Does this mean stores that sell alcoholic beverages will have to ID all customers? Currently they only have to ID those who look to be underage. In Texas if you look to be under 27, the clerk is required to make you produce an ID to prove you are 21 or older. I actually got carded when I was 40. I still look considerably younger than the calendar says I am, but no one ever asks me anymore for an ID when buying alcohol. I don’t think retailers are going to like having to look at every customer’s ID every time a customer buys alcohol. I often buy beer or wine at a supermarket, and it can be a hassle to go through the self serve checkout, because as soon as I scan an alcoholic beverage, someone has to verify that I look old enough to buy them and then enter a code to unblock the self-checkout terminal. It would be an even bigger pain if I had to actually show my ID.
Does this mean stores that sell alcoholic beverages will have to ID all customers?
If I buy beer at CVS, Rite Aid, or Walmart Grocery store, I have to show ID (I’m 56, with gray hair). They go even farther, at Target, I have to hand them my ID, they scan it before the register will even accept the bar code (I stopped buying, there, when they started that policy).
It’s also state law that NO alcohol can be sold at self serve check outs, where as it used to be that they would simply have a clerk look you over, but ID you only if you appeared questionable, age wise.
Back when I was fully employed, I bought my beer from a Mom and Pop Shop, but since my old employer let 400 of us go, and I make about 40% less, I buy 1) less beer 2) sale priced, from the chain stores. If I recover, wage wise, I’ll go back to Mom and Pop, and gladly pay the higher price.
All purchasers of alcohol will need a criminal background check at the time of each sale.