Walmart asked me for my age...

stratovani · #1 09-02-2010, 10:41 PM

...because I was buying - get ready for this - a Clint Eastwood movie!

I was at Walmart tonight and my wife and I decided to buy a DVD. We bought a Clint Eastwood 3 in 1 with A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. When we went to pay for it the cashier asked for our age! When I asked her why she told me it was for the violent content in these movies. I was flabbergasted! I told her they were considered moderately violent back in the 60s, and they've been played on TV untold times since then, and that nowadays kids watch stuff far more violent than this. I told her I thought it was BS, and she agreed with me!

Walmart, America's arbiter of morality.

Nappa · #2 09-02-2010, 10:47 PM

If their machines/cash registers are anything like ours then for certain items were are required by law to check their identification and input their DOB for them to buy that product. I remember your last thread about Walmart. I would think that if you are so dissatisfied by Walmart then why continue to go there?

stratovani · #3 09-02-2010, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Nappa

If their machines/cash registers are anything like ours then for certain items were are required by law to check their identification and input their DOB for them to buy that product.

I can see it for certain things like pseudoephedrine or cigarettes, but for an old movie?

Nappa · #4 09-02-2010, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by stratovani

I can see it for certain things like pseudoephedrine or cigarettes, but for an old movie?

Is it rated R?

Edit: A Fistful of Dollars is rated R. They check (or are suppose to check) ID's for R-rated movies at movie theaters. Why not when you purchase an R-rated movie?

**Staccato** · #5 09-02-2010, 10:55 PM

The Internet, for example, is full of stuff with questionable content-but there's no shield without parental safeguards!

Wally World is trying to protect your innocence...

LiquidMidnight · #6 09-02-2010, 11:34 PM

Why do you always get crabby with check-out people who are following their company's protocol? Didn't you complain a few months ago over the check-out person asking you a question for their database while buying some cold medicine or something?

But yeah, I do agree that it's asinine to ask for your age over a Clint Eastwood movie (i.e., asinine that the company requires its employees to ask, not asinine that the employees are following their prescribed protocol).

warwick.hoy · #7 09-02-2010, 11:41 PM

People buy DVDs still?

**line6man** · #8 09-02-2010, 11:45 PM

Do you look like a little kid, where asking about your age would be somewhat appropriate, or are you clearly over 18?

Auzzie-Phoenix · #9 09-03-2010, 12:50 AM

The exact question that a wally world register requests the cashier to ask for a movie age check is: "Is customer under age of 17?" with yes assigned to one key, and no assigned to another. With the exception of alcohol or tobacco an age isn't required to be input, the rest of the questions are yes/no. Age checks pop up. Ages are 16 for knives, 17 for R movies and MA games, 18 for any sporting goods equipment related to projectiles (bb guns/airsoft/paintball supplies), 18 for cold medicines and fireworks as well.

If the customer's age is questionable via appearance (age isn't blatantly obvious), the cashier is required to ask for ID (except mandatory age checks for alc/tobacco/"firearms"/fireworks). For age 18 verifications, the register asks: "was customer born on or before <insert current month/day/ 18 years ago>?"

To avoid any possible repercussions from management, some cashiers will ask everybody. It's just a CYA move on their part. If a cashier runs across someone underage attempting to buy restricted merch., they are supposed to deny the sale if a parent/guardian isn't present, which results in the merch. being set aside.
I was a wally world cashier full-time for the last 3 years until 2 months ago.

tplyons · #10 09-03-2010, 04:47 AM

I get carded at Wal-Mart buying DVD's more often than I do at bars and liquor stores.

crucislancer · #11 09-03-2010, 07:31 AM

I'm sure they are just trying to cover their ass. I don't think it's a big deal if someone asks for my ID when I'm buying something like that, whether I look old enough or not. A Grocery chain here called Grocery Outlet recently started carding everyone on alcohol purchases. Even if you look like you are 80 you will get carded.

bassman1185 · #12 09-03-2010, 07:55 AM

I bought Braveheart on DVD a couple of years ago (when I was 21 or 22) at Wal Mart. The cashier just frowned at the screen and asked "You old enough to be lookin' at Braveheart?" to which I said "yes." No ID needed.

