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[Vamps]

Heath and safety has gone mad. I remember a few years ago, last day at school, chemistry class, being asked what we wanted to do. I said I wanted to make Nitrogen Triiodide.
And we did. 

Ken

Did you have fun?..........

Oh Yes, 

And it worked. 

Ken

 

[hercules]

i can understand if a lad had id to show hes 18 and was stood at checkout with alco pops and cider and 3 mates all looking young stood with him you would think hes buying this for them but at the end of the day he is 18 and therefore legal to buy,a woman of 23 with id wants a kitchen knife to go with the rest of the kitchen goods shes bought and is refused because her chap isnt carrying id is lunacy,we have our shopping delivered and have used asda for years but we had a fallout and now use tesco...stupid rules have cost asda all our shopping

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

i can understand if a lad had id to show hes 18 and was stood at checkout with alco pops and cider and 3 mates all looking young stood with him you would think hes buying this for them but at the end of the day he is 18 and therefore legal to buy,a woman of 23 with id wants a kitchen knife to go with the rest of the kitchen goods shes bought and is refused because her chap isnt carrying id is lunacy,we have our shopping delivered and have used asda for years but we had a fallout and now use tesco...stupid rules have cost asda all our shopping

Yes.....it's lunacy gone mad even....

[bigegg]

rrow doing the biggest shop I can, loading up the converyor then walking away when my teenage son can't produce appropriate ID - which I demand they ask for - because I've put some lagers on the counter. I might even do it more than once just to really p*ss them off.

I actually did this in the Sainsbury's at the "White Rose" Centre in Leeds, just before Xmas.

Unloaded TWO! trolleys of christmas shopping, including 1 (ONE!) bottle of Old Peculier.
I was asked for ID cos I had my 16 year old daughter with me, "and it might be for her".

The 7 people behind me in the queue must have been very upset when I walked off, leaving the checkout full.

I took my trolleys with me, cos they had my quid in...

[jonnycool]

Supermarkets can set their own rules for selling things, as long as they themselves follow the law. In effect they are inviting you into their premises to buy their goods, under their rules. Of course, if this is disagreeable to the customer, they have numerous other places they can go to buy their shopping, so the rules are not so ridiculous as to drive customers away.

Challenge 25 is a rule that most supermarkets these days follow. It is designed to provide a buffer zone between the legal age, 18, and the huge differences in apparent age of customers, so that a checkout server can be challenged in the event of a deliberate serving of a minor. You'd be surprised how difficult this is at times.

You can get round this if you fall into the uncertain zone by carrying ID, what's the problem?

I do however think that some people can be over-zealous with the rules, and asking a 50-year-old man is just ridiculous. I also think that refusing a sale when someone is with an under-age person is making a judgement too far

But then, as far as I know, you can be prosecuted for selling age-related products to someone if you have a reason to think that they will give it to a minor, I think a local shop got done for this the other day, but I might be mistaken 

[bigegg]

There is also the little matter that you could sue the supermarket for libel (not slander) by accusing you of
commiting an imprisonable [1] offence in public.

All you need is someone else in the queue to have heard the checkout girl - and she's published it.

[1] supplying knife to under 18 is £5,000 fine and up to six months prison
http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/index/business/trad-standards/age-related-sale.htm