Tesco - How stupid can they get?

[wyrdness]

From the Daily Torygraph:

Claire Birchell, 25, was told she could not buy the Jack Daniel's barbecue sauce which has an alcohol content of 2 per cent. Staff at the store in in Flitwick, near Bedford also refused to sell the bottle to her brother-in-law, Philip Dover, 27, who did have ID, because they believed he would just give the bottle to Miss Birchell.


Mr Dover said: 'We just could not believe it. It's not as if we were going to go and sit down the park drinking it.


Full article here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2103575/Tesco-refuses-to-sell-BBQ-sauce-to-woman-without-ID.html). If they did that to me, the checkout monkey would end up wearing the barbecue sauce.

[600+]

PMSL!!! how can they be sooooooooo stupid!!

[suzsv650]

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=110679&highlight=rant

However i was in ASDA same thing tho

[gettin2dizzy]

haha. Think I'm going to go home tonight, put my feet up and sauce myself in to oblivion ;)

[Camel]

Oooh, I wonder if it's like the JD sauce you get in TGI Fridays??!! :)

[jimmy__riddle]

Oooh, I wonder if it's like the JD sauce you get in TGI Fridays??!! :)

if its the stuff im thinking of, yes it is. its really good, although dont forget your ID!

[Kate Moss]

How utterly ridiculous!

[Warthog]

Oh for pity's sake...

[Kate Moss]

do they think kids will be sat in the park downing bottles of bbq sauce??

[Spiderman]

Haha, what a bunch of :toss:

The law says that if you leave a shop without making any attempt to pay for your goods then its theft.
However when i get stroppy shop staff i clearly tell them that i'm attempting to pay for my goods and if they dont want my money then i'll happily take the goods for free and start walking to the door. They quickly want the money then...or they call security who just give then filthy looks for wasting their time (like i used to)Worst comes to the worst i've been known to litteraly throw the money on the floor for them to pick up and walk away...hey if they wanna be rude and obnoxious then 2 can play that game and the customer is always right, right :lol:

[suzsv650]

Where is that retail terrorist?

[Spiderman]

Where is that retail terrorist?

Who me? ;)

[suzsv650]

pual the 6th is the original terrorist!

but you can be one too!;)

[Viney]

Oooh, I wonder if it's like the JD sauce you get in TGI Fridays??!! :)
No its not in the slightest.

We have tried many recipies form the net for that sauce but just cant get it. The bottle sauce isnt even close.

[kitten]

I don't know about the jack daniels' sauces but the nandos sauces are quite good and don't have alcohol in them!!
lols
she must look a young 25 -lucky in some respects then?? or well maybe not in this case
kitten x

[Ceri JC]

I remember a while back, a couple of nippers bought their mum some chocolate liqueurs for mothersday. The silly bint proceeded to complain to the store that sold them to the kids because "they could have been buying them for themselves to drink the alcohol in them". Never mind that you'd throw up from eating too much chocolate (or in this case BBQ sauce) before you got drunk....

It's precisely this sort treating alcohol like it's heroin and trying to make it so difficult to buy that makes it so appealing to the kids. I strongly suspect that the reason there isn't such a problem with binge drinking amongst the youth on the continent is down to the fact they have a glass with a meal at home reasonably regularly and hence it's not seen as taboo and exciting.

[wheelnut]

Haha, what a bunch of :toss:

The law says that if you leave a shop without making any attempt to pay for your goods then its theft.
However when i get stroppy shop staff i clearly tell them that i'm attempting to pay for my goods and if they dont want my money then i'll happily take the goods for free and start walking to the door. They quickly want the money then...or they call security who just give then filthy looks for wasting their time (like i used to)Worst comes to the worst i've been known to litteraly throw the money on the floor for them to pick up and walk away...hey if they wanna be rude and obnoxious then 2 can play that game and the customer is always right, right :lol:

What really winds them up is if you just refuse all the goods at the checkout and leave them there, especially if it is fresh food from the deli, you havent stolen anything and not damaged anything;)

I did the same trick at a motorway services. I was stood waiting at the counter 20 minutes with a breakfast going cold while they cooked some fresh eggs. I only had another 10 minutes for my break left.

When I left it on the till they were threatening to call the police:)