Customers are telling Tesco staff at the till to stop scanning when they hit a certain amount, the supermarket's chairman has said. John Allan said he is now hearing 'for the first tie in many years' of customers asking staff to limit how much their shopping bill comes to.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today this morning he said: "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.
"So I think a lot of people are feeling something of a pinch and lots of people are actually feeling extremely stretched. "
