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

Capt Lightning said:
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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If a supermarket has accepted Challenge 25 the management can't be blamed either they just pass instructions on to the staff members.

I once got picked up for not challenging an older person who had an under age person with them when buying alcohol........if you don't like it challenge the Scottish government and not the supermarkets.

https://www.wsta.co.uk/images/Committees/RASG/2013workstreams/Challenge25Report2014.pdf
 

The Scottish government and common sense don't usually appear in the same sentence. I frequently challenge them on issues I disagree with. However the point remains that the checkout person cannot tell who will consume alcohol once it is purchased. Are they qualified to make that judgement?

Of course, if we feel we have been treated unfairly, we can always walk away and shop elsewhere.
 
Getting carded isn't a big deal for me but after reading this thread I'm wondering why the merchants don't capture a person's age or the fact that they were over 21 when the tag was issued on the key tag discount card so when they swipe the key tag it automatically verifies age.
 
Aunt Bea said:
Getting carded isn't a big deal for me but after reading this thread I'm wondering why the merchants don't capture a person's age or the fact that they were over 21 when the tag was issued on the key tag discount card so when they swipe the key tag it automatically verifies age.
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I use my phone number and not my key tag for my discount card...so I would think there could be a few members in a household with same phone number but different ages.
 
I just remembered a similar incident with me many years ago when I was 22.

I was working in a liquor store - cashier, stocking, deliveries, etc. The owner knew I was a competitive shooter & asked me to carry concealed & protect his employees, including two of his sons working there.

A girl around 9 years old walked in & handed me a note that said, "I sent my daughter in for a bottle of Budweiser & a carton of Marlboros." I'm parked in front, I gave her the money...it's OK." The store manager looked at the note & said, "It's NOT OK; her mother has to come in to pick up these items; we're not allowed to hand them to a child...we'll lose our license."

I told the girl to tell her mother she had to come in, herself.

When the girl went back to her mom, I could see that her mom was angry, yelling, waving her arms around, etc. She sent her daughter back into the store & she was crying (which really made me mad). We again told her her mother had to come in.

Well, here's where it got really nasty. Her mother stormed in, screaming profanities at everyone. I could see that she was probably a meth head or alcoholic or both - missing teeth, severely underweight, her arms covered in tracks & bruises...the whole bit. I tried to calm her down, explaining the law but she got louder & louder & three frightened customers quietly sneaked out the door. Still swearing, she picked up a bottle of beef jerky & threw it at me. I ducked & it hit those small whiskey bottles behind me & broke a bunch of them. Now there was glass everywhere. I told her to just leave.

Then, she picked up a large wine bottle. I got ready to duck again, but she started walking around the counter toward me for a direct hit. I drew on her, aimed at her face & said, "Don't."
She dropped the bottle on the floor, & of course it broke, then she yelled "I'm going to call the police & tell them you tried to shoot me." I said, "We already called them; they're on the way."

When the police arrived, she started yelling at them to arrest me for trying to kill her. After my co-workers & I spoke to them & they saw the destruction, they arrested her & one cop told her, "You're lucky you're still alive; if you came at me with a bottle, I'd have shot you several times."

One of her relatives had to come & pick up her daughter.

If only there was a law about people like that procreating....
 
I just recently had this happen to me. Here’s my problem, 1. Policy is if they look over 40 Id them. So an older person, does not have to share how old they are, It’s just disrespectful. 2. The cashier should not have the right to refuse your purchase, if you clearly are over 21. 3. There is a put the date in manually option, in case your id is scratched and doesn’t scan, or you use another form of accepted id that doesn’t scan, or you are old and have earned the right, to not be carded. Advice: make a big deal every time, no matter where you are, maybe all of us older people can at least annoy them into being more respectful.
 
Well, looking old doesn't mean you are old. It's not up to a store employee to verify your age, but that you have some age-related document. Some states require IDs by law, and no business wants to jeopardize sales by having their liquor sales license revoked. And there are 50 states and 100,000s of city/towns with varying liquor laws.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Well, looking old doesn't mean you are old. It's not up to a store employee to verify your age, but that you have some age-related document. Some states require IDs by law, and no business wants to jeopardize sales by having their liquor sales license revoked. And there are 50 states and 100,000s of city/towns with varying liquor laws.
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Yes, looking old doesn’t mean you’re old, if you look 50, I’m sure you aren’t 20. No the cashier isn’t there to verify your age, she is there to prevent underage alcohol sales. That is it. Any business that has a cashier dumb enough to not want to manually enter an age, of a senior citizen, is a moron. And should not be hired. And if the business is too cheap to train their employees correctly. Then I guess yes they do have to pay a fine. Still doesn’t justify having to show id for a product that is allowed by law to be sold and bought as long as you are over 21.
 

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