How old do you have to be, to not get carded??

[jlima]

I am 44 years old!

How old do you have to be, to not get carded??

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

Wow! Lucky you!

I am 30 and it is hit or miss with me getting carded. Lately I prefer getting carded; it makes me feel young.

I don't think there's an actual age but I think it is if you APPEAR younger than 30, they're supposed to card.

 

[disneykidatheart]

It depends on who is doing the carding. Some places automatically card everyone who "looks" younger than a certain age. The last time it happened to me (and I have been past that age for years), I looked at the guy and said, "I suppose you think this is flattering but I am holding up your line while looking for my license." He sheepishly told me some people like it. I was nice but it is a pain you know where when it is really obvious that I am legal.

 

[Nancy]

The store I shop at cards everyone when they purchase alcohol of any kind and when they still sold cigarettes it was the same rule. You could be 100 and they are carding. If they don't they could lose their job.

I know if I buy beer there that I will need to show it, I have it out before they even ask.

 

[Cooky]

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[superme80]

I was 25 or so when they finally stopped carding me for R rated movies. My guess is I will be carded for a few more years for liquor.

 

[indimom]

In Indiana, you would have to be dead.
All businesses that sell alcohol here are required by law to card for every purchase. Wouldn't matter if it was my 96yo grandmother. They have to card every time.

 

[Carly_Roach]

You can be any age and still get carded. If the store's compliance policy dictates that any sale of alcohol, tobacco, R-rated movie, Psudafed, etc, must be accompanied by a DL# or some other proof of birthdate, then the employee in charge of the transaction is responsible for either gathering that information or refusing the sale.

It's nothing personal.

The store needs to protect themselves and follow their own compliance policy. If a customer doesn't like having to give that information, then that customer can either not buy the product that invokes the policy at that store or purchase the product at another store.

 

[bgirldeb]

Guess it's more of how old you have to "look". Consider it a compliment

I have no trouble getting carded for buying Alcohol. The people are just doing their jobs

 

[msmayor]

Many college towns will always card everyone, regardless of age...as well as a lot of businesses nowadays. If you think about it, it makes complete sense.

By carding everyone, no employee has to make a judgement about how old they 'think' a person is. Management lowers its liability risk of selling products to underage folks by requiring everyone to show proof of age, eliminating any question about how old a person is purchasing the product.

Of course, this doesn't necessarily reduce the use of fake ID's, but at least a business is covered because they asked and saw whatever ID was produced.

 

[Pixiedust34]

I think it depends upon the place. Some places card everyone and others don't card at all if you're obviously over 21.

At WDW last month, I bought drinks at a few table service restaurants and at a few counter service places (Epcot and CSR). I wasn't carded at WDW at all.

 

[DisneyNutMary]

In the company I work for, our rule of thumb is if the person appears to be 40 or older, we actually have a birthdate code for our registers that shows the cashier thought the person appeared 40.
It's funny what 40 looks like to different people, the teenagers card people up to 60 thinking they don't appear 40, and the older people tend not to card enough people thinking they appear 40.

When cashiers start out though, we tell them to just card everyone to play it safe.

 

[Tinijocaro]

Around here they must card EVERYONE.

 

[malibuconlee]

Lots of places card everyone. I never mind because that cashier if caught selling to someone underage is fined PERSONALLY as well as the business they work for.

 

[Robinrs]

Some transactions have to card EVERYONE, no matter how you look. I'm 54 and I STILL get carded and so does my 71yo uncle.

It's a requirement, not a compliment.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I agree, I think for some items it must be a requirement.
Last weekend I was buying DayQuil at Target and got carded.
I'm 50 years old!!

 

[daughtersrus]

I am 44 years old!

How old do you have to be, to not get carded??

I'm 46 and my friend is 50 and both of us were recently carded at stores that do not have a policy to card everyone.

I think it depends what the policy is for the store or if either the store or clerk were recently audited. There's a clerk at one of our local stores that has her own policy to card everyone for everything (music, spray paint, tobacco, liquor, lottery...) because she was fined for letting someone underage purchase a product.

 

[jfoofj]

I just turned 38 and I got carded at a liquor store not too long ago. I wasn't wearing any makeup, hair in a pony tail. I admit, no one ever believes I'm as old as I am, but I certainly don't look younger than 21. The girl who carded me asked my what kind of skin care products I used. I said "whatever is on sale". But I do have a fondness for Neutrogena stuff.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Around here they card everyone. They tried the "card over 35" rule but that just pissed people off. The people over 35 that got carded were pissed about having to get their ID out and people over 35 who didn't get carded were pissed that the clerk thought they were old. They couldn't win so they just switched to carding everyone

 

[browneyes106]

I'm 25 and I look younger than my age and I get carded at stores when I ever buy alcohol, lighters, cough medicine, spray paint or R rated movies on DVD/Blu-Ray. I laugh when I get carded for purchasing R-rated movies at the stores because the theaters I go to don't card me but a few months later when I buy the movies I saw in theaters on DVD or Blu-Ray I get carded by cashiers.

As others have mentioned in this thread a lot of places are now carding everyone and some register systems have to have birthdate entered in so the purchases can go through. My cousin's wife works at a grocery store that recently put this effect and they have received a lot of complaints and the corporate heads are considering revising the policy.