I Was Carded At Walgreens When I Attempted To Buy A Bottle Of Wine.

fmdog44 said:
So in your vast knowledge of companies polices why is it that none of the other employees at the same store do not card and none of the employees at the other two near by Walgreens don't card? Get over that.
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Beats the Hell out of me dude. Everywhere I've been the policy has been to card everyone.

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Trade said:
Beats the Hell out of me dude. Everywhere I've been the policy has been to card everyone.

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Well "DUDE" that is far from the truth unless your are a teenie bopper and because you address people as "dude" I think you are.
 
applecruncher said:
:eek: ...whew... (I realize you're addressing Trade but I'd just like to comment)

Maybe the other employees aren't as efficient and don't care if the store gets fined and they lose their jobs. How would anyone know why the other clerks aren't asking you for ID?

Over past few years every store I know of asks for ID when buying tobacco or liquor, regardless of how someone looks.
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I will offer up this for those that grasp what is required of typical employees. Common sense. We have brains that give us the ability to reason. The ability to reason can keep you employed everywhere. But some people have nothing better to offer than to follow regardless of the obvious. Like my OP said this and on other occasion are the only occasions form the same company this happened in a span of 20 years. I don't know where you
people live but if you are being carded at 30+ years of age you must be living in a totalitarian country.
 

Indiana as an example:

“The only ones who complain now are 70-year-old guys. They get real mean,” Corliss said.

But some retailers say they won’t be asking their employees to judge whether somebody’s hit the magic “40” mark, and will tell them to keep carding everyone, no matter how old they appear.

“We’ve got 60 cashiers working for us and that means 60 different opinions about who looks like they’re 40,” said Jerry Corliss, owner of the Chalet Party Shoppe liquor stores in Northwest Indiana. “We’re going to keep carding everyone.”

Corliss agrees. He started carding everyone who came into his liquor stores three years ago, before the 2010 law required it. “All my worries went away,” Corliss said. “My biggest worry always was that we were going to sell alcohol to a minor who was going to go out and get into a terrible accident.”

Now his cash registers are programmed so that an alcohol sale can’t go through without the buyer’s birth date being entered into the register.Corliss also said that he’s told his fellow liquor store owners not to worry about alienating older customers by asking for their identification.

“The males over 70 who did all the complaining when we started carding everyone were less than 1 percent of customers,” Corliss said. “I can afford to let them get mad.”

https://www.heraldbulletin.com/news...cle_6cdfcd1d-ef21-52d5-8043-20fba5355ea2.html
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fmdog44 said:
I will offer up this for those that grasp what is required of typical employees. Common sense. We have brains that give us the ability to reason. The ability to reason can keep you employed everywhere. But some people have nothing better to offer than to follow regardless of the obvious. Like my OP said this and on other occasion are the only occasions form the same company this happened in a span of 20 years. I don't know where you
people live but if you are being carded at 30+ years of age you must be living in a totalitarian country.
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Well since you aren't happy with any of our responses, why don't you call the manager of that Walgreens and get your answer. Nowadays people are so freakin' ready to be "OFFENDED," it may be a policy of that store to card EVERYONE. Then they don't have to listen to whining about preferential treatment but instead have to listen to whining about employees' lack of common sense.
 
Now his cash registers are programmed so that an alcohol sale can’t go through without the buyer’s birth date being entered into the register.Corliss also said that he’s told his fellow liquor store owners not to worry about alienating older customers by asking for their identification.

So the stores are taking names and birth dates now? Why not SS #'s?
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C'est Moi said:
Well since you aren't happy with any of our responses, why don't you call the manager of that Walgreens and get your answer. Nowadays people are so freakin' ready to be "OFFENDED," it may be a policy of that store to card EVERYONE. Then they don't have to listen to whining about preferential treatment but instead have to listen to whining about employees' lack of common sense.
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To respond, I emailed them. Perhaps you are unable to distinguish the difference between 18 and 71 but most people with brains have no problem with it. Let's not forget Walgreens sells cigarettes long after CVS stopped.
 
fmdog44 (aka Wild Child),

I have no idea why you're posting snarky replies to EVERYONE in this thread.

Anger issues? A bad day/week? Compulsion to argue? Constipation?

Hope you feel better real soon, dude!
 
Olivia said:
Cigarettes don't cause car accidents.

