Posted on 09/01/2023 2:29:31 PM PDT by 4Runner
Show ‘em your Medicare Card.
I’ll bet you a dollar that this is a state policy, and not Walmart policy.
I say this because a guy I know runs the wine and beer section of my local grocery store. He cards everybody, and I mean everybody. I once asked him about this, and he said it’s a state law.
My state is well-known for sending in undercover agents to test the stores. Some store doesn’t card agent grandpa. The clerk gets fired, and the store gets fined.
Oh, and here’s the weird thing. Stores in my state that only sell booze don’t have to card everybody.
At 53 I was carded for 3.2 beer at the Wal-Mart in St. George Utah. I was in the store with my MOTHER!
Everyone there thought it was hilarious. The very next afternoon, I got the senior’s discount at some hole-in-the-wall casino in the middle of the desert.
If your skin is so thin that you find being carded “harassment”, perhaps you need a chill pill
I used to buy cigarettes at a store that carded everyone buying cigarettes. No big deal.
Come to Nevada. They sell everything.
Maryland sucks that way (lived there until 1992), but way better than Pennsylvania State Stores which is like buying booze at the MVD.
Sometimes you remind me of Kramer and the “I don’t want to wear the ribbon” scene......lol.
Generally, that’s what happens when I go through the self checkout, but I did have a guy ask for my ID (didn’t speak English well) a couple months ago when he was checking me out. I told him “no, I am over 40!” He was pretty shocked and started mumbling something about the computer - I gave him my birth date & he put it in without ID & we went on with the checkout process.
Was that the 15 minute argument or the full hour?
Well, if you live in Alabama and buy booze, today....Walmart taxed us TWICE. Had to get a bloody refund. AND customer service couldn’t make change. 🤪🙄
Yep. Was out for a walk last week and stopped at a Bar & Grill to use the bathroom but the doorman would not let me in until I showed him my ID. I’m 60 years-old.
Stores across the country have been sued too many times by senior citizens for not asking for ID cards because the laws in many states do not allow for age estimation by clerks and the suers say the clerks can’t really tell on sight. Many stores have been sued by younger people for “discrimination.” It is far less hassle to simply require ID of everyone.
Now that's funny
Chances are pretty good that all those other places ask for ID, too.
Forgot all about that Monty Python.
Except for voting. You don’t have to show ID to vote.
> Was that the 15 minute argument or the full hour? <
Ha! The sad thing is that most people under 50 won’t get that reference at all.
And now for something completely different.
I was talking to my 24 year old nephew the other day, and I compared some guy we both knew to Barney Fife.
My nephew: “Who’s Barney Fife?”
I just say “Really?” and everyone gets a good laugh. They have to do it. Big deal.
From the comments, it sounds like that’s true in a lot of states now. Arizona’s not that bad (yet).
Easy solution - don’t shop at shithole wallymarts.
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