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I went to buy some alcohol at Schnuck's and was promptly turned down because my license has expired. My license has expired? So the F what?! Guess what, Schnuck's? At the end of the day, I'm still 22 effing years old.

Between that and the Pepsi I bought which expired during the Reagan administration, I'm about done with that store.

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Got a passport back at your place or anything like that?

A friend of mine once got denied at the Schnucks on Clayton by the Esquire because he had a driver's license from out of state(Michigan). They wouldn't accept it, so I had to buy the fun stuff.

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Cronos69 wrote:Got a passport back at your place or anything like that?

A friend of mine once got denied at the Schnucks on Clayton by the Esquire because he had a driver's license from out of state(Michigan). They wouldn't accept it, so I had to buy the fun stuff.
Nope, no passport. Just an expired license. I'm going to write them an angry letter to show them just how much I mean business.

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GatewaySnayke wrote:I went to buy some alcohol at Schnuck's and was promptly turned down because my license has expired. My license has expired? So the F what?! Guess what, Schnuck's? At the end of the day, I'm still 22 effing years old.

Between that and the Pepsi I bought which expired during the Reagan administration, I'm about done with that store.
Unrelated to your rant, but you'll want to renew your license within 6 mos. of expiration or you'll have to take all the tests over again.

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Snayke, I'm 31 and still get carded for alcohol from time to time. At the time I renewed my license, I had a good driving record so they offered to send me a sticker to put on the back of my current license to show that I'd renewed it. Well, I have been denied by some folks who don't think it's on the up and up, though it's completely legit. They think the expiration date on the front is legally binding. It's a pain.

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um... renew your license?
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Cronos69 wrote:Got a passport back at your place or anything like that?

A friend of mine once got denied at the Schnucks on Clayton by the Esquire because he had a driver's license from out of state(Michigan). They wouldn't accept it, so I had to buy the fun stuff.
That happened to me maybe 12-13 yrs ago as I was picking up supplies for a float trip down the Big Piney. "Yeah, we're not allowed to accept out of state DLs." I was 32 years old and my dad had to go buy liquor for me.

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omaha_red wrote:um... renew your license?
What omaha said.

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You're 22, so you probably look like you could be 20. Schnucks knows that whatever the agency that regulates alcohol sales in Missouri is (MABC?) regularly sends in "ringers" to try to buy beer with fake or expired licenses. Schnucks then gets fined, and the employee that didn't check the license might get fined or fired.

Snayke, don't bother sending that angry letter. You know Schnucks was just doing what they legally had to do in that situation. Get a valid ID and there's no problem.

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Schnucks sucks for alcohol purchasing. I agree. I still had an out of state ID for the first several months I was back from school. Schnucks has a policy against out-of-state IDs. I got flak about it multiple times. Once, I was refused, so the fellow with me (he was in his 30s, I was ~25) said he'd get it, and they wouldn't let him either, as he was with me. It was ludicrous. I pitched a fit a few weeks later at the same store, trying the same crap, and the store manager came out with a big book with pictures of state IDs to look at my Iowa one. While he did this, I took out about thirty other cards and materials from my wallet with my name on it. It took 15 minutes. I was being stubborn. He finally grudgingly let me buy my stupid bottle of wine.

Anyway, I told him that his policy might protect from some underage purchasers, but it lost him another customer for life. I honestly haven't stepped foot in that very-conveniently located Schnucks since then. It's one of the only companies I refuse to support.

(I know this is overly stubborn, but I've never been told I was a liar to my face like that jackass manager was telling me.)

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