Tesco not selling alcohol

C_Ronaldo

sweep9 wrote: »

My sister was caught out by the alcohol to under 18 rule in Asda just before Christmas. Her daughter is 16 and was going to buy a bottle of wine for her friend for Christmas (who is 18). My sister's full trolley of booze had started to be put through the till when she turned to my neice and said 'You'll have to put that on the belt with mine because they won't serve you'... The till op, stopped putting it all through and told her that she cannot sell any of the booze as she was going to be supplying a minor. After an argument with the checkout supervisor, she left empty handed!!

It made my sister worse when both my mother and myself agreed with Asda!

Asda do have a point, if the older person makes it obvious that they rae buying alcohol for an under 18 then the checkout person can refuse the sale, its the law, if it was a test purchase and the checkout person had put the sale through she could have got a fine and a criminal record, there was a similar incident on xmas eve where i work, a mother mentioned something to her daughter of under 18 that some alcopop drink was hers and the till operator heard it and refused the sale of the alcopop, the woman went mental at the checkout manager and he was like "i stand by my decision, she made the right decision as well "

One of the tescos near me now have a under 30 policy because they get problems there

LuciferTDark

Tesco policy for selling alcohol is if even one person seems to be under 21 they all have to show valid ID.

tupperware

LuciferTDark wrote: »

Tesco policy for selling alcohol is if even one person seems to be under 21 they all have to show valid ID.

So what if it's a mother and child of 6. No sale?

borosteve_2

tupperware wrote: »

So what if it's a mother and child of 6. No sale?

Should be fine with a false moustache and glasses;) .

(The child, not the mother)

robert_harper_2000

so if a mother is buying some alcohol she will not be allowed to buy any drink?
I went to ASDA me and my girlfriend live round the corner and have seen most the staff countless times. We buying typical food products and still I had my ID I'm 24 and they wanted gfs ID.
As someone else said if I wanted to buy alcohol for her I would ask her to step to the side.
I told them don't worry I just go the other checkout! They said OK lol
Run by idiots just follow orders no common sense.

tanith

Sorry but I think the harder they make it to buy booze the better for everyone... if it means less youngsters get their hands on it then all to the good... I have seen first hand the damage drink does and its hard enough to control in fully grown adults... so if you have to try that little bit harder to get it then is that really so bad....

The rules may seem stoopid to you but if it stops just one child from getting hooked then so be it....IMO

C_Ronaldo

tanith wrote: »

Sorry but I think the harder they make it to buy booze the better for everyone... if it means less youngsters get their hands on it then all to the good... I have seen first hand the damage drink does and its hard enough to control in fully grown adults... so if you have to try that little bit harder to get it then is that really so bad....

The rules may seem stoopid to you but if it stops just one child from getting hooked then so be it....IMO

here here tanith,

like tanith says if all these measures go to stop underage drinking then its all good is it not,

LuciferTDark

tupperware wrote: »

So what if it's a mother and child of 6. No sale?

If the staff stick to the policy 100% then it should be No Sale, but they are allowed to use common sense (if they have any).

Pennywise

Another typically idiotic rule dreamt up by people who don't live in the real world, made worse by "jobsworths" with no common sense, and add insult to injury, the local councils deliberately send in "planted customers" who are trained to catch out the cashier.

C_Ronaldo

Pennywise wrote: »

Another typically idiotic rule dreamt up by people who don't live in the real world, made worse by "jobsworths" with no common sense, and add insult to injury, the local councils deliberately send in "planted customers" who are trained to catch out the cashier.

Its not an idiotic rule, its a necessary rule needed to curb underage drinking,