A rogue 19-year-old cashier at the Food City supermarket in East Brainerd didn’t bother to use the actual birth date of customers buying beer and wine.
Instead, the cashier typed in the same birth date – 02-02-1960 – for roughly 250 customers since her hire date in February.
That caught up with Food City on May 23, when she sold wine to an underage decoy.
At its meeting Thursday, the Chattanooga Beer Board gave Food City the option of paying a $1,000 fine or suspending its beer sales for three days.
“If they did it over 200 times, why didn’t somebody notice that?” asked Beer Board Chairman Chris Keene.