Tesco
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Tesco
A woman recently using a automated check out in a Tesco store in Plymouth Devon was surprised when scanning a tub of diced fruit when it blocked the sale saying she needed to supply age verification. When she contacted Tesco customer support to ask why she is was told that fruit could naturally ferment producing alcohol in the process and they needed to ensure that purchasers were over the age of 21
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I was just shopping at a supermarket chain in the US and the lady in front of me (late 30s, I would guess) was carded while buying non-alcoholic beer. The guy had no explanation except the computer said so. In the past I have been carded when buying cough syrups because it has DXM in it. When he was still alive, my grandfather (in his 70s) was carded buying cooking wine. People are dumb, but so are many laws.
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Well, unless you plan on doing that on the sly, it will hardly help. The item still has to be rung up, even if it is just an empty wrapper and/or bottle. If you don't have ID and you live in a jurisdiction where ID is required to purchase the goods, then you've still broken the law and can be fined and/or dragged down to the pig pen to get harassed for as long as they're legally allowed or until they get bored, whichever comes first.vladimir wrote:The lesson here: eat/drink it before you get to the checkout.
Also, the UK drinking age is 21? I thought it was 16 for beer and 18 for hard stuff.
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Unlike the retarded US, the age at which people in the UK are allowed to buy alcohol, as it is in most of the civilised world, is 18...newtonabbot wrote:A woman recently using a automated check out in a Tesco store in Plymouth Devon was surprised when scanning a tub of diced fruit when it blocked the sale saying she needed to supply age verification. When she contacted Tesco customer support to ask why she is was told that fruit could naturally ferment producing alcohol in the process and they needed to ensure that purchasers were over the age of 21
"A woman buying a pot of fruit at Tesco claims she was asked for ID because it could ferment and turn into alcohol. Kate Lancaster, 37, said that when she bought watermelon and grapes the till flashed up as ‘requiring ID’ meaning the checkout operator had to verify she was over 18."
http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/05/tesco-sho ... l-5050462/
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