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Posted by cacole on Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:03 AM
Don't blame the cashiers.  The store computer is programmed to ask for ID on certain items.  I've noticed a question pop up on the display screen whether the customer is over 18, to which the cashier must enter YES or NO before they can proceed.
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Posted by cacole on Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:20 AM
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I gave the cashier girl a $20.00 bill. The check was for $18.50. She screwed up entering "Cash Tendered" and had to go get the manager. He said to me,"Can you believe she just graduated from high school? I told him to show her how to 'Count UP' to make change.

 

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That's almost as bad as my recent experience at a Jack in the Box and the high school graduate cashier.  My total came to something like $5.49.  I gave him $6, and then remembered that I had a lot of pocket change, so I gave him the 49 cents, expecting him to simply give me back the $1 bill.  He stared at the cash register's screen for a few seconds, looked at the small change, then back at the register.  He handed me back the 49 cents and said, "No, this won't work.  The register says I have to give you back 51 cents change.  If I don't, the register won't balance at the end of my shift."  So he gave me another 51 cents in small change.

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Posted by Mr_Ash on Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:12 AM

I havent been to Walmart or Kmart in over 5-6 years now. I buy most of my paint and stuff at Hobby Lobby they have yet to card me for anything Tongue [:P]

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Posted by mikesmowers on Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:49 AM
 I once went to WM for a simple can of cheep spray paint, I had only the one item and went to the self checkout lane. I scanned the paint and the message came up '' need approval''. I simply left the paint at the scanner and walked out. I didn't want to wait for 10 minutes for a worker to approve the sale for a dollar item. I went to Hobby Lobby where I have yet to be carded.               Mike
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Posted by Driline on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:08 AM

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I work at a Kmart store and the people they hire are dumber than bricks.  (at least at my store and the one it seems like you were at).  I realize this is a cheap shot at myself and I can live with that but it's true, they hire morons.  I had one girl the other day ask me how to turn the water on to water flowers.  I kid you not.  I told her to turn the valve to which I got "which one?"  I said turn them on  till water comes out! and left. 

Nope Big Smile [:D] You're right on with those comments. I avoid K-mart and Walmart like the plague. We have several other stores here (Hobby Lobby, Home hardware, etc.) that actually hire people that can carry on an intelligent conversation and count to 10.

We always laugh at Walmart. Its Halloween there everyday after 5pm. Just look at the clientel LOL!

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Posted by Driline on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:12 AM
 Way of the Wolf wrote:

Memories!  When I was a teenager, in the 50's, I was a pin setter.  On Friday night some of us would stay after closing for pot games.  Of course they gave us "refreshments".  The owner had a bar next door.  I graduated and a couple of years later I enlisted in the army for three years. 

         When I was 25 and a civilian, my brother and I went to a local bar and lo and behold the owner of that bar was the person whom I worked for setting up pins.  Yep, he carded me.  Now that law came out when I was in the service and knew nothing about it.  I looked at him and laughed.  He asked what was so funny. I told him that I used to set pins for him and his buddies for the Friday night pot games.  He didn't card me but we had a good time talking about old times.

You need to explain yourself a little better. Nobody in the past 20 years knows what a pin setter is. AND "pot games" means something entirely different now a days. I'm mid 40's and even I don't know what you mean by pot games.Cool [8D]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:12 AM
 mikesmowers wrote:
I went to Hobby Lobby where I have yet to be carded.               Mike
The only thing Hobby Lobby cards me for is ID when I use my Visa card.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:26 AM

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I can relate to the ID thing..I picked up 2 spray cans of Krylon paint at our Wally World and the sweet pea running the cash register ask to see my ID..All I said was "Surely you jest?"..Nope she was dead serious..Let's see then..I am 60 and look 55 and have salt and pepper hair.Hardly a youngster that might want the paint for mischief.

How did you know her name was Shirley?  Did she show you her ID?

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Posted by chicochip on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:34 AM

My favorite story about this stupidity comes from a visit to Mervyn's to pay my wife's bill. I handed the payment voucher and my check for the full balance to a clerk in the men's department. He would not accept my check without seeing my ID. I asked why, and I was told that any check over a certain amount required identification. I told him that my payment voucher with my Mervyn's account number, which matched my name and address was clearly sufficient identification. Then I asked why the ---- did Mervyn's need identification from some one paying their bill? He told me it was for my own protection! And he continued to demand additional ID.

Can anybody see where the opportunity for fraud exists when paying your own bill? I sure couldn't...and neither could the store manager after I reported this incident. I've never again been asked for ID when paying the Mervyn's bill.

 

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Posted by Tjsingle on Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:35 PM
Well Im a kid and well thats just well odd
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:00 PM
 MisterBeasley wrote:

 BRAKIE wrote:
I can relate to the ID thing..I picked up 2 spray cans of Krylon paint at our Wally World and the sweet pea running the cash register ask to see my ID..All I said was "Surely you jest?"..Nope she was dead serious..Let's see then..I am 60 and look 55 and have salt and pepper hair.Hardly a youngster that might want the paint for mischief.

