Buying Alcohol at ASDA

BBQ141

This really is just fcukwittery of the highest order. Another good reason I do not shop at ASDA.

d12345

Another good reason I do not shop at ASDA

It's not just Asda, all the supermarkets do it.

I was asked are you over 18 in Tesco when buying a bottle of booze and I'm 68.

I said are you kidding, keep the bottle and started to walk away when she said it's OK I was just reading the prompt on the screen, you can buy your booze.

And that was one of my sister in law's granddaughters that was on the till.

Lily-Rose_3

This is news to me. My daughter is 18 and has been with me often when I am shopping and buying alcohol. I mean for years......Is this a very recent thing? I have shopped in Asda, Tesco and Sainsburys too...this has never happened.

It's incredibly stupid anyway. What's to stop you purchasing the booze for said under-age child, and giving it to them in the car or at home?

ayayay

This is ignorance of the law on the part of shops and cashiers. It is only an offence to sell alcohol to someone accompanied by a child if you KNOW that it is being bought for the child, mere suspicion is not enough. Im not aware of any cashier ever being prosecuted.

Same mentality as you have with over zealous implementation of health and safety legislation.

aileth

d12345 wrote: »

It's not just Asda, all the supermarkets do it.

I was asked are you over 18 in Tesco when buying a bottle of booze and I'm 68.

I said are you kidding, keep the bottle and started to walk away when she said it's OK I was just reading the prompt on the screen, you can buy your booze.

And that was one of my sister in law's granddaughters that was on the till.

I heard from my mum recently that she got ID'd at the corner shop for a bottle of wine (She's 63). Mum ofc didn't have ID on her, she doesn't drive, no licence, and hasn't been ID'd for booze for years. The cashier refused her sale.

jozxyqk

aileth wrote: »

I once saw this in a Sainsburys, middle-aged woman with a girl no older than five. She had A LOT of shopping and had bought a single bottle of wine with it. Cashier refused to serve her and actually said to the woman 'you might give it to the girl.' Talk about match to a fuse, and I don't blame her. She left all her shopping there and left to almost everyone in the vicinity applauding her.

With that mentality, shouldn't they be challenging on other harmful things you may be buying as well?

"Drain cleaner? Nope, you might give it to your 5 yr old".

I've been ID'd many times in supermarkets in recent years (I'm in my late thirties), but never when I'm with my younger wife or 1 yo boy.