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I've just been ID'd

38 replies

Globules · 10/02/2025 18:14

When purchasing a 0% beer.

Alcohol content clearly listed on the side as 0.0%. So it's not 0.5%.

AIBU to think you should not be ID'd when buying 0% beer?

OP posts:
WeeOrcadian · 10/02/2025 18:36

Be glad you got IDd - it rarely happens for some of us!!!

LittleRedRidingHoody · 10/02/2025 18:34

Katemax82 · 10/02/2025 18:33

When i worked at sainsburys the think 25 prompt came up with 0% beer and....U certificate dvds! I wasn't ever sure about the 0% stuff but I certainly never I.D'd anyone for a Disney film

I got ID'd at 17 in a Sainsbury's trying to buy Frozen 😂

Katemax82 · 10/02/2025 18:33

When i worked at sainsburys the think 25 prompt came up with 0% beer and....U certificate dvds! I wasn't ever sure about the 0% stuff but I certainly never I.D'd anyone for a Disney film

ChatterMonkey · 10/02/2025 18:33

Did you have ID?

TigerRag · 10/02/2025 18:33

I've only had this at self checkout. Never at manned checkouts

snoopyfanaccountant · 10/02/2025 18:32

I have been ID'd for alcohol free cider at a self service checkout (I was buying it for cooking and I wasn't willing to pay extra for the SNP's minimum unit pricing to buy the real thing). I was also ID'd when buying wine in a California supermarket last year (I had to show my passport).

Iamallowedtodisagreewithyou · 10/02/2025 18:31

Get you! You must look really young for your age!

ImWearingPantaloons · 10/02/2025 18:31

If it looks like beer and tastes like beer then we treat it as beer.

Even if it's 0% a child could use it to get a taste for it, which will potentially create issues down the line.

biscuitsandbooks · 10/02/2025 18:30

It's because it's still beer, even if it's technically alcohol-free.

malmi · 10/02/2025 18:26

The supermarkets don't want to be seen to promoting alcohol branded goods to children, irrespective of the actual alcohol content.

WilmaTitsDrop · 10/02/2025 18:18

It's just easier to ID for all those sort of drinks really.

Saves staff having to piss about checking out the content.

123456abcdef · 10/02/2025 18:18

many supermarkets put alcohol free beer under their alcohol sales category and therefore the staff have to treat it as such. It’s not worth their job to disregard this and they are not the ones making the rules. (Even if they think the rule is stupid)

LittleRedRidingHoody · 10/02/2025 18:15

It's like, 0.01% or something in some of them. Still enough shops get in trouble if selling to someone underaged!

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