Asda hires autistic man who was let go by Waitrose after years of volunteering

Tom Boyd’s mother said working at Waitrose gave him ‘a sense of purpose and belonging’. Photograph: No Credit

An autistic man who was let go as an unpaid shelf stacker at a Waitrose supermarket despite volunteering there for years has been offered a job at Asda.

Tom Boyd, 28, had worked in the Cheadle Hulme Waitrose store since 2021 with a support worker, as his mother, Frances Boyd, said the role gave her son “a sense of purpose and belonging”.