Tesco refuse to serve Ice without I.D!!!

Today i was in work and sent one the staff members to pick up a couple of bags of ice for the bar since our ice machine was broken.

He was gone a while and wondered where he had been.


He eventually turned up looking very unhappy carrying two bags of ice. I asked him what had happened and he told me Tescos had ID'd him for the bags of ice.

Despite the fact that he is six feet tall, a father of a child and was wearing his works uniform, they asked him to produce ID otherwise he couldn't purchase the ice.

He asked to speak to the manager who eventually told him 'oh i'll let you off this time, but next time bring ID!, but it's store policy'...

What on this green earth is happening? Why would anyone need to produce ID for frozen water?

I tell you if that would have been me in the store, i would still be there now arguing with the manager. What a bunch of fuckwits. I can only assume somebody in the head office has gone insane!

Can anyone possibly elaborate on this?
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 4:34, archived)

I believe he was lying.

( executiverocker only wears C&A, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 4:43, archived)

why the hell would you have to have ID for ice?
was it made out of vodka or something?

Earlier this week I had an old lady cashier at the grocery store who was squinting at me, trying to figure out if I needed to be carded or not for buying beer. I finally showed her my driver's license and then had to convince her of my real birth year.

This wouldn't be a big deal, except that I'm 44 years old. I don't remotely look like I'm in my 20s. Except to sixty-something old biddies, apparently.
( Shiksa, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 5:28, archived)

The other day I was asked for ID to buy an M rated DVD.
I took it as a bit of a compliment...I don't mind the idea of looking 15.
( Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 5:31, archived)

Ice is hard-core.

( Cae1, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 5:47, archived)

Silly Tesco
Go to Asda next time
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 6:53, archived)

Because you could whittle
the ice down to a sharp point and use it to murder a pigeon slowly, or a tiny, tiny child. Obviously. Duh!
( The Neville What what what, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 7:10, archived)