Tesco Store Bans Shoppers Wearing Pyjamas
A Tesco store in Cardiff, has banned its customers from entering the supermarket and doing their shopping either in pyjamas or barefoot.
The Tesco Extra store in St Mellons has implemented a dress code, and put up notices at the entrance, as it seeks to prevent customers from doing their shopping wearing nightwear, which the retailers says makes other customers feel a tad bit uncomfortable.
The sign reads: “To avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others we ask that our customers are appropriately dressed when visiting our store (footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted).”
The store says it felt it was compelled to take action, after experiencing an increasing number of shoppers, and in particular younger ladies, showing up to the store to do their shopping whilst wearing dressing gowns and slippers.
A Tesco spokesman said: “We’re not a nightclub with a strict dress code, and jeans and trainers are of course more than welcome.”
“We do, however, request that customers do not shop in their PJs or nightgowns. This is to avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others.”
A number of the store’s customers welcomed the decision, with one customer quoted as saying shoppers who failed to bother wearing adequate clothing “could all do with a kick up the backside”.
adding: “I’m fed up with them. When I spoke to one girl about the fact she was barefoot in a shop with food in it, she swore at me.”
Another customer however became the first victim of the ban, and was escorted out of the store for wearing pyjamas and said “If you’re allowed to wear jogging bottoms, why aren’t you allowed to wear pyjamas in there, that’s what I don’t understand. It is ridiculous and stupid. I go in other shops in my pyjamas and they don’t say anything.”
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UK Supermarkets Say Freezing Weather Causing Panic Buying Amongst Shoppers
UK Supermarket chains are reporting that shoppers across the country have begun panic buying and are hoarding items amid concerns that frigid wintry conditions will prevent them from doing their regular shopping.
The UK’s second largest retailer Asda says there has been a large increase in sales of Wellington boots, anti -freeze products, thermal underwear and fire logs, as well as take away foods and puddings since the week began.
An Asda spokesperson said there has been a 32 per cent increase in the number of purchase of 25Kg bags of grit. Purchases of cat litter, which can be used as an alternative to salt for clearing ice and snow had risen by an astonishing 55 per cent which was dwarfed by the massive 1000 per cent increase in sales of George thermal underwear.
Asda says that vacuum flask sales had risen 129 per cent whilst fire log sales had increased by 71 per cent.
Sainsbury’s says its customers have been hoarding tinned foods and winter essentials. The retailer sais that sales of travel mugs and flasks had risen by over 160 per cent compared to the same period in the previous year.
David Bailey, Sainsbury’s weather analyst, said: “We know shoppers’ buying habits change according to the weather – a temperature change of three degrees from the seasonal average can result in sales of some products going up by as much as 50 per cent.”
Tesco says its had seen large increases in the number of shoppers buying soup and other tinned items.
A Tesco spokesperson said: “The last snowfall caught many people out and made shopping trips quite hazardous, especially in more open areas, so it appears that this time round shoppers are being more canny and are stocking up just in case.”
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Tesco Apologises For Poking Fun At Ginger Haired Kids In Christmas Card
The UK’s leading retailer Tesco has been forced to withdraw a Christmas card from two of its stores in York following complaints the card pokes fun a ginger haired children.
The card depicts a kid with ginger hair sitting on Santa’s lap with the caption “Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones.”
The BBC quoted a customer Ms. Davinia Phillips with three ginger haired daughters as saying she found the greeting card offensive.
Tesco said it was sorry if the card had “caused any upset”.
The shopper told the BBC that she saw the card when shopping at her local Tesco store
Ms Phillips said:”I picked it up and I couldn’t believe it. I just thought ‘What is so funny about that?’ I didn’t really get the joke. I thought I would buy it, because I wanted proof that I had seen it.”
Ms Phillips, who herself is naturally ginger, added: “The more I thought about it, the more annoyed I got and I told the lady who worked in the store I was not happy.”
The card had been removed from sale by the time Ms Phillips returned to the store that same evening. The card has also been withdrawn from Tesco’s Clifton Moor branch in York, after Ms Phillips sister-in law complained.
A Tesco spokesman said: “We sell a large range of Christmas cards, including some which are intended to be humorous. It is never our intention to offend any customer and we are sorry if this card caused any upset.”
The spokesman added that the retailer was still considering whether to cease making the card available from other Tesco outlets
Card manufacturer, Essex-based Quitting Hollywood, said it had no comment to make.
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Asda Offers Ridiculously Low Priced Christmas Dinner
Asda is offering the UK’s best value Christmas dinner at the unbelievable price of just £11.
The supermarket chain says it will offer a dinner consisting of roast turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, potatoes, vegetable and Christmas pudding that will be able to feed a family of six for the ridiculously low price of just £1.83 a head.
To underline just how good a deal it is, Asda is teaming up with Andy Park, better known as Mr. Christmas who is famous for eating a Christmas dinner every day of the year.
Asda says it will deliver a Christmas dinner, every day for a full month until Christmas day to Mr. Park an electrician who lives in Melksham, Wiltshire.
