Mum & # 39; dismayed & # 39; by the refusal of the supermarket to sell him a bottle of wine

Kristel Aholova was unable to buy alcohol A mother is outraged that she is denied a bottle of wine at her local supermarket, because she's having children by his side.

Kristel Aholova, 35, says she's going to have to leave her kids aged 3, 10 and 15, out of town if she wants to buy wine at Northcote's countdown, where she has shopped for 10 years.

"I am a single mother, I always have children with me, including I will now leave my children in the car unattended, if I want to buy wine, it is appalling!

On Saturday, Aholova had her 10-year-old daughter, 15-year-old son and a couple of his son's friends with her in the cash line, when the cashier refused de s

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Aholova says that she was not asked for a piece of ID. But the supermarket wanted her to "prove at beyond any reasonable doubt that she was buying the wine for herself.

"How the hell am I doing this?" she said to Stuff .

Aholova asked to speak to the store manager, who supported the cashier operator by refusing the sale.

Aholova said that she was not the first parent to be prevented from buying

A father who was shopping with his little girl earlier in the day and wanted to buy wine to add to his kitchen was informed of the same thing. Aholova found out after publishing his experience on a page of parents on social networks.

Aholova bought a bottle of wine from an alcohol store Saturday, paying $ 5 more.

Paul Radich, head of alcohol management at Countdown, said Countdown had taken its responsibility to sell alcohol very seriously. because there were important consequences if they were wrong.

"We may have been a little too careful in this case and we apologize to the client," Radich said. "Our policy is this: when a member of a group is under 25 and our team has reason to believe that beer or wine will be provided to a minor, we reserve the right to right to ask for a piece of identification or refuse the sale.

"Our team has to make many calls every day to judgment and we are always trying to find the right balance between compliance with the law and the guarantee that customers can safely access products that are safe. they want in our stores. " [19659007Laloisurlaventeandalcoolding2012suppliedthatthesupermarketneedscanbepenalized'itcanbeenprovedcheckoutwhenbuyingalcoholhadhisorhadgooddrinkinghousing

Progressive, the owners of Countdown, also declared in their policy of alcohol and tobacco law that adults are not allowed to provide Alcohol to any minor (under 18 years old) unless they are the parents of the minor.

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