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Age Verification Policy when shopping with partner/child
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fluffnutter wrote: »But staff who sell to someone over 18 who then gives the alcohol to a minor can't be. The person committing the crime is the buyer not the seller.
It's a misinterpretation of the law by over-zealous and paranoid retailers. Or perhaps they're our moral guardians. Either way, it's unnecessary and frustrating.
Your right... the law is if you " knowingly" sell it to someone who is buying it for someone under 18 however retailers are worried sick about potential fines, bad publicity and loss of reputation that if there is any likelyhood they refuse to sell it. This could be someone without ID being with the person.
Yes it may have turnd into a nanny state but the retailer cannot risk that.
I speak as a manager who trains their staff on age related sales and also I hold a personal licence for the sale of alcohol and I buy alcohol
so I see it from both sides 0
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