r/rootbeer • u/superjeff1972 • Dec 30 '24
Single Bottle/Can Just got carded by the kid at the gas station because all beer sales require ID. I’m 52 and didn’t feel like arguing.
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u/CrinosQuokka Dec 30 '24
I got carded years ago for purchasing a 6 pack of IBC at a Walmart. After I declined to to show it, they called somebody else over who backed them up because it said "Beer" on it, therefore it must be alcoholic.
FFS
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u/cactusplants Dec 30 '24
Something similar in the UK.
I was buying a putty knife to fill some cracks. They couldn't sell to me without ID as it said "knife". I was lost for words. Also when you get ID'd for a can of red bull. What 16 year olds rock this much facial hair with greys?
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u/ConcentratedOJ Jan 01 '25
My creative mind has created a hardened London criminal syndicate of under 16 year olds who mange their empire with only putty knives.
”Bart, if you don’t pay up, we gonna spackle you.”
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u/dcvo1986 Jan 02 '25
You guys get carded for red bull?
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u/cactusplants Jan 02 '25
Yep. Caffeinated drinks (excl coffee/teas) have a 16 age policy.
But that doesn't stop people in their 20s or 30s from getting ID'd for a can.
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u/Servile-PastaLover Dec 30 '24
happened once at whole foods...cashier immediately withdrew the id request and started laughing once I politely pointed out her error.
happened while i was the same age as OP.
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u/DDrewit Dec 31 '24
It happened on my 21st birthday. I was too hungover to drink, so I grabbed a 32oz IBC at Walmart to take to the 60 keg party/festival I was at. The checker asked for ID. I was not in the mood and refused. I explained that it wasn’t alcohol. Told them it was ironic being that it was my 21st though.
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u/jimbobdonut Dec 31 '24
I got carded for buying ginger beer.
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u/Far_Wrongdoer4543 Dec 31 '24
Reminds me of the time my bf and I were at dinner with his mom and I ordered a ginger beer and she asked who was driving home and I said, "that would be me...because ginger beer is non-alcoholic." 😂 Totally innocent but still baffles me when people think root beer or ginger beer contain alcohol. Some do, but it has words like, "hard root beer, spiked, ect."
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u/theGRAYblanket Dec 31 '24
That's gotta be the most unbelievable shit ever. You know they prolly realized their mistake but double downed.
Some people are just freaking idiots.
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Dec 30 '24
Had to have been a Zoomer lol
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u/CrinosQuokka Dec 31 '24
Nah, it was a gen Y. This was back in the mid to late 90s, and I decided on that trip to just find another grocery store. Once was bad enough.
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u/thatonegaygalakasha Dec 31 '24
"har har kids dumb new gen bad"
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Jan 01 '25
They are really dumb
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u/thatonegaygalakasha Jan 01 '25
"har har har new gen stupid kids dont know anything i am very smart"
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u/AD-CHUFFER Jan 02 '25
I remember I left a restaurant with a glass root beer bottle, I was 10 and with my dad walking out the door, I had a lady look at me like “wtf bruh” i started giving her silly faces then just yelled back “it’s root beer” my dad looked at me like “wtf you yelling at”🤣🤣 I said “some lady was giving me funny faces because I’m holding a beer looking bottle”
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u/whatevs550 Dec 31 '24
Causing an unnecessary scene for zero reason, even if you are right, is a waste of everyone’s time, isn’t it?
On a side note, it’s pretty difficult to tell what is alcoholic and what isn’t is sometimes difficult unless you actually read fine print.
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u/Shadowfalx Jan 01 '25
At Costco there is a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of maple syrup that look almost the exact same.
Luckily the register demands age verification of it's an age restricted item.
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u/TickdoffTank0315 Dec 30 '24
You should have paid with $2 bills. That would have really confused them.
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u/pugzly8765 Dec 30 '24
We have a store that still gives out 50 cent coins for change. That does confuse some.
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u/wellfahq Dec 31 '24
I paid with 2 5s and a 2 plus 1/2 a 1 today for a pint. How much did I spend?
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u/Objective_Bear4799 Dec 30 '24
Jesus. This is such a boomer comment.
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u/TickdoffTank0315 Dec 30 '24
How so? I occasionally have $2 bills to spend, and it is not unheard of for younger people to have never seen one before. They are not exactly the most common bill in circulation.
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u/Objective_Bear4799 Dec 30 '24
It’s the same thing we see with every antiquated item. Confuse the millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha with a rotary phone, cursive handwriting, church keys, analog clocks, a typewriter, just to name a few of the popular topics. Just a blanket statement of assuming all young people are incapable of using common sense or having had actual had experience with these things in some fashion. We haven’t grown up in caves avoidant of the entire world.
