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God, I think corporate is silly. Selling off stores to get money for new "Healthiness +" card, playing the game that ended this past February with about $6,000,000 in free prizes while hiding data that shows the company is losing money faster than a colander can sink in a pool, running donations for charity, CEO is stepping down to be replaced with some other schmuck guy who wants to "take us in a new direction of awesomeness!", register upgrades involving the getting rid of thousands of perfectly good registers because they are too old to be compatible with the shiny new fingerprint scanners of supposed win and still with the fake cheery "we're a-ok! *BEAM*" in the company newsrag. Ok. I can live with that.
However.
As I'm aware, it's only people who live/buy alcohol in Tennessee who are required to show their ID for every alcohol purchase, even the wizened 80 year old man with a walker, not so sure about tobacco. We are located in New England, therefore we are exempt from that-check license to see if they are old enough, key in any birthdate that's old enough and they are good to go, right?
WRONG!
Aid of Rite company policy is changing! Starting April 18, every person who buys alcohol or tobacco, regardless of age, will be required to swipe IDs or scan them, no more keying in birthdates. "It will increase checkout speeds!"
I can SEE all the people (and regular alcoholics) coming in to throw giant hissy fits over having to produce their IDs every time they purchase alcohol, or grenadine, or lime juice. "WHAT AN INSULT I AM OLD ENOUGH I AM 45 YOU NEVER DID THIS BEFORE OH MY GOD I WILL NEVER SHOP HERE AGAIN!!!!!"
See you next Tuesday.
You can't resist our cheap beer prices.
However.
As I'm aware, it's only people who live/buy alcohol in Tennessee who are required to show their ID for every alcohol purchase, even the wizened 80 year old man with a walker, not so sure about tobacco. We are located in New England, therefore we are exempt from that-check license to see if they are old enough, key in any birthdate that's old enough and they are good to go, right?
WRONG!
Aid of Rite company policy is changing! Starting April 18, every person who buys alcohol or tobacco, regardless of age, will be required to swipe IDs or scan them, no more keying in birthdates. "It will increase checkout speeds!"
I can SEE all the people (and regular alcoholics) coming in to throw giant hissy fits over having to produce their IDs every time they purchase alcohol, or grenadine, or lime juice. "WHAT AN INSULT I AM OLD ENOUGH I AM 45 YOU NEVER DID THIS BEFORE OH MY GOD I WILL NEVER SHOP HERE AGAIN!!!!!"
See you next Tuesday.
You can't resist our cheap beer prices.
up. You definitely spend far more time arguing with them about actually showing their ID than you do manually keying in their Date of Birth. 
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