Waitrose shopper apologies after falsely accusing the supermarket of shrinking its toilet rolls
A SHOPPER who accused Waitrose of shrinking its toilet rolls counted out all the sheets — and found they had the same number.
Sonja Rudd, 62, has now apologised to the posh supermarket after kicking up a stink online.
Sonja Rudd has apologised to Waitrose after falsely accusing them of shrinking its toilet rolls[/caption] Sonja made the claims after noticing a difference in size between newly-bought rolls and one previously purchased[/caption] Sonja took to Facebook to vent her frustrations over the shrinkage[/caption]She had noticed a difference in size between newly-bought rolls and one previously purchased.
Sonja said: “It was about an inch smaller all the way around. Both packs said the quantity was the same. I thought it can’t possibly be.”
But she had not spotted that the difference was due to a smaller cardboard tube inside the new ones.
She went on Facebook to “vent” her concern and other users urged her to count the sheets.
Sonja, of Exeter, Devon, joked she “did not have a life so would do just that”.
She spent 20 minutes one evening counting the sheets on both rolls, ten at a time.
Then she posted the eagerly-awaited result — and had to admit she had found precisely 240 sheets on each roll.
She also apologised to Waitrose for moaning unnecessarily before asking to be excused “to watch some paint dry”.
After counting each sheets on both rolls, Sonja apologised after discovering both had 240[/caption]Most read in News
Sonja said: “I can’t believe I actually sat there and counted them. It’s only fair to go back on there and say ‘sorry Waitrose, I was wrong’.”
Waitrose said it had reduced the diameter of the tube of its Essential Bathroom Tissue to save 11 tons of cardboard annually.
It added: “There is absolutely no reduction in roll quality, sheet size or the number of sheets.”
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