Rats! Tesco fined £23,000 for vermin infestation
By Paul Smith
Dirty, filthy Tesco. That’s not the personal opinion of Bitterwallet, you understand, it’s a matter of public fact. They’re the supermarket with the pissed-stained, shit covered shelves, who feed rats your groceries before you buy them for yourself. Disgusting, vermin-infested Tesco. That’s them.
The supermarket was investigated after a customer bought a packet of bagels from the Tesco Express store in Holborn last December. On arriving home, she noticed the bag has been split and one of the bagels had been partly eaten. A health inspector from the City of London’s Environmental Health Department looked into the matter, and on visiting the store found shelves covered in rodent muck and mess. Lovely.
Tesco were marched off to court, where they were fined £10,000 for each offence, another £3,000 for failing to provide secure food premises, and slapped with court costs of nearly £9,000. And obviously, the dirty, filthy supermarket isn’t happy about losing so much money made by selling comestibles from its rat infested store, and claimed there were issues with how the investigation was conducted:
“We take hygiene issues extremely seriously and carry out regular checks, including pest control, in all of our stores. We are considering our options following the decision.”
One option to consider would be not to let rats shit and piss in your store. Every little helps, Tesco.
feral trolley of the week
Their bagels taste like rat shit anyway.
Sould’nt that read: We take hygiene issues extremely seriously when we get caught and a 16 year school kid on £5 an Hour who was doing the checks has just be sacked.
On the plus side: With Double Clubcard Points and 4 x their value in Meal Deals, the bagels got back 8p towards some food that wont make you sick.
They should try the Covent Garden branch, you have to check the bread before taking it off the shelves to make sure there’s not a rodent family nesting in there.
I agree it’s freaking gross in there – I had to peel a box of cereal of the sticky shelf and it left half the box behind
this is normal for many supermarkets, i use to work for tescos and if you reported a rat they took it very seriously, callling in pest control almost immediately so what the hell were they doing at this store, rightly fined, but a friend who use to work at sainsburys said rats were in their warehouse for up to 3 months once so i think it’s normal for rats to infest supermarkets unfortunately.
This has reminded me of the lol-tastic time in Tesco Purley a few months ago when there was a pigeon loose in the store. Watching the complete and utter fuck-tard who kept going after it with his footstool, bucket and a newspaper was quite possibly one of the highlights of my 2009 thus far. It was mostly the way that it was always sat up on the top of the shelves at each given aisle and then just proceeded to fly five aisles down in another direction any time the guy got near that really made the moment. This ‘member’ of staff, couldn’t quite grasp that this tact wasn’t working and as such, provided me with a good ten minutes of amusement and likely helped several aisles worth of food to end up covered in pigeon excrement. Yum.
filthy mugs!