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Tesco - three types of fruit only.

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DeathMetalMum · 26/03/2020 21:21

I went to the supermarket - local Tesco this morning for the weekly shop, I bought what I would normally buy in normal quantities. I get to the checkout and load up and as my shopping is going through I'm told I can have three types of fruit only. I had plums, apples, bananas, strawberries, blueberries and some reduced raspberries I buy all of these most weeks (sometimes grapes and clementines too) and I was told I needed to choose which three I wanted to buy. I had a bit of a grumble at the shop assistant saying I would now have to come back to the supermarket again when we are supposed to be limiting where we travel and that it was counter productive. Even more so that there was a fair amount of fruit in the reduced section meaning that clearly there is enough to go round everyone. I did apologise to the assistant afterwards but I think it is a really silly idea. We have four people in our house and there are many households that have more and fruit is a key part of most people's diet, and the shelves were in no way empty.

In the end I just bought the fruit I couldn't get in Tesco in another supermarket.

OP posts:
AmIATree · 27/03/2020 10:14

Had the email about being limited to 80 items. Medical needs in this house mean a high fruit and veg diet. But I appreciate the nation is in the same dilemma. Also fruit and veg is going to rot in the fields as farms can’t employ the usual fruit pickers from Europe now movement is closed down. So they are asking for local people to consider employment as a fruit picker this summer

yellowfishes · 27/03/2020 12:10

Absolutely no point grumbling at the shop assistant, who has zero say on company policies.

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