Posted on 05/14/2008 10:28:03 PM PDT by oioiman
Tesco is refusing to sell alcohol to parents shopping with their children under rules designed to tackle underage drinking. The supermarket has told cashiers not to supply alcohol if they suspect an adult is buying the drink for an underage youth.
Staff have been told to “err on the side of caution” when interpreting the policy, leading to cases of parents out shopping with their children being told to put alcohol back on the shelves.
Tesco says it believes parents will support the policy and it would rather apologise where it has misjudged the situation than sell to underage drinkers.
However parents who have been refused alcohol have described the rule as humiliating and daft.
Debbie Bell, 39, a housewife from York, was told she could not buy a crate of lager at a Tesco Extra in the city with her stepson Michael Bruce, 18.
Mr Bruce, a student, was unable to show the cashier any proof of his age and his mother was told to put the 24 cans of Fosters and a bottle of cider back on the shelf.
She said: “You can’t do that just because somebody has kids with them.
“I was in there the day before with a 17-year-old lass and there were no problems.
“Michael wasn’t even carrying the beer, he was just standing next to me.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That’s when you leave it ALL at the till and tell them “Take it back yourselves!”
Stupid. Just embarrassingly stupid.
And to think you once had an empire.
Are you kidding? What happen to the pro business conservatives I know and love?
A business has EVERY right to decide how and to whom it will sell it’s products.
This is how they want to play the game then guess what... YOU LIVE IN A FREE SOCIETY.. go shop somewhere else.
Good thing in a free society we can criticize anyone we want; including a business that happens to do something very, very stupid.
I hope she at least refused to put them anywhere other than the floor in front of her.
Yep. I'd tell them where to put it, and "back yourselves" would not be where.
Obviously, the thought of a parent telling their child “you wait here in the car, I’ll be right back with your booze” hasn’t occurred to them yet.
Meanwhile, Mr. Average Parent who happens to want to buy some wine for his wife and he to enjoy that night; but made the mistake of bringing their daughter/son into the store may be deprived of a simple pleasure.
Yup, whether you can buy wine/beer at the store is dependent upon the telepathic skills of a minimum wage earner. Nice.
I learned a lesson from my little brother on this one.
After getting lousy service at a bar, my brother commented to the bartender that he certainly expected better. The barkeep responded “So, what are you going to do about it” and proceeded to show us who was boss.
My brother ordered a tap beer, then ‘accidentally’ knocked it to the tile floor, breaking the glass mug, and pouring beer across the bar, several stools and the floor. “Ooops, Sorry, didn’t mean to do that” was all he said, and we left. The barkeep got to spend the next bit of time picking up broken glass and mopping the floor, stools and bar.
I think the point was made, even though it cost him $1.25.
Sometimes businesses give stupid people the ability to make poor decisions. That doesn’t mean that the customer has to take the stupidity without recourse.
These aren’t free enterprise businesses. These are multi-national corporate bureaucracies whose only morality is political correctness.
” Britain’s descent to an all-encompassing public/private nannystate continues... “
Yup .
And at the other end of the spectrum , would you believe there are still liquor shops here in the Japanese countryside that sell beer in vending machines ?
Beer in vending machines.
Ft Sam Houston, BAMC, guest hotel, third floor, 1976.
Oh yes, I remember that.
When shopping in a store like this always remember to put in your cart lots of cold and frozen food. By law, these can’t be returned to the cooler and must be thrown away. This means when you refuse to pay and just walk off, the store loses big bucks.
Teach the bastards well that their holier than thou attitude should be stuck where the sun don’t shine.
101 ways of how to go out of business.
Mark
Hey, I just wondered about something... Why is it that alcohol and cigarettes must have warning labels about how bad that stuff is for a fetus, but Planned Parenthood clinics don't?
Mark
- in the Japanese countryside that sell beer in vending machines
Wow! I did not see that in Tokyo or Osaka.
By a strange twist of fate, I was in Puerto Rico back in April of 1972, and there were beer machines all over.
I wonder if they still have them.
BTW, that beer was terrible stuff. Thanks - bill
I’m sure that muslims approve...
Beer , sake , whiskey and sho chu were sold in vending machines in front of liquor shops all over Japan until a couple of years ago . One can still walk down Ginza quaffing a beer or a glass cup of sake without a hassle . I was back home on Long Island a couple of years ago with a foot in the road in front of my parents’ place sipping a brew and a cop stopped to give me a warning . Land of the free ?
> I learned a lesson from my little brother on this one.
LOL! Bloody CLASSIC!
I learned something from your little brother tonite, too. Thanks for sharing that technique: I shall add it to my kit.
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