{"id":4865,"date":"2010-08-07T21:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T01:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2010-09-17T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:19:33","slug":"protip-for-british-troops-dont-wear-your-uniform-to-the-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/protip-for-british-troops-dont-wear-your-uniform-to-the-co-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Protip for British troops: don\u2019t wear your uniform to the Co-op"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, British soldiers (in uniform<\/a>) are considered “untouchables” by the Co-op grocery chain:<\/p>\n

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A soldier who had just arrived home from Afghanistan was refused service at a supermarket and told they didn’t serve people in Army uniform.
\nSapper Anthony Walls called into a branch of the Co-op for some beers after a gruelling 34-hour journey from Kandahar.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The manager told Mr Walls he ‘couldn’t do anything about it’ and refused to serve him while he was in uniform. The soldier — who was on his way to his three-year-old nephew Jack’s birthday party — walked out of the shop in New Addington, Croydon, in a daze.
\n‘I was deeply hurt,’ he said yesterday. ‘All I was thinking about was getting home to Jack in time to wish him a happy birthday. <\/p>\n

‘It was great to be home after a difficult journey and I just thought I’d grab a couple of beers — a luxury I hadn’t had in a while.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The good news is that it was all a misunderstanding: the Co-op won’t sell beer to Policemen<\/em> in uniform, and the cashier and her manager misunderstood that the chap in military-style kit wasn’t actually a police SWAT-team member on a break from bashing EDL protest marchers. They’ve apologized (but there’s no indication that Sapper Walls got his beer before flying back to Af’stan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, British soldiers (in uniform) are considered “untouchables” by the Co-op grocery chain: A soldier who had just arrived home from Afghanistan was refused service at a supermarket and told they didn’t serve people in Army uniform. Sapper Anthony Walls called into a branch of the Co-op for some beers after a gruelling 34-hour journey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,5],"tags":[218,31,104,618,98],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-military","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-booze","tag-clothing","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1gt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}