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Post by Lexica on Oct 12, 2024 4:42:05 GMT
I went to Walmart to pick up a few things that I cannot get from Costco. And while there, I remembered that I never did get the wine that I had wanted to order from Costco several weeks ago. I found a bottle of Merlot and will be enjoying it over the next couple of weeks. I drink wine very sparingly because it isn’t wise to drink too often with my pain meds. Although my California doc did say it was ok if consumed very seldomly, which is what I do. This is only my second bottle in two years. Sometimes, I just want a bit of Merlot and usually I skip that evening’s pain meds as a precaution.
Anyway, as I was checking out, the clerk asked to see my ID. I started laughing because I thought he was teasing me. I told him that I hadn’t been carded in almost 50 years. Then he said he really did need it. Oh. I saw that he had to input it into the register in order to ring up the wine. And here I thought he was being cute and teasing an old lady. He didn’t even smile. But the woman in line behind me, about my age, me laughed along with me. I wonder if it is a new policy?
Do you routinely have to show ID to purchase alcohol in a grocery store? Is that a common thing now?
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Post by cmpeter on Oct 12, 2024 4:56:05 GMT
It’s common here in WA state.
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Post by sueg on Oct 12, 2024 6:47:47 GMT
In the 15 years that I’ve been living in Germany, I have never been asked for ID to buy alcohol, whether at my supermarket, a specialist drinks shop or a bar. I hear the register beep differently when they scan a bottle of wine, but the cashier just presses a button and it’s good. She has usually greeted me by then and I’m a regular at our small, local supermarket, so most of the cashiers recognise me.
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Post by disneypal on Oct 12, 2024 7:31:36 GMT
In GA, it’s a state law that requires salespeople to see ID for alcohol & tobacco products. Restaurants aren’t required if the person is very clearly over 21, but stores require it.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 12, 2024 11:57:36 GMT
Yeah, here in Oregon, the law requires info from the ID itself. It’s a good law. Otherwise, it’s too easy for people to be tempted to judge for themselves, or be talked into letting it slide, or otherwise allow situations where underaged people acquire alcohol. I’m older, too. Back when I still drank alcohol, it seemed silly, but I get it. Just make the same rules across the board.
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Post by lisae on Oct 12, 2024 12:27:58 GMT
If I do grocery pickup that has wine, they check my id. If I go through the self-checkout, they just come over swipe their card so I can ring up the purchase and go on. I guess if they get a good look at me first, they already know.
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Post by Merge on Oct 12, 2024 13:36:04 GMT
Stores usually do, but sometimes they'll just ask me my birthday so they can put it into their system.
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Post by 3boysnme on Oct 12, 2024 14:19:15 GMT
Yeah, here in NY too. I'm 60+ and I still have to show my ID. I think they get fined if they don't ask. Even if you're obviously old enough. Especially Walmart! They have cameras everywhere!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 12, 2024 15:02:35 GMT
Yes, it’s a thing here too. I sometimes buy wine for my neighbor lady at Costco and they enter it into the register. I’m obviously old enough so they usually just ask for my birth date.
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Post by librarylady on Oct 12, 2024 15:14:14 GMT
In a similar situation a few years ago, I began to laugh and the clerk told me he had to put in a birthdate.
I have since noticed that a date is entered into the register without asking me. Apparently the decision was made to use a fake date for those customers who are obviously over 21.
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Post by librarylady on Oct 12, 2024 15:16:44 GMT
The last time I was seriously asked for ID, I was 27 and attending my HS reunion party. I was single and a classmate and I decided to go out the next night. We had to park a long way from the club and I was asked for ID. When I complained that I would have to walk a long way back to the car, and told the gatekeeper my age, he did let me go in.
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Post by monklady123 on Oct 12, 2024 15:32:39 GMT
My Target will ask to see my actual ID. Costco and my grocery store, no. I always use the self-checkouts so when you scan wine or beer you can't check out until someone comes to verify. But they never ask me to show my ID, they just put numbers into the register. I don't know if they're entering a random birthday year, or the employee's account number, or what... but they don't ask to see my license. This is in Virginia.
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Post by buddysmom on Oct 12, 2024 17:16:59 GMT
In Target every single time.
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Post by christine58 on Oct 12, 2024 17:22:48 GMT
Every store here in New York State is required to card no matter how old you look. It’s the law actually so he was doing his job
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Post by Lexica on Oct 12, 2024 19:02:40 GMT
I certainly didn’t mind showing my ID, it’s just that the last time I bought wine it was here in Oregon to celebrate the purchase of this house and no one asked me to see any ID so I wasn’t expecting it. That was at a Trader Joe’s. Maybe they just put in a random date since I am obviously old? I had never been asked when I bought some in California. But thinking back, that was also at a Trader Joe’s so they may have a code to enter when there is no doubt as to the customer’s being old enough. I do think it is a good law, though anyone under age probably has a fake ID or gets an older friend to buy it for them. I didn’t drink much way back then either.
I have been asked to buy beer from someone who was obviously too young as I was going into the grocery store. This was many many years ago. I would think they would ask someone who looked like they would do it, not someone who looked like they were their own mother’s age.
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 12, 2024 19:05:19 GMT
Different businesses have different rules here. I usually do not get carded, but sometimes liquor stores have to see the id to move forward.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Oct 13, 2024 2:47:39 GMT
Yes, the Walmart here in my town has gotten very strict about no only seeing the birthdate on the ID but also that it IS valid. By the way, my ID is invalid at MIDNIGHT tonight!  Unless of course, I show the paper that it has been renewed! Even the last year I worked at our Walmart, they were getting more and more adamant that we check everyone's ID no matter what. Some of my regular customers were getting ticked off but I told them that I'm not going to be yelled at and I needed to see it. I do remember a couple in their 90's, they were laughing their heads off that I was checking their ID, they got a kick out of it! I did start off telling them yes, I know you are old enough but I have to see ID, there is a camera above my head. They said they couldn't wait to tell their kids they were ID'd! Honestly, it is better that everyone have to show ID, that way you don't get in trouble because you are trying to guess someone's age and people can't get offended if everyone has to show ID. |
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Post by MorellisCupcake on Oct 13, 2024 17:47:12 GMT
Target asks and scans my ID but most places just ask for my birth date.
At Costco recently, I was at self checkout and it paused for ID. It was crazy busy so the cashier covering it came up and entered 11/11/1999 probably because it’s fast. But I was FINE with that birth date that’s nowhere near my real age. 😎
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Unless of course, I show the paper that it has been renewed! 
