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HC_2

I'd love to be asked if I'm of age. It would make my day.

:j

Seriously though, the law states that if you look under 21 you may be asked for ID.

Your ID might be requested if you are clearly 50+ but the checkout operator is not exactly Mensa material; it might be because you really do look younger than your age (lucky you); you might have bought alcohol etc. before but (shockingly) the checkout operator doesn't remember you amongst the hundreds of customers he/she serves; or it may be some great supermarket conspiracy in which checkout operators have 'targets' that if they don't meet, they are taken to Goods In and summarily shot.

It must surely be easier just to carry some ID - it's the easiest solution.

Stephb1986_2

my OH gets asked for ID for cigs all the time he's 25 lmao!!!

Steph xx

Timmne

HC wrote: »

but the checkout operator is not exactly Mensa material

That's a pretty rude comment - I hope you find it in your heart to talk to these animals, besides - doing that job is obviously the only alternative to unemployment :rolleyes:

People like my girlfriend and her staff have to put up with stuck up @rses like you on a daily basis.

Some shops can't sell alcohol without ID, whatever the customers' age. 100 year olds still need to produce ID if that's the policy and it means the assistant's job if they ignore the rules.

HC_2

Timmne wrote: »

HC wrote: »

but the checkout operator is not exactly Mensa materialquote]

That's a pretty rude comment - I hope you find it in your heart to talk to these animals, besides - doing that job is obviously the only alternative to unemployment :rolleyes:

People like my girlfriend and her staff have to put up with stuck up @rses like you on a daily basis.

Some shops can't sell alcohol without ID, whatever the customers' age. 100 year olds still need to produce ID if that's the policy and it means the assistant's job if they ignore the rules.

Actually, I am not a 'stuck up @rse', as you assert (though I do appreciate that is a matter of opinion) and I treat those who work in supermarkets with the respect with which I myself hope to be treated. We are all in service industries, are we not? Whether we have to please our boss, or our customers.

I was making the light-hearted point that if a customer is clearly over fifty years old it is a little stupid to ask for ID that confirms if they are over 21.

You've taken a few words completely out of context and lunged at them, purple veins throbbing in your neck.

If you read my post properly, you might see that I am actually on the side of the checkout operators. They will have had training that makes sure they keep the supermarket on the right side of the law. I.e. they cannot be expected to know if someone is indeed over age and had legally bought alcohol before. They cannot be expected to guess correctly that someone is 29 when they look 17.

And I was taking the pxxx out of people who suggest that the checkout operators have some sort of 'targets' or that they demand people's ID for fun, to relieve the monotony.

vicky_kidder

I think the problem is not the checkout operators but the policies. The checkout operators are only doing the job they are paid for and (trust me on this, i used to be a CO) they are not paid enough to take abuse from someone getting mad at being asked for id. Fact is, we got threatened with a fine and a criminal record if we did serve someone who is under 18.

however, the actual policy is flawed in the sense that it is not used in conjunction wth common sense. I know someone who did the weekly shopping with her son (16) as she could not manage on her own and needed help. She and her son got asked for id regarding the bottle of wine she had bought. As the boy clearly could not provide any they refused to serve her. Not once was anything mentioned about it being for him.

In this situation it is clearly not for the son (how many 16yr old lads drink merlot, haha) and the mother could not have done the shopping alone. People these days seem so determined to adhere to the rules that common sense is forgotten and life is made that more difficult by shopping having to be divided into 2 trips. Come on people! We should just lighten up and stop being such bloomin' jobsworths!

arealhighlander

uktim29 wrote: »

zoelouise88 = 1988?

20?

uktim29 = 1929?

79?? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

zoelouise88

HC wrote: »

I'd love to be asked if I'm of age. It would make my day.

:j

Seriously though, the law states that if you look under 21 you may be asked for ID.

Your ID might be requested if you are clearly 50+ but the checkout operator is not exactly Mensa material; it might be because you really do look younger than your age (lucky you); you might have bought alcohol etc. before but (shockingly) the checkout operator doesn't remember you amongst the hundreds of customers he/she serves; or it may be some great supermarket conspiracy in which checkout operators have 'targets' that if they don't meet, they are taken to Goods In and summarily shot.

It must surely be easier just to carry some ID - it's the easiest solution.

i do not have id, we were doing a family shop and my oh was the one paying he showed his id but they refused to accept it.

HC_2

It must be very difficult for checkout operators (bearing in mind both the restrictions they're under and the high-blood-pressure-inducing fury that any mild criticism invokes in any relative).

They have a job to do. And many of them are under 18 themselves - they have to call an over-18 even to authorise the transaction. My daughter is one of these.

I would not be in the least offended to be asked for ID in any situation, although until I was 30, I looked 17. Sadly, that's not the case now.

HC_2

zoelouise88 wrote: »

i do not have id, we were doing a family shop and my oh was the one paying he showed his id but they refused to accept it.

Well, I'm not the MD of that store. I can't comment.

I was just making the general suggestion that, as we know the law that the supermarkets have to follow (and get generously fined if they flout it) it would be useful to carry ID for those occasions where we might need it.

HC_2

arealhighlander wrote: »

uktim29 = 1929?

79?? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Doubt it. More like uktim(19)99