Think 25 Alcohol Retailing

I was denied the right to buy a small 200g bag of Whiskey Truffles in Thorntons when i was in fact 18 (didn't have my ID). Again, very very low alcohol content, small quantity and i was turned away.

They did a study on TV, and to consume sufficient alcohol from alcoholic truffles to actually be over the drink drive limit they had to eat several kilos of chocolates. Far cry from my 200g.

Which supermarket do you work for? I have to make a note never to go there.

Cashiers may be doing their job, but they should use their common sense.

If someone who was 40 came in with a 16 year old I would serve them regardless to be honest, because it is almost impossible to tell if they are buyign it for the younger person unless somehtign baout their body language/actions give it away.

Harsh call!

I couldnt really care less if they gave it to the younger people anyway

I could - It's my job on the line!!

But if you were serving an older woman who was later found to have bought the drinks for the teenagers, would it really come back to you if it was the woman you served, not the teenagers?

Shops tend to err o nthe side of caution because they dont want to get done by the law

I got refused a sale of alcohol a week or so ago in Tesco, despite having ID because I said hello to a young lad who plays in the same brass band as me who was in the store with his parents on the next till over! I'm 27! I was told that they couldn't serve me because they believed I was buying for a teenager (yes, because teenagers tend to drink glenfiddich, don't they?), so I just said if they weren't going to serve me alcohol for that ridiculous reason then I wasn't going to buy any of my shopping there (it was our weekly shop so the belt was full) and I just walked out leaving all the goods on the belt drove round to morrisons, bought the shopping and the whisky and am waiting for a response to my letter of complaint. It is one thing to ensure that underage drinkers are not supplied with alcohol, it is quite another to assume that customers are criminals to protect your backs against legal action by the police.

I once ID'd someone for buying an energy drink

It was a new brand, looked just like a can of cider

And what they're buying. >.>;

I had a reasonably 'older' lady (mid 50s?) come in with her two teenage daughters - She attempted to but, within the weekly shop, a crate of WKD Blue, a pack of WKD red, a pack of Smirnoff Ice, two bottles of Archers Peach and a cheap bottle of vodka.

In the end, my supervisor ruled no sale.

If she's buying it i don't see why she can't buy it. As long as she walks out of the store with it, and as it seems she's taking it home, if she gives it to her children there it's legal. So if my parents were having a party and i went with them to get the booze, they would get refused, even if i wasn't attending? That rule is pathetic in my opinion, unless there is proof or suspicion that the adult is buying it for underage people they should be allowed to buy whatever they like.