Page 7 | ID for buying calpol?

Ahsoka2001 · 02/02/2024 10:39

Doone22 · 02/02/2024 08:35

I'd have asked to see managers

And then the managers tell you the exact same thing the cashier did haha. Happens all the time in my job

Mothership4two · 02/02/2024 10:52

@Ahsoka2001 * @Inthebitterend

OP may not have a driving license and a 30 yo wouldn't assume they would need it for ID - it obviously hadn't happened to her before. I take my license when I drive, but wouldn't necessarily if I walked to the shops (not that anyone is going to check that I'm over 18!).

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Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 11:03

@user1496146479 oh I didn’t know this!! Thank you for letting me know I just thought because 6+ he needed the other one!

think I will be sticking to the pharmacy from now on.

reading these comments also about people 50+ getting ID for wine and things that’s just people loving there jobs to much and just want you to have a C*nt of a day.

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Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 11:05

Just to confirm I have no proof of photographic ID i don’t drive!

I just have my birth certificate but No I have never been ID for medicine before or anything really.

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Manthide · 02/02/2024 11:54

Lovelyjubbbly · 31/01/2024 16:15

I was in Morrisons this morning grabbing some shopping and a bottle of calpol for my son who is not well.

I got ID for one bottle of calpol as she said she needed proof I was old enough I’m 30!!!
is there really any need for this pritty obvious I’m not 16 , 18 or even 21.

so what happens if a younger person has a child early at 16 or 18? And have limited family who can get them it if there child is ill?
surely this needs looked at.

I could see the point if i was buying 2 or even 3 bottles but I done my normal shop plus one bottle of medicine!

absolutely livid. So I currently left Morrisons with no medicine for my son I’m I AIBU for been annoyed?

Dd1 was 30 and ds aged 19 had had a bicycle accident. She went to the supermarket to buy paracetamol for him and was asked for id. She didn't have any so was refused but ds had his provisional driving licence on him so showed that. He wasn't allowed to buy it as he might have given it to dd1! They had to go to another supermarket.
Dd1 does not look particularly young for her age and at the time was a hospital registrar who regularly prescribed much stronger drugs than paracetamol .

coffeeaddict77 · 02/02/2024 11:58

Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 11:03

@user1496146479 oh I didn’t know this!! Thank you for letting me know I just thought because 6+ he needed the other one!

think I will be sticking to the pharmacy from now on.

reading these comments also about people 50+ getting ID for wine and things that’s just people loving there jobs to much and just want you to have a C*nt of a day.

Yes, I've been asked for ID for alcohol despite being in my 50s. I had to call DD over to show her ID ffs.

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Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 12:02

@coffeeaddict77 Uck that’s just ridiculous no words for it apart from jobs worth

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user1496146479 · 02/02/2024 12:17

Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 11:03

@user1496146479 oh I didn’t know this!! Thank you for letting me know I just thought because 6+ he needed the other one!

think I will be sticking to the pharmacy from now on.

reading these comments also about people 50+ getting ID for wine and things that’s just people loving there jobs to much and just want you to have a C*nt of a day.

It was a nurse who had told me about it! They tend to just keep mainly the infant one on the ward as it can be dosed up.

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Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 12:22

@user1496146479 I was telling the girls in the nursery who work there what happened and they were telling me about the The Minor Ailment Service where I can register and get most things for the kids if they are unwell and under 16! So next time I’m out when my sons better I will pop in to the chemist and register the both kids and get them a bottle so it’s always sitting there if needed that was just to much hassle I went though the other day dragging children that’s not well all over the place to get them medicine

and the girls were saying her daughter is under 16 and she goes herself to get it if she needs anything without adult supervision.

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beanii · 02/02/2024 13:48

Lovelyjubbbly · 01/02/2024 21:43

I could understand if I looked 14 but I look well over my own age 30!! Lol I’m not young for my age silly if u ask me.

fry’s my head still though if some young mother needed calpol for her son or daughter?

Anyone who is under 25 or looks it know to carry ID 🤷‍♀️

Like I've commented before - the staff member gets fined as well as the company, I've worked most of my life in retail - you make sure.

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Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 15:03

@beanii i understand what you are saying regarding ‘ anyone who is under 25 or looks it knows to carry ID’

im not sure if you have actually read anything I’ve said 😐

to clarify NOR im I 25 or under 25.
I also do not look under 25

im 30 and definitely looks older 30 .. unfortunately Lol!

so NO hunny I don’t carry ID 😅

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NamelessNancy · 02/02/2024 15:13

beanii · 02/02/2024 13:48

Anyone who is under 25 or looks it know to carry ID 🤷‍♀️

Like I've commented before - the staff member gets fined as well as the company, I've worked most of my life in retail - you make sure.

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Nobody is getting fined for selling paracetamol without checking ID!

coffeeaddict77 · 02/02/2024 16:53

beanii · 02/02/2024 13:48

Anyone who is under 25 or looks it know to carry ID 🤷‍♀️

Like I've commented before - the staff member gets fined as well as the company, I've worked most of my life in retail - you make sure.

