Thank goodness for Tesco. But for their constant vigilance, the streets could be swarming with spoon-wielding teenage gangs.
A 16-year-old boy was told he was too young to buy a pack of teaspoons by a supermarket in Lancashire.
Liam Whelan was sent by his stepmother to their local Tesco in Haslingden to buy replacements for the spoons he keeps losing.
But staff refused to sell the 57p pack of teaspoons to Liam, from Deardengate, because he was not 18.
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