This week Congress is due to release a report on violence and the entertainment industry and accompany the report’s release with hearings. In advance, retailers are clamping down. “Kmart said Thursday that it will refuse sale of mature-rated games to anyone under age 17, using a bar-code scanner that will prompt cashiers to ask for identification from young people. After Kmart’s news conference in Washington, Wal-Mart said it will enact the same policy, and in a letter last month, Toys R Us officials said the practice is in place at their stores.” – Chicago Sun-Times 09/10/00