In many of these cases, they aren't carding you for age restrictions, they are carding you to keep track of purchases that can be used in the production of illegal drugs, or items that can be used for "off-label" use like spray paint for huffing.
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Nope, I've got a bottle of Fireball for that.Did it give you much of a hangover?
LVSteve
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In England the drinking age is 18, and I was asked my age once after the age of 14. In the town I lived in the attitude of the publicans appeared to be if you could hold your booze and not start fights you were old enough. LE's perspective was said to be if we were in the pubs we weren't out on the streets up to other mischief. It was a system that seemed to work, at least in 1970s semi-rural England.The last time I got carded buying booze was so long ago our drivers licenses were made of cardboard and had no picture!
This come to you from a person when the legal drinking age in NY was 18 and at 16 in most places I had no problem. Times they have a changed!
bigggbbruce
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Go to Walmart and send somebody money if you want a feel violated.
My local Safeway cards for all alcohol purchases. Methuselah himself has to show ID. If they scan the alcohol, they have to either scan your ID or enter a code before they can scan any more items.My local Safeway started that policy a few years ago with nicotine patches and when wine and beer sales became legal here. It was kind of amusing when I forgot to renew my license prior to COVID and most of the dmvs were closed down. The pharmacist would not sell me the patches,but the cashiers would sell me wine or beer lol. (It took an entire day with an appt to take both tests and renew that license)
If you have a service or fraternal organization, the carding of patrons isn't just for checking age. I tended bar for a little while in our American Legion post and if I didn't know the person coming in I had to ask for them to produce their membership card for the American Legion, Ladies Auxiliary or Sons of the American Legion. If they weren't a member of one of those organizations I couldn't directly serve them. Somebody who was a member had to pay for their alcohol. And believe me, the Commonwealth Liquor Control Board came around and checked. Happily I never got any grief from anybody for asking for proof of membership and since I knew the routine bartenders appreciate that I have my membership card out without them having to ask.
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I just got back from Kroger. Among other things, I bought hooch and some beer.
The self-checkout attendant came over to validate my age, took one look at me and approved the sale.
I's nice to deal with someone who has a firm grasp on reality!
The self-checkout attendant came over to validate my age, took one look at me and approved the sale.
I's nice to deal with someone who has a firm grasp on reality!
The state run liquor stores don't card me unless I pay with a card. Then they make me show it just to match the name on the card with the ID. If I pay with cash, they take one look at my grey beard and make the sale.
Has been for almost 15 years. It's also promotes high blood pressure, have her look into the generation 3 antihistamines.
My local Academy Sports requires you give them your drivers license before they can take a gun out of the case or off the wall to show you. I asked why when I picked up a youth shotgun for my grandsons to use. They said some of their stores in bigger cities had regular incidents where they would hand someone a gun to “look at” and they bolted for the door and got away with it. So, they started the drivers license thing at ALL of their stores.
I was in uniform, and still had to give them my license. They did not write anything down, run it, or anything like that…. just held it behind the counter until the gun was returned.
Lot’s of cases of stealing ammunition that is out on a shelf, and putting Gold Dots in a White Box Ball ammo box and then buying it. I open every box I buy now before I pay for it. For some reason people will take 5 or 6 rounds out of a box and drop them in their pocket.
Had a case where this guy had picked up empty cases at the range after watching his intended target for framing, load and shoot them. He carefully picked them up aftewr he left nd a while later committed a murder with a revolver He left the appropriate number of cases with his targets fingerprints on them at the scene.
It is a product of the crumbling world we live in.
I was in uniform, and still had to give them my license. They did not write anything down, run it, or anything like that…. just held it behind the counter until the gun was returned.
Lot’s of cases of stealing ammunition that is out on a shelf, and putting Gold Dots in a White Box Ball ammo box and then buying it. I open every box I buy now before I pay for it. For some reason people will take 5 or 6 rounds out of a box and drop them in their pocket.
Had a case where this guy had picked up empty cases at the range after watching his intended target for framing, load and shoot them. He carefully picked them up aftewr he left nd a while later committed a murder with a revolver He left the appropriate number of cases with his targets fingerprints on them at the scene.
It is a product of the crumbling world we live in.
I don't mind being carded but I do not allow a scan by private company's. They are free to look and read.Private companies can be hacked way too easily and well it's not uncommon that they are. Someone with a copy of your drivers license can do more damage than a social security number.
I had the same experience in Home Depot in Bellingham. I think the product was a tin of spray paint or similar (!) He took one look at me, smiled and said something like, "I think you're OK on this one."
bigggbbruce
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The local minor league ball team remodeled its stadium and added a tiki bar. I used to go to a lot of games there, so I wandered out to the tiki bar to get a drink. I was 69-70. They carded me. A lot of people say I don't look my age, but I don't look anywhere near 16. I haven't been back because of that and other changes that made watching the games unenjoyable.
Doug M.
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Another reason to card and record alcohol purchases is in fact the straw purchase; if a person who can lawfully buy booze for someone who can't, there is a potential to track the sale and cover the store's backside. Like the Lakesider, I grew up IN when the age was 18 and when it changed to 21 I was almost 20, IIRC. That made for a real annoyance.
You need to watch the news. Illinois passed a law that became effective the other day requiring 100% ID verification . . .
You mean like the check or credit card you give the clerk, or the scan of your face as you enter the store, or the scan of your plate as you enter and leave the parking lot . . . ?Looking at a ID and comparing it to the purchaser is one thing. Scanning it into the system is another, A BIG ANOTHER!
Because the bum couldn't pay up front . . .
Yeah, true, but enough to buy the booze up front, and then bonus cash on delivery would have made more sense then handing both over at the git go, which is how I remember it.
I bet the policy was to not hold the store liable if you got drunk and then glued yourself to a moving vehicle.Did it give you much of a hangover?
