's and we're told to ID anyone who looks under 25 that picks up an age restricted product (knives, alcohol etc). Not 100% sure why, maybe to deter under age customers from trying to buy those items?
We're not being 'jobsworths' though as someone else mentioned, we're just doing our jobs! We might not make the rules but we have to follow them.

minnie123

fashionlover10 wrote: »

I work in a Sainsbury's and we're told to ID anyone who looks under 25 that picks up an age restricted product (knives, alcohol etc). Not 100% sure why, maybe to deter under age customers from trying to buy those items?
We're not being 'jobsworths' though as someone else mentioned, we're just doing our jobs! We might not make the rules but we have to follow them.

It does seem a bit excessive staff ID'ing people just for looking at things - If I was the boss I would prefer my staff to be doing something more productive.

I actually got ID'd the other day for buying a bottle of non alcoholic wine and I am 32!

anguk

fashionlover10 wrote: »

I work in a Sainsbury's and we're told to ID anyone who looks under 25 that picks up an age restricted product (knives, alcohol etc). Not 100% sure why, maybe to deter under age customers from trying to buy those items?
We're not being 'jobsworths' though as someone else mentioned, we're just doing our jobs! We might not make the rules but we have to follow them.

I think it's because shops who do sell to the under-aged get such high fines (and could get their licence revoked) and the local authorities do spot-check. They're not willing to take the chance so ID everyone who looks younger than 21 or 25.

coolcait

I'm surprised that you haven't come across this before in Scotland. I'm even more surprised that you were able to get into the alcohol aisle before 10 am!

All the supermarkets in this part of Scotland 'only' sell alcohol between 10 am and 10 pm. Or from noon on Sundays.

Whether it's a Tesco Metro/Express or a 24-hour Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys.

At peak Christmas shopping times, they'll make regular announcements that 'No alcohol can be sold after 10 pm. If you wish to purchase alcohol, please make your way to the tills now'.

I rarely 'go the messages' early . But, on the odd occasion I've been in Tesco's before 10 am (or noon on Sunday), the alcohol aisle is blocked off.

That's when I realise that I have a 'route' when I'm shopping there. Up one aisle, down the next, and so on. Ending up with a visit to the reduced non-perishable items , and a straight run down the booze aisle (occasionally stopping :rotfl:) to the till that hardly anyone else uses.

It upsets my routine when they block off the alcohol aisle, and I have to take a different route!

At least I now know that it has saved me the embarrassment of picking up a bottle of wine before licensing hours allow me to buy it.