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Money Saving Tips, or How to Live Respectably on a Pittance

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  • #62
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    RiverSong wrote: »
    They're like that in Dunnes too.
    it's not over the top at all. It's illegal to sell alcohol which you know or suspect to be for the consumption of minors. If you don't have proper ID and the cashier knows you're with the person buying the alcohol, they could be liable for prosecution if you do in fact turn out to be a minor. If you don't have proper ID, the cashier is safer assuming you're under 18, for their own protection.
    Plus, the store, especially given that it's in a student town, where a large proportion of first years would be under 18, needs to protect itself from potential prosecutions for illegal sale of alcohol to or for consumption by a minor.
    Penalties for that include fines and temporary closures. Of course they're strict about it.


  • #63
    Thwip!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    How so Joe wrote: »
    it's not over the top at all. It's illegal to sell alcohol which you know or suspect to be for the consumption of minors. If you don't have proper ID and the cashier knows you're with the person buying the alcohol, they could be liable for prosecution if you do in fact turn out to be a minor. If you don't have proper ID, the cashier is safer assuming you're under 18, for their own protection.
    Plus, the store, especially given that it's in a student town, where a large proportion of first years would be under 18, needs to protect itself from potential prosecutions for illegal sale of alcohol to or for consumption by a minor.
    Penalties for that include fines and temporary closures. Of course they're strict about it.
    Exactly this. At the end of the day the guards send in people under the age of 18 to buy alcohol to see if the employees are asking for I.D. If the employee doesn't ask and sells them the alcohol then that supermarket can lose their alcohol trading license or get it suspended for 30 days at the very minimum. And seeing as alcohol sales make up a very large part of a supermarket's revenue would you really want to be the one dumbass who cost your employers their alcohol license?

    Most recent one I had was on leaving cert results night. We were about an hour from closing and this guy comes in and tries to buy 2 bottles of smirnoff. He looked about 17 so I asked him for I.D. and he says "I.D? i don''t need I.D. man I'm 25 GENUINE LAD I AM"
    I told him I can't serve him without I.D. and he goes to leave, his phone rings and there's a small pause before he bellows down the phone "NA LAD, DIDN'T WORK"


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