Tesco shopper issues warning over 'extremely dangerous' grocery discovery

Tesco has come under fire from a shopper over an "extremely dangerous" discovery in their shopping. A customer hit out on Twitter, now X, over a sharp piece of plastic which was unearthed in their home shopping delivery from the UK supermarket giant.

"Extremely dangerous sharp piece of plastic that seems to break from the tray when cooking your Oriental Style Takeaway with Vegetable Spring Roll 500g meal," the customer fumed. They said the shard of plastic was 20mm long and had "stabbed the roof of my mouth".

They added: "God help you if this had happened to one of my children." On its website, Tesco says: "If an item is damaged, hand it back to your delivery driver who will process a refund. If you spot this after the driver has left, you can return it to your local store. If you’ve opted for Click+Collect, you can hand the item back to a colleague, who will process a refund.

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"If there’s an item missing from your delivery and no substitute has been provided, please call our Customer Service team." It said: "Sometimes, one or more of your items may not be in stock when we pick your order. If you’ve chosen to allow substitutions, we will offer a suitable alternative, if this is available.

"Your driver or our Click+Collect colleague will make it clear if you’re being offered a substitute, but if you don’t want the item, just give it back to the driver or colleague and you will be refunded. We ‘price match’ our substitutions, so if we’ve offered you a more expensive product than the one you ordered, we’ll only charge you the price of the original item.

"If you have purchased an item that’s part of a multi-buy offer or meal deal and we send a substitute that is more expensive, the price of the deal may increase. If you don’t want to pay the extra cost, you can choose to refuse all the items picked for the deal and get a refund instead."