Tesco refuses to sell teaspoons to 16 year old

[Michael Browne]

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-26574789

[ericsbrother]

Obviously Tesco are worried about people cooking up their heroin on Tesco spoons and giving them a bad name. You cant be too careful when it comes to this kind of thing. If it has saved the life of one young person on that rocky road to drug dependency their stupidity will have been worth it.

[citizenB]

A Tesco spokesperson said: "We do include a till prompt for proof of age on our self-service tills for some items.

 

 

I find it mind boggling that they would even have to consider using judgment to sell a pack of spoons to a young lad !!

[CHRIS44G]

Cos it`s cutlery ain`t it! Knifey - spoony , what`s the difference...