Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Cancelled!

Good grief. Cancel culture comes to Tesco.

While Jenny was at the checkout of our local Tesco supermarket, waiting to have her shopping totted up, she overheard a woman ahead of her voicing her opinions on immigration.

The woman was being very anti-immigrant, so Jenny was prompted to voice a more pro-immigrant opinion.

At this, the cashier refused to deal with Jenny's shopping and said she would have to be attended to by another cashier - which she was.

But what are things coming to if a supermarket cashier can refuse to deal with you because she doesn't like your opinions?

I've never seen that before, and I wonder if Tesco staff are actually allowed to refuse service to a customer, or whether the cashier was acting improperly.

Jenny has emailed Tesco's chief executive, Ken Murphy, to complain. His reply will be interesting.