Tesco shoppers are asking staff to stop scanning their grocery items once they've reached a certain amount, the supermarket's chairman has said.
As households across Britain continue to feel the squeeze from the cost of living, John Allan, chairman of Tesco, has said "for the first time in many years" he is now hearing of customers asking checkout staff to limit the amount their shopping comes to. During BBC Radio 4 Today's show, the supermarket boss said the country was facing “real food poverty for the first time in a generation, and added there is an “overwhelming need” for a windfall tax on energy companies after seeing customers “extremely stretched”.
He told listeners: "I was hearing for the first time for many years of customers saying to check out staff, 'stop when you get to £40,' or something, 'I don't want to spend a penny over that.' You know, as opposed to having everything checked out and settling the bill at the end.
