Scunthorpe shop loses £1k of chocolate after heatwave causes it to melt

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  1. the gits who run my local shops still sell it and you get this deformed bar, often with white stuff on it and the texture changed- It’s too much hassle to walk back and ask for 85p back

  2. Reminds me of the Still Game episode Hot Seat where a customer returned melted chocolate to Navid’s demanding her money back

  3. Bit of a none story this, a lot more shops around the country lost a lot more in terms of chilled and frozen products merely because their fridges and freezers aren’t capable of surviving those temperatures.

    three years ago when it hit 35 degrees we lost our fridge pack and had to bin all of our chilled goods, well over £1000, more like £10,000. This year we were lucky and squeaked through but the Tesco down the road from us wasn’t, and our local Asda.

  4. My local sainsburys and asda suffered breakdowns in their chillers and frozen sections. That said, i have heard it was because those machines weren’t designed to cope with that much amount of heat due to our country usually not getting it. Every business probably suffered from it. Every worker did. At work, we weren’t allowed to ditch our uniforms because appearance is preferred over well, not being mostly sweat and there is no air con. The poor chefs had to suffer in the kitchens without any real way of cooling down.

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