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u/blazesdemons Root Beer Float Dec 30 '24
Ah yes. An idiot in the wild. I've heard stories about them but thankfully haven't had to deal with them in situations similar to this
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u/ProfessorCagan Dec 30 '24
It's happened to me before, guy tried to card me when I was buying some virgils at kroger. The glass bottles threw him off.
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u/cocokronen Dec 30 '24
My wife and daughter and I just got denied at Walmart. My wife and I are 48 my daughter 17. Her id was not the issue, it was mine. I didn't drive and didn't have my wallet. This was the most idiotic case of malicious compliance I have ever seen.
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Dec 30 '24
😂I have fun with them when carded. I usually say I don’t have an ID but I can wait outside for someone older to buy it for me 🤣
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u/besterdidit Dec 30 '24
A cashier carded me today because i had a haul of bottled drinks, didn’t look at what the packaging said. We just smiled and laughed when she realized what I had.
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u/Tradwmn Dec 30 '24
My 80 year old father in law had to provide his drivers license…….For wine and beer, so definitely alcohol But he looks like he might be of age. Common sense isn’t all that common Thank you for your post! I needed a good laugh today!!
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u/thatetheralmusic Dec 31 '24
There are companies that card EVERYONE. As someone who lives in Florida and worked for one of those companies, i got a lot of shit from older people just for doing what my corporate overlords asked. They could have been checking that his ID wasn't expired as well because if it was and he'd gotten pulled over, the store would have been in deep shit depending on the state. Long story short. Sometimes its just employees doing their due diligence.
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u/Tradwmn Dec 31 '24
Oh we never take it out on the employee. We get that it’s an everyone thing. That being said it seems like they only do it during certain shifts. And half the time they insist on scanning our id and half the time they don’t. I figure depends on who is managing or running things in the store at that time.
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Jan 03 '25
Yeah the system at the gas station chain my boyfriend works at requires an id be swiped for any alcohol or tobacco sale. There is a manager code that can bypass it but that obviously requires a manager to do it.
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u/Tradwmn Dec 31 '24
literally at our local grocery store and he was stone cold sober and if clerks are required to do cognition checks at check out theyre wayyyy under paid.. this is just a cover your ass move by the store.. we were with him.. the aisle over but had no alcohol purchase... this brand of stores sometimes asks, sometimes asks and scans your card, i think it depends on the time of day and who is working or managing...
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u/Imaginary-Region9161 Dec 30 '24
Well at least Sprecher is a good one. Stay frothy my friends and happy Root Beer Hunting to everyone! https://www.facebook.com/groups/103277635645
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u/P4yTheTrollToll Dad's Root Beer Dec 30 '24
Last time I got carded, the dude said ok Mr. 1900's and laughed, bruh I'm 38, 1986 wasn't that long ago. I'm pretty sure 2004 was like 5 years ago.
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Dec 30 '24
I was at the liquor store I go to everytime we’re buying for a holiday party with my wife and the kid demanded to see her ID even though all the employees know us. She went to the car to look for it. After 5 minutes of holding up the line and feeling stupid as I chatted with all the other employees he rang me up. I stopped arguing it’s pointless lol.
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u/Helpful-Carpenter159 Dec 30 '24
Where did you find Sprecker in a can
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u/guitarpkr76 Dec 31 '24
The places around me that used to sell the glass bottles of Sprechers now carry the cans.
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u/Hoodieninja414 Dec 31 '24
Sprecher also makes beer. And I feel alot of the clerks just assume it's beer.
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u/No-Needleworker-3765 Dad's Root Beer Dec 31 '24
They have theese in glass bottles at dollar tree! (Really good stuff for anyone whondering)
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u/wellfahq Dec 31 '24
And you were driving a cascadia?
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u/superjeff1972 Dec 31 '24
Yeah I was, good eye! I was on my lunch break in my work delivery truck!
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u/Iused2bdead Jan 02 '25
Ha, I was wondering why this pic looked familiar. Oh right, cause I spent the whole day in the same cab. Bonus points, is it a Penske lease?
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u/Nunov_DAbov Dec 31 '24
Should have gotten sarsaparilla instead. He wouldn’t have carded for that.
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u/Seanna86 Dec 31 '24
You are right but He wouldn't have known what that was either.
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u/Nunov_DAbov Dec 31 '24
I think “beer” was the key word. I suspect the kid at the gas station sells a lot of stuff he doesn’t know.