Kinda makes sense now how Baby Boomers get a bad rep. :playful:
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Actually they do. Many wrecks have ben caused by drivers dropping the lighters, or a match or the cigarette then looking or it while they drive...……….BOOM!!
 
retiredtraveler said:
Yeah. I've been carded (I'm 68) a number of times in various locations. As stated, it's becoming more universal. Just check everyone and you keep your business out of trouble.
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And here I thought it was due to my babyish looks


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I always thank them for carding me
 
Trade said:
I'm 71 too and I had to show my ID the last time I bought a bottle of wine at the grocery store. It's pretty much a universal policy these days. The clerk would probably risk being fired if he didn't card you.
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That's exactly right Trade, the cashiers in liquor stores and now some supermarkets are legally obligated to request to see your ID regardless of your age, and if they are caught not doing it, they can be fired because the store owner doesn't want to be liable for selling to those who are not legally able to purchase.

Only recently they started selling full strength beer at Walmart and local supermarkets, I picked up some Miller High Life and the cashier asked me if I was over 50, I told her yes, I'm 66. She said she had to ask that question if there was any doubt, and I have no problem getting out my driver's license if needed, so the employee doesn't get into any trouble. Not a big deal, it's the law. Just so happens that in Walmart, over 50 verbal validation is good enough, at least at my local store.
 
Carded?They will insist on ID over here if you look under 25 but you do get the odd idiot who won't sell you alcohol if you have your kids or grandkids with you'because you could give it them!'
 
It's all very well saying that it's the law. Sometimes you have to say that the law is an Ass and if people just accept things , you're on a slippery slope.

Here in the UK, over the counter painkillers are only sold in small packs to help prevent suicide. The reasoning is that if you can't buy enough tablets in one pack to kill yourself, you'll not do it. Wow, I wonder who thought of that one. One pack isn't enough to kill you, so you won't buy two, or three....?

From what I've read, this legislation has had very little effect.
 
you do get the odd idiot who won't sell you alcohol if you have your kids or grandkids with you'because you could give it them!'
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Is that even legal? Don't know about the laws in Wales, but here in the U.S. it could possibly be a civil rights matter. If a store is offering goods to the public, they are obligated to serve any legitimate customer who comes along.
 
I haven’t bought any alcohol in probably about 15 years so don’t know if I’d be carded...I’ve been with my daughter when she’s bought some but don’t remember seeing her being carded and she’s 47.

I have been with her when the employee at the cash register was underage and had to call someone to ring up the wine...that I see a lot.

This is in California so don’t know ..also it’s been at Costco so maybe her card has the info on it once it’s swiped.
 
fmdog44 said:
This is the second time in 20 years a young man (maybe the same one) at Walgreens insisted on seeing my ID as well as the man in front of me. I am 71 years old. This type of employee would refuse to leave Walgreens if the building was engulfed in flames because the time clock was on fire preventing him from clocking out. Their shelves apparently contain no pills to help build common sense.
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I'm 66 & I got carded for a "PG-14" movie.

Well......OK, I didn't. But you started it.

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Well. if it's too troublesome, we COULD just stop buying booze and cigarettes. Our choice. There's lots of inconveniences in life and we either live with them or choose to avoid them?

Same thought with the topic regarding red lights. Not that complicated. I've never consciously "ran one" (probably slid by on a yellow a few times) and never been rear-ended or ran over a pedestrian either.
 
SeaBreeze said:
That's exactly right Trade, the cashiers in liquor stores and now some supermarkets are legally obligated to request to see your ID regardless of your age, and if they are caught not doing it, they can be fired because the store owner doesn't want to be liable for selling to those who are not legally able to purchase.

Only recently they started selling full strength beer at Walmart and local supermarkets, I picked up some Miller High Life and the cashier asked me if I was over 50, I told her yes, I'm 66. She said she had to ask that question if there was any doubt, and I have no problem getting out my driver's license if needed, so the employee doesn't get into any trouble. Not a big deal, it's the law. Just so happens that in Walmart, over 50 verbal validation is good enough, at least at my local store.
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That simply is not true in my state. At the grocery stores once you sweep the bar code the system will call for an employee to clear the computer and you simply move on. This goes back to an employee exercising common sense. I have never been carded at a supermarket or any liquor store.
 
Furryanimal said:
Carded?They will insist on ID over here if you look under 25 but you do get the odd idiot who won't sell you alcohol if you have your kids or grandkids with you'because you could give it them!'
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No they are not idiots, the cashier is following instructions from management, I know because I used to be a cashier also it is not unknown for an older person to buy alcohol for an under age person so like it or not the cashier has to follow the law.
 
They're not idiots, but the management are. You can't tell who is going to drink the alcohol once it leaves the shop. What are you going to do - ask them to sign a statement that they do not have any children or grandchildren under 18 and they will not allow anyone under that age to consume any of the alcohol that they have bought? A bit of common sense is lacking in a lot of cases.
 

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