How did you know her name was Shirley?  Did she show you her ID?

All Wal-Mart employees wear name tags.

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Posted by railroadnut675 on Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:09 PM

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I get carded almost every time I buy something age restricted at Wal-Mart. Now, it's really obvious looking at my gray hair and the wrinkles on my face and hands that I'm old enough to be somebody's grandfather. What are they thinking, that some kid is gonna make himself up to look like he's almost half a century old? Come on, give me a break!

All they have to do is put on a Ronald Reagan mask Tongue [:P]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:19 PM
 railroadnut675 wrote:

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
I get carded almost every time I buy something age restricted at Wal-Mart. Now, it's really obvious looking at my gray hair and the wrinkles on my face and hands that I'm old enough to be somebody's grandfather. What are they thinking, that some kid is gonna make himself up to look like he's almost half a century old? Come on, give me a break!

All they have to do is put on a Ronald Reagan mask Tongue [:P]

Oh! That's cruel and unusual!Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Saturday, May 24, 2008 2:12 PM
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 MisterBeasley wrote:

 BRAKIE wrote:
I can relate to the ID thing..I picked up 2 spray cans of Krylon paint at our Wally World and the sweet pea running the cash register ask to see my ID..All I said was "Surely you jest?"..Nope she was dead serious..Let's see then..I am 60 and look 55 and have salt and pepper hair.Hardly a youngster that might want the paint for mischief.

How did you know her name was Shirley?  Did she show you her ID?

All Wal-Mart employees wear name tags.

Well, they have to do something to help them remember their own names.

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Posted by mikesmowers on Saturday, May 24, 2008 2:15 PM
   You beat me to it Mr.B., I was going to say the same thing.
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Posted by NittanyLion on Saturday, May 24, 2008 2:55 PM

As someone that spends a lot of time being a cashier at the bookstore I work at, we're trained to do everything you people are saying is "stupid."  Its actually pretty insulting to be honest.  We have to go as fast as possible, otherwise people complain the line is taking too long.  To this end, we are taught and learn to function very mechanically.  Input number for cash, give number cash change, end.  When things don't add up right or the situation alters mid-course, its not exactly easy to shift gears like that.  Your brain is working on auto-pilot and even simple math has no place.  So when someone has 19.42 in change coming and they say "oh I have the 58 cents" sometimes it suddenly doesn't make sense at all why they'd want that.  If you've never had to do it, it might not seem very reasonable.  But it does to us.  In fact, its company policy that once we hit enter for the amount you hand us, that's it.  We're supposed to refuse even "oh i have the penny"  (we always take the penny).   And if our drawers are off even a couple bucks, its trouble.  Its easier for us to just take X and give Y for a lot of reasons, without other variables possibly messing up.

Yes, we all hate having to ask for zip codes or your ID or if you want to sign up for whatever.  But we get fired if we don't and don't complain to us because we don't care any more. 

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:54 PM
Hi everyone: This has been a lively discussion.  It really wan't my intention to critize K-Mart or the girl at the register.  The episode kinda caught me off guard, because that was the first, and so far the last time I'd been asked for my birth date when buying spray paint or any aerosol.  I later bought more hair spray at the same K-Mart with no questions asked.  If that was store policy, it apparantly isn't enforced all the time.  But, it does seem that good service these days, be it K-Mart, bank, etc. is a dying concept.
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Posted by jecorbett on Saturday, May 24, 2008 6:34 PM

I got carded a few years ago at Damon's when I ordered a beer. I'm 56 now. The waiter told me they had so many problems with employees not checking customers that they should have that the company (or maybe that store) decided to play it safe and card everyone so their employees would not have to make a judgement call. It was worth the chuckle I got out of it.

When I buy beer at Kroger's, the self checkout line asks me to show my ID to the attendant but I don't even bother. They look at me and approve the sale.

This is all a product of the nanny government philosophy. Apparently, it has become accepted that the role of government is to protect us from ourselves rather than treating us as adults and allowing us to make our own decisions and accept the consequences of our actions.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:05 PM

I get carded every time I go into my favorite food store.  Of course, the store is an Air Force commissary, and the card they want to see is my Military ID...Approve [^]

Going through the auto-checkout, I scanned a, "Not for sale to minors," item.  The attendant came over, inserted a key, hit a code and walked away without comment.  Of course, the Old Sarge looks like a grandfather (and is a great-grandfather...Cool [8D])

As for the question asked of the OP, I would have answered, "I don't know.  What does YOUR wife use it for?"Laugh [(-D]  (Yes, I know he was dealing with a teenage female moron.  I have encountered the breed myself.  She was probably asking because, being herself totally clueless and lifeless, she was trying for a vicarious hit.Grumpy [|(])

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Posted by ARTHILL on Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:51 PM
I had to show ID to buy a can of air to clean my computer. I thought canned air was dumb enough, but as a controlled substance? What next?
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Posted by steemtrayn on Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:07 PM

I use hair spray as a propellant for my potato gun.

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Posted by Packer on Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:29 PM

They card me when I buy any sort of paint. I'm 18, but look like I'm around 15.