**cheezewiz** · #13 09-03-2010, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Auzzie-Phoenix

The exact question that a wally world register requests the cashier to ask for a movie age check is: "Is customer under age of 17?" with yes assigned to one key, and no assigned to another. With the exception of alcohol or tobacco an age isn't required to be input, the rest of the questions are yes/no. Age checks pop up. Ages are 16 for knives, 17 for R movies and MA games, 18 for any sporting goods equipment related to projectiles (bb guns/airsoft/paintball supplies), 18 for cold medicines and fireworks as well.

If the customer's age is questionable via appearance (age isn't blatantly obvious), the cashier is required to ask for ID (except mandatory age checks for alc/tobacco/"firearms"/fireworks). For age 18 verifications, the register asks: "was customer born on or before <insert current month/day/ 18 years ago>?"

To avoid any possible repercussions from management, some cashiers will ask everybody. It's just a CYA move on their part. If a cashier runs across someone underage attempting to buy restricted merch., they are supposed to deny the sale if a parent/guardian isn't present, which results in the merch. being set aside.
I was a wally world cashier full-time for the last 3 years until 2 months ago.

Don't bring logic, fact, and sense into a Walmart discussion.

stratovani · #14 09-03-2010, 08:24 AM

It's not a question of store protocol. It's not a question of "here-i-go-again"- I never complained or created a scene (got that, LiquidMidnight?) It's a question of being carded for an old movie. In my opinion nobody should be carded for buying a movie, unless it's porn which Walmart doesn't sell. It's up to parents to decide what their kids should be watching. If my 10-year-old (if I had one) wants to watch A Fistful Of Dollars I'll let him. I don't see any questionable content in this movie that would negatively influence him, any more than, say, Frankenstein or The Wolf Man. Actually, I'd be extremely surprised if I saw a 13-year-old buying an old Clint Eastwood movie! I think only aging Baby Boomers would buy old movies.

'Nuff said!

sarcastro83 · #15 09-03-2010, 09:01 AM

Dude, you should have got the 4 pac that also has "Duck, You Sucker" included.

Also, corporate policies like that, I'm relatively certain, is just a safety measure for poorly-parented kids who wind up buying a season of Oz while unsupervised only for their Fail-parents to come back all in a huff on their retarded high horse. Unfortunately, they are a necessary evil as long as people who shouldn't keep squirting out their failbroods.

i_got_a_mohawk · #16 09-03-2010, 09:03 AM

It IS a question of protocol. Just because the store (and it's protocol) doesn't share your opinion doesn't mean you need to get all worked up.

bassmonkeee · #17 09-03-2010, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by stratovani

It's not a question of store protocol. It's not a question of "here-i-go-again"- I never complained or created a scene (got that, LiquidMidnight?) It's a question of being carded for an old movie. In my opinion nobody should be carded for buying a movie, unless it's porn which Walmart doesn't sell. It's up to parents to decide what their kids should be watching. If my 10-year-old (if I had one) wants to watch A Fistful Of Dollars I'll let him. I don't see any questionable content in this movie that would negatively influence him, any more than, say, Frankenstein or The Wolf Man. Actually, I'd be extremely surprised if I saw a 13-year-old buying an old Clint Eastwood movie! I think only aging Baby Boomers would buy old movies.

'Nuff said!

Feel better?

Nappa · #18 09-03-2010, 09:05 AM

A Fistful of Dollars has a death count of 73 men.

For A Few Dollars More features implied rape.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly features a wide-range of violence.

If these had been release now they would get a R-rating. Or heavy edit.

Unrepresented · #19 09-03-2010, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by stratovani

I was at Walmart tonight

There's your problem.

There's a lot of people (myself included) who don't shop there out of principle.

chicago_mike · #20 09-03-2010, 09:37 AM

Unrepresented beat me to it.