Illinois Liquor Laws?

[jordank32]

So here is what happened. I go in to Dominick's Grocery store on saturday night with 2 friends to buy some stuff for dinner. We got food to make stirfry and we figured we would have a bottle of wine with it. Now, i am 21 and so was one of the friends I was with, but my other friend is only 20. So we go to check out and I intend to pay for everything. Instead of just carding me for the wine the cahier decides that he needs to card me and both of my friends. I said, "really?" So he goes and talks to his manager and she insists that he needs to check all 3 Ids. So I go over and talk to her and ask her why. Instead of just giving me an answer, she completely bites my head off as though I am an idiot for asking. She goes on and on about how it is state law. So I ask her, so what if my friends would wait outside and I get back in line? She says that this would be fine. I then make the mistake of asking her if this makes any sense to her, and then she gets all pissed of again and proceeds to scream at me for another couple of minutes while I just stand there. So I go back to the line because I am holding everyone else up, pay for my groceries, minus the wine, and leave. If she didn't want to sell me the wine because of laws, fine, but there was no reason for a store manager of all people to be so incredibly rude to me. I felt so embarassed. We proceed to all go to the liquor store right next store and I was the only one carded. I have bought wine at this Dominick's before with my 20 year old friend there without a problem. I hate how people assume that just since I am only 21 I must be causing trouble. If I had been 50 and been there with a 20 year old that was not my child, no way would they have carded them or been so rude. Does anyone know what exactly Illinois state law says in a situation like this.

 

[minendo]

Does anyone know what exactly Illinois state law says in a situation like this.

They reserve the right to refuse anyone. Not sure if it is Illinois law regarding the carding of the whole party, but it may be store policy.

 

[K1052]

I am not sure of the law, but what you describe has happened to me as well. Only at supermarkets.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

the US has major sticks up their asses regarding liquor laws

 

[minendo]

Furthermore, I have had problems purchasing alcohol in the Naperville area. The grocery store now known as Butera (think it was originally an Eagle) sold to me the first time I went in, but wouldn't sell to me the second time I went in because I didn't have an Illinois id. Now that the store has reopened their policy for liquor and cigarette sales is 23 years old with a valid Illinois ID. They lost my business for good.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: minendo
Furthermore, I have had problems purchasing alcohol in the Naperville area. The grocery store now known as Butera (think it was originally an Eagle) sold to me the first time I went in, but wouldn't sell to me the second time I went in because I didn't have an Illinois id. Now that the store has reopened their policy for liquor and cigarette sales is 23 years old with a valid Illinois ID. They lost my business for good.

There are plenty more stores to buy from in that area and more being built all the time.

 

That same thing has happened to me....I argued that I buy booze all the time with my 7 year old daughter with me and they never card her.
The lady let me buy the beer

 

[memo]

I'm pretty sure its a law,(in IL) because when me and my girlfriend went in to buy wine they carded us both, (both were 21 at the time). I think it's just so that people don't blatantly come in buy beer for minors and turn around and give it right to them. In the store managers thinking what I don't see isn't a problem, i.e. your friends waiting outside, which is pretty stupid. The fact that she got pissed at you was uncalled for though, I'd imagine if she just calmly explained the rule you wouldn't have cared and just bought the stuff and left.

 

[UnoSigmaPi]

That happened to me here in Michigan. I don't know if it's a state law or anything, but it is up to the store wiether or not they sell to anyone.

 

[cjchaps]

Was it the dominicks in Westchester by any chance? THose idoits do that crap all the time over there. If makes absolutely no sense, as you have said because you buddies can wait in the car or wonder around the store while you buy your stuff. And I really don't think that that is the law, because we would have probably heard of such a stupid law by now....

 

[jordank32]

it was actually the Dominick's in Evanston

 

[ableach33]

i couldn't buy at a gas station b.c some cop said it was a law in ny and my friend was sitting in the car. so I ask the cop if I should drop off my friend and come back, he says yeah. So I do that, buy beer at another gas station, go back to campus, and get pulled over (same cop)... had me open my trunk, he IDed my friend, and we shared some words. He also said my stock muffler was "too loud" which was a shock to me that he could come up with such bs. he ended up letting me go but it just made me pissed that i had to go thorugh that

the liquor laws we have are dumb and cops can be even worse..