see below

Its not the matter of being a PITA, lol. This is no exaggeration- In
some states, a store can lose their liquor license(the permission to
sell alcoholic beverages in their store) for a year or even longer if
they are caught selling or providing alcohol to a minor. Not only
that, the employee who did it will lose their job and go to jail, plus
pay fines and penalties. And in most cases, the customer who purchased
it also faces the same punishment as the cashier. Really is it worth
someones job, financial struggle and reputation to give someone their
booze fix? That's why there are very strict rules and policies.
Transactions that involve a minor present regardless if they are not
buying it is strictly forbidden in some states. It's not only Walmart,
its just about every major retailer. Personally, I can't pity a person
who didn't get their booze fix because they couldn't provide I.D. If
you really are 21 and over, what is the whole problem in the first
place to show an ID?

"i was sent home without my wine "

Is that like being sent to bed without supper?

My rule of thumb when purchasing alcohol is to make sure everybody in
the store with me is of age. I can see how the store would be twitchy
when they see a 16-year-old scanning a bottle of wine at a
self-checkout.

This sounds like you passed your daughter your ID to be swiped. I
think in this situation, they clearly should have sold you the wine.
If you informed the manager that you were her mother, she was closer,
so you told her to swipe it, etc., it should not have been that big of
a deal.

Not only is my post below correct, think of this: In quite a few
states, there's an exception for married couples when one person is
21+, and their spouse is 18-20 years of age. It is legal for that 21+
married person to purchase liquor on behalf of their adult but
underage spouse. (This is for packaged alcohol sold by liquor stores,
not bars/taverns/restaurants.)

36 states allow minors to drink with their parents' permission.

Walmart sounds like a huge PITA when it comes to purchasing alcohol.

If your daughter swiper her own card, the tranaction is over, no
alcohol for either of you.

But since YOUR card was swiped, I really dont see it a big deal.

Sometimes cashiers are over zealous because they can be fined, which
they have to pay, and can be jailed.

Yes it happens in front of customers, their coworkers, and lose their
job if they sell to a minor.

This clearly was not the case.

And other cashiers like to make up laws, which clearly do not exist.

I personally like Tennesee's law where everyone is ID-ed no matter the
age. NO ID, No alcohol.



Good Day

but as mentioned below it's the store's digression to allow or ban the
sale of alcohol

Those claiming that it would be illegal to sell you liquor after your
minor child touched it are wrong. That is simply an overzealous store
policy, pure and simple.

At the grocery store chain we go to (wegmans) the policy is 100% ID
check. Whether you're 36 (like me) or 68 (my mother), you have to
show ID.

The last time Mom bought alcohol she laughed about the ID check and
commented that the alcohol wasn't even for her.

Everyone stopped and looked at her.

She chuckled and clarified, "It's for my husband; he's 82," and the
people around her relaxed.


Whether it's walmart or wegmans, stores are being VERY careful about
selling to adults if they feel the adult might be giving it to a
minor.

Yes some adults are barred from buying alcohol when their kids are
with them. As stated below in some stores if the child even *touches*
the alcohol once or the cart with alcohol in it, the store can legally
bar the purchase.



I do not fault the store for this. They are protecting themselves.


Sure a barred adult might be furious but... if the store gets in
trouble they can very well lose the liquor license. And then the
issue becomes pointless... can't buy alcohol from a store that's not
allowed to sell it anymore.


Hell it happened to a restaurant near where my parents live. Cops
sent in an underage decoy.

The decoy came out with alcohol. The cops went in and shut the place
down.



it's a serious matter

TWI-Typing while intoxicated.

the daughter swiped the card herself
and in some states walmart has very strict rules on alcohol sales

In the words of the late, great Ed Sullivan, that was a really big
shoe!.. and must have been very embarrassing.

Were you trying to purchase alcohol at the self-checkout? Maybe
that's what caused the problem.

I used to work at Walmart on the front lines and I can tell you that
if a person under 21 so much as touches a cart with alcohol or even
runs your credit card, they cannot legally sell the alcohol. When I
was a teenager, my mom was buying some alcohol and they refused the
sell because I held the cart while she went to the restroom. They had
every right to refuse you the purchase.

Was your card ran as a credit or debit? If it was ran as a credit, it
should take 3-5 business days for the credit to show up and a debit
takes up to 90 days (forgive me if I am wrong on the days, it's been a
few years since I have worked in retail).