[Closed] just been refused entry to my local tescos........

It is a well known fact CFH doesn't write his own material.

Even when he does, he can't spell it:

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I have no idea what you mean, Darcy.... 😳 (edited...!)

Can't edit once you've been quoted 😛

just been refused entry to my local tescos

You'll still be welcome at Asda, they will let anyone in.

Just as I thought Waitrose are slipping. My local Sainsburys does both Meantime beers and Summer Lightning.

lookmanohands is this you?
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Next time go in there with the sturdiest footwear you possess, but otherwise naked.

Yawn, heard it all before. Look into it a bit more before you mock 😀

Look into it a bit more before you mock

so what is the reason then?

Yawn, heard it all before

Really ? How strange ........ I would have thought that one could do one's shopping without shoes without one being mocked 😕

Still, at least it came as no great surprise to you that this thread turned out to be the subject of some ridicule 8)

In one of the villages near me there's a bloke who lives semi-rough, up a hill in a tent, and he never wears shoes. All year round, walking through snow and all sorts barefoot (and this is north Scotland). No one really knows where he's from either.

But you were allowed in your LBS and you even came into the workshop and I did'nt tread on your hoofs... 😆

If you mean Alan Coren, I miss him too.
But his daughter is very funny as well, and much better looking.

I went to my local Tesco without shoes last summer, presumably nobody noticed because I wasnt stopped.

Did get booted out of Carrefour in France though. The cheese eating surrender monkeys never even give a non-specific 'its elf and safety mate' reason they just say 'its the rules'. You think UK is obsessed with rules, despite popular belief the french are rules mad.

Although, cant blame then, I would stop a barefooted pikey like me from entering.

I just bought shares in Tesco because of their decision to bar manky shoeless types from their shops.

Yawn, heard it all before.

So why exactly did you start a thread just to hear it all again?

This guy was smarter......instead of starting a thread, he went to the Daily Mail and had pictures of himself published so that he could impress his mates. They probably bunged him a few bob too.

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[url= http://www.****/news/article-1248240/Now-Tesco-ban-barefooted-shoppers-stores-outlawing-pyjamas.html ]Now Tesco bans shoppers from its supermarkets... for not wearing shoes[/url]

Ah, so the OP is just a cheap copycat.

It's PC gone mad! You couldn't make it up! We're going to hell in a handcart!

You think UK is obsessed with rules, despite popular belief the french are rules mad.

Is it anything to do with rules? more just common decency really - people generally don't want to see other peoples dirty, smelly feet in a supermarket. The H&S argument was just a polite way of telling him that.

When I went to Nz(where Mrs Curtis is from) I was initially appalled that everyone was walking around barefoot in the supermarket,shops etc. But after spending a hot day at the beach there was no greater pleasure than walking on the cold floors of the local supermarket. However, in winter, in the UK is just wrong.

'ang on.. if a shopper runs over your feet with a trolley and you have no shoes on - surely it would be impossible to pin it on Tesco?

I don't understand what's so horrible about feet. Some people seem insanely scared of them. If it's the dirt they may have stood on that you're worried about, how come you're prepared to allow shoes in the shop?

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[i]Is it anything to do with rules? more just common decency really - people generally don't want to see other peoples dirty, smelly feet in a supermarket. [/i]

Why would they be smelly? Don't you wash?
As for dirty, well they're going to be no more dirty that shoes, and people don't freak out at them in shops.

Some people just seem to have some odd hangups about feet. Me, I'd be more concerned with all the piss and shit covered hands that have previously groped the goods you're about to put in your shopping trolley.

If you mean Alan Coren, I miss him too.

Android autocorrect innit. Jewish conspiracy?

And Ms Coren, oh yes.

I can understand why (being a tesco manager) we had a customer 4 weeks ago came in with flip flops on and walked into one of our cages,it was a metal cage with the edges exposed, was a nasty accident took the end of her toe clean off, ive never seen so much blood from a toe, made me feel sick really ill.

She is claiming as they usually do, not an incident i would like to see again.

Do you think its sensbile to have metal cages with exposed edges on the shop floor then ?

Feet smell from being in shoes, shoes make you feet sweaty and this in turn promotes the growth of bacteria and hey presto cheesy feet. :D. How can flip flops 'protect' your feet? If someone runs over my feet with a trolley, its gonna hurt like well whatever I'm wearing. Perhaps they should ban trolleys or people in supermarkets?

You don't have to wear shoes for H&S. You have to wear shoes because everybody else does. You have to be just like them or they get scared.

Do you think its sensbile to have metal cages with exposed edges on the shop floor then ?

Make the world safe for people to go barefoot, you mean?

Feet smell from being in shoes

Woolen/Merino socks.
Leather soles and uppers.
= no smell.

Why don't you get some Vibram 5-Fingers?

Everyone will still think you're weird but at least you're wearing shoes.

Woolen/Merino socks.
Leather soles and uppers.
= no smell

Man who rejects social norms objects to being rejected by society shocker.

Live by your own rules but don't be shocked when others disagree with you, as you are somewhat outnumbered by token of your own choice.

Make the world safe for people to go barefoot, you mean?

Someone I know who once went to Waitrose, reckons they have wall-to-wall carpet - is it true ?

not wall to wall. Persian rugs.

I never notice the floor as they have a boy to carry me around...

Berm Bandit hits (toe)nail on head.

just been refused entry to my local tescos........

1) consider it a badge of honour annd evidence of how 'cool' and non-formist you are. Wild-eye radical thing.

2) So what?

What pedals for shoelessness?

What pedals for shoelessness?

DMR V8

I got so pi55ed off with people moaning about me not wearing shoes I now wear vibram five fingers. People still get mardy about them. Especially at work. We have no dress code but I'm constantly being told I'm not allowed to wear them for H&S reasons. Until I point out that all the ladies wearing open toe'd shoes and massive high heals are perfectly fine.
People are really scared by feet. If I'm bare foot it's because I want to be, not because I want to be non conformist. And I'm certainly not a hippy. There isn't anything on the bottom of my feet thy wouldn't be one the bottom of my shoes. If I stand on something and it hurts my foot then that's my fault. It is after all my choice.

If I stand on something and it hurts my foot then that's my fault. It is after all my choice.

no it's a workplace accident, which may need reporting under RIDDOR IIRC

There isn't anything on the bottom of my feet thy wouldn't be one the bottom of my shoes.

Does anyone know about this? Is flesh more lurgerific than rubber / leather?

no it's a workplace accident, which may need reporting under RIDDOR IIRC

Personally I don't think it is particularly out of order to expect your workforce to sufficiently protect their feet.

I don't go bare foot at work. I wear my fivefingers. So it wouldn't be a workplace incident. My work comment was more about suitability of footwear. Although there are people who walk round the office barefoot.
And riddor wouldn't apply anyway. Unles it was very severe(in which case would a pair of hush puppies have saved me) or got heavily infected causing me to have more than 3 days off work.