
BCHS urges liquor outlets to ask for identification
Bendigo Community Health Services is urging takeaway liquor outlets to recognise their responsibility not to serve alcohol to people under the age of 18.
Our latest Supply Monitoring audit, which involves a number of people appearing ‘under age’ visiting 30 Bendigo outlets to purchase alcohol without identification, found:
- 11 sold alcohol without first asking for ID
- 1 sold alcohol even after the purchaser said they did not have ID
- 18 outlets asked for ID and refused to sell if the purchaser didn’t have any
- 29 per cent of chain outlets sold alcohol without asking for ID
- 67 per cent of independent outlets sold alcohol without asking for ID
- 70 per cent of franchise outlets sold alcohol without asking for ID
- 76 per cent of audited stores were almost empty at the time of purchase, and of the 23 per cent quite busy outlets 43 per cent sold alcohol without asking for ID.