A gay Tesco customer mocked Tesco for putting Attitude magazine in the ‘hobby’ section – pointing out being LