One Stop ID`ing
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pits

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6,704 posts

219 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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Anyone hear on Radio 2 about One Stop shops, now I have checked seems to be no repost.
But One Stop shops are now ID checking everyone for alcohol purchase regardless if you are over 18, even if your in your 70s they will ID you?
How fking ridiculous is that? Why the hell should someone who is blatently 30 or over have to be ID`d?
Will find a link now, getting in before it becomes a repost laugh

Pork

9,455 posts

263 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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I got ID in my local supermarket last year (I'm well into my 30's).

Bless her. The check out girl was new and her supervisor ran over "no, no,...you only ID people if you think they're under 21"

pits

Original Poster:

6,704 posts

219 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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only link I can find to it here on radio 2 page
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/vine/
{quote]PROVE IT

A pensioner was prevented from purchasing a bottle of wine because she could not prove her age.

[/quote]

bunnysquasher

50 posts

216 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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I know it's not quite on topic, but my 29 year old sister recently tried to buy paint, polyfiller and a putty knife.

She got asked for ID, for a putty knife!!!

shirt

25,374 posts

230 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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i was asked for ID in tesco the other week buying rizlas.

metro lover

553 posts

216 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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I'm 20 and look older, i got thrown out of a shop because there was already 3 school kids in there

camgear

6,941 posts

223 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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shirt said:
i was asked for ID in tesco the other week buying rizlas.
Funnily enough, when I was working in a old school sweet shop down south (99-2000ish), I was told the age limit for selling skins was 18...

pits

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219 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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Well in Lidl or Aldi, they lock all the knives away, yet my mate managed to walk in (26) pick up 4 axes, walk to the till and buy them without any issue....yet they lock the knives away? You need ID to buy the knives

Hedders

24,460 posts

276 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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It won't be long before your ID gets scanned every time you buy anything.

At least that will be the end to the loyalty card industry, the stores will buy the info straight from Gordon..


bazking69

8,620 posts

219 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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I'd be flattered to be ID'd...

metro lover

553 posts

216 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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pits said:
Well in Lidl or Aldi, they lock all the knives away, yet my mate managed to walk in (26) pick up 4 axes, walk to the till and buy them without any issue....yet they lock the knives away? You need ID to buy the knives
He brought 4 axes? thats why they i.d people buying knives! nut jobs like him

shirt

25,374 posts

230 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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another thing, in asda you have to be over 16 to buy the sunday times [if you use self service, the purchase has to be authorised] yet there is no similar limit for the lads mags such as zoo etc. so you can look at tits but not learn about current affairs, which probably serves in labours favour.

off_again

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263 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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If it goes anyway to reducing the amount of underage drinking, smoking and criminality that goes with it, then that has got to be a good thing, right?

Of course, asking a pensioner their age is utter stupidity. But then again, its not the right of a customer to buy stuff, its actually the discretion of the shop keeper if they choose to sell to you. This isn't a service, its a shop.

Anyway, its well known that One Stop shops are the worst culprits in the whole underage sale stuff. Probably just a bit of spin to try and win back some of the moral high ground. In reality I doubt its nothing more than a bit of PR.

tinman0

18,231 posts

269 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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off_again said:
If it goes anyway to reducing the amount of underage drinking, smoking and criminality that goes with it, then that has got to be a good thing, right?
If we didn't live in a society that was quite so lawless we wouldn't need all these petty rules in the first place.

And lets not forget, they are tightening up on ID not because it'll prevent anything, but so that we'll accept national ID cards in the future.

Aubrey

1,157 posts

225 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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shirt said:
another thing, in asda you have to be over 16 to buy the sunday times [if you use self service, the purchase has to be authorised] yet there is no similar limit for the lads mags such as zoo etc. so you can look at tits but not learn about current affairs, which probably serves in labours favour.
To buy the Sunday Times? Why? You must be joking.

shirt

25,374 posts

230 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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Aubrey said:
shirt said:
another thing, in asda you have to be over 16 to buy the sunday times [if you use self service, the purchase has to be authorised] yet there is no similar limit for the lads mags such as zoo etc. so you can look at tits but not learn about current affairs, which probably serves in labours favour.
To buy the Sunday Times? Why? You must be joking.
nope, serious. i've asked why but they don't know.

A1GOY

1,521 posts

231 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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I was ID'd for matches. Apparently you have to be 16 to buy them. At the time I was 17 and had DRIVEN to the shop. Oh well...

off_again

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263 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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tinman0 said:
If we didn't live in a society that was quite so lawless we wouldn't need all these petty rules in the first place.

And lets not forget, they are tightening up on ID not because it'll prevent anything, but so that we'll accept national ID cards in the future.
Blimey, tin foil hats on chaps....

Are you suggesting that this is part of a government-lead conspiracy to make the introduction of ID cards more palatable to the public?

A little far fetched don't you think?

merc_man

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Friday 13th February 2009
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metro lover said:
I'm 20 and look older, i got thrown out of a shop because there was already 3 school kids in there
Were you dressed as Gary Glitter at the time?

tinman0

18,231 posts

269 months

Friday 13th February 2009
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off_again said:
tinman0 said:
If we didn't live in a society that was quite so lawless we wouldn't need all these petty rules in the first place.

And lets not forget, they are tightening up on ID not because it'll prevent anything, but so that we'll accept national ID cards in the future.
Blimey, tin foil hats on chaps....

Are you suggesting that this is part of a government-lead conspiracy to make the introduction of ID cards more palatable to the public?

A little far fetched don't you think?
Why is it far fetched? The fines for breaking the rules are now stupidly large, and they have moved responsibility from the company to the individual. No check out girl in Tesco's is going to risk a personal £2,500 fine whilst she's on £6 an hour, so she'll ID everyone that moves. (Who can blame her frankly?)

Labour are deliberately creating a problem to be solved with ID cards, because they know that they have no other chance of getting them accepted otherwise.