Online shopping won’t deliver to under 18 year old

I can unfortunately beat this. I was ID’d for a toddler set of cutlery, the packaging clearly showed it was a toddler set but it was a very computer says no situation

Safeguarding policies. Their drivers won’t have an enhanced DBS check so not cleared to be alone with a child.

There was an article in a new of the papers a couple of years ago about this - a seventeen year old single mum living on her own wasn't allowed her own shopping because she was under 18. She was left with nothing for dinner.

I'll try and find a link

I think it's silly. Providing there's no age restricted items, I see no reason why a teenage can't be trusted to put some shopping away.

My 15yr old brings in my shopping when Tesco deliver and (when there is no age restricted products) I would say 90% of the time the driver doesn’t ask if there is an adult in the house (I am always at home win case they do ask)

I did a grocery Deliveroo to DD2 (16) at home the other day, and that was ok, no alcohol in it.

We had this problem when my daughter was under 18 and studying in London. She always ended up having to find someone in her student accomodation to sign for it on it behalf

"Does make me wonder how 16/17 yo who have moved out cope."

I think the policy is stupid, but surely a single person of that age goes to the shops.

I have found this policy frustrating when I have been asked to work later but have shopping ordered. My 16 year will be home and capable but I have to turn down the work because they won’t deliver with her home alone. Does make me wonder how 16/17 yo who have moved out cope.

seriously how shit is people's reading comprehension now!

Even if you happened to miss it at first glance, surely you'd think before posting 'well age restricted goods would be the most likely for not allowing it, surely the OP would have specified it if that was the case....let me just check again because it would be really weird if she hadn't thought of that, again, BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS reason...oh wait she did!"

Ocado will deliver to under 18s, my 17 year old receives ours every week and has done for some time. They've done it occasionally since about age 12 but regularly for the last year, never been an issue at all if there's no alcohol etc.

Yes, there are loads of rules about what 16-17yo can receive - if you have paracetamol, drain unblocker, even non-alcoholic beer seems to need to be authorised. My eldest is nearly 21, but androgynous and petite so looks like a 15yo boy. She HATES it if I ask her to take deliveries in as she has to have her passport on hand to prove her age.

It’s a fricking pain. But then my mum used to send me to the off-licence at the local pub with a ‘note’ to buy 10 B&H…

Of course they can.

it’s still annoying

Oh for goodness sake it says in the opening post no alcohol restricted goods!

Gosh, so if a 16-year-old was living independently, they couldn't order groceries online?

Until very recently, young people could legally marry at 16 in England and Wales. I think they still can in Scotland (?).

We seem to be infantalising young people nowadays. A 16-year-old should be deemed capable of taking receipt of a few groceries!

At 16/17, after leaving school a couple of my friends were living independently with their boyfriends or in a shared house with female friends - and one was married and had a baby (not that I think that was a good thing particularly, but it illustrates how young people seemed to grow up earlier in those days). The young mum didn't work, but the other girls all had jobs and were independent of their parents.

Presumably if there is a single age restricted item in with a load of other stuff then you'd have to show ID for the whole package. Although I think Amazon tend to package age restricted items separately.

As long as no alcohol, medication (eg paracetamol) or knives, I’ve never had this with Ocado. I have had it when there is a bottle of wine. Which is fair enough.

I would imagine it’s as basic as in it’s in their terms and conditions that an adult over the age of 18 can only sign for the delivery.

maybe other youngsters have got away with it before simply because the driver didn’t check.

But that would also mean you couldn't leave the shopping with any OTHER person than the one who ordered the shopping, so not a partner or a housemate because they are not part of the 'contract' either.

I was living independently at 16 and I did get online shopping, so the rules must have changed. Lots of students in Scotland will be under 18 living away from home. So none for them can get online grocery deliveries?

Amazon will ask for certain things to be signed for upon delivery and ID to be shown (I had to show my driving licence when buying something age restricted once).

OK but again, why do the supermarkets care so much compared with Amazon say delivering a box of mixed items - could be sweets, books, eye masks - anything?

Yes but why don't they want to? That's the issue! Why do they care when all the other online retailers don't?

It’s because they want an adult to be at the property when they deliver. That way an adult has accepted the goods which means they have fulfilled their contract. A 16 year old isn’t an adult.

Shops can ‘make up’ any policy they want. As long as it is legal of course. But they don’t have to deliver to a child if they don’t want to.