Is this the insidious, creeping hand of Big Brother Corporation?
Notices have been put up in the chain's supermarket in St Mellons in Cardiff saying: "Footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted."
A spokesman said Tesco did not have a strict dress code but it does not want people shopping in their nightwear in case it offends other customers.
Elaine Carmody, 24, a full-time mother of two young boys, described the ban as "ridiculous" and "pathetic".She said she had regularly gone shopping at the store in her pyjamas until about a week ago when she was turned away when she went to buy cigarettes.
What is pathetic is the complete lack of dignity and decorum when going out in public. I mean- how hard is it to put on a proper pair of pants, even jeans, when buying cigarettes in front of your impressionable kids? Lazy in the body and lazy in the mind.
5 comments:
I agree with you 100%. You get so sick of seeing these slobs floundering into stores in their pj's to pick up more junk food to fill their huge guts. Yuck!
It's a total lack of dignity and self-respect. How hard is it to wear proper clothes? I mean- really!
It has nothing to do with dignity or self-respect -- both of which are open to individual interpretation. It has to do with comfort and going about minding one's OWN business. What an idiotic thing to get yer feathers ruffled about.
To the previous commenter, Lady Janus, I ask this. Have you considered the health implications of not wearing footwear into a store? Particularly one that sells food.
"Minding one's OWN business." Interesting. I like that. Like placing a ban on inappropriate attire in one's own store?
While I don't consider the issue small, I'll play the devil's advocate. The sooner we start dealing with issues and stop letting "small things" slide, the sooner people will start giving consideration to larger issues, and perhaps stop making larger problems for themselves and everyone else.
We live in a civilisation of other people, and as such, we have certain social conventions to abide by. No shoes, no service.
It has nothing to do with comfort. It has everything to do with laziness. She wasn't running into the store in an old pair of jeans for baby formula. She was meandering in to buy cigarettes to smoke in front of her kids. The woman is a caricature.
Had she been wearing a Palin t-shirt, I'm sure arguments against comfort would have been made.
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