Tahitian Village Market

Sharon is the best! Great customer service.

This is our neighborhood convenience store. My husband and I went in on Saturday to buy charcoal, lighter fluid, and beer, and ended up getting very bad/​rude customer service.
When we sat everything up on the counter, the cashier asked to see ID. I asked if she needed to see both (he drove, so luckily I brought my wallet), and she said «I’m sure he’s buying it, but since you touched the beer, I need to see yours too.» We both provided our IDs. (By the way, why was she sure he was buying it? Some women are actually allowed to have their own money/​make purchases for themselves these days!)
I had never heard about a «touching» related rule for buying alcoholic beverages, so I asked whether it was a different law for convenience stores than it was for grocery stores, or what, and the cashier became visibly angry and would only repeat over and over that she «worked there» and refused to answer any questions, asking why I wanted to know since she was letting us buy the beer. I told her that I’m a person who is interested in learning things, but that didn’t seem to help.
Anyway, I don’t think that «anyone who is accompanying a person buying alcohol, and who touches the drink in question, must provide valid ID» would work as a store policy. What about people who bring in their 10 year old children? If a kid helps their parent carry stuff to the register does that mean the parent can’t buy alcohol? I used to shop at a grocery store in Abilene near the conservative religious university that I attended for graduate school, and I was used to both my husband and I being carded there (so if this cashier had said «yes» when I asked whether she needed to see both of our IDs, rather than giving a nonsensical explanation related to «touching,» I wouldn’t have pursued it any further), but that had nothing to do with whether someone «touched» the alcoholic beverage and everything to do with the fact that the store was near a college campus, and one belonging to the Church of Christ, at that.
So I’m a little put off by that cashier’s attitude. Before this point I’d come in a few times at the beginning of my morning commute, to buy breakfast tacos or biscuits, and they tasted okay (not great) and the two women working in the morning were quite pleasant and willing to engage in conversation. I can’t say that I won’t hesitate to come to this store in the future, but I’m sure I’ll be back eventually. Hopefully this experience was an anomaly for one reason or another.