Not sure if you've bought alcohol lately, but at most large grocers near me, they're scanning licenses now instead of just verifying the birth date - and I'm pretty confident those scans aren't just checking the birthdate and then deleting all record of the interaction..

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reorder9695 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure where you are but no one has ever done that to me. I usually would go through self checkouts so someone just comes over, takes a quick look at my drivers licence, and puts in their employee id into the machine to authorise it.

	▲	mikeyouse 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm in the midwest, but at several large chains with hundreds of locations, even at the self-checkout when you buy booze, it flashes the little 'attendant needed' sign, the person comes over, scans their badge, takes your ID to do a 1 second look, and then scans it on the same barcode reader you use for your box of cereal.

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kmoser 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Pro tip: those scanners probably don't work with passports, so a human must still eyeball your passport to verify that you're old enough.

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kappaking 2 days ago | parent [-]

They can probably just deny you service at that point.

	▲	kmoser a day ago \| parent [-]
		They can deny you service at any time, but it's unlikely they will do so if you present a valid ID, even if it's not machine-readable. Not every driver license can be easily scanned, so in that respect it's no different from a passport.