Every once in awhile I'll go to the CVS drugstore here in Virginia and pick up some nicotine lozengers whenever I get the craving. I quit smoking in 2009.
For the first time, they made me show ID. Then they typed something into the cash register and gave my ID back. Looks like big brother wants to know who buys nicotine lozenges.
WTF ! Perhaps some government agency will get in touch with me so that they can 'help' me.
Thanks, there must be some other odd reason because I'm a boomer with a head full gray hair and a couple days of gray stubble. I think I'm going to take my receipt and go back and ask some questions.
I think the stores are just having to be more proactive on these things. I got carded for some really oddball things the last few years and like you, nobody would ever mistake me for a 20-year-old. Maybe it's just a Walmart thing.