I'm 65 and got carded at BevMo yesterday ...

[Auggie]

not just "carded", but actually had my license scanned by some kind of reader. Clerk said it was to ensure my I.D. wasn't fake.



I look 65. There is no one on Earth who is 65 and could pass for 20.

Huge privacy invasion. Huge potential for identity theft.

I won't shop there anymore. Hear that, Beverages and More?

Should have walked out and gone somewhere else.

[regnaD kciN]

1. In Washington state, it's now mandatory...

…no matter what your apparent age.

[Auggie]

2. Do they scan the I.D.?

[Pobeka]

3. yes. That's how they confirm the age.

Happens even in a regular grocery if you buy alcohol.

Not happy about the privacy aspect of it.

[Auggie]

4. Not all of our grocery stores in CA do that yet ...

but they do ask for the birth date, which I always give as false.

Insurance companies -- auto and health -- would love to know what you buy.

[Ferryboat]

5. And there's the rub

3rd party access. Which leads to higher insurance rates or denial of coverage.

[Auggie]

8. Just bought a bottle at a privately-owned, local liquor store -- not carded.

It was the brandy liquor a BevMo cashier told me wasn't made any more.

Fuck BevMo.

[rsdsharp]

6. I'd give a false age, too. It didn't matter what it was, so long as it was 21 years in the past.

I often gave May 6, 1937 — the date of the Hindenburg disaster — about 17 years before I was born. Sometimes I’d be over 90. Sometimes 32. They never batted an eye. One night, I told the teen aged checker, “I’m tired. You make up a date. That’s what I’d do anyway.” Flummoxed the poor kid.

There was one day I bought some groceries, including a bottle of wine, and dropped the wine as I was putting it in the trunk. I went back in, got another bottle, went to the same checker, and got asked for ID. I was in my fifties, my mustache was white, what hair I had was salt and pepper, and SHE HADN’T CARDED ME THE FIRST TIME. Really? You think I shed 36 years on the trip to the parking lot, and still look like this? I was reminded of the time Lincoln was called two-faced. He said, “If I had two faces, would I be wearing this one?

[Auggie]

9. Love your Hindenburg date ....

maybe I'll use December 7, 1941? Or June 6, 1944? Or September 11, 2001?

[rsdsharp]

11. They'd all work. And the truly sad thing is, they not only wouldn't know it was a false date,

they wouldn’t recognize the significance of the date.

[Lettuce Be]

7. Had my ID scanned when I bought a BIC lighter, so yeah, it's a thing now

Guess privacy is just a quaint idea we once had.

[snowybirdie]

10. Doing it here in Florida

And I'm older than you. Mandatory in many places. Relax and just comply. It won't get you anywhere to be all riled up. Life is too short.

[Ocelot II]

12. Times certainly have changed...

Back in the Pleistocene era when I was in college, the drinking age in my state was 21. I started college a little young, at 16, and I looked about 12. There was a liquor store near the campus where they never carded anybody, so at the ripe old age of 16 (and looking 12) I could, and did, buy vodka and beer and anything else I could scrape up a few bucks for. That liquor store is still there all these years later, still looks exactly the same, but I bet they card everybody now.

[DFW]

13. In the States, I often get asked for my zip code when I buy things

I give them my German Zip code, which their machines can‘t handle.
They then give up.

[Auggie]

14. +1

[Prairie_Seagull]

15. I was at a 'Loves' gas station and mini mart along I-90 and-

the cashier wanted to see my ID to buy cigs. I am over 60. Anyway I showed it to the person while keeping my license in my hand. The cashier asked to hold it and set it on an area of the cash register that very quickly took a pic of it. I asked if it had. The answer: Yes. Gave the smokes back and asked to talk to the manager. He said it was now in the system and could not be retrieved or removed.

Drip, drip, drip.

[Auggie]

16. I won't be back to Beverages & More ...

Instead, I'll support the privately-owned liquor stores that don't read my I.D.

[Emile]

17. Lot of states it is mandatory to check ID.

https://www.14news.com/story/12578676/no-matter-your-age-new-law-requires-id-with-alcohol-purchases/

[Raine]

18. Seems like a way of keeping track of people, knowing

where you're been, when you were there and what you bought. I don't like this at all!