Yesterday I went to Savemart to buy some beer and they would accept my passport as ID
 

Its not the first time I bought beer from there, but yesterday there was a cashier I hadnt seen before, and when I showed her my passport, she straight out told me that she doesnt accept passports and she only accepts official Nevada IDs; which came as a surprise since I have bought beer using a matricula before. I told her that I was a visitor and that was the only form of ID I had and that passports are official forms of ID no matter where you go. I asked her if i could please talk to her manager but she got aggresive and she said she was the manager and that she didnt want to argue and if I didn't leave she would call the police. I left that place very pissed off; I know for a fact she isnt the manger because a manager wouldnt be working as cashier during graveyard shift. I want to put a complaint on that bitch, but Im not sure where to start. I was thinking of either calling the real manger, or the board of tourism. what do you guys think I should do??

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wouldn't*

Damn Im so pissed off I cant spell right

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manager or headquarters. FWIW, bitch wouldn't take my expired texas ID once (or any of my valid mexican ID's for that matter). I mean I'm so old the damn thing is expired for fuck's sake. Cousin accused her of being a racist bitch, but I understand they gotta swipe those things sometimes.

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This is the kind of shit that makes me wanna leave sometimes. If i call the board of tourism pretending to be a dissatisfied tourist will they do anything??

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doubt it. Is this a chain store? If so, just snitch to the higher ups, they're the ones losing money over this shit. Do understand it may just be stupid policy and the 1st clerk that sold you booze was being a cool guy and not a stickler...

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Just brush it off. I know it sucks, maybe you can complaint to the manager next time when you see him.

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yeah its a chain store I guess its the same company that owns food maxx in Cali. I just called and they told me that its official store policy but that they were going to call the manager about the employees aggressiveness, and they are going to have her give me a call. fuck this I'm going to fight this.

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That's Bull! How can their policy not accept passports as official IDs? This is some serious discrimination! How can a tourist not be able to purchase beer? This goes beyond a crappy food store chain policy. Passports as official ID are part of conventions made by entire world!

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guys ppl from NY can't buy liquor in Boston w/their ID's. We as foreigners are not alone on this one.

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ive also have bought alcohol before at a savemart with a passport with out a problem. but the thing was that this savemart was right across a university and my cousin who works there told me that the reason why they accept it was because they knew that there would be foreign students wanting to buy alcohol and the only vaild id they probably have would be a foreign passport therefore they made it was acceptable.

but did they really accept your marticula before?

by any chance does anyone know if supermarkets or if liquor stores in southern cali especially around the san fernando valley accept marticulas or passports to buy alcohol?

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I've only had one place (a bar) not let me in to the bar/buy booze because i had a matricula. I was kinda pissed but I just made sure to let the door guy know that there was a ton of us going out to drink that night and he had just cost the bar a ton of money. Made a call to some people already inside and they filed out within two minutes. It felt good to know that I had some power over that bar, as I was a goddamn paying customer. there are so many other places to drink in Chicago that i didn't really care. I mean hell, i'm almost thirty, i don't look like i'm sixteen.

this one time (didnt have anything to do with id but still), i went out to eat at Steak N Shake out in the burbs (Naperville on Route 59, that place sucks, but its suburbia so not much to choose from), and our waitress lady brought us our check. Our bill was like $13 so i just left a $20 and walked out with a friend. As I'm getting to my car, manager comes out yelling after me that i didn't pay my bill. how fucking embarrassing. I responded, "did you check the table?". her response: "oh". nothing else. no "i'm sorry", nothing. she just went back inside. I was fuming. no way would she have done that if i was a white kid from suburbia. I went back inside and demanded that i get my change back from the $20. no $7 (54%) tip to the waitress. I then called corporate and explained everything. About a month later, I got a letter in the mail from Steak N Shake corporate that the manager had been reprimanded (I highly doubt that, but i really hope she got suspended for a week or more, bitch.) .

end rant.

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yeah the only form of ID I had before was my matricula so If I bought alcohol i had to show them that and they didnt give me any trouble before until this happened, but what the hell a passport is way more official than a matricula. it feels like i wasted 100 bucks on my passport

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Yeah bro. virtually ANY liquor store will accept your matricula, as far as the supermarkets go, try the hispanic oriented ones such as, La Vallarta (the biggest in cali), El Super, Superior, El Gigante, and sometimes Food-4-Less. What neighborhood do you live in? You probably will not have much luck with Sav-On, Albertsons, Ralphs,Vons. I have done it at Costco though.

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Obsolete is right on. It's SO CAL....or SFV haha what store hasn't run into people with Matriculas or Passports. But like he said, you will have no issues at the hispanic stores. That being said, I've had no issues at Stater Bros, Ralphs or CVS Pharmacy. Don't go in there looking like a total goof and when they ask for ID, just pull it out with confidence. Depending on the store (Staters has started doing this), the regular cashier has to take it to a manager to get it "verified" (idk why, its not like they can see any diff info than you can), but if you're over 21, you're golden. And don't forget to smile and be polite!

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really?! wow, but i live in the pacoima area, yea because i was curious on how its works down here since im knew to socal and i knew it was more marticula friendly but wasnt sure who accepted them, there is a superior and a food4less in the area but i havent even tried due to resulting in having a bad experience. but its sure nice to know now

Re: Yesterday I went to Savemart to buy some beer and they would accept my passport a
 

Since the Matricula has the date of birth in spanish, some stores give me shit sometimes but I always explain them and never really had much trouble.