There's a difference between carding someone and entering their birthdate in a database. The law says you have to check; it doesn't say you have to write the data down. It sounds like that's the part she had a problem with. Still, that's dumb if you know all the data-collection the store is doing on you anyway. Did she use a Kroger card? Did she buy with a credit card, debit card, or check? If so, they already know who she is and everything she buys on every trip to the store. Her alcoholism is no secret to the all-seeing eye of the corporate grocery industry.
I get IDed at the movies sometimes, most recently a few months ago. The Edwards Marquee and AMC Dunvale both seem to be pretty strict.
YDS? is that you? i always thought that when they input you DOB it isnt in any database. They only input it in because you cannot move forward with the transaction until you do so. Maybe they keep it and maybe they dont, but it never even crossed my mind that they would keep that data
Well I don't know about other systems, but when I worked at Randall's in high school you could enter the date (just so you don't have to do the math in your head) or just bypass it completely.
i see them enter a date even if they never look at my ID. I just assumed they were entering some random old date or their own. Next time i will ask.
My wife was pretty annoyed when a policeman pulled her over a couple of years back because he thought she was breaking curfew. But ID's are easy. Just doing their job.
No hassle. Keep your ID on you and consider it a compliment when someone asks for it when you're buying alcohol. I still get carded about 1 in every 5 times I buy some booze. It's all good.
Folks under 21, could always try something this (and some already do): But on a more serious note, it is warranted because you do not want to be liable for when a minor or person under drinking age does something stupid and you're store that sold them the liquor they had in their possession. While on the same token, some people are obviously over 21, it's not necessarily judicial to process someone who has been 21 in 15 or 20 years.
Exactly...all of the store discount cards are designed to let the store know what you buy and where you buy it, so they can send you the appropriate marketing materials. Retailers have databases of all of this information and pay people to maintain and use it.
I always appreciate it when a cashier asks for my ID when I hand them a credit card. I make a point to thank them for doing so and I can't imagine anyone getting upset if they ask for verification.
