Posted on 04/14/2010 2:30:17 PM PDT by Daffynition
AN 86-year-old grandmother was threatened with being thrown out of a British supermarket cafe after she started nibbling a cookie she bought in the same store.
A female shop assistant told "humiliated" Thelma Williams that she could be escorted out and fined for dunking her chocolate chip cookie into a cup of tea at a branch of British supermarket giant Marks & Spencer (M&S).
Williams bought a scone and cookie from the food section, and then her daughter bought her a sandwich and a cup of tea in the cafe.
An assistant told her she could not eat it because of the consumer tax difference between cafe and shop-bought food.
"The staff made me feel as though I was a common criminal - yet I was just eating one of their biscuits," Ms Williams said.
"This woman over-reacted. All the customers were looking at me. It was so embarrassing and very distressing."
"Our policy is that cafe customers must only consume items bought in the cafe area. We are sorry for any distress caused to the customer," an M&S spokesman said.
“But I bought the cookie here”
“That is immaterial. You may not eat that cookie here”
“But they sell them over there”
“You could eat it over there, of course”
“Whats the difference?”
“A 15% VAT is the difference!”
When I was pregnant, I would eat food in the grocery store all the time. I would just hand the empty wrapper to the cashier so I could pay for it.
That’s so funny, it’s not funny.
My membership in the Paradox Club is secure.
This cookie had already been paid for!
Every time I hear this, my immediate response is...
"Well MY policy is to never patronize your establishment again!"
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