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Originally Posted by papa smurf
most big shops display signs saying if your under21 you will be asked for i/d shurly this is discrimination ,the law says 18 for alchohol and 16 for cigs, no mention of 21, theres no wonder young people fell peed off
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Not really discrimination since if said person can prove they are 18 then they can still purchase what they wanted. They will just be asked if they look under 21.
What happened in this store is clearly a bit OTT but I have to admit that if the store I used to work in had introduced this as policy I would have done the same. I work just a couple of miles away from the west kirby store where this happened and about 2 years ago I was caught out by a plain clothes police officer and an underage girl. I was fined £80 and because I had violated company policy by not checking her age anyway the company refused to support me financially (This was before challenge 21 policy existed). Luckily for me there was a collection done around the store and they collected the whole £80 for me.