Aldi cashier refuses to sell liqueur CHOCOLATE to shocked mum because her 13-year-old daughter didn’t have ID

A MUM was stopped from buying chocolate liqueurs at Aldi - because she was shopping with her 13-year-old daughter.

Stunned Wendy Searle, 35, was at the supermarket with her sister Samiie Needham and daughter Mia when they were refused the treats.

Samiie tried to buy the chocolates, along with several other items in Bristol.

But the cashier asked Mia, who was still in her school uniform, for ID to prove she was over 18.

When she realised she was under age she refused to sell the chocolates to Samiie and wouldn't even scan them when Wendy then tried to buy them.

Wendy said: "She looked at my daughter and said, 'Have you got any I.D.?'

"Mia was in school uniform and said no, and the cashier said 'Sorry I can't serve you then.'

"We explained that she's Samiie's niece and shopping with me, but she said there's somebody in the group that's under 25.

"I said, 'If my sister came shopping with her four-year-old son, would you serve them?' and she said yes - then declined the sale."

Mum-of-three Wendy said the experience, at about 4pm on Monday, was ";absolutely ridiculous".

Mia, 13, bought some chewing gum with her own money before her aunty Samiie went through with her shopping.

The assistant asked 22-year-old Samiie for ID, which she produced, before asking the teenager.

The nursing assistant complained to customer services and received a message from Aldi telling her the employee "could be prosecuted" for selling the chocolates, which are made up of just 2.5 per cent liqueur, to underage kids.

She was also told by Aldi that the cashier overheard her telling Mia they could all eat the chocolates.

Wendy said: "They said the cashier overheard me telling my daughter I would share them with her, which is completely made up and that's what annoys me more than anything, because she lied about it."

Wendy, of Bristol, then went to pay for her own shopping after Samiie, and also tried to buy a box of the chocolates.

But after serving Samiie in the Fishponds store the cashier didn't even scan them.

Wendy said: "I had probably about ten items including one box of those chocolates.

"It was ridiculous and I kept saying to them: 'She's a 13-year-old school child, you can see that.'

"I come in with my children and do my weekly shop and quite often buy a bottle of wine or some alcohol and never get challenged, and then get challenged for a box of chocolates.

"It doesn't even say on the box how much alcohol is in them."

The range of chocolates includes small amounts of rum, champagne, Cointreau and amaretto and cost about £1.59 per box.

An Aldi spokesperson said: "Ms Searle should have been able to purchase this product.

"We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused."

It came after a learner was banned from the roads for drink driving -  after gorging on too many cherry liqueur chocolates.