Wallyword used to have testor's paint and glue, and models, but now they don't. Anyone know why?

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Posted by loathar on Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:07 PM
 steemtrayn wrote:

I use hair spray as a propellant for my potato gun.

Spud guns! I forgot about those! That would explain carding for hair spray.Mischief [:-,]

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Posted by my05hammer on Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:49 PM

I was asked the same thing at our local K-Mart a few years ago.  I looked the girl in the face and answered her question with a question.  "What does the K in K-Mart stand for?" 

She didn't know, and I didn't tell her. 

 

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Posted by steemtrayn on Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:54 PM
 my05hammer wrote:

I was asked the same thing at our local K-Mart a few years ago.  I looked the girl in the face and answered her question with a question.  "What does the K in K-Mart stand for?" 

She didn't know, and I didn't tell her. 

 

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:13 PM

I have upon extremely rare occasion purchased aerosol paint but never hair spray - I use Final Net and that comes in a pump bottle.

About six months ago, however, I did get asked to show identification at a local grocery store when buying a bottle of Scotch Whiskey - and no, I don't use it as hair tonic. It seems the corporate management was in our local area and this clerk had been advised/warned by her supervisor to be cautious about the store policy regarding identification - and she was just being safe to avoid being sorry and insuring that nothing slipped through the cracks.

I usually purchase my adult beverages at the Class VI store at my local DOD facility and, like tomikawaTT, I have to present my military identification but that's to prove I am an authorized patron; and by the way, I am four days short of my sixty-eighth birthday and I look the part.

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Posted by NittanyLion on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:13 PM

 ARTHILL wrote:
I thought canned air was dumb enough

I never thought it was dumb.  Computer parts don't like the moisture that comes out of your mouth if you blow on them and its not like I own an air compressor.  Pre-compressed air is the only way. 

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Posted by WP 3020 on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:24 PM

One time a cashier was going to give one of my brothers(in his mid 40s and doesn't look over 40) a senior discount. Being the honest guy he is, told him his actual age. A friend told him later, that if someone thinks you look old enough for a senior discount, take it, they deserve to at least give you a discount for that kind of mistake. He got asked, by a girl behind a counter, how come he was always tan? He told her it was because he worked outside all day putting in concrete curbs and gutters. A blank look returned his reply. So he explained for new streets and sidewalks, thinking she might have been wondering why anyone would put concrete gutters on a house. But she said,"Oh... I just thought the curbs and sidewalks were always just there."Whistling [:-^] I got carded a while back. The guy behind me groaned audibly,"You got to be kidding." I'm sure the cashier heard him, so I turned to him and said,"If she can't tell I'm over 25 or 30 I'll take it as a complement. I'd ask her for her number but her hand seems to be held down to the counter with that rock on her finger." Don't complain, take that kind of mistake as a compliment. It's not always the cashier who isn't thinking the wisest. Once I was behind a woman (because saying "a lady" would insult any female worthy of fitting that description) at a checkout stand. She was raising holy **** because the cashier asked for picture ID verification for her card. The instruction was printed on her card be she had checked the box on a form.

 cacole wrote:
Don't blame the cashiers.  The store computer is programmed to ask for ID on certain items.  I've noticed a question pop up on the display screen whether the customer is over 18, to which the cashier must enter YES or NO before they can proceed.

When I delivered pizza, we had to calculate change in my head without a calculator and the customers demanded we be quick and accurate. If we weren't we wouldn't get a tip, our till wouldn't add up or we wouldn't have a job. My IQ isn't that great and I'm a HS dropout and I was able to do it. Is the job that much more complicated 15 years later. Later on I worked for a concrete co. and I had to read grade stakes, calculate offsets and grades on the fly (once more, in my head without a calculator) and keep ahead of the paver or curb machines. If they had to stop for you, you went home and then some other dumb laborer would take your place. IMHO The problem is the result of some of the cashiers not thinking logically or doing their job correctly. And then management and bureaucrats don't enforce and uphold the rational rules that have worked before and do not challenge people to keep thinking rationally, logically and be responsible. Instead they write stupid rules that enable stupidity and sloppy thinking.

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Posted by my05hammer on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:31 PM
 steemtrayn wrote:
 my05hammer wrote:

I was asked the same thing at our local K-Mart a few years ago.  I looked the girl in the face and answered her question with a question.  "What does the K in K-Mart stand for?" 

She didn't know, and I didn't tell her. 

 

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Posted by railroadnut675 on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:36 PM
 jecorbett wrote:

I got carded a few years ago at Damon's when I ordered a beer. I'm 56 now. The waiter told me they had so many problems with employees not checking customers that they should have that the company (or maybe that store) decided to play it safe and card everyone so their employees would not have to make a judgement call. It was worth the chuckle I got out of it.

When I buy beer at Kroger's, the self checkout line asks me to show my ID to the attendant but I don't even bother. They look at me and approve the sale.

This is all a product of the nanny government philosophy. Apparently, it has become accepted that the role of government is to protect us from ourselves rather than treating us as adults and allowing us to make our own decisions and accept the consequences of our actions.

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