Are retailers asking too much when they seek to verify a shopper’s identity? According to a recent story by KMOX (a CBS Radio station in St. Louis): “Having a cashier check your identification is nothing new, but the way some retailers are doing it is raising eyebrows. David Johnson was at his local Target store and decided to pick up some wine. He was a little surprised when he was asked for his driver’s license. ‘Maybe this is benign, but it’s just very unsettling,’ Johnson said. ‘And I got kind of amused by it being 60 years old (chuckles), that’s kind of cool… you know?’ But he started to lose his sense of humor when the clerk scanned it with the register.”

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