Mr. Park says he will provide Asda with his festive knowledge and act as the retailers “Christmas consultant”.
Mr. Park claims to have eaten a full Christmas meal including all the trimmings every lunch time for the last 15 years and says he and his dog Sky have consumed between them 5,475 turkeys, over 100,000 mince pies. Mr. Park reckons his average annual bill over the last 15 years has been £20,000.
Asda believes it can save Mr Park around £1,300 a month with the meal.
Halli O’Neill, from Asda’s food innovation team, said: “We are happy to help Mr Christmas out this year with our low-priced Christmas dinner. Hopefully this will give him a little extra festive cheer. Our dinner offers Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.”
Mr Christmas said: “When you celebrate Christmas every day, they can all start to blend into one, but Asda have made this a Christmas I will never forget – my house is like a winter wonderland.”
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Retailers Grappling With Spanish Satsuma Shortage
UK supermarkets have been grappling with a shortage in the stock of Spansish satsumas as a result of poor weather conditions.
Industry website freshinfo.com suggests that supply of the popular fruit is at just 60 per cent of last years season, and the shortage was as a result of heavy rain in September, which has resulted in serious problems for Spansih growers of the fruit.
Large portions of the crop were washed away, and the part that did end up surviving the rainfall, has grown to a size that accorfing to freshinfo is “outside the usual specifications for the UK market”.
A British importer told the website: “The cost price for our size profile is very inflated. On top of that the crop is about seven to 10 days late and this is putting massive pressure on a very short market.”
” Retailers are intent on pricing for a market that is in recession and with weak sterling we are really struggling to get the prices we need – we just can’t procure for the prices the supermarkets are selling at.”
“It is a massive problem and basically a big fight out there to get the fruit we need. We are all feeling very squeezed.”
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Sainsubry’s Hit With £45,000 For Selling Alcohol To Minors
Supermarket chain Sainsubry’s has been given a £45,000 fine for selling alcohol to minors, after an investigation into the retailers practices by the Derbyshire County Council.
The retailing giant was found guilt of the the five offences by a Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court, and was ordered to pay a £15,000 fine, and nearly £30,000 in costs.
A spot check of the retailer was conducted by Trading Standards and the Derbyshire Police, which caught staff at two Sainsbury’s stores in Derbyshire selling alcohol to under-age volunteers. The case was subsequently taken to court.
The court heard that on the 19th May 2007, two 15 year old volunteers managed to purchase alcohol from the Dronfield store on three separate occasions. The youths were able to buy 28 bottles of and 12 cans of beer from the store without being forced to produce their identification.
The court also heard that on each occasion the employee who sold them the alcohol was also under the age of 18.
Seperately on March 8th, two 16 year old volunteers wer able to buy six bottles of lager and eight cans of cider during two separate visits to the Swadlincote store, although they were refused on a third occasion.
Following the hearing, a Sainsburys spokesman said: “We take our responsibilities as a licensed retailer very seriously and have recently implemented a Think 25 policy at all our stores to help reduce the chance of alcohol being sold persons under 18.”
Derbyshire County Councillor Carol Hart said: “These cases send out a strong warning to retailers, that regardless of their size, we will always prosecute if they break the law.”
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50 Year Old Mum Carded When Trying To Buy Wine At Supermarket
A shopper at retailer Morrisons thought the checkout assistant was having a laugh when the assistant demanded to see her ID before scanning two bottles of wine.
Jackie Slater, a management consultant, shopping with her 17 year old daughter and 18 year old niece, said the assistant pointed to her two under aged companions who were chatting at the end of the line, and asked to see her identity.
Mum Gets Carded Trying To Buy Booze
“I told her I was really flattered, but I was the wrong side of 50,” Mrs. Slater said.
The assistant queried whether the teenagers were with her, to which she responded that they had come to help with carrying the shopping. The assistant then said that it was store policy for her to see the ID of everyone Ms Slater had entered the store with, to ensure everyone was over 18, suggesting that she may be buying the booze for her teenage companions.
Mrs. Slater tried in vain to explain that the wine was meant for herself and her husband, but by that point the assistant and later store manager refused to budge from their stated position.
Morrisons remained unapologetic, standing by its employees and saying that their decision was not and over enthusiastic interpretation of company rules.
“Under current licensing laws, stores are unable to sell an alcoholic product to a customer they believe could be buying for a minor or for someone who is unable to prove their age,” said a spokesman for Morrisons, citing the Think 25 scheme that has been put in place by major retailers to prevent the sale of prohibited items to under-age shoppers.
For its part, the retailer does not contest Mrs. Slater’s versions of events, with the assistant even going as far as to say that she would have sold wine to a mother who had younger children with her because: “no one would buy wine for a 12-year-old”
Mrs. Slater said: “It comes to something when a mother can’t take her daughter shopping without being made to feel like a criminal.”
Morrisons is unrepentant about its Leeds store’s decision
“We take our responsibility with regard to selling alcohol very seriously. The rules are in place to protect our customers and their families, as well as local communities who, in the majority of cases, appreciate our vigilance in the sale of age-restricted products.” A spokesperson said.
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