Cuffy/Skill - Stafford customer service thread - Stafford retailers reports.

[shoes]

The retailer is permitted to use their discression, and considering the penalties for selling age restricted goods to minors I would also protect my business as such. If you don't like it get some ID or shop somewhere a bit more lax. No one holds a gun to your head to shop in certain places.

Presumably you posess a special power where by looking at someone you can guess their age within 5 years 100% of the time with no mistakes, absolutely no chance whatsoever that you will misjudge some 17 year old who may look 21 or even 25... particularly made up young girls?

Not everyone has this skill and tbh if I was working in a position where I could lose my job or worse for serving someone under age I would be expremely dilligent with ID'ing people.

Seriously what the problem here, just bung your ID in your wallet / purse and job done.

 

[tek-monkey]

When on a bar I always assumed the door staff filtered out the underage ones, not so easy in a supermarket. You have to remember the cashier now gets fined, not just the store, and they actually make nothing from the sale. Why should they care? I can see their POV completely.

When behind the bar we just didn't care, but we couldn't be financially penalised for it. Plus a lot of them were skimpily dressed and of dubious virtue....

 

[dylanf]

Next time a shop id's you for alochol, tell the lady or man at the checkout you have ID but forgot to get some items. Put your item back in the basket.

Then go and get a trolley, and fill it with shit loads of stuff. Go back to the same checkout, empy the entire trolley on the checkout. Make sure your alcohol is last.

When they ask you for ID say you dont have any then walk off. Now they have a load of stock to put back and youll feel better for being a complete wanker.

 

[db]

'Shoes' I don't think there's any need for you to be like that. Lots of members have posted their opinions here because it's a forum and that's what people do in forums.

i disagree with shoes on the "your own fault" front, but in fairness all he was doing was exercising his right to express his opinion, which is exactly what you are defending here!

Sincere apologies for butting in on your little discussion and thanks for being rude to me for no reason. Certainly a different way of making a newish member feel welcome.

don't take it to heart! you'll soon come to learn that shoes is a little more hardline and less forgiving than most people round here lol..

anyhoo, you're not that new - you registered in jan 2008!

(belated welcome, regardless)

 

[henryscat]

The retailer is permitted to use their discression, and considering the penalties for selling age restricted goods to minors I would also protect my business as such.

Yes they can use their discretion. But there seems to be an absence of common sense and consistency. Like I said - never get ID'd in pubs (I don't go in pubs with door staff either), but do in supermarkets, and only then when not in work clothes.

How many underage drinkers buy real ale and at the same time as cat food, lettuce and washing powder....?

No one holds a gun to your head to shop in certain places.

Quite right. I've left all my shopping on the conveyor belt before now when refused sale of alcohol (checkout bloke was quite rude about the whole thing).

Seriously what the problem here, just bung your ID in your wallet / purse and job done.

Why should I have to when I am more than a decade over the legal age for buying the bloody stuff and that I am over 18 is patently obvious (this is where common sense comes in - the law says 18 not 25). I can understand age being misjudged by a couple of years, but not by that margin. For me its all getting too close to complusory national ID cards which I'd be dead against.

As it happens a lot of the time I do have ID on me. But, it isn't always desirable to be carrying round all your cards/ID because wallets can and do get nicked.

 

[db]

Next time a shop id's you for alochol, tell the lady or man at the checkout you have ID but forgot to get some items. Put your item back in the basket.

Then go and get a trolley, and fill it with shit loads of stuff. Go back to the same checkout, empy the entire trolley on the checkout. Make sure your alcohol is last.

When they ask you for ID say you dont have any then walk off. Now they have a load of stock to put back and youll feel better for being a complete wanker.

bravo.. this is a brilliant idea lol..

 

[shoes]

you'll soon come to learn that shoes is a little more hardline and less forgiving than most people round here lol..

Very diplomatic DB

 

[United57]

tbh i have never understood the whole not just putting everything in your wallet/purse and having done with it - works well for me anyhow!

