Underage Drinking in America Reaches Epic Proportions: ID Scanner Protects Alcohol Proprietors

The CDC reports that the teen alcohol epidemic in this country is rising at an alarming rate. The trend over the last three decades shows dramatic increases in underage drinking and there are no indications that the trend will reverse.

Contrarily, research shows that underage drinking continues to escalate.
In a survey conducted in 2009 by the Center for Disease Control the results show that of all the alcohol that is consumed in the United States every year, 11% is consumed by underage youth, ages 12-20 years of age. Technology is keeping up with this epidemic by protecting convenience stores, liquor stores, and supermarkets and their respective liquor licenses by use of the ID scanner. An ID scanner electronically reads the information directly from the magnetic stripe to verify state issued information.
Without this type of security device retailers are often defrauded with altered identifications resulting in state punitive damages, possible suspension, and fines or loss of license.
Collectively law enforcement and license regulators know that the majority of underage alcohol users purchase some form of fraudulent identification.
In an effort to combat the underage drinking national epidemic state legislatures have sweepingly increased penalties to store owners, and establishments for serving and selling to minors.
So how can these proprietors protect their liquor licenses? In some states liquor licenses are no longer available to purchase as states self-regulate the number of licenses issued.

The ID scanner can fill this natural void and is an expense that could save these establishments their legal licenses to serve alcohol.

Bars and nightclubs were the first adopters of the ID scanner.
ID scanners can hold up to 4,000 records of the previous scans. With this much data the establishment can quickly report to any inspections conducted by state regulators.
Now that the underage drinking is disproportionately growing ID scanners are being put into use by retailers.

Bar owners and nightclub proprietors were using ID scanners that functioned in complete darkness, but many different options of ID scanners are on the market now. The ID-E-01 is an ID scanner that scans licenses identifications to verify the information on the form of identification presented at the time of purchase matches that of the state issued information. This point of sale ID scanner security device requires the proprietor to swipe the identification through the machines scanner like a credit card.
The ID scanner then displays the date of birth, the age, and the expiration date of the id as it appears on record with the state's driver's license bureaus at the time of issue.
The age display on the ID scanner is three times the size of the other data.
Sellers of alcohol can confirm with one swipe instantly if the identification is legitimate or has been altered in anyway. Security devices such as the ID scanner will go a long way in protecting the liability of the alcohol proprietor in ensuring their licenses and livelihoods are never at risk.