No grocery store around here ever asks me for any identification whatsoever, and I don’t understand how doing so would benefit their business. The bank only rarely asks for any identification, even when I withdraw cash or cash checks.
Neither do the clerks where I’ve shopped for over 50 years ask for ID. What happens when you wish to pay by check in a place you’ve NEVER been before? That picture of you tells that total stranger that “Yes, it’s truly me”. The people familiar with you have known it is you for many years.
You are certainly correct, but only close to home.