To complain to a shop for selling DD alcohol?

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DD is only 16! She was with her friend as well (same age) and they purchased one of those Bailey's cans. It definitely requires age check. She doesn't look particularly old for her age and it's think 25 anyway! I'm not impressed and I appreciate its DD's fault for even trying to buy it and I've had strict words. AIBU?

If you make a complaint to your local licensing officer it's unlikely anyone will be sacked based on one incident. They'll use the report to mount an investigation to see if it is happening on a regular basis. If a shop is turning a blind eye and selling alcohol to children it's not great for the community and they deserve to be investigated.

Kid needs a major bollocking, partly for being so gormless as to think she had achieved something.

Shop CCTV if there will show if she used fake I d or if shop doesn't check.

So your DD went to a shop to see if she could by alcohol that she wasn't going to drink just to see if she could? Something not right..

Well firstly she doesn't exactly sound like a tearaway teen....buys a 4% can of baileys, and is so shocked she got served she tells her mum. I'd say she's a pretty good one really Op.
When I was a teen although technically I still am there was always a few shops/certain workers in shops, whom it was common knowledge would serve underage customers, usually at a higher price than the supermarkets and one that would sell their out of date stuff. So it does happen and teens are the ones who find out where.

I'm not sure what I'd do personally, but I'm pretty relaxed on underage drinking within reason and I know at 16 I was out drinking in bars and nightclubs.
Who served them a worker or the owner?

Was it a supermarket? If so then go and speak to the manager and explain your under age daughter has recently brought alcohol from the store.
They will probably do some more think 25 training. Whoever sold your daughter that could get in serious trouble, fine, job loss, criminal record! I think you would be doing them a favour by saying something in case the next time the person specifically is caught ( they send underage kids in to test the cashier and over 18s who don't look 25)
I wouldn't point any one out, be vaque on the time/date etc but let the store manager know.

I'm with the posters who think that your daughter is possibly being spiteful. Why risk getting somebody working in a poorly paid job sacked, just so that you can show off about being sold alcohol? What was she trying to achieve by telling you? I don't get it. She's sixteen, not six. She knew what she was doing.

I was buying cider for me and my friends in off licences when I was 14, because I looked older. I was sold cans of lambrusco (!!) in the off licence near the school when I was wearing my sixth form uniform (I am 45, so not that long ago really). I would not have dreamt of telling my mother about it. What would it have achieved? You con somebody into doing what you want (in this case, selling you alcohol), then try to punish them for doing what you want? Why?

I'm with the poster who said "a career in the gestapo looms"!!

It's like a future episode of Topsy and Tim ( tho mum would stash the can in her handbag with all the others).

Minkybinkyboo 2 places i've worked you would be sacked straight away

If you make a complaint to your local licensing officer it's unlikely anyone will be sacked based on one incident

That's not true - it's gross misconduct at my store and anyone who has been trained to sell age restricted products (so anyone on a checkout) has to sign a legal document stating they have been trained and are aware that failing an underage sale could result in instant dismissal, a personal fine and potentially being charged with a criminal offence.

If it was an exemplary colleague, with no prior issues on their record, and has provided a good defence when they were interviewed, they may "get off" with a formal warning and be put on probation and have to undergo re-training, but there's no guarantee.