Poundland shopper, 24, stunned after being asked for ID for MARSHMALLOW BUM Christmas stocking filler
Jimmy Gregory was asked to prove his age at a Poundland in the Intu shopping centre in Derby
A SHOCKED shopper thought Poundland staff were joking when they demanded to see some ID before they would sell him a marshmallow sweet shaped like a bottom.
Jimmy Gregory, 24, went to the bargain store in the Intu shopping centre in Derby for some last-minute stocking fillers for his fiancée Charlotte.
He spotted the bum-shaped treat called “Marshmallow Booty”, branded with a back view of a lady only wearing black underwear.
She’s looking seductively over her shoulder and there’s a saucy tagline on the packaging reading “Squidge my cheeks!”
Jimmy said: “I thought it would be something funny for Charlotte to open on Christmas Day so I took it to the self-service checkout.
“But when I tried to put it through the checkout, it was ridiculous — they had programmed it with a Father Christmas voice which said ‘this product needs approval’.
“I was stood there for a minute and then this woman came along, looked me dead in the face and said ‘Do you have ID?’
“I just laughed at her – I thought she was joking.
“But I did get some ID out.
“I sort of thought she didn’t quite see what it was that I was buying.
“It was really busy and I know when it’s like that you can just go into robot mode.
“I think it’s just because it’s such a bizarre product in the first place, it makes it such a funny thing to be ID’d for.”
He said he could “sort of see both sides” as to why there was an age restriction on the sweets.
“On one hand, it’s not like buying alcohol – it’s not going to cause you any harm.
“From my point of view it’s not offensive at all but you know how people get.
“You can see how a mum would want to avoid the stress of their 10-year-old buying it.”
A receipt printed after a successful sale states that the item was ‘restricted to customers who were over 16’.
Jimmy, who now plans to give his fiancee the treat, said he was more amused than annoyed.
“I just thought it was hilarious. It hadn’t occurred to me that I would need ID to buy a marshmallow sweet.
“I was laughing about it for a long time after and I’ve told all my mates.”
A Poundland spokesperson said: “Looks like we made a bit of a bum decision.”
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