Buying Booze

[Glover Fan]

To be honest, our country has gone up the poo hole because kids are drinking alcohol in groups and causing social unrest and vandalism. Most kids get their alcohol from parents. If a small minority of parents cannot be responsible for their own children then unfortunately the state sees fit to do it themselves by stricter penalties on alcohol outlets.

Don't antagonise the staff, they are literally doing their job. If they are caught selling alcohol to underage customers or adults who pass it on to their children then they can be fined up to £5000 and possibly go to prison.

I visit a lots of supermarkets for my job and there is one store I visit that is one more violation away from having it's alcohol licence taken from them. Staff have been blackmailed by being told if they lose their licence, then there will be redundancies.

 

[Strick]

Not commenting on this specific case but when I had the misfortune to work on a supermarket till, I was told that if I sold alcohol to a minor, it would be me facing a fine / prison, not the shop.

Why can't you sell alcohol to people that work under ground?

OK, ok, i'll get my coat.....................

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[Bayerd]

On a slightly different subject, yet related to the idiocy of checkout staff..

I once went into Morrisons locally to me with my then baby daughter and put her in the trolley in the car seat. I can't remember what I was getting, but it was only 2 or 3 items. I then went to the 'hand baskets' only lane, placed my 3 items on the conveyor belt only to told by the cashier that she couldn't serve me as it was a baskets only lane. So to great delight of all around me, I took my daughter out of the trolley, put the car seat on the floor, pushed the trolley to one side, put the 3 items in a basket, went back to the conveyor, took them back out of the basket and onto the belt.

Cue lots of sniggering from customers and a sheepish apology from the checkout assistant.....

 

[snorri]

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[Sara_H]

If you do this, it is actually a form of punishment. Since the shop has to put all of the shopping back on the shelf - wasting quite large amounts of time and potentially dispose of any refrigerated or frozen products (resulting in a loss).

Exactly!

 

[Milo]

Got asked for id once buying meths in a hardware shop in Hay for my Trangia. Whilst at the same time carrying a rucksack with a weeks worth of stuff in it. Needless to say I had the last laugh on that one.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Morrisons how ghastly, yet another reason to stick to Waitrose.

My daughters have just informed me that the same policy operates in Waitrose ... they both work there, 1 till, 1 markdowns = 2 family John Lewis discount cards

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My daughters have just informed me that the same policy operates in Waitrose ... they both work there, 1 till, 1 markdowns = 2 family John Lewis discount cards

Markdowns - oh my Lord!!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Markdowns - oh my Lord!!

Yep, nothing's sacred ....

 

[twowheelsgood]

Idiotic. So if your son walks off you cease to be "in a group"? How are they going to know if you have a teenager waiting in the car or or behind the checkout? This type of crap usually emerges after an incident and the "something must be done" brigade likes to make themselves feel useful. If anything it simply encourages parents to be less responsible with their children in order to get around this.

I have similar issues with the stupid government laws on medicine. I stock up on aspirin, paracetamol ibuprofen etc. when in the UK. I can buy 1 pack of 16 of each at a time, which simply means I end up walking through the checkout 20 times.

Presumably as I'm only saving a few tens of pounds, someone suitably determined enough to commit suicide this way would have figured this out.

I kind of hoped the death of the previous government and their bizarre distrust of the public would have put an end to this type of nonsense, sadly not.

 

[ASC1951]

It was only wine. The cashier was doing the bloke a favour.

Hardly. Morrisons was one of the first supermarkets to have a head wine buyer who was an MW, and their range is consistently better in quality and variety than most supermarkets.

 

[guitarpete247]

Just send the kid to wait by the door until you've paid then call them back to help load up the booze into the trolley.

When I was that Scrote we sent the oldest looking one into the Offie and us young uns stayed outside, round the corner .

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hardly. Morrisons was one of the first supermarkets to have a head wine buyer who was an MW, and their range is consistently better in quality and variety than most supermarkets.

Yebbut, it's still only wine...

 

[User169]

Yebbut, it's still only wine...

 

[fossyant]

I have similar issues with the stupid government laws on medicine. I stock up on aspirin, paracetamol ibuprofen etc. when in the UK. I can buy 1 pack of 16 of each at a time, which simply means I end up walking through the checkout 20 times.

This is bonkers. Just before my shoulder op I was on a fair amount of pain killers. I was literally walking half a mile to one chemist to get 1 box of paracetemol (32 max) then walking to another to get co-codamol. Then a couple of days later doing the same as I'd gone through them.