When we were in Montana for Thanksgiving at Winco the cashier requested ID for the beer I bought. I don't have any state-linked id anymore as my driver license expired during the coof, so I pulled out my passport and handed it to her. It was immediately recognizable that she had never seen a passport before in her life.
Passports are also not scanable in the US without fed computer access.
Back in my university days there were bars that explicitly stated that passports were not a valid form of ID for determining whether or not you were old enough to drink there. Didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time, since they were far more stringent in their requirements for getting one than a drivers' license.
The only place I've been to that actually scans a license is Bevmo, and I don't think those barcodes have much in the way of security features to actually ensure they're generated by a state government.
Speaking of front line low wage workers -
When we were in Montana for Thanksgiving at Winco the cashier requested ID for the beer I bought. I don't have any state-linked id anymore as my driver license expired during the coof, so I pulled out my passport and handed it to her. It was immediately recognizable that she had never seen a passport before in her life.
Passports are also not scanable in the US without fed computer access.
Back in my university days there were bars that explicitly stated that passports were not a valid form of ID for determining whether or not you were old enough to drink there. Didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time, since they were far more stringent in their requirements for getting one than a drivers' license.
The only place I've been to that actually scans a license is Bevmo, and I don't think those barcodes have much in the way of security features to actually ensure they're generated by a state government.
Target in WA scans state driver licenses for alcohol and so do many weed stores.