Tesco Thought Police Ban Mum From Buying Alcohol With Teen Daughter
KAREN Dumelow is 46. She looks younger. She at a branch of Tesco with her 14-yerar-lold daughter Emily. She is buying two bottle of wine (white).
The cashier asks for ID. Staff will not sell Mr Dumelow the wine unless her companion can prove she is of legal age to drink it. Can she work the pole? Tesco is tough on thought crime.
Karen Dumelow is by trade a fraud investigator. Emily does not retrieve a fake ID. No ID; no wine.
Says mum to the Porstmouth News:
“The checkout assistant asked Emily for ID and I just told her that obviously she didn’t have any because she is only 14 years old.”
Obviously.
“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was crazy. Do you have to leave your children at home if you want to buy alcohol now?”
Well, no. If you leave them alone, it might be against the law. Is there booze in the house in an unlocked cabinet? Best to get the booze delivered. And carry all prescription medication with you at all times. And lock your child in their room. No, don’t do that. There might be a fire, or worse, a step uncle or neighbour in high Gary Glitter paedo boots peeping through the upstairs window…
Emily is sent to the car. Yeah, with the car keys! Or was it already unlocked? Either way, for shame! Mrs Dumelow asks:
“I was paying for the shopping, not her, how extreme can something get? I would never purchase alcohol for an under-age person. The part that incensed me the most was that literally one minute later I bought the wine from the same till - it was unbelievable. All I had to do was send my daughter to the car and all of a sudden everything was OK.”
Says Tesco:
“We work hard to prevent under-age sales, including proxy sales where adults purchase alcohol for under-18s. However in this instance we got it wrong and sincerely apologise.”
The Mail is outraged. Elsewhere in the Mail:
This what the country has come to. In every walk of life there is a complete lack of common sense, let alone freedom. I spend a lot of time in the former USSR, and life is freer there! Believe it!
- Sandy
Word to Tesco staff… you don’t run the country.
- David, Essex,
No, the Mail does:
Brown launches undercover police Christmas blitz on underage drinking
‘Parents responsible for underage drinking’
Parents are to blame for under-age binge drinking and so are drunken stars, says pubs boss
Labour has created a ‘timebomb generation’ of teenagers hooked on casual sex, drugs and binge-drinking, claim Tories
Teachers told to spot children suffering a hangover
And:
Tesco bans parents from buying alcohol if they are with their OWN children
A Mail reader writes:
WONDERFUL! Good for you Tesco’s! Alcohol should not be sold together with other goods at all. It should be sold separately, in a separate, closed off unit. It’s called an “off licence.”
Trouble In Store & Supermarket
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March 4th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Wow, that’s completely bonkers Nick! I tried to click on your original link but couldn’t get it, but have now read your account. If it makes you feel better, I’ve had a couple of bad experiences in J Sainsbury’s - not on your level, just overcharging, refused to take back a Digibox, etc, so when I once got change of a tenner in exchange for handing over a fiver I thought sod ‘em, that evens up the score a bit!
In general though, ours ain’t too bad. When I originally read your post I thought you must be a teenager!
March 4th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
my sympathies, Nick aka Rocket - give ‘em a little power and it’s quite frightening how it turns their little grey cells…. the few that there are, that is….
March 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Dr Eggman,
That what was so funny/surreal. I was banned for no real, actual reason. But this is how it happened and why it is a really good example of why bureaucracy in general is a very bad thing; and how it lets mentally challenged people ruin the World very effectively.
I had asked the cashier to swipe my get out of the Sainsbury’s car park without parking charges card. A wild eyed harpy supervisor just appeared out of the blue and shrieked at the top of her voice ‘you’re banned’.
That’s it !
But I wrote the full, detailed story on my blog MODERN TIMES IN MUDSHIRES AT THE FOLLOWING LINK. Have a read and you will see how appalling it was and the awful social implications as control freakery engulfs us all.
http://rocketspage.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/sainsbury’s-thug-like-behaviour/
March 4th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Dr Eggman Says……
“I’m curious to know why you were banned?”
Was he recycling his “Waitrose” carrier bags at a lesser store ?
March 4th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Nick (aka rocket)
I’m curious to know why you were banned? I’ve been chucked out of a few pubs, but never a supermarket. Did you act suspiciously? Did you forget to bring your own bags? Try to use the wrong loyalty card? Try to buy some cider to take to the park?
Please tell, I’m a nosey twat!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
I’m always having trouble with supermarkets. Tesco security men have thrown me out for having the temerity to argue with them and Sainsbury’s banned me for no reason at all, subsequently actually apologising in writing and confirming I wasn’t in fact banned.
It was all down to one demented power crazed harpy hallucinating in a state of control freakery.
It really illustrated the mass psychology effect of belonging and being loyal to the ‘group’ and doing what the ‘groupd’ expects its members to do. It explains how Hitler and Co were so successful.
It’s really frightening and is seen in the government employed bureaucracy of the UK as it erodes freedom at an ever increasing rate.
I wrote a couple of blog posts about it on my blog MODERN TIMES IN MUDSHIRES here at http://rocketspapge.wordpress.com/