One of the perks of flying is to shop after passing through the security gate. There you can spend early holiday cash on items you need for travel and not.
One comedian pointed out that the system is flawed, but not everyone agreed or discovered that the same thing was true.
Alice Etches challenged the thread and was asked to display her boarding pass while shopping at the airport.
She writes: Rather than flying a Boeing 737-inch, I'm buying a Twix.
Many people agreed that it was frustrating, but others pointed out that unless you shop specifically for tax-free, it's not something you've actually been asked on a daily basis. But everyone's experience is different.
Someone joked. It didn't just appear in boots. ”
Others said you can “reject” to show your boarding pass and let the staff manually override it with self-checkout. However, no other people had the same experience.
One man wrote: “Have you actually tried it on everyone who says 'Just refuse'? Because if I didn't, they refused to sell me anything. I hadn't had a boarding pass since my wife left, so I left something in Till. I don't think you can actually say no. Anyway, it's not my experience. ”
People said it was so that it could “back the VAT.”
“You don't. There's no legal reason. You can refuse,” someone else said, but they didn't confirm if this was something they'd done before. did.
Someone said he thought he hadn't been asked to show his boarding pass “for the donkey's (age).”
Money-saving expert Martin Lewis has made it clear that you don't need to display your boarding pass when you're at an airport store other than tax-free.
In the video, Martin said: With tax-free, do not struggle with staff as they have to look at your boarding pass or can't sell your items to you, due to regulations. Please show me your boarding pass.
“But for the rest of the shops here and here, the answer is… no. And the reason they're asking you is that you show your boarding pass and you go outside the European Union. It's about whether they can get back the VAT.”
So, even if you are at a self-checkout and it asks, you can, of course, call a member of staff to get rid of the screen, unless you are tax-free. And, in many cases, tax-free, you are saving.
