Best festive sad face article ever!!

[Babyiwantabump]

[enjoywww.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/family-outraged-missing-christmas-jumper-12229765]

[macromolecule]

The Coventry Telegraph has all the best news stories. I swear it was in there that I once saw a story on the front page entitled "Man Finds Name of Allah in a Tomato."

[AllThePrettySeahorses]

But aren't Click & Collect orders not ready until the afternoon? When the text was received? They received a 'gesture' though so I guess they're not as OUTRAGED any more.

[morningtoncrescent62]

Well I for one am disgusted and outraged. It would have been OK if the boy was 6, but to disappoint a five-year-old? It's a disgrace. I think I'll start a petition to call for the boss of Coventry Asda to be put in the stocks and pelted with beyond-sell-by-date fruit. Oh, and goes without saying he should be publicly humiliated on every possible social media.

[beepbeeprichie]

Genius. Would be well suited to the Craggy Island weekly paper!!

[PhewGladThatsOver]

😂

[guiltynetter]

this is absolutely ridiculous! 😂

[Bananabread123]

Actually the editor is a genius.... hits on their site have probably gone through the roof, increasing advertising revenue and paying for the Christmas party!

If I was editor of the Grimsby Gazette or whatever I'd be lining up my even more absurd 'sad face' in the hope it went viral!

[liz70]

Is this a Viz spoof?

[dingdongdigeridoo]

You all need to follow Angry People in Local Newspapers on Facebook. These stories seem to happen daily. People are idiots. As if Asda are going to lose any business over this.

I believe they call this the 'compo face'.

[FeelingSmurfy]

I can't believe they wanted to take them from the shelves, they had absolutely no idea who this person was and whether/what they had ordered. She didn't even have an order confirmation to show them

Total piss take, I'm surprised they aren't suing them for the price of an alternative birthday present to make up for having to give him the jumper early...actually, shouldn't have said that, if they see this they will get ideas!

[Manumission]

😂

That child deserves an oscar.

[ThumbWitchesAbroad]

Slow news day in Coventry, obviously!

There is a beautiful spoof newspaper, that I read years ago, where everyone was OUTRAGED and DISGUSTED all the time - must find it...

here it is. Bracknell Harbinger - my only sorrow is that it hasn't ever been updated since I first found it!

[unlucky83]

They could have bought them off the shelf and returned the order when it arrived and got a refund...(I've done similar)
I should have a sad face...In August I did a 12 mile return trip to pick up an Asda order to be told it had been delayed and wouldn't be there until the next day...(ok they hadn't said it was actually there - I popped in cos it should have been and I was in the area) and 30 min later as I walked in my house they sent me the text telling me it was now in store ready for pick up... it completely ruined my Autumn...maybe I could get compensation for the petrol and time wasted?

[Madz1982]

Obviously struggling for 'real' news that day! What a pointless non story. Boo hoo she had to wait a few hours extra for her jumpers! Serves them right for putting in the wrong email address! 😂

[AlabasterSnowball]

🎄🤶🏼🎅😭

[arahia]

According to Birmingham mail they were SEETHING!
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/family-left-seething-missing-christmas-12231920

[EsmesBees]

Those of you saying it must be a slow news day in Coventry and have obviously never read the Coventry Evening Telegraph before. One of the highlights of my trips to visit my PiL is reading the comedy local rag.

[SirChenjin]

The bombing of Coventry pales into insignificance compared to this - just awful . I hope the lad gets counselling and makes a good recovery - talk about a traumatic childhood event.

[heygotanygrapes]

TWO newspapers covered this story? Two???

[alphabook]

I am genuinely crying with laughter.

[DesolateWaist]

Let me get this straight.
The woman placed the order but then didn't hear anything to say it had been placed or was ready to collect. She phoned the shop who didn't know anything about it. She then went to the shop who still didn't know anything about it. During this time it turns out that the woman had put in the wrong email address. The shop was then able to honour the order.
This is an epic non story - woman buys thing online but fucks it up a bit but it gets resolved in the end.

Also: We actually went into the store first because we weren’t sure where to go for click and collect, and we saw the two jumpers we had purchased and the person we spoke to wasn’t actually willing to give us the items.

I imagine that she just tried to take the jumpers from the store not realising that the click and collect thing doesn't really work like that.

[FrickOnAStick]

Marvellous

[MollyHopps]

They've let a 61 year old down

PAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA This is the best quote from the article.

[DesolateWaist]

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