Morrisons refused to let DD pretend to pay for the shopping...

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Because my shopping included a bottle of wine.

Often pop to my local Morrisons for small top up shops. Popped there this morning to buy a few bits, including a bottle of wine. DD aged 3 likes to 'help' me at the self service checkout, scanning the shopping, and then at the end I lift her up and she uses my debit card to make the contactless payment, or puts the coins in etc.

Today as I was about to lift DD up to pay, the lady overseeing the checkouts rushed over to stop me and said DD wasn't allowed to pay for the shopping. She said it wasn't allowed as then the alcohol could actually be for her, or the debit card could actually be hers. When I pointed out that DD is only 3, and the debit card was mine, and it was clearly me really paying for the shopping she said it didn't matter

AIBU or is this completely bonkers? I could totally understand this if I had an older teenager with me but it feels like there is no common sense anymore

Ah I still think the world has gone mad

Btw, I wasn't annoyed, I just queried it with the shop assistant because I honestly couldn't believe it

Glad to have cheered people up

The woman at the checkout next to me over heard and told me she had been refused a bottle of wine the previous week because she had no ID she was 42 😂. The world really has gone mad!

Exactly The world has mad, which why im.with them on this one. If they had have taken card from her. Then to all intense and purposes they would have been serving her with alchol. That's what Trading standards would have said and theyd be 110% right.

My 26 year old was asked for ID buying alcohol in Asda, they wouldn't serve him because he didn't have any, even though his Dad was with him and vouched for him.

What a jobsworth.

Banks don’t issue cards to 3 yos. I understand the rule. I get why your dd was stopped. All the same it was non sensical.

Sounds ridiculous but the laws are so strict with selling alcohol. It lands a personal fine and a criminal record. Granted the courts would no doubt throw it out in this case as the child is 3 but it’s no worth the £20,000 fine and criminal record to gamble on a potential court decision. I used to hate explaining that to people as most people respond with how ridiculous it is. The staff don’t make the laws they just have to stick to them

Jobsworth? That employee would have been personally liable if trading standards had seen the situation.

We were visiting friends in the Lake District over New Year and I went to a local Coop to buy some extra prosecco at 3pm NYE...a dozen bottles. My 13 year old goddaughter came with me.
I was stopped at the till by an ‘assistant manager’ who looked about 10. She challenged me and asked if I was buying the prosecco for my gd - I replied no, it’s for our NYE house party consisting of 8 adults blah blah. Anyway to cut a long story short - she didn’t believe me and called for her manager. There followed an unseemly verbal tussle and I decided to leave without my shopping. Went to Booths instead - no problem.
I did write to the Area Manager of the Coop a week or so later, and received a dozen bottles of prosecco, bouquet of flowers and a £50 coop voucher as a ‘gesture of goodwill’

Under 18's cannot PURCHASE alcohol. If she uses your card, she is making a purchase. Someone could lose their job for allowing it.

Maybe she considered whether it was for your dd to ensure an afternoon nap and peace for you??

We were doing a fund raising bag pack with scouts and the children weren't allowed to pack alcohol. Madness!

The exact same happened to me in Morrisons

I don't understand why anyone thinks this is madness.

Under 18 is under 18. It can't be under 18 but ok if you are 3.

He law is very clear.

That’s crazy at a pub recently the bar man let my DD (2.5) pay for her Aunts cider using her (Aunts) contactless card.

As an ex retail worker I'd have done the same. I really don't want a £20k fine that I (not my employer) have to pay.

Imagine buying wine for your 3yr old...

It's even better when you imagine a three-year-old using her own debit card to buy wine for her mum.

That is a bit bonkers but shop workers have so few employment rights you can't blame her for being a bit over zealous. I wouldn't get worked up about it.

She challenged me and asked if I was buying the prosecco for my gd - I replied no, it’s for our NYE house party consisting of 8 adults blah blah. Anyway to cut a long story short - she didn’t believe me and called for her manager.

This happened to me with my ds. Ridiculous.

Sainsburys wouldn't sell me cigarettes because I had my DD with me , she was over 18 but didn't have any id on her, the woman said I could be buying them for a minor. I was also stopped from buying a newspaper because it had a dvd in it that was a '12' cert , again DD was with me and quite clearly older than 12.

Technically correct yes. Because a minor isn't allowed to purchase(hand over payment) for anything age restricted.

Interesting as it's not something I've ever come up against.

The woman at the checkout next to me over heard and told me she had been refused a bottle of wine the previous week because she had no ID she was 42 😂. The world really has gone mad!

I was once refused due to no ID... I was 38 my 21yo niece was with me & said she had ID so she'd buy it... checkout lady said no because she might be buying it for me 🙄

It’s rules - you could have been a ‘mystery shopper ‘for all she knew! I’m not being pedantic here, but people need jobs and all this would have been covered in her induction training no doubt. It’s the world we live in these days.

That really is stupid.

It's patently ridiculous - everyone knows 3 year olds prefer gin....