How to buy liquor at Jewel when you’re underage: A 9 step guide
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Go to Jewel, preferably during a busy time. Saturday afternoon works well.
Walk to the liquor section. Select your favorite variety of beer, wine, or spirits.
Go to the self checkout line.
Wait for the Jewel employee in charge of the self checkout area to become distracted. This happens regularly.
Scan the alcohol. The system will say that approval is needed.
Approval is not needed. Swipe your credit card.
The system will exit out of the “needs approval” screen and into the “choose your payment type” screen.
Finish paying.
Walk out.
I’m 90% certain the system works this way. I’ll try it again next time I’m at the grocery store. Have fun, teenagers.
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September 22nd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
So you mean it works if you swipe your credit card regardless of the fact that the select payment type screen doesn’t come up before you do it? I’ve never tried that. I’m not underage, but it could come in handy those times when the clerk is nowhere to be found. It’s either wait around for them at self-checkout, or wait in a long line at a regular aisle, only to find out that the cashier isn’t 21. They need to mark the alcohol friendly aisle. Especially near closing.
I do notice that a lot of the time if they’re busy the self-checkout clerk won’t bother to check ID, and will just approve it anyway. So either way, this could work for the kids…
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:55 am
Yes, I’m thinking that the swipe–which interfaces with the external card readers–switches the self checkout software automatically into payment mode. We’ll see.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Or you could just walk out with it. Both is breaking the law.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I actually pitched this as a news story when I worked as a producer for FOX. It worked in 2003, and probably still works now. We were going to send in pre-teens to prove the point. Trouble is, TV needs pictures… and Jewel knew enough — probably from Sam Donaldson and Food Lion — to prohibit hidden cameras with a prominent notice on the front door.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
to Michael Benner its only illegal if ur caught