lol, I'm 19 am I got asked for ID earlier this year for a 12 rated game.  I don't blame the store workers, it's the store policy.  Until I recently left for university, I worked part time at a hardware/gardening store chain and we had to ask anyone who looked under 25 for ID when buying aerosols, knives, fireworks, solvents and the like.  If we didn't, we would face disciplinery action.  But the example in the op is just rediculous though.

Some shops in the UK are beyond ridiculous when asking for an ID. I remember a Saturday late night I went to a Spar and the guy was so used to asking for IDs that he asked me for one even though I was buying a sandwich.

i could see this article easily having been about a poor girl fired for not carding a 92yo.
policy is policy.

That could certainly explain things.

Nah, she was just pissed the 92-old granny has more fun in life than she has.

this, some stores take this very very seriously.  the place by mean the cash registrar itself won't even complete the sales without entering my birth information.

That's ridiculous imo >_>

Hey, if they didn't enforce their policy that way they'd be accused of profiling...

it's why 90 year old women have to be checked just as seriously as everyone else at the airport.

Really though, it must be a slow news day, a LOT of stores are like that.

Hell, plenty of cash registers require you type in a valid drivers license/state ID number before you can buy alcohol.

I got carded for an M Game... when I was 27.

I've been denied alcohol because my driver's license (which clearly showed that I was 32) had expired THAT DAY.