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Shame you have worked in retail most of your life but don't seem know much about the law relating to your job.

lieselotte · 02/02/2024 16:54

Good idea, but, what I think would be a better idea, your Highness, would be that people are held responsible for their own actions around buying age restricted products instead of the shop/person selling it having all the risk

It is a good point. I totally see the point of asking for ID, but not for people who are quite clearly over 18 and not for people who happen to be with someone buying it. The whole proxy sale thing is silly, what's the difference between me being with a friend under 18 and buying it for them and giving to them once I get outside, and them waiting outside the shop and me buying it for them and giving it them once I get outside.

Age-restricted items, fine. Having loads of surrounding rules about them, not fine.

And why don’t people just carry ID on them at all times because not everyone drives. If the government wants us to carry ID all the time, they need to provide it for a very low cost. But they won't because there will be uproar for some reason.

lieselotte · 02/02/2024 16:55

Will all of you with these anecdotes PLEASE respond to the consultation!

Northernladdette · 02/02/2024 17:33

lieselotte · 02/02/2024 16:55

Will all of you with these anecdotes PLEASE respond to the consultation!

Oooh, self appointed admin 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

BeyondMyWits · 02/02/2024 18:31

Lovelyjubbbly · 02/02/2024 12:22

@user1496146479 I was telling the girls in the nursery who work there what happened and they were telling me about the The Minor Ailment Service where I can register and get most things for the kids if they are unwell and under 16! So next time I’m out when my sons better I will pop in to the chemist and register the both kids and get them a bottle so it’s always sitting there if needed that was just to much hassle I went though the other day dragging children that’s not well all over the place to get them medicine

and the girls were saying her daughter is under 16 and she goes herself to get it if she needs anything without adult supervision.

The minor ailment service is not available in every pharmacy in England. (Not in mine)

Scotland/Wales/N Ireland and some pharmacies in England.

Saschka · 02/02/2024 19:44

Manthide · 02/02/2024 11:54

Dd1 was 30 and ds aged 19 had had a bicycle accident. She went to the supermarket to buy paracetamol for him and was asked for id. She didn't have any so was refused but ds had his provisional driving licence on him so showed that. He wasn't allowed to buy it as he might have given it to dd1! They had to go to another supermarket.
Dd1 does not look particularly young for her age and at the time was a hospital registrar who regularly prescribed much stronger drugs than paracetamol .

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But it isn’t illegal to give paracetamol to anyone under 16 either, or Calpol wouldn’t exist….. 🤣

Maverickess · 02/02/2024 21:21

Good idea, but, what I think would be a better idea, your Highness, would be that people are held responsible for their own actions around buying age restricted products instead of the shop/person selling it having all the risk

It is a good point. I totally see the point of asking for ID, but not for people who are quite clearly over 18 and not for people who happen to be with someone buying it. The whole proxy sale thing is silly, what's the difference between me being with a friend under 18 and buying it for them and giving to them once I get outside, and them waiting outside the shop and me buying it for them and giving it them once I get outside.

Age-restricted items, fine. Having loads of surrounding rules about them, not fine.

The point is though, I can think the rules are stupid, I do, for different reasons, but I do think they're over the top and punishing the wrong people. But, that doesn't mean they don't apply to me as someone selling an age restricted product, telling my employer I think proxy sales are stupid isn't going to stop me getting a disciplinary if I'm caught, nor is it going to stop the business I work for having their licence restricted or removed if either there's an undercover licencing/trading standards/ police officer there when I do it (or the loss of my personal licence and any fines associated with that) or something goes wrong and I'm found to have made a proxy sale, or even a busy body member of the public makes a complaint.
I can face the same for serving short measures as well - don't see anyone moaning about sticking to that policy!
I can think it's as stupid as you do, more so probably because it's me that faces any concequences, but that's not going to make a good defence to keep my livelihood and my bills paid if I'm caught doing it. All I can do is hope I can convince them I didn't know and couldn't have reasonably done so.
A lot to stake on someone else getting a bottle of booze. And it's easy to stake someone else's livelihood on it when you've nothing to lose yourself.

ALBLY24 · 07/02/2024 14:44

I have just had the same thing happen to me as I walked out really quite annoyed and was wondering if I was overreacting or not. Yet I’ve bought it many many times before from Sainsbury’s without ID. I clearly look over 16 (I’m 29) so the challenge 25 on junior paracetamol that has a 16 age limit is ridiculous in my opinion. Had to go home to get ID. I didn’t have it as I had been at work when I was called to say my son was unwell so popped in there on my way to him at my MILs house.

lieselotte · 07/02/2024 14:49

telling my employer I think proxy sales are stupid isn't going to stop me getting a disciplinary if I'm caught

No of course not, but across the board, training needs to be improved. People are not implementing the rules correctly. If someone is over 25, they are over 25. Even if someone else thinks you should have ID'd them, if they are objectively over 25, that's the end of it. The only reason you can be fined is if you sell to someone who is 17 or under or if there were really good reasons for thinking it was a proxy sale (eg a group of 13 year olds with one 18 year old buying a load of alcopops) as opposed to a mother buying Calpol for her baby, or a dad doing the weekly shop with his kids and having a bottle of wine in the trolley.

The fact that it is very subjective is that people complained to the ASA about an actor in a National lottery ad who apparently appeared to be under 25. The actor concerned is in their 30s.

SiobhanSharpe · 07/02/2024 15:42

It's the store's policy, nothing more. You can email, write, Tweet and Facebook them to complain, pointing out it's not a legal requirement and that Boots, a national chain of chemists, do not feel it is necessary either.
And that henceforth you will be voting with your feet.