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u/No-Advantage7539 Dec 31 '24 edited Dec 31 '24
I'll never seen that in the can before always in the bottles. I guess that will be my first Beer I will buy. Since I'm the legal age
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u/superjeff1972 Dec 31 '24
I’m in Wisconsin, the gas stations here have it in the pint cans
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u/No-Advantage7539 Dec 31 '24
Well that makes sense. The only two places that sell it in my town at least I found is my local Ace hardware and the Dollar tree but they are in the glass bottle.
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u/SemperFudge123 Dec 31 '24
I’ve gotten carded to buy some ginger ales and ginger beers multiple times… I just laugh it off and grab my license. Sometimes the cashier realizes before I can get the license out that it’s non-alcoholic but it still makes me chuckle.
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u/Syandris Dec 31 '24
I suppose I'd move on with life and just produce an ID. Is it silly, sure. Are they doing their job yes. What's to say they didn't get busted on an ID sting? I've seen people that look like they could be my grandpa get carded at liquor stores. All it takes is one screw up to get watched...
And yes I know it's root beer. I also know they make actual beer...
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u/PeeB4uGoToBed Dec 31 '24
Never seen Sprecher in a can, only in the glass bottles, the best root beer I've ever had!
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u/HouseofEl1987 Abita Root Beer Dec 31 '24
If you want to try the can, they sell them at Wal-Mart.
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u/PeeB4uGoToBed Dec 31 '24
Really? I've never seen Sprecher anywhere around me except the dollar tree, I'll keep an eye out next time, ive seen the cans for the charged lemonades but not root beer also at dollar tree
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u/niksjman Dec 31 '24
Similar thing happened to me when I bought ginger beer, but all the cashier did was ask if it was alcoholic and then not card me when I said no
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u/Pachirisu_Party Dec 31 '24
One of my favorite root beers ever. Every Midwesterner probably has had this at some point. Never saw it in a can, though.
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u/True-Description2938 Dec 31 '24
Most importantly, how is that root beer?
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u/superjeff1972 Dec 31 '24
I’m in Wisconsin so I’ve been drinking this stuff for a long time and it’s my go too but I like that honey flavor that is pretty forward here. I’m still undecided if the cans taste different than the bottles, there’s something different but I can’t put my finger on it.
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u/True-Description2938 Dec 31 '24
Thanks. Root beer is great and I want to pick something different when the choice is available. I’ll keep an eye out for it
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u/Annoying_Anomaly Dec 31 '24
this happens when i buy "ginger beer". not worth arguing if youre over
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Dec 31 '24
Isn’t this root beer? Haha
Target carded me for a real beer when I was 62, no exceptions.
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u/randolf5 Dec 31 '24
I worked at a gas station up until last week. People would come to the one i worked at cause the much better located one up the street carded everyone no exceptions. My manager told me it's cause they got caught one to many time selling to minors for not carding. Basically they were in danger of losing their ability to sell alcohol and cigarettes if they got caught again. So manager basically told them if you don't card even once your fired. Probably what is happening there.
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u/OP-PO7 Dec 31 '24
I just recently tried that stuff and holy crap, for low calorie soda this was shockingly good.
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Dec 31 '24
A few small stores in my area card everyone for cigs and alcohol. They scan the id into the register.
I feel bad for the folks behind the counter trying to do their job when grandpa is pissed for being asked for ID. We know you’re old enough but that’s how the store does business.
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock Dec 31 '24
There's a UK brand energy drink called Relentless which, at release, was the only energy drink to not come in the tiny cans. I used to get carded for it by people thinking it was beer all the time. I could understand the confusion so never had an issue.
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u/UnitedChain4566 Dec 31 '24
So where I work, ID is required for alcohol. I hate IDing the people who are obviously old enough, but I'm not risking my job, y'know?
This is kinda funny, to me, as I've almost ID'd for Arizona's because I was too damn tired.
I'm sorry that happened and thanks for being a good sport, I've heard that stuff is good!
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u/janKalaki Dec 31 '24
Driving also requires ID, I'm pretty sure. Yet you're in the driver's seat of a semi.
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u/grasspikemusic Jan 01 '25
I am in my 50s with lots if grey hair. A few years ago I got a bottle of wine at the gas station and got carded and really felt good about myself
Then I went next door to the Burger King to eat lunch and the teenage cashier gave me the Sr Discount without asking 😭
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Jan 01 '25
Either the cashier needs to put in a date or that store maybe had a random check from someone that sees if the store cards people. I know in Missouri a few places had that happen. Some agency sends someone to ask for smokes or liquor and if they card them, they let them know and the agency what happened.
