To not understand why tesco were selling alcohol to a group of guys at 4.30 on a sunday

[LEMoncehadacatcalledSANTA]

So we were at tesco today and I had made DP go through with my bottle of wine at 3.55 so that we could get it before 4pm. Very nice it was too

Anyway, was at the till and a group of lads walked past and one guy had a bag of ice on his head, so i commented to the girl behind the till - perhaps he has a head ache. So she said "yeah, he'll have a bigger one in a minute when they wont serve him with all that booze" and we made a few jokey comments about it. Their trolley was FULL of alcohol - i can only assume they were going to have a party. They looked like students, probably early twenties.

As we walked out, about half four, there they were, at the self service tills with the Tesco supervisor lady putting through their alcohol

Now i don't really care but weren't they breaking the law? I bet they wouldn't have let me have my £4 bottle of libfraumilch but it would seem they didn't want to let the couple of hundred pounds with of blackcurrent cider go unsold

It took you half an hour to buy your wine and leave a supermarket?

I'm not sure about the announcement, but just asked ds1 management at Asda and there is no law apart from if the supermarket serve over their restricted 5 hours.

You are definitely BU to drink Liebfraumilch

and yes, this is AIBU so I hope you have lots of the disgusting wine left to get you to the end of the thread

oh.my.god bless you everyone, you are making me chuckle :)

No boarding school - i sent DP with the wine at about 3.55 because the announcement came on the tannoy that all alcohol purchases had to be made before the store shut, at 4pm. They still serve non alcohol untili 4.30, i was finishing the shopping until that time.

anyway, i forgot the original question now, hic, as you were, ladies.

I tried to google this and I get the impression it depends on the local council to some extent. Perhaps 10pm is the latest you can get a licence for.

Cinamon, ive drunk it all now DP did have the audacity to try and help me.

I don't understand why people don't like it though, it can't be any worse than chardonnay! You can pay about a tenner for a bottle of reisling, now thats vile!

Isn't this less about the alcohol sale and more about the fact that many supermarkets close at 4.00pm on sundays, so ANY purchase made at 4.30pm may seem illegal, but in reality can be overridden nowadays. The supermarket hours are strange on Sundays though. If you can't get served at your big supermarket after 4.00pm, no worries, you can go to the local Express/ Local/Corner shop etc etc and stock up on copious amounts of whatever you fancy until 10.00pm, later in fact where we are.

Your OP wasn't, "AIBU to want clarification on the Sunday trading laws?" though. You posted about this group of men having apparently got away with something, and you sounded a bit bitter. Unfortunately not one person agreed with you, but you've made a good attempt at the old "you are making chuckle" comeback.

Of course Chardonnay is nicer! And I don't know about Tesco's Riesling, I wouldn't trust it.

But then I stopped drinking red wine as it suddenly started to make me feel unwell (and that was after a glass, not a bottle you greedy Lemming ) Only drink white wine in the summer, so no wine for a while.

Logg1e no - i really wasn't bitter, i am just a bit non-plussed that folk are getting their knickers in a twist, or assuming mine are twisted. I didn't say i was cross about it at all, but that must have come across in my post - so my fault as like you say, everyone seems to think i was/am. I really wasn't. I was just trying to paint the picture of these guys, all with full beards (what IS it with that fashion?) were walking around tesco with bags of ice on their heads, which is what made me and the checkout girl comment. It was her that said "well they aint gonna get served" so i was but not in a bitter or angry way, when i walked out and saw it all getting put through. There is no way i wold have questioned and risked raining on their party, i was just curious. Really, honestly, curious, no more. No letters of complaint, i don't hate tesco, i luffs tesco and their clubcard points ( im gonna get flamed for that now aren't i)

I can't believe so many people haven't noticed that the large stores only open 6 hours on a Sunday. Do you all have better things to do on a weekend rather than trudge round the supermarket like I do?

don't worry OP, I don't think light hearted threads are allowed any more. I was going to start one but imagined some of the replies and thought better of it

Cinammon - reisling is white

I can't believe they do Stealth - because it would seem the world and his wife do their shopping at 3.30 on a sunday afternoon.

Sorry LEM my post was unnecessarily snippy. I apologise.

We always get wine from local mini Tescos at about 8pm, jog on, get a life.

"get a life" what a strange comment from someone posting on here to mention they time they buy wine. Why not just accept the spirit in whch this thread was started?It's never going to win a Nobel prize but is it really so much more trivial than the million "what's your favourite breakfast cereal?" threads
Apparently so

Lemming I know!

Polar Bear, I didn't know that. Normally I have better things to do on a Sunday than sitting at a&e for 4.5 hours with my son because his tonsilitis caused most of the meningitis symptoms including the bloody non-blanching rash
He's ok, tucked up in bed.

Sorry Lem, derailed your thread.

No worries Logg1e, i'd offer you some but ive drunk it all

Oh my god libramidge (spelling) costs £4.00? That's such a rip off. If you'd spent a fiver you'd have got a nice bottle of something.

Thats ok cinammon, i hope he is feeling better now, tonsilitis is hell :( the last time i was properly ill i had tonsilitis, its shitesville. That must have been a bloody worry

In Scotland - you can but until 10pm any day.

In England and wales it will depend on the licence the premises has, my local "big" Supermarket has a sunday licence - "Sunday 07:00 to 00:00" (considerably longer than it is allowed to open under sunday trading laws, but I guess it gives them freedom over when and I suspect the local licensing authority just gives all the shops the same) Have you actually checked the license - your council website will probably have it online.

YABU to moan anyway, either report it to the licensing authority/police or mind your own.

but thanks anyway - i have been thinking about a post xmas name change, im liking lemming ;)

Glad to hear it Cinnamon. Not to worry you further (as he's been checked out and is fine) but I never lose an opportunity to mention that sometimes meningitis causes a blanching rash too - mine did. SO don't be totally reassured if I rash blanches.

Other people must be more organised than me :o A decade of turning up at Tesco at 4.30 to find the car park empty and I've finally got to grips with the fact that on Sundays they shut early (and as LEM says if you get there at 3.30 you get all the bargains :o)

But fred, why would i report it? if i did that, i really would be a curmudgeonly old git!

Stealth - the best time for tesco bargains is 7pm on a saturday, everything is stupidly cheap, you have to have strong elbows and the cheek of the devil, some of those old dears are demons when it comes to a bargain! I did however get a loaf of bread for 5p today though.