BLOODY Tesco wouldn’t deliver my food shop

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So apparently they now do “think 25” for all deliveries. EVEN for ones with no age restricted products. The young lad who delivered said he couldn’t give me my shopping. I left my bag in DH’s car last night so had no id. Apparently a facetime call with my husband showing my driver’s license wasn’t good enough (I’ve misplaced my passport which is bloody brilliant). I’ll take the compliment as a 32 yo. But how stupid! There was only food in my shop. When he asked I assumed my husband had added on a few beers but no just food. I’m not blaming the delivery boy as he’s just following rules but there is no common sense. I get it if you order cigarettes, alcohol etc. But not veggies and dog food ffs. If I went to the shop and bought the same stuff I would be asked to produce I’d!

RIDICULOUS

Yes, common sense needs to come in somewhere, and I mean what's wrong with a 16 year old buying groceries even?

I was asked for ID buying a bottle of fizz once. I was 35-I mean, if I was under 18 wouldn't I be more likely to be buying alcopops or something cheap rather than spending just under £40?

All of those things cannot be done without photo ID.

Is this a thing now? It happened to me with my last delivery a few weeks ago, actually, and both me and the woman dropping off my stuff were really confused! She was sure I must have ordered alcohol and she'd lost it, and I was wondering if Tesco were carding you to buy a bottle of bleach now.

This explains a lot, but it's frustrating they didn't tell the driver. She must have had the same experience at every stop. For what it's worth, I don't think she thought I looked 25. She seemed more under the impression that she had to ask if the system flagged her to do so

Yes, they can. People can vote by post (I do).

Fine if there's actually a restricted item. But when it happened to me, there wasn't, and it sounds like it's policy to ask at every delivery now. Which does seem like silly buggery on Tesco's part

So, thinking about this, I didn't learn to drive until I was comfortably into my thirties, so until then the only form of ID I had was my passport. I don't think that's very strange.

But, just out of interest, how many forms of ID do you think an adult in the UK should have in order to avoid being strange, and what are they?

That’s far from “all of those things can be done without photo ID”.

I shop in person. Our local Waitrose until very recently (and I suspect stopped because of the barrage of complaints) asked for ID for every transaction, regardless of whether there were restricted items in the trolley or not and regardless of the age of the customer. Presumably it’s easier to apply the blanket rule than ask cashiers to make individual decisions. However, given the age profile of their customers, I would be amazed if they encountered anyone under 50, never mind 25, and an actual child is a rare sight indeed in there.

I did a postal vote when I didn’t have any ID.

So they won't sell anything to anyone under 18? That is really awful.

@FaithFables you need Id to vote, to do some bank transactions, to get married or divorced, to receive an inheritance, to buy or sell a house … all things I’ve used it for in the last 5 years.

if you don’t have a passport or drivers licence there are other kinds.

as for work id, some does count eg military

Don’t be ridiculous. If there’s no restricted items in the delivery there’s ZERO chance of anyone being fined. 🤷🏻‍♀️

What happened to simple common sense? 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m not sure tbh. I can’t say I’ve been at a checkout when a young person has been in the same queue.

You can vote by post. When I got married I only had my birth certificate. My mum only had her birth and marriage certificates when she got divorced.

I do think there should be a free form of recognised photo ID for people though. It's ridiculous that there isn't.

It wouldn't be rocket science, it would just be flagged on the app they use.

I have neither. Can't drive for medical reasons and my passport expired with one 3 day trip taken in the first three months - nobody at work in a position to confirm knowing me has been there quite long enough to do it, either.

Fortunately, most delivery drivers accept white hair and a work pass as evidence that I'm a grown up with a name they can enter into their doobrey.

This is also the case when you click and collect, they apply “think 25” so you have to look over 25 or prove you are over 18. I drove there with no ID but luckily DH had some on him.

They started doing this around 2 years ago, it is frustrating but my kids always laugh when they ask for id. Apparently at 31 its apparent im ancient 🤣🤣

The Think 25 thing is one of the most ridiculous campaigns we've ever had.

I had my own flat at 17.... I remember being refused those long matches to light my cooker. (Fair enough, I was under 18) It was sandwiches for dinner that night 🤣

I wonder if something in the shopping was incorrectly classified as an age restricted product? I had a right battle in Tesco once when the cashier informed me I needed to provide ID in order to buy chicken tikka chunks. She was adamant that with no ID I wasn’t having them. We carefully inspected the ingredients and both agreed there was no alcohol in them but she wasn’t having it. I’ve had the same with a different normal grocery item in Tesco years ago as well. Both times I had to ask for a manager to come and sort it.

A complaint for what? Because OP didn’t realise they had an age policy on online orders and doesn’t like it? All supermarkets have this policy, they will only deliver to age 18 plus

I had a Tesco delivery today, I was on a work call so my 15 year old got the door and this wasn't mentioned at all?

This makes no sense if there was no over 18 products in the shop?
I can literally send my 13 year old for food at local tesco, I can’t see the difference with home delivery?
the only reason you should need ID would be for tabacco/ knives/ alcohol ect.
agree op - I would find that annoying and ridiculous, the driver must have misunderstood when he was supposed to ask?

But why tho?? That’s the issue….the policy makes no sense if there are no age restricted items??