Under Age sales

[ButTheNut]

"I can't believe it". Sorry not Victor Meldew. One of my staff got fined ?80 tonight for serving an under age girl. Was a test purchase. I thought I had drummed into my staff how important it is to ask for ID if someone looks under 2,1 so there is no excuse. However, in my opinion the powers to be have changed their attack. When we took our Licensing exam we were assured that any test purchase, it would be obvious that the person was under age and that they were designed to catch "rough traders". This seems to have changed. All my staff members have been trained to challenge anyone who is looks under 21 so there is no excuse for her selling this alcohol. However after studying CCTV, it would be difficult to say she was under 18. She looked anything from 16 to 20. She was actually 16. Please be warned that test purchase are prevalent at the moment. We we all know how Mr Brown likes to blame his mis-management of society on us small shop keepers. Sorry getting political there.

Paul

[Dave P]

Hi
I got caught once on video sales. No excuses, I had always been meticulous on rentals, but this was from a sales bin, I was very busy at the time and never gave it a thought. She was probably 16.
The press are fond of victimizing small shopkeepers as a bunch of evil money grabbing social letches whilst big stores fall foul just as often in practice.