New law for buying alcohol?

Shikkaka

Shikkaka

Shikkaka

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Hi everyone.

I've just been to tesco to get some beers in for tonight with my girlfriend. The woman serving me asked if I had any I.D, I gladly showed her my driving license prooving I am 21. She then states she can't serve me because my girlfriend hasn't got any I.D, and claims this is a new law (my girlfriend is not 18).

My girlfriend then confronted her asking what if she came in with her mum and dad and they were purchasing alcohol. The women was a bit stuck for words but still says she cannot serve me. I then said, well what if she just goes outside? Again she said she cannot serve me because she has now seen my girlfriend with me when I'm purchasing alcohol.

Anyways, the woman serving eventually gave in and my girlfriend rather embarrassingly had to go outside whilst I purchased the beer.

Is this not the most messed up law ever? or is the woman serving just being an arse?

Afterwards as you do, I thought I should have asked for the manager on the spot, and hopefully made a fool of her, but we just didn't think of that at the time.

Thanks
 
I bought a crate of Fosters and some Stellas. My misses doesn't even like larger.

The thing is I went in 2 weeks ago to the same woman with my girlfriend and she didn't bat an eye lid at either of us. She claimed it is a new law.
 
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i work at tescos and a simular thing happened to a guy who was on a checkout... a group of friends went in and wanted to buy beer.. only one of them had ID the others were underage, he dude on the checkouts were not allowed to serve as he knew the underage people were going to be drinking it...

it not a new law... just tesco covering their backs i would think
 
I could understand if I went in with a bunch of 16 year olds and was just purchasing alcohol alone, but we were clearly a couple and we also purchased other items aswell as the alcohol.
 
Did you make any insinuation that your other half would be sharing the alcohol?

The fact is if she were to consume it on private premisis with permission of the owner it wouldn't be an offence anyway, she would need to think that you were a) going to supply the misses and b) consume in a place where it was illegal.

Looks like Tesco are taking things a little too far.

MB
 
Deffo not a new law. If she genuinely thought you were purchasing alchohol for someone under the age of 18 she was perfectly entitled to refuse to serve you.

You had proof of age and it seems apparent that you were purchasing the booze for yourself and were entitled to be served.

It's her descression really, if she thinks it's for you and all above board she should serve you, if she suspects your under age girlfriend would be drinking it she has the right not to serve you. Sounds like she was either being deliberately obstructive and difficult for her own reasons or that she genuinely didn't think it was right to serve you and either made up some new law to back up her decision or that she doesn't really understand licencing laws.

She wasn't necessecarily wrong in what she did but she did go about it the wrong way.
 
Not a new law, but i know up here they are really starting to crack down. They have a challenge 21 policy in all the pubs etc, if you look under 21 you will be asked for ID.

I was gobsmacked the otherday when i went to Morrisons for FHM and had to give ID.
 
Wish I'd have asked for the manager on the spot to confirm.

She shouldn't have claimed it was a new law. That is utter rubbish. The point is, I've never had problems before and have been served by the same woman 2 weeks ago buying the same beers with my girlfriend. Infact looking back, my girlfriend even payed that time, she just handed me the money infront of the same woman
 
Mic and I were meeting some of his mates from work for an unoffical xmas pub crawl, this was on a Monday so everything was pretty dead.

Got to the first bar where we were meeting everyone and there was only the group we were meeting (6 people) and a bloke sitting at the bar, got IDed as we walked in, I didn't have anything on me and said as such, got told they had to ID anyone who looked under 25 (Mic was pleased at this - he's 37 and got asked as well), I pointed out I looked under 25 as I was under 25 and that at 23 I didn't think to bring ID with me.

Mic's mates decided that we'd just move to a different bar to which the "manager" (who looked younger than me) came over and asked if there was a problem, I explained what had happened and that we were just waiting for the others to drink up, when he realised this meant a group of 8 paying customers were leaving he said we could stay but by that point we weren't in the mood to stay.

T'was the first time in my life that I've ever been IDed :o
 
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Not a new law, but i know up here they are really starting to crack down. They have a challenge 21 policy in all the pubs etc, if you look under 21 you will be asked for ID.

I was gobsmacked the otherday when i went to Morrisons for FHM and had to give ID.
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I do believe that is a new law. I've seen that round here, but still have never had problems before.
 
Whilst in this case it's the law, lots of people seem to be forgetting that a shop can set whatever policy it likes within the law. If they want to only sell alcohol to over 32 year olds, they can do. Hell, if they only want to sell chocolate bars to over 18s they can do.
 
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