I noticed this new policy in Texas at Walmart. Is it a law? Can I refuse and still buy beer? Sure I know I can go elsewhere but if it's a law what is the use? Anyone have a link to the law if it exist?
2007-03-28 08:46:42 · 9 answers · asked by bob K 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
You have to let them scan if you want to buy beer there and they demand the scan. Here's the law:
Senate Bill 1465
Senate Author: Whitmire
Effective: 9-1-05
House Sponsor: Ritter
Senate Bill 1465 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize a person to use a transaction scan device to access electronically readable information on a driver's license, commercial driver's license, or identification certificate for the purpose of complying with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products to persons younger than 18 years of age. The bill prohibits the information from being sold or otherwise disseminated to a third party for any purpose and provides that the information may be obtained by court order or on proper request by the comptroller, a law enforcement officer, or a law enforcement agency. It makes an offense under this provision a Class A misdemeanor and prescribes circumstances that are an affirmative defense to prosecution. The bill amends the Alcoholic Beverage Code to provide for the use of a transaction scan device in provisions relating to the sale of alcohol to minors and to the use of electronically readable information for the purpose of complying with the Alcoholic Beverage Code and rules promulgated by the Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
2007-03-28 09:01:51 · answer #1 · answered by Pumken 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i found this for you.
Wal-Mart and Big Brother are watching you in Texas!
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Here in TX, Wal-Mart now requires that you must produce physical identification when purchasing cigarettes and/or alcohol. No ID, no purchase. They scan your driver's license (or appropriate magnetic-strip ID). It doesn't matter if you are 70 years old, white haired, and prune-faced with age...they are going to scan your identification before permitting you to purchase alcohol or tobacco.
What is Wal-Mart doing with this information? For whom is Wal-Mart collecting this information? Where is it being stored?
Don't ask for a link on this...I don't have one.
This happened to me yesterday and I learned a little more about it in conversation with the sales associate who ran the cash register. She said it was a Wal-Mart policy, but she didn't know if it was for TX only, or if it was corporation-wide. I don't know how long the policy has been in effect because I rarely shop at Wal-Mart. I do know that it wasn't policy in January because my daughter was able to purchase her tobacco products at the same store without identification (she's well over the legal age), but she was required to produce identification at the beginning of March.
2007-03-28 08:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by dawg 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I bought a shopping cart full of groceries today at Walmart... I also had a 12 pack of beer in the cart. I am well over 60 years old and look it. I held up my license for her to see it [clearly visible] then she "ordered" me to remove it from the wallet so she could scan it! I told her straight out... that that is sick! Scan my license every time I buy a GD beer? I told her to scan everything in the cart then have someone put it all back on the shelves because you just lost a customer. Disgusting! It is all marketing and they are getting away with it. Maybe Walmart has plans to tattoo a "star" on our forearms with a number if we want to be "pre approved" for purchasing a beer! America "and all our freedoms" are going to Hell in a hand basket. Screw Walmart! Boycott starts today...
2016-03-07 12:01:05 · answer #3 · answered by terry 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if it's a law or not, but just as you refuse to scan your license, they can refuse to sell you the beer. Even if it is just a store policy, it is one designed to protect them from the costly reprimand they would get if they happened to sell beer to someone under age so they have every right to enforce the policy if they choose to.
2007-03-28 08:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by HeatherRK 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The plot thickens, suckas. What happens when they require you to use biometrics everywhere youy go? I know i know... Don't sweat it till it happens, fkoffs. Don't worry. Some of us will do something about it-- you can put yer bchasses in yer closets for all i care... START RESISTING THE POLICE STATE. DON'T COMPLAIN WHEN IT COMES TO A STORE NEAR YOU BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE ALLOWED IT BY NONACTION, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THESE NAZIS WANT..
2014-08-04 16:15:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jason 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's their policy, what are you going to do? They can refuse to serve any customer as long as the policy they apply doesn't discriminate. I had a cow the first time they wanted to see a DR license to buy a cold medication.
Don't like it? Don't buy there.
2007-03-28 08:52:23 · answer #6 · answered by wizjp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to buy beer at Wal-mart you will have to let them scan your ID. I have had this done and it doesn't bother me. I also have nothing to hide. Why should positive identification bother someone, unless of course they are underage or on probation.
2007-03-28 08:53:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's funny, I've never seen Walmart carry beer in the places I've lived, Wa., Ca..
2007-03-28 08:56:50 · answer #8 · answered by freekin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more important question is - what are you doing in a Walmart?
This is the company that sells cheap chinese crap and has cost Americans millions of jobs.
They are anti-competitive, fix prices, cheat their employees and the US government out of BILLION$$$$.
You should be patronizing your locally-owned businesses that protect American jobs.
2007-03-28 09:20:51 · answer #9 · answered by gw_bushisamoron 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