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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Whole Foods pissed me off Rate Topic:

#1 francelajoie

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 12:17 PM

I am babysitting for the weekend and they live close to a Whole Foods. So, I think this is my chance. I get the girls (11 and 14 years old) and we head out to go do some shopping (gluten-free shopping). When we get there, I decide to go in the mini beer and wine store and ask if they carry gluten-free beer so I can buy a couple cases to bring back home. This is their reply (after driving an hour to get there):

Yes we do carry gluten-free beer by Rampo Valley. We cannot sell it to you because you could be bying it for her (the 14 year old). It's the law.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I am not a happy camper.

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#2 GlutenFreeAl

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 12:26 PM

What kind of deranged person buys beer for a 14 year old?

Seriously...

#3 francelajoie

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 12:34 PM

Ahaha...right!
Well I'll just have to go again tomorrow and leave them in the car! I really want it for next weekend and that is the only place the carry it around here.

France

#4 MySuicidalTurtle

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 12:46 PM

I don't think that can possibly be a law. You should have spoken to a manager an complained.

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 12:49 PM

Wish I had the gutts to do that. I'm so shy when it comes to that stuff I just say "fine" and go back the next day.

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 01:08 PM

What about all the parents that take their kids into the super market? They buy beer, wine and hard stuff. That is the most stupid thing I have heard of.

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#7 francelajoie

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 01:16 PM

Well I guess it's because the 14 year old and I didn't look like we had much of an age difference. I'm 28 but I can pass for a 16 year old. He didn't even ask for my ID or anything. He didn't look like a nice man at all.

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#8 debmidge

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 01:26 PM

I have known people who would do that. When I was a teenager I remember adults who did that for some young guys I knew additionally my best friend's children go to school with kids whose mother buys booze for them; they have parties to which my best friend's childen used to go to (now my best friend forbids her kids to "hang out" with those other kids). The kids' mother admitted to supplying them with booze for their parties at home.

The clerk may have had it happen to him before and he was too scared to have it happen again (? maybe) or somehow because they weren't your children he wasn't sure what to do (?)

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 01:28 PM

Makes total sense...ok....i'm not as mad anymore

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 01:32 PM

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We cannot sell it to you because you could be bying it for her (the 14 year old). It's the law.

That doesn't surprise me, especially after what happened to me last night at a liquor store. I was on my way to a friends house and I stopped into liquor store to buy my friend a bottle of wine. As soon as my boyfriend and I walked into the store, a lady asked to see my ID and then my boyfriend's ID (We are 24). My boyfriend said that he wasn't buying anything and the lady said that it didn't matter. There was a police man in the liquor store and they didn't seem to be letting anyone in unless they were 19!

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#11 debmidge

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 01:57 PM

Also, I sort of remember that sometimes the "Alcohol Beverage Control" authority would deliberately send people into liquor stores as "tests" and maybe the clerk thought you were them....

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 03:11 PM

That's lame and I'm not positive about this, but I think it might be the law in some places. I bet you wouldn't have had such a hard time if she was younger. <_<

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 03:15 PM

Since the store does have the right to refuse to sell to you, it was probably a case of a conservative store policy. If you clearly looked like the parent, or the kids were much younger, it probably wouldn't have been a problem. But I know *lots* of people who would buy alcohol for their younger friends (usually not 14, but 15-17, sure) when they were just of age, so stores do that to cover their behinds.

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 06:48 PM

which store was it? I shop at the Bellingham store. [ no beer or wine]
I think they should have sold it to you, as long as you're of age. go back and have the kids wait in the car lol

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Posted 04 March 2006 - 07:22 PM

I can understand your frustration, but the guy could lose his job or liquor license, so he was being extra cautious. If you leave 'em in the car--have them lock up the doors and to lay on the horn if any strangers bother them!!!(just being a cautious mom!!)