So I noticed something strange in the supermarket today. At the cash register, siblings were just paying before me. As I saw it, they bought groceries and two xbox credits worth 25 euro each. In total, the purchase cost around 60 euro. In any case, the seller asked if someone had an ID with them. Neither had one with them. The shop assistant then asked when the older sister asked when she was born, then she said February 2005. The shop assistant just laughed at her and said, yes, well thought out ". I mean why should she lie and say she was 15, that doesn't make any sense. If you were to pretend to be 16 and I thought she really looked like 15. If she had actually estimated it at 16. The reaction of the cashier really didn't make sense. After the older sister then (completely understandable and in my opinion also justified) reacted annoyed and also said that it wouldn't make any sense what the cashier says they got the things after all, even if reluctantly. The little brother (I guess he was so 12, 13) also meant that the cards for the xbox are from 0, is even big on it. Now I'm wondering what went on with the cashier. Can anyone explain to me whether that was justified d did she ask for ID ect? I know that with the limited legal capacity under 18, but that doesn't prohibit such purchases, does it? The cards are from zero (reached at Playstation understand that there are from 18 as far as I know but not at Xbox) and otherwise the two only bought food so no cigarettes or alcohol or anything. So everything is allowed. The older sister was already 15, you can trust that or - I was a child / teenager often do the weekly shopping alone.
Would be cool if someone knows it - I would be interested now.
I think maybe that had something to do with the purchase value. There's the so-called "pocket money paragraph. You can google it.
The cashier was probably rather unsure whether the children were really allowed to spend the money on it. It's not that common that parents say clearly, buy XBox cards, play games.
The cashier has to weigh it up somehow, but it's not that easy. I understand that she then says no when in doubt. Better than when the parents show up and say you could have guessed that we didn't allow that. And then the whole thing has to be reversed or did not legally take place at all. This is just annoyance for everyone, maybe the woman has experienced something like this and doesn't feel like it anymore.
