Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34401651)

No it's that we are developing the mindset of corporate lawyers.

Originally Posted by freezin (Post 34401629)

According to USDAW the law states, to avoid prosecution, the seller has to 'take all reasonable steps' to avoid serving under age customers:

• If in any doubt, ask the age of the purchaser.

• If you are still even slightly unsure, ask for proof of age.

• If there is no valid ID, refuse the sale.

If the seller is charged with making an under-age sale, but can prove that they took these reasonable steps, they will escape prosecution.

If I had been working on a checkout (which has to be a really mind numbing job) I might well have wanted to get into the habit of wanting every customer buying alcohol to confirm that they were legally able to make the purchase. And checkout assistants are constantly reminded of the need to be vigilant by managers.

That's the climate that has been created in Britain with undercover enforcement officers.

Originally Posted by Rita Malone (Post 34403845)

Anyone who works for Morrisons are either two sandwiches short of a picnic or are just plain :dunce: I worked for Safeway/morrisons three years ago. I am glad I left. All the dairy was on the bottom of a pile of heavy ladened ready meals. Er, I think the dairy was like crushed.

Originally Posted by Rita Malone (Post 34403845)

Anyone who works for Morrisons are either two sandwiches short of a picnic or are just plain :dunce:

Originally Posted by Rita Malone (Post 34403845)

I worked for Safeway/morrisons three years ago.

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey (Post 34403855)

Well to be fair, I don't think most people grow up thinking of working at Morrisons as their dream job - I'm sure most of them would like to work elsewhere

Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34403859)

Sir Ken Morrison might disagree - I am sure it was his dream job ;)

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey (Post 34403862)

Nah, I've met him, he said he always wanted to be an Fighter Pilot

Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34403865)

Douglas Bader?

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey (Post 34403869)

No, it's just the way my trousers hang

Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34403870)

They still wet? (from your "little problem")......... ;)

I thought you had just got legless last night.

Originally Posted by freezin (Post 34401629)

According to USDAW the law states, to avoid prosecution, the seller has to 'take all reasonable steps' to avoid serving under age customers:

• If in any doubt, ask the age of the purchaser.

• If you are still even slightly unsure, ask for proof of age.

• If there is no valid ID, refuse the sale.

If the seller is charged with making an under-age sale, but can prove that they took these reasonable steps, they will escape prosecution.

Originally Posted by Mal (Post 34566921)

I went into the Morrisons in Eccles today. I had gotten some beer and after she had put the bottles through the till, she said to me in future I would have to provide an ID to prove that I was over 25.

Originally Posted by Enuff (Post 34566959)

I was in a local Tesco Metro the other night, the girl on the checkout served this guy with a couple of bottles of alcohol then refused to serve him with 20 cigs. :confused:

Originally Posted by Mal (Post 34566921)

I went into the Morrisons in Eccles today. I had gotten some beer and after she had put the bottles through the till, she said to me in future I would have to provide an ID to prove that I was over 25.

Well, it's nearly 10 years since I passed that birthday and there is no way that I could pass for being younger.

My only ID is my passport and I am not going to be carrying that around just to buy booze, I'd rather go elsewhere.

From Freezin's post, it states "If in any doubt, ask the age of the purchaser". If that guidance is correct, I take it that it is not compulsory to ask, so why can they not let the checkout operators use their judgement?