“Nothing to do with law. That’s been Wegmans policy for 30+ years. I don’t get carded if I go to Shaws or Market Basket.”
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I don’t get “carded” at Costco or Bottle King, which are the other two stores where I buy liquor.
Is a policy somehow less offensive and/or less in violation of our “freedoms” if it originates on a corporate level, rather than from a government agency?
As Sigmund Freud said (albeit in a very different context), “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.
As Sigmund Freud said (albeit in a very different context), “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.
Freud, really? I thought that was Bill Clinton (albeit in a very different context). As he explained, it depends on what your definition of “is” is.
CSA
Slick Willie . . .
Is a policy somehow less offensive and/or less in violation of our "freedoms" if it originates on a corporate level, rather than from a government agency?
I really don’t have a problem with the policy at all. They’ve never had a problem selling to underage kids.
“The one thing that’s annoying sometimes…is don’t ever forget your ID if you plan on buying beer or wine. They card EVERYONE. You could be 95 or 22…doesn’t matter”.
Indiana put in a law like this some years back, but it has since been modified. I bought a six pack and didn’t realize the law had gone into effect. When I was asked to show my I.D., I was flattered. I thought that the Geritol I take was really working. Mrs. Triedaq burst my bubble when she told me that it was the law and I had to show an I.D. to buy alcoholic beverages.
I was ordering from the senior portion of the menu at Bob Evans and the server asked to see my I.D. to prove I was a senior citizen. She got a big tip.
Conspiracy theorist here. I prefer to give as little information as possible to anyone. My underling computer geek laughs at me when I say I do not want to use my fingerprint to log on to a computer. Imagine now windows 10 going to face recognition and retinal scans etc. Don’t have electrical tape over my front facing camera yet, but
The family accused an assistant principal at Harriton High School of watching their son through his laptop’s webcam while he was at home and unaware he was being watched. The family also says the school official used a photo taken on a laptop as the basis for disciplining the student.
A school official said it was a mistake not to make families aware of a feature allowing the school to monitor the computer hardware.
Now how soon before cars do away with keys and move to biometrics, then the potential of having every car drive tracked and linked to you is great. Not that I have anything to hide, but hate providing everything I do for tracking purposes.
I’m with you @Barkydog, everybody knows enough about everyone already.
I don’t mind showing my ID when I buy a bottle every 3 months or so. They only punch in your birth date and that could be anyone with the same birth date. I’m building a still though when they want to start scanning your drivers license. If the liquor store scans it, who’s to say that they won’t… at some point decide to sell that info.
I would expect that the insurance companies would love that info. They would never have to admit that they looked at your record of alcohol purchases to decide what rate you pay.
There could be someone out there that once a month, drives up to see old uncle Fred who lives alone and can’t get around. He sends you for groceries and asks also for a quart of Brandy…because he likes a shot before bed.
Then there’s aunt Martha that you do the same for.
Scanning your license each time would make it look like you drink a quart every 10 days.
With all the stories that are reported about Ciber Crime, who’s to say that the insurance companies don’t have this in mind already.
I’m not a Conspiracy theory nut, but I’d rather most of my information be hidden.
It’s bad enough that whenever I search for something on the net(boots, tools, auto parts, blow-up dolls, etc.), that ads start showing up for those same products on my web pages…until I do a clean-up and erase the cookies.
Yosemite
My vote is also for my life history not being tracked with every transaction and you know that it’s all going into a database for someone, somewhere, for some reason; and likely to do with what rules all. Money.
I remember when the big news was that at some point we’d all be using Debit cards and no cash would be needed. I can see the IRS knocking on your door now. “You claimed $25 dollars less than what you spend last year”…“where did you get that $25”???
I’ve had two people…who I know well, ask for my Social Security Number. Someone had convinced them that if they could get my SS #, they could claim me as an employee and get a tax break for whatever they spent on my shoeing their horses. Weather this was some article that was written or word of mouth, I’m not sure, but I was not giving them my SS #.
Yosemite
In Minnesota they scan your license now if you try and buy over the counter sinus medication. Its to make sure you don’t buy too much to make meth out of it. They were so proud of themselves too to combat meth production in homes and cars etc. but I think it has back-fired a little so now it comes from other sources but didn’t really reduce the use. I listened to the people pitching the whole idea and really they were very well intentioned, just a little naive. Every sale in the state goes into the computer to track your usage.
The govt dogooders always hurt the little Guys,while the big dogs get away with practically anything.wanna bet on how many illegal drugs(percentage wise) the fanantical war on drugs,stops?
Morning, could you please bring this back around more toward cars? Thank you!
Nor do I, actually!
Anything that helps to keep alcohol out of the hands of underage drinkers is okay in my book, simply because drunk driving is enough of a hazard that limiting the distribution of alcohol to teens is one way of limiting the number of drunks behind the wheel.
However, I am always amazed when intelligent people somehow perceive a government conspiracy behind everything that they question or that they don’t like. Those same people frequently seem to find no problem if a policy originated with a company, but that same policy somehow constitutes an insidious infringement on our freedoms if it was to originate with government.
I agree that different places have different parts selection. As for the employees, I have seen both the Autozone and Oreilly here go through cycles of good and bad. I am pretty happy with both now but both stores have had terrible employees in the past. I know the managers of both stores are good so I think that is a big part of it.