Tesco (the big UK supermarket chain) has been having a run of bad luck lately. First it was the black widow spiders in the grapes and then there was the £1 Christmas bonus - if the employee spent £100 in the store. But now they have a real winner - Tesco demands baby death proof:
A supermarket chain has apologised after demanding a grieving couple prove their baby had died.Tesco's slogan is "Every Little Helps".
Matthew and Rachel Hartnett, whose five-month-old son Louis died of pneumonia, wanted his name removed from Tesco's Baby and Toddler Club mailing list.
But when they asked a family friend to contact the company, they were stunned to be asked for the baby's death certificate.
Mr and Mrs Hartnett, from Shepton Mallet, Somerset, were told Louis could not be removed from the list until they could prove he had died.
