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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
From my personal experience, the Beer Store is actually kinda shitty at carding. I'm 21, but I look a few years younger than I actually am (if I wore the right clothes I could probably travel with a group of high schoolers without it looking weird!), so I should always be carded. LCBO is the only place that has always, always, always consistently asked me for ID. At the Beer Store, I've only been carded maybe two-thirds of the time. Ditto with bars and restaurants.
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In Kingston, I've found the LCBO IDs me about 50% of the time, and when I used to go to The Beer Store more regularly, they IDed me maybe 30% of the time. However, last summer I went to one where I made my order, the cashier took my money, and
then asked for ID. It was the first time I had forgotten to bring my drivers license to that particular Beer Store, and so for the first time in my adult life I was denied an alcohol purchase. Fortunately the cashier gave me the money back, but I thought they were required to ask for ID
before the transaction. This was at the location on Princess near University Ave, which often runs out of a lot of stock and is probably the worst of the worst Beer Stores.
All but one Beer Store in Kingston are the small in-and-out style with the order counter, and at least one still has the 90s logo. The exception is a new store that opened last year, the first new Beer Store in the city in at least 25 years.
I've virtually stopped spending money there. Like for ME, it's a bottle depot to me now, though I will sometimes buy a single tallboy can if I've made a bottle return.