Sorry Broomstick, I’m grabbing from your post, but it’s for purpose of illustration and your post was handy. There’s many similar.
The point is that ‘carding’ (as many refer to it as) for liquor is just one element of several. It’s not simply just the requesting of ID from someone clearly well past the age where it should be, or needs to be required. It’s this plus, requesting phone numbers, addresses, emails and whatever other bits of personal information they think they can get away with requesting.
It’s a small purchase. No one is buying a car or a home here. You want to drop your 5 or $20 onto the counter and get out of there. You don’t want a fu__ing extended warranty on a 5 dollar battery—a win win for the shop. They not only get your personal information, they also get a few extra bucks for a warranty that 90% of people will never take advantage of. These businesses are not your friends.
It’s the point, the principal. Where does it end? We’ve seen where it ends - it doesn’t. Facebook would crawl into bed with you to see if you had shit stains on your skivvies given the opportunity. Well, they sort of already do if you’re in the habit of having your phone bedside while using the Facebook app.
At some point one must take a stand and say enough is enough. And for many, that time arrived when as a 60 or 80 year old they get asked for ID. Something that hadn’t happened in their life for perhaps 40 years or more. So why now? Because we let them get away with it. Plain & simple. Along with the phone numbers & every other privacy infraction.
Another analogy might be when signing up to subscribe for something. Lets say a cell phone service, since it’s semi on topic. The sales person points out that going to the next more expensive service is actually a far better deal over the long haul.
Well that may be true, but there comes a limit. And on top of what one is already spending on car insurance, home insurance, cable TV, hydro, maybe Netflix or other such things. There comes a limit whereby one must draw the line and say, no more.
For some that final straw comes at different intervals. Maybe it’s the phone request, maybe it’s the ID request. The thing is, we should all be wary of the amount of personal information we dole out because there will come no end to the amount of wanting and needing until we’re all bled dry and exist as nothing more than puppets fulfilling the desires of the greedy that operate among us. There reaches a point where it has to stop. Which is what my analogy was about.
Home Depot has made a habit of asking if we want a receipt emailed to us. Really?! We all know why that would be don’t we. And it sure ain’t because we’re going to save the world by saving a scrap of paper. I notice other stores are starting with this tactic now as well. As stated, it doesn’t end.
I use an ad blocker on my computer, for obvious reasons. I get web sites requesting that I turn it off so they can show me ads. Dohhhh; why do they think I have the blocker in the first place. I prefer not seeing their site at all if given the choice of visiting and being inundated with advertising I have zero interest in. It’s a no brainer. I’ll find the same content elsewhere. I know it helps pay to keep the site running. I have no interest in helping them pay their bills, I have enough bills of my own to contend with.
Incidentally, although I have no figures, I would feel comfortable stating that the number of arrests for minors drinking or the selling of alcohol to underage people has not changed one iota since the policy of asking of 90 year olds for ID was instituted.
It’s nothing more than the further erosion of the rights of citizens.