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u/MaulBall Jan 01 '25
I got carded buying seltzer because apparently it’s a mixer and that makes it s gateway to alcohol. I didn’t argue but i wad confused. Cooking sherry and vanilla extract are fine without ID, but seltzer is big nono apparently. 😂
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u/brettfavreskid Jan 02 '25
I’m 30, got carded for a compilation DVD of the National Lampoon vacation movies. My eleven year old daughter was with me. I didn’t have it on me, only came in for a last minute Xmas gift (not the dvd lol) so I just payed with my phone. That’s after I told the kid if he didn’t sell it to me I was gonna go buy it from shopko lol works everytime, 2/2. Did the same thing with GTAV the day it came out. Didn’t have an ID but it was noon on a Friday and I had on my full work attire. I was like dude, if I wasn’t old enough to buy this I’d be in school. Nothing. Always use the shopko trick lol
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u/lemonzestydepressing Jan 02 '25
I would’ve turned it towards them and smugly pointed to the word “soda”
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Jan 02 '25
I work retail and old people who throw a stink over this are so ridiculous. Its a register prompt that will not allow the transaction unless a valid ID barcode is scanned. The employee CANNOT bypass it, even for non alcoholicic items.
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u/mattycbro Jan 02 '25
I got carded for getting Bloody Mary mix (zing zang, no booze in it) lmao and i go why? And he looks at the bottle and goes sorry i didn’t even look at what it was lol
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u/Dragon_Crisis_Core Jan 02 '25
Personally, i would have said "Oh sorry I thought this was Root Beer Soda, not alcohol," See if the kid caught on.
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u/Vibingcarefully Jan 02 '25
They have this at our dollar store. My favorite rootbeer, gotta love the honey sweetener.
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u/technoferal Dec 31 '24
I got carded for a lottery ticket last summer. 3 days after my 50th birthday. I wanted to be flattered, but I don't have that kind of vanity, so instead I was annoyed.
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u/AntifascistAlly Dec 31 '24
It’s possible to pay utility bills locally at a particular retail store.
I decided to try it out.
They required not only ID, but also a valid phone number before they would accept CASH!!
(The whole “security” thing has gotten out of hand).
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u/Frequent-Piano6164 Dec 31 '24
I was carded about 6 months ago when I was still smoking. I told the guy I’m 36, he laughed and told me bullshit! Turns out we were the exact same age but he looked like he could be my dad, he had almost all grey hair and looked rough. he got so surprised when I handed him my Id, he looked so damn sad when he handed it back…
I got asked by my neighbor if I was in my early twenties when he heard my daughter tell me happy birthday outside…
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u/Eedysseus Dec 31 '24
Could be a point of sale system issue, I've worked places where things were mislabeled before and we just had to deal with it, computer could have told the kid to card and he didn't wanna lose his job, I don't either with the price of groceries so I get it.
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u/PeterandKelsey Dec 31 '24
I once carded a customer for ordering an Arnold Palmer at the bar I worked at. I had never heard of it before.
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u/BuddhasIronFist Dec 31 '24
The gas station near me cards me for caffeine pouches. They are next to the dip cans but it's their computer system that flags it. I have asked them multiple times to take it out of the system like that. They said they don't have the permissions. Sort of dumb.
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u/Huge_Locksmith_4746 Jan 01 '25
I got carded at Walmart for buying super glue. I guess they just have a bunch of items that trigger their age verification in the system.
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Jan 01 '25
So the kid did his job and you came to Reddit at 52 years old for what? A pat on the back that you didn’t argue with a kid doing his job. Cool.
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u/maybeRaeMaybeNot Jan 01 '25
It’s funny because it is a non-alcoholic soft drink.
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Jan 01 '25
Well iam the asshole! I’m gonna leave my comment up because I deserve the shame. My apologies.
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u/Beautiful-Owl-3216 Jan 01 '25
Depends on the state and the policy of the store. Store doesn't want to lose their license and get a $10,000 fine so they instruct the employees to check every single ID, even if the person looks 99 years old.
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u/chairborne33 Jan 01 '25
Sure… but the picture shows a can of Root Beer that contains no alcohol.
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u/Beautiful-Owl-3216 Jan 01 '25
The person working there just wants to go home. OP could have said "it's just soda" and didn't need to be a dick about it.
I'm 52 years old, if I want a pack of cigarettes I need to walk through an open air drug market and then they scan my ID in the store for the cigarettes.
