you come here and refuse to sell 17 year old girls a tin of pop, kid.
Has it ever occured to you that just perhaps, if she didn't know what she was trying to buy, it might have been alcohol? Redd's beer with apple flavour or other flavours, Ginger Beer (alcoholic). wiĆniowka (cherry vodka). Might look like soft drinks.
Speculation again, but we never hear what she was trying to buy.
All shops have the right to refuse service. Or do you advocate shops being forced to sell products to people? :)
You know, that reminds me. A few months ago my 19 year old niece was refused sale of a DVD with a 15 certificate because she couldn't prove she was over 15. They wouldn't let her grandmother buy it in case she then bought it and gave it to her niece. This was in Asda. We originally thought it was because they really thought she was under 15... now, with the recent news about Asda's meat supplier only hiring Poles, we KNOW they wouldn't sell the DVD to her because she wasn't Polish!!!!!!!!