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Article: Tesco ban shoppers in pyjamas, or barefooted.

  • 28-01-2010 02:37PM
    #1
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    A Tesco store in Wales has banned shoppers in pyjamas or barefooted.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8484116.stm

    Seems like a good policy that might be well advised to be rolled out in Clarehall etc :)
    A Tesco store has asked customers not to shop in their pyjamas or barefoot.

    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.

    He said he was not aware of any other Tesco stores having to put up similar signs.

    The signs, placed at the entrance to the store, read: "To avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others we ask that our customers are appropriately dressed when visiting our store (footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted)."

    The spokesman said: "We're not a nightclub with a strict dress code, and jeans and trainers are of course more than welcome.

    "We do, however, request that customers do not shop in their PJs or nightgowns.

    "This is to avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,101 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    And they call this a free society:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    That rule's been in place in the Supervalu where I live for years, I don't see the fuss

    Doesn't keep the scummers out, because apparently velour tracksuit bottoms count as clothes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭RoadKillTs


    Fair play to them. Scummers :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    About time, they should do it here too. I seen a roughly 55-60 year old woman in the square, tallaght - in pyjamas, slippers and dressing qown - on christmas eve this year, wheeling a trolly full of shopping around, it's disgusting. Put some clothes on you lazy fecking knacker!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Fair play to them. Hopefully if more follow suite, people will start to realise that they look like total twats if they wear pyjamas outside of their homes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    I am surprised that this is even a issue for one :D.

    I can understand the barefoot ban on hygiene grounds, but I don't really get the pyjama one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Dr. Baltar


    I understand the barefoot ban... but ffs! a CUSTOMER should be allowed wear WHATEVER they want inside a shop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Banning barefeet I can understand.

    But I wouldn't be too hasty on the nightwear issue.
    Who is to say that a roaming pack of attractive blonde eastern European women aren't going to go shopping in their Agent Provocateur underwear.

    They wouldn't be allowed in.
    And that'd just be wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    wes wrote: »
    I am surprised that this is even a issue for one :D.

    I can understand the barefoot ban on hygiene grounds, but I don't really get the pyjama one.
    Going out in PJs suggests you don't wash/ you're wearing yesterday's undies (or none at all)
    Wazdakka wrote: »
    Who is to say that a roaming pack of attractive blonde eastern European women aren't going to go shopping in their Agent Provocateur underwear.

    They wouldn't be allowed in.
    And that'd just be wrong.
    I am, it's always smelly knackers with giant hoopy earrings. Generally also pushing a buggy and shouting at their children.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    I've not seen any 'respectable' girl venture outside the door in her jammies yet. It seems to be a 'scroate' trend. I agree with Tesco wholeheartedly.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    About time only a certain type of people wear the nightwear outside its like the when hoodies were banned inside some shopping centers
    Wearing nightwear out to go shopping is real scummy maybe then they might see that its not attractive and they look like idiots and stop doing it
    Its incredibly lazy not to get changed in the morning do they not shower?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    phasers wrote: »
    I am, it's always smelly knackers with giant hoopy earrings. Generally also pushing a buggy and shouting at their children.

    True :(

    But I can dream damnit..

    What if Johnny Depp was refused entry to your local supermarket because he was wearing nothing but very tight underwear, cowboy boots and was gently oiling himself...

    You wouldn't be supporting the PJ ban then i bet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    True :(

    But I can dream damnit..

    What if Johnny Depp was refused entry to your local supermarket because he was wearing nothing but very tight underwear, cowboy boots and was gently oiling himself...

    You wouldn't be supporting the PJ ban then i bet.
    If Johnny Depp was in my local Supervalu I'd worry that he was back on drugs and looking for a dealer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    im guessing the tesco in tallaght will be shutting due to lack of business then


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    phasers wrote: »
    That rule's been in place in the Supervalu where I live for years, I don't see the fuss

    You live in SuperValu? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    / gets out of PJ's and in to a tuxedo to get weekly shop.

    Seriously though, well done. There is nothing worse on my eyes then when people shop in there PJ's. Its fairly common sight to anybody in Cork, and in one of our bigger shopping centers to see people in there PJ's shopping.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    jd007 wrote: »
    You live in SuperValu? :eek:
    Yeah it's great, I set up a fort between two shelves and come out at night for supplies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭gerTheGreat


    phasers wrote: »
    That rule's been in place in the Supervalu where I live for years, I don't see the fuss

    Doesn't keep the scummers out, because apparently velour tracksuit bottoms count as clothes


    Did anyone else just think of Zap Branigan when you read this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,620 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    No nightware?

    What if I'm a security guard who weres a uniform while I work at night and I want to go down for some "lunch" ar 2 in the morning, am I not allowe din?


  • Posts: 45,738 [Deleted User]


    *Newsflash*

    Tesco's in Limerick has just closed down due to lack of customers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Mousey- wrote: »
    im guessing the tesco in tallaght will be shutting due to lack of business then
    rarnes1 wrote: »
    *Newsflash*

    Tesco's in Limerick has just closed down due to lack of customers.

    *another newsflash*

    That joke wasn't even funny the first time


  • Posts: 45,738 [Deleted User]


    phasers wrote: »
    *another newsflash*

    That joke wasn't even funny the first time

    Me and Mousey think it's funny and that's all the matters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    phasers wrote: »
    *another newsflash*

    That joke wasn't even funny the first time

    Ooooohhhh..

    Well who shít in your cornflakes this morning?
    :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    Ooooohhhh..

    Well who shít in your cornflakes this morning?
    :p
    I had a bowl of Lucky Charms for breakfast

    .. but now I have none left :(


  • Posts: 45,738 [Deleted User]


    phasers wrote: »
    I had a bowl of Lucky Charms for breakfast

    .. but now I have none left :(

    you should nip down to Tesco's for another box :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    What about people wrapped in duvets, they going to be banned too?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭Nidot


    I hope this is actually true

    It'll have all the jammers crowd ringing Joe Duffy complaining how its affecting their rights to shop.

    I can hear it now ' Joe, I can't like live. Like I need me smokes from Tesco'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    you should nip down to Tesco's for another box :P
    Good idea, I'll throw on my slippers and housecoat and nip down

    see you all later!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I've never seen one of these people who walk around outside in pyjamas but I'm mighty curious. Has anyone got any photos?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Actually there is one man who can go anywhere he pleases in his night attire. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals. The Dude abides!
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JvCk7h5S_4c/Rua_onwSeII/AAAAAAAAAQA/3tyGZoykgcc/s400/Dude.jpg


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