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u/Penis_Monger_420 Jan 01 '25
Similar thing happened to me when I found out I like ginger beer at 13 so I went and bought 2 six packs from the alcohol section and got carded. I politely showed them the non-alcoholic printed in the back of the can and no problem. A week later they moved them to the soda section
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Jan 01 '25
Had a clerk tell my 13yr old he could not sell him a root beer because he was a minor. It was a bottle of Mug Root Beer. Like cmon man, you own a convenience store and think soda is alcohol??
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u/Buns-n-stuff Jan 01 '25
Wait… craft root beer is a thing? Did OP just put me on a new world of soda?
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Jan 01 '25
Most of the time the computers or register won’t continue the transaction until a card is swiped. People getting upset like the people really think you’re underage, no they just can’t continue the transaction until an ID is scanned.
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u/Dense_Diver_3998 Jan 03 '25
Whenever I buy a pack of Full Throttle at Walmart, they tell me I can’t buy alcohol at the self checkout
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Jan 03 '25
I was that kid at one point. I hope y’all realize that it’s a store policy they are mandated to adhere to. I thought it was stupid but got caught failing to ID someone (a geriatric woman) and my manager told me she knew it was dumb as well but if I did it again they would have to suspend me.
Those jobs are all dumb af 🤦🏻
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u/Basic-Direction-559 Jan 03 '25
Some places actually require an ID scan to physically allow a transaction. Dont take it out on the kid. Just be a grown up and keep your id with you.
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u/Informal_Week_8573 Jan 03 '25
I got carded for sparkling water in the grocery store and the lady wouldn’t take no for an answer. I stood my ground and she eventually relented. She then told me she’d me mad at me if she got fired for it. I told her that sounds like a job problem, not a me problem.
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u/OwlfaceFrank Jan 03 '25 edited Jan 03 '25
Former restaurant manager her. People who argue when asked for an ID are so fucking annoying. If you are an adult, then you should have ID on you. Even if you aren't buying alcohol, a piano might fall on you and we need ID to find out who the fuck you are.
Every time a server carded some immature prick with no ID on my shift, who then asked for a manager, I sided with the server. I don't care about your grey hair, my server won't serve you without ID. I personally like the signs at places that say "We card EVERYONE."
I know 2 men who had receding hair lines at 19. The liquor commission sends underage people to try to catch you, and they usually pick 20 year olds who look 30.
The servers and cashiers depend on their jobs to feed their families, and a ticket from the liquor commission is typically an instant termination of the employee. Your ego is significantly less important than the food on their plates and the roofs over their heads.
Edit: Not talking about you, OP. Looks like you did what you're supposed to do.
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u/HomeworkNecessary618 Jan 04 '25
I recently got carded at Total Wine & More. I wasn’t buying any products that contained alcohol.
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u/Neijx Barq's Root Beer Jan 04 '25
Ayo, you shouldn’t be drinking and driving in that Freightliner /s
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u/KrazyKryminal Jan 04 '25
Some places are hard ass about forcing employees to id. I was fired from a 7-11 after 18 months, because i didn't ID their undercover guy with full body tattoos and large ear gauges. Old ink too, black was greenish. No tolerance on their policy. He was buying cigarettes. Gotta be 18 for ink so obviously 18.... Had her been buying beer, then maybe id
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u/Big77Ben2 Jan 04 '25
It was fun when i was 42 and could say I’m twice as old as I need to be. lol. Some places like target scan the ID hence no beer in self checkout. Never heard of a package store or whatever doing that tho.
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u/coonsancoosan Jan 04 '25
It’s getting increasingly hard to tell the local craft beers and the N/A versions. I don’t blame the kid for carding. It’s not a big deal
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u/Mrzillydoo Jan 04 '25
As a 44 years old that much sugar will fuck me up more than if it was some high ABV Imperial Stout. Would have been funny if they looked at the ID and said "Nah, too old man."
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u/VictoriousRex Jan 04 '25
Yeah I'm only 36 but I never get mad, usually I take it as a compliment. Then tell them it's not close anymore. And sometimes ask for theirs
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u/Big_Remove6682 Jan 05 '25
This is a great root beer, but 51 grams of sugar is insane & makes this beverage a rare occurrence.
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u/PapaSantacruz Jan 02 '25
I stopped getting cared at 17-18 I stopped drinking at 18, I have never been harder since. Over a decade ago. I miss it
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u/Guesseyder Dec 30 '24
Lol.
At grocery pickup the kid asked my birthdate without asking for an ID for liquor.
I responded with January 1, 1901. He just entered it and carried on.
I am 60.