I got CARDED at Walmart...

[crcormier]

Stop this world, I wanna get off...

 

[dturner]

I have NEVER EVER heard of such a thing.

By the title of this thread, I thought you were going to say that they carded you for smokes, I buy DH smokes at Walmart and I always get carded, one day I left my billfold in the car, they WOULDN'T let me have those cigarettes until I went out to the car and got my license. I was furious - I'm 42 and I assure you I don't look UNDER 18 or 27 or whatever it is now.

white out??? you've got to be kidding me!!

 

[poohandwendy]

Am I the only one who has a problem with household items being treated as controlled substances, when it comes to minors? Sorry, but I think retail stores (like Walmart) need to leave the parenting up to the parents. It is one thing when the government requires cashiers to check ID for a product like cigarettes, alcohol, etc. But just because kids CAN huff, sniff or whatever a household product does not mean that is why they are buying it.

Note to Walmart...kids can find products at home to sniff for a high. You are not preventing sniffing, only inconveniencing your customers. AND insulting your future bread and butter.

I just don't like the big brother mentality here.

 

[Annette_VA]

No way....Wow. Sad what this world's coming to!

 

[Nebsky]

You think you have troubles. I was once carded to sit in an exit row of an airplane. You have to be 15 to sit there. I was well over 15 and the part that ticked me off more was she insisted on seeing my Drivers License but didnt even question my twin brother sitting on the other side of the aisle.

Jeff

 

[gr8tpanther]

Am I the only one who has a problem with household items being treated as controlled substances, when it comes to minors? Sorry, but I think retail stores (like Walmart) need to leave the parenting up to the parents. It is one thing when the government requires cashiers to check ID for a product like cigarettes, alcohol, etc. But just because kids CAN huff, sniff or whatever a household product does not mean that is why they are buying it.

Note to Walmart...kids can find products at home to sniff for a high. You are not preventing sniffing, only inconveniencing your customers. AND insulting your future bread and butter.

I just don't like the big brother mentality here.

I don't even like that they card for movies and CDs, but WHO through a fit large enough to get this to happen? There is a small percent of us who hate this, then there are those who stuck their noses in where it didn't belong. Something happened to someone THEY knew with something THEY thought never should have been sold or something to that effect, and now stores have to degrade adults for something that someone feels minors should NEVER get hold of. HOWEVER, if they go this route, they may as well card for everything, cause kids can get high off of TOOTHPASTE!!!

 

[babar]

Oh, I'm so doing this at lunch to see what happens.

So what happened???

 

[Kermit]

I got carded a few years ago at Garden Ridge for buying spray paint. I don't know how old one has to be to buy spray paint, but I assure you I had passed up that age many years before then.

DH thought it was hilariously funny. I was EXTREMELY pregnant with Jacob at the time, and I wasn't even going to do the painting myself, much less huff the paint.

 

[pfishgirl]

same thing with spray paint ( must be 18 )

the funniest was when my son and I went to walmart and he bought a car model and he couldn't buy the glue to put the model together!!!
(luckily MoM was there to help him out)
he says to me, yea I bet I could of walked away with a Lighter or Matches Though without any question....

 

[G00fyDad]

You can sniff the bottles of white out but since walmart team members enter the item as "White Out" the computer system automatically kicks that message out to the clerk.

Other items would be (but not limited to):

paint
can of compressed air
nail polish remover
rubbing alchohol
wood stain
air fresheners

 

[ckay87]

I don't think Wal-Mart is parenting at all. I think they are covering their a**es.

(OT - this is the second time today I had to use asterisks. I have a problem I need to work out, I think)

 

[julie_yet]

I got carded at Wal-Mart for buying a paint pen.

 

[Fire14]

I've been carded more than I care to say.
getting carded for white out just happened to me this last time.

 

[Twinkles6892]

We aren't allowed to have white out or glue/rubber cement at school.

 

[jgmklmhem]

I don't think Wal-Mart is parenting at all. I think they are covering their a**es.

(OT - this is the second time today I had to use asterisks. I have a problem I need to work out, I think)

I agree they were probably sued by one of these parents who should have been parenting because their DD/DS OD'd on some inhalent so now Wal-mart is covering themselves by requiring ID.

 

[OK!]

Weird. They don't card for white-out here in St. Louis, either; yeah, I do look over 18 (I actually turn 32 today, horrifyingly enough ), but I'm always carded for booze there (and rarely am anywhere else).

 

[Disneyland_emily]

I've gotten carded for both a paint pen and spray paint...

I know my Walmart has I *think* has the Equate Tussin behind the counter now as after a few teenagers bought it- drank it then rammed a few cars in the lot and they tried to sue our store...

Isnt it Amazing... -em

 

[Maleficent13]

I didn't get a chance to go at lunch...didn't actually get to leave the office. But next time I'm in Walmart, I'm buyin' some white-out.

PAW, I agree with you.

 

[tinkerbee]

I don't understand why everyone is in such a huff about this. If it says to card people they have to. Because that one time the cashier doesn't it will be one of those undercover stings and the cashier and the store can be fined thousands of dollars. I wouldn't risk it if I were a cashier. People sue over everything and if a underaged person happens to buy whiteout, paint, or anything else you can huff and something happens to that kid it might come back on the company. They are just covering their butts. Same thing happens if you buy to much of one of the items that go into making crystal meth. It flags it so you can't buy more than three of something.

 

[gr8tpanther]

It isn't the cashier or the store that bothers, it is the fact that they HAVE to card for something like White Out. It is the simple fact that we have come to NEED to do this with ANYTHING. And WHY? Who is it that makes the laws on WHAT to and NOT to card for? There are many things that can hurt if misused, are we going to put restrictions on EVERYTHING?