i havnt had the misfortune of havng to work retail in 20 years… when did they even start selling them to kids? everywhere i worked had a ‘dont sell these to kids’ for anything more than lucozade.
I’m all for that. If I had energy drinks when I were 10 I’d have caused carnage.
I’m sure it will be just as successful as the requirement to not sell alcohol to under-18s.
Today i learned it’s not already banned for under 16’s.
Most if not all supermarkets already won’t sell it to under 16’s and include it in their challenge 25 policies. They have a restricted item flag requiring approval.
As the article mentions, this’ll target the independent and corner shops.
British parties try not to regulate every single thing challenge (failed, impossible)
I feel a bit sorry for these kids, no more smoking, no more social media, not even a red bull.
Drug dealers don’t ask for ID tho
Does any other country have such an obsession with regulating everything they possibly fucking can?
Energy drinks where the only reason I got through school.
This is like when the Tories said they were banning plastic wet wipes.
Thought they already were because when I get one on occasion from Tesco when I’m in work the self checkout flags them as a 16 ID check.
Then why the fuck they are on Challenge 25 right now?
Oh well that makes up for going back on your 10 pledges Keir, and the 28bn green energy pledge, and removing bankers bonus cap but not the benefits one, for no free school meals, for turning a blind eye to genocide, for blagging us your dad was a lowly toolmaker, for blagging us you’re working class, for being a charlatan.
Welcome to the Nanny State, version 2.0 and giving itself the anabolic steroids because you might damage your own health.
This is what’s called ‘low hanging fruit’ policy.
Something that flirts with the appeal of controlling he sale of something, but in reality it is already that’s somewhat controlled.
A non-policy.
I thought that was the law anyway?
I’m late 20s and regularly get asked for ID to buy energy drinks somehow.
I thought this was already the case? Presumably it’s currently voluntary. Most supermarkets already do this though.
considering? i’ve had friends get challenge 25’d for a redbull 😭
If they come up with some real policies to improve lives I’ll maybe vote
Is it not already? I get ID’d whenever I buy energy drinks through that self-checkout at the Co-Op. Well, not ID’d exactly, but it won’t let you scan them without approval.
Isn’t this literally law already? Every time I try to buy a can of Monster at the self-checkout I have to fuck about waiting for a staff member to come look at my ID first. It’s aggravating.
Glad they’re getting their priorities right, kids buying energy drinks are what’s causing all the cost of living crisis and issues with increasing hate crime in the country.
Labour doing their usual attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Why is labour so fucking fascist and anti semitic? Can we have have an actual left wing party as opposed to blue nazis and red “i swear we are not nazis”.
Tories keep our money, labour keep our sugar drinks.
It already de-facto is due to all supermarket refusing to sell it to under 16s, there is no need to bring in costly legislation to confirm what’s already happening, I’m 23 6ft4 300lb weathered rough skin and have a beard half way down my chest that makes me look like I just stepped off a longship at lindisfarne and I get ID checked every single time I buy a can of monster. There is no point, waste of time and money that could be better used creating/enforcing much better legislation.
Freedom is scary. “Ban This Thing!” should not be the Go-To for any government.
They already ruined IRN BRU (albeit Barrs arguably did that on their own, rather than just raise the price to soak the Sugar Tax).
Well since it’s labour we know next week they will be considering free energy drinks for under 16s.
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i havnt had the misfortune of havng to work retail in 20 years… when did they even start selling them to kids? everywhere i worked had a ‘dont sell these to kids’ for anything more than lucozade.
I’m all for that. If I had energy drinks when I were 10 I’d have caused carnage.
I’m sure it will be just as successful as the requirement to not sell alcohol to under-18s.
Today i learned it’s not already banned for under 16’s.
Most if not all supermarkets already won’t sell it to under 16’s and include it in their challenge 25 policies. They have a restricted item flag requiring approval.
As the article mentions, this’ll target the independent and corner shops.
British parties try not to regulate every single thing challenge (failed, impossible)
I feel a bit sorry for these kids, no more smoking, no more social media, not even a red bull.
Drug dealers don’t ask for ID tho
Does any other country have such an obsession with regulating everything they possibly fucking can?
Energy drinks where the only reason I got through school.
This is like when the Tories said they were banning plastic wet wipes.
Thought they already were because when I get one on occasion from Tesco when I’m in work the self checkout flags them as a 16 ID check.
Then why the fuck they are on Challenge 25 right now?
Oh well that makes up for going back on your 10 pledges Keir, and the 28bn green energy pledge, and removing bankers bonus cap but not the benefits one, for no free school meals, for turning a blind eye to genocide, for blagging us your dad was a lowly toolmaker, for blagging us you’re working class, for being a charlatan.
Welcome to the Nanny State, version 2.0 and giving itself the anabolic steroids because you might damage your own health.
This is what’s called ‘low hanging fruit’ policy.
Something that flirts with the appeal of controlling he sale of something, but in reality it is already that’s somewhat controlled.
A non-policy.
I thought that was the law anyway?
I’m late 20s and regularly get asked for ID to buy energy drinks somehow.
I thought this was already the case? Presumably it’s currently voluntary. Most supermarkets already do this though.
considering? i’ve had friends get challenge 25’d for a redbull 😭
If they come up with some real policies to improve lives I’ll maybe vote
Is it not already? I get ID’d whenever I buy energy drinks through that self-checkout at the Co-Op. Well, not ID’d exactly, but it won’t let you scan them without approval.
Isn’t this literally law already? Every time I try to buy a can of Monster at the self-checkout I have to fuck about waiting for a staff member to come look at my ID first. It’s aggravating.
Glad they’re getting their priorities right, kids buying energy drinks are what’s causing all the cost of living crisis and issues with increasing hate crime in the country.
Labour doing their usual attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Why is labour so fucking fascist and anti semitic? Can we have have an actual left wing party as opposed to blue nazis and red “i swear we are not nazis”.
Tories keep our money, labour keep our sugar drinks.
It already de-facto is due to all supermarket refusing to sell it to under 16s, there is no need to bring in costly legislation to confirm what’s already happening, I’m 23 6ft4 300lb weathered rough skin and have a beard half way down my chest that makes me look like I just stepped off a longship at lindisfarne and I get ID checked every single time I buy a can of monster. There is no point, waste of time and money that could be better used creating/enforcing much better legislation.
Freedom is scary. “Ban This Thing!” should not be the Go-To for any government.
They already ruined IRN BRU (albeit Barrs arguably did that on their own, rather than just raise the price to soak the Sugar Tax).
Well since it’s labour we know next week they will be considering free energy drinks for under 16s.
It will all depend on what the papers say.