Age restriction are stupid!

Semple said:
I remember an Indian lady refused to serve my friend alcohol at Asda checkouts. Bear in mind he was 18 and she was insistent that he had to be 21 to purchase alcohol.
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Some places do this. Around where I live you have to be 21 on a Friday and Saturday to purchase alcohol after 6pm.
 
Semple said:
I remember an Indian lady refused to serve my friend alcohol at Asda checkouts. Bear in mind he was 18 and she was insistent that he had to be 21 to purchase alcohol.
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Don't forget guys, her ethnicity is totally relevant.
 
I think the till just has a ridiculous array of things that come up with prompts. When I worked a well known DIY chain, a garden seive came up with an age related sale prompt!
 
TFleming said:
Some places do this. Around where I live you have to be 21 on a Friday and Saturday to purchase alcohol after 6pm.
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I read the post, thought, that's just like me, then noticed the location, a fellow Redcar member, familiar second name, you don't have a sister called Michelle do you?
 
its the lack of common sense amongst shop assistants that grinds my gears. i find morrisons particularly bad for this due to their look 25 scheme that no one can seem to understand

''are you 25'' ''why?'' ''well if your not 25 you need ID''

seriously thats not how its supposed to work... arggghh


didn't the guy on here get ID'd buying cheese once ?
 
getting ID'd for filter tips is always a favourite although i understand it might actually be law now ?

18 to buy pieces of foam !
 
Being ID'ed really doesn't bother me. You ought to expect it nowadays if you look anything under 30 when buying an age restricted product (booze, knives, cigarettes).
 
Reason is you get trading standards testing it... sending in 15 year olds with either fairly clever fake id or made up so they look well into their 20s... then come in, show a picture of how the child actually looks... and give the company a good telling off and go on and on about how the employee could have been fined £5000, lost job, sent to prison yada yada.

So staff become paranoid about it and ID everyone for anything and management have to back them up.
 
Rroff said:
Reason is you get trading standards testing it... sending in 15 year olds with either fairly clever fake id or made up so they look well into their 20s... then come in, show a picture of how the child actually looks... and give the company a good telling off and go on and on about how the employee could have been fined £5000, lost job, sent to prison yada yada.

So staff become paranoid about it and ID everyone for anything and management have to back them up.
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Quite. A local Tesco to me lost it's license (albeit only on the self scan bit. Do you have different licenses for the manned checkouts and the selfscan Rroff?) due to Trading Standards sending in kids to try and buy booze.

Without alcohol sales, I'd imagine a Glaswegian Tesco to be pretty stuffed! Far better to err on the side of caution than take a risk.
 
Rroff said:
Reason is you get trading standards testing it... sending in 15 year olds with either fairly clever fake id or made up so they look well into their 20s... then come in, show a picture of how the child actually looks... and give the company a good telling off and go on and on about how the employee could have been fined £5000, lost job, sent to prison yada yada.

So staff become paranoid about it and ID everyone for anything and management have to back them up.
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I don't think Trading standards ever use fake ID for legal reasons.
 
When I was 19 I was refused the sale of expanding foam from B&Q, despite having ID. I went over the road to Homebase and rectified my issue without any other fuss.
 
"andy" said:
getting ID'd for filter tips is always a favourite although i understand it might actually be law now ?

18 to buy pieces of foam !
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Don't forget papers too, god knows the things a youth could get up to with 50 small, thin sheets of paper :p

I remember last year using the self-checkout in Asda, I had some food and cold & flu tablets (man-flu a horrible thing :D).

I rang them through and the age verification thing popped up, a member of staff promptly came over and without even looking at what I was buying said "do you have ID?"
I replied "no, sorry I don't"
She said "In which case I'm sorry but we cannot serve you alcohol without ID"

After I explained that if she just looked instead of presuming I was only buying cold & flu tablets, her face promptly dropped, swiped to clear the purchase and left. I got the feeling that so little is happening in her life that the little buzz of power she got from denying someone sale without ID was the perk of her day.
 
Jay794 said:
As a barman we used to get the 18+ people buying alcohol for the under 18's
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this is perfectly legal. its only illegal to sell alcohol to under 18s and for under 18s to drink it in the bar area. if an over 18 bought some alcohol and gave it to anyone over 5 outside the bar area (perhaps at the outside tables) then it would be legal for them to drink it.

this is coming from QI, and quite an old episode at that, so feel free to prove me wrong (preferably with that direct gov site thingy ive seen posted here a few times, rather than wikipedia)
 
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