To be fair until 18 months ago I had no ID I could easily carry around, not sure I had any at all!

I wasn't being rude or trying to make you feel unwelcome its just that a 29 year old getting upset that they can't get served just seemed a little odd to me - not to mention I'd be down right flattered lol

I was asked on my 33rd birthday

I was in Seattle airport ordered a beer and the barman asked me for my passport/ID. I know I look young for over 50 but not that young. I was told they ask everyone so that nobody feels left out! Was I offended hell no.

Generally there is a reason for asking for ID and if you are lucky to be 29 and look 12 well just carry around your driving licence.

 

[basil]

It's a man thing, some bloke types react as if being asked their age is on a par to asking if they are gay.........

 

[Gramaisc]

Isn't it still 21 if you're gay?..

 

[basil]

Bona.......

 

[Gramaisc]

16, 18, 21? We've all got your number...

 

[basil]

In asda i usually have a giggle with the checkout girls when then say "are you over 25?" i say "yes and it's my birthday today" they look astonished and say "ooo is it duck?" i then tell em i was only jestin and then the joke dies.........but i still do it.........

 

[Gramaisc]

Give them your 'strange' look and say 'Well, that just depends - inches or centimetres?'....

 

[vodelia]

Talking about supermarkets, does anyone else LOVE this meal deal Tesco are doing for 9 squid?? Sainsbury's doing a similar deal for a tenner which is also very nice. I may never need to cook again and will also have a house full of decent(ish) wine that I look too young to drink

 

[Slainte]

As much as I am loathed to previous bad experience but skill point to Virgin media

Mybroadband went down on Sunday, and I rang up at 3pm to complain expecting an engineer out by end of week, the cforeign call centre person was patronisin, however I had an engineer out at my house by 1pm the followin day.

 

[joshua]

If the shops are getting you down you might want to liven things up but beware you will get noticed eventually......

This letter was recently sent by Tesco's Head Office to a customer
In Stafford:

Dear Mrs. xxxx,

While we thank you for your valued custom and use of the Tesco
Loyalty Card, the Manager of our store in Stafford is considering banning you and your family from shopping with us, unless your husband stops his antics.

Below is a list of offenses over the past few months all verified by our surveillance cameras:


1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's
trolleys when they weren't looking.

2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at
5-minute intervals.

3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to feminine products aisle.

4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official
tone, "Code 3" in housewares..... and watched what happened.

5. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted
area.

6. September 15: Set up a tent in the outdoor clothing department and told shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring sausages and a Calor gas stove.

7. September 23: When the Deputy Manager asked if she could help him, he began to cry and asked, "Why can't you people just leave me alone?"

8. October 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a mirror, picked his nose, and ate it.

9. November 10: While appearing to be choosing kitchen knives
in the Housewares aisle asked an assistant if he knew where the antidepressants were.

10. December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously, loudly humming
the "Mission Impossible" theme.

11. December 6: In the kitchenware aisle, practiced the
"Madonna look" using different size funnels.

12. December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed, yelled
"PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"

13. December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, assumed the foetal position and screamed "NO! NO! It's those voices again."

And; last, but not least:

14. December 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited a
while; then yelled, very loudly,
"There is no toilet paper in here."

Yours sincerely,

Charles Brown
Store Manager

 

[basil]

Sorry no points awarded for that however i'm guilty of a couple of misdemeanours on that list......

 

[Gramaisc]

A friend of mine had one of the first watches with an integrated TV remote control and used to go into Curry's when it was in Greengate Street and turn the tellies up full, then look around innocently as the staff struggled to turn them all down again...

 

[cookie_monster]

I wasn't being rude or trying to make you feel unwelcome its just that a 29 year old getting upset that they can't get served just seemed a little odd to me - not to mention I'd be down right flattered lol

what about when youre 30?

i still ahve issues and its just bloody ridiculous. i do not look under 25, most of the people who card me are quite obviously younger than i am...and i havent carried id on a regular basis since i was 17 (and even then it was fake!)


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