freezin

I worked for Morrisons for a few months recently. I feel really sorry for the checkout assistants. Selling alcohol to the underage is taken very seriously by councils, by supermarkets, and by staff. Councils send in undercover operators to check. If an assistant is found selling alcohol to minors, the assistant can be fined up to £2,000, and the store can lose its licence if a repeat offender.

Training videos are circulated to staff showing an interview of an assistant who really did sell alcohol in good faith to an underage girl thinking that she did look over 21. I don't blame assistants for asking politely in refusing to take risks. On a check out assistant's wages, a fine like that is just not worth the risk. If that offends a customer, I'm sorry but imo, that's tough!

A hardware shop in the same town as the Morrisons I worked at was visited by an undercover council inspector who watched a boy buy a craft knife. The shop owner received a fine that equalled more than his weeks takings. The poor innocent fool that served the kid thought that the inspector was his father!