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 Wednesday, May 21, 2008

In Tesco's latest clamp down on underage drinking the supermarket has been refusing to sell to customers if there are accompanied by their children. In one case mentioned in this article a 39 year old lady was refused alcohol because she was shopping with her 18 year old son, despite the fact her son is old enough to purchase alcohol. In another a man was refused alcohol because he had his 15 year old daughter with him. He was told that Tesco do not sell alcohol to people who have children with them. It seems a little odd to think that someone who was actually buying alcohol for a minor would have the child accompany them in the trip around the store. In my experience when you see this happening the children usually wait outside whilst the adult purchases the drink. One thing is for sure Tesco can be little overzealous in their attitude, despite being 30 and clearly old enough to drink I regularly get asked for ID when purchasing alcohol at Tesco and nine times out of ten I don't have any ID on me because I don't expect to get asked at my age. I am finding now that a trip to Tesco means I must take my driving licence with me. The annoying thing is the people that usually ask me for ID look half my age and probably are not old enough to sell alcohol without being supervised anyway.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:17:45 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]    |   |  Trackback
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