This policy is so stupid I don’t know where to begin. How does requiring a grandmother to show ID help in the fight against underage drinking. Policies like this turn workers into automatons instead of thinking adults exercising common sense.
True story...I am in my late 40s, and look it. I have a gray beard and more hair in my nose and ears than on my head...not to mention the wrinkles and leathery skin of working outdoors for more than 25 years. I was in a Wal-Mart in Mississippi and had purchased about $120 worth of groceries, including a six pack of beer. When it was time to scan the beer, the clerk asked for an ID. I didn’t have one (I leave my drivers license in my truck at all time). She refused to sell me the beer without an ID, and I told her I wasn’t interested in purchasing any of the groceries without the beer. Even the people in line behind me were laughing at the clerk for even assuming I was under 21. Anyway, I ended up leaving all of my groceries there on the counter and left the store without buying anything.
This reminds me when my husband was ransferred to Ft. Rucker, AL in 1972 after he came back from Vietnam and we moved to Ozark, which was dry. Our next door neighbor told us that the garbage man would turn people in when he saw beer cans or liquor bottles in the trash. I thought myself how stupid this is. Should the military, who lived of post just go to the clubs on post, get drunk and then drive drunk home? Thank God it didn't last long after we moved there as they made the city wet.
Our local (recently located in place of one that went out of business) grocery store, for awhile had a similar policy. I’m 63, bald with gray fringe. Regardless, they’d card me every time I would buy my monthly bottle of bourbon. Sheesh.
I guess they had too many complaints because they’ve since stopped the practice.
Will this law prevent the unscrupulous clerk from selling to underage drinkers? No! And the underage are clever enough to ferret out these unscrupulous clerks pretty quickly.
This law essentially does the same thing. The lawmakers are going to control the many to prohibit the few. But, will this law prevent the unscrupulous clerk from selling to underage drinkers? No! And the underage are clever enough to ferret out these unscrupulous clerks pretty quickly.
This is stupid, but understandable when we consider the quality of people we tend to elect to higher office.
I’m older than you. My local grocery store (Wisconsin Copps/ Roundy’s) requires an ID for booze purchases AND a stupid store card so I can benefit from the ‘sale price’. Now that we have a WMT Superstore, I don’t have to deal out a store card when I shop WMT.
here in Phoenix we have Mobil on the run gas and convience stations.....I had em make a ham and swiss hoagy and wanted a pack of smokes.At the counter she wanted ID for the smokes. I’m 51 white hair and white goutee. I said don’t I look over 21 ? She said if my father was buying the butts she would need ID.
I told her she was selling ID’s then cause this is no state or federal law and left all on the counter.
No money in the world could get me to step foot in a Mobil gas station ever again.I do mean EVER too
I worked at a C-Store in Hattiesburg while in college. The night guy got busted selling to a minor so the manager instituted a “card all” policy.
It lasted a day. People were livid.
Mindless automatons are exactly what the government wants. This is just another example of the 'zero tolerance' insanity run amok.
Your reaction to the mindless moron who wouldn't sell you beer was right on target.