Friend also asked for ID when I bought alcohol

Ah what a lovely comment to brighten up my day! As I have stated, what they are essentially saying is that you cannot be with anyone under 18 if you buy alcohol, is this correct smarty?

No they arent, they are saying they can ask you to provide id as part of challenge 25. You agree to this policy by entering the shop.

There have actually been cases of parents being refused alcohol sales because they had their children with them. It can be a bit ridiculous sometimes, but the fines for shops (and individual cashiers, I think) are so big that they have to play it safe.

It doesn’t really matter if it’s not the law to ID you both. The shop can still refuse to serve you if they want, even if it’s annoying.

Maybe I did overreact, but nevertheless to quote what you say, they have to suspect you're buying it for the friend, so what constitutes them suspecting it? I guess the main issue is if my friend didn't have his ID on him

So did your friend have his ID or not?
In post # 13 above you say he didnt have it.
In post #1 you say " My issue was more to do with why she was asking, because my friend happily handed his ID over".

Thank you for your input, that's actually a very helpful comment, many thanks

I have had this happen. When I was buying a family shop and my 18 yr old daughter was with me to help, they refused to sell me alcohol because she didn't have ID on her. I ended up leaving her in the car with the first shop while I went round again and used a different till to check out with alcohol.

Will also throw out that obviously all stores are different, and by the sounds of it Tesco has a totally different policy. I don't buy alcohol, so I've never encountered this. Whether it's right or wrong or not is a totally different debate, but if you're concerned about it, or concerned about shopping with someone that potentially doesn't have ID, just shop somewhere else I guess.

As I say, the issue is more to do with the fact that if I go shopping with anyone I have to make sure they have ID, and that's not what it should be like

where's the op gone?😂

What a very poorly constructed sentence, no punctuation and the grammar is appalling!

Have the friend wait elsewhere, while you pay for the items. Don't let shopkeeper see the both of you together. Sometimes looking younger than one is can be quite annoying, especially if that person doesn't have an ID card.

CCTV is watching its illegal to buy alcohol for someone that looks younger they should buy there own alcohol and show there ID the shopkeeper can be fined up to £10.000 by law they have to ask for ID they dont want to ask to see your ID but they have to do it

How is that even remotely relevant? They just mentioned having the friend wait somewhere else so they don't get asked for ID. Nothing is this thread has implied OP is trying to complete a proxy purchase.

I'll also note, it is only the law to ask for ID of the person making the purchase. If a store chooses to implement a policy where they ask everyone in the party for ID that is their choice, but that is not in itself a law. Hence why anonymous suggested the friend go and wait somewhere else.

Its called adding and abetting telling the friend to go and wait somewhere else the friend should carry there own ID and buy there own drink

1: It's called aiding and abetting
2: The actual name for the act of buying age restricted goods at the request of someone else is called a proxy sale
3: It is completely and utterly irrelevant, as OP has never suggested they were trying to buy alcohol on behalf of their friend, or that their friend had anything to do with the purchase. OP is not comitting a crime, nor would it be a crime to ask a friend to wait somewhere else to circumvent store policy of getting ID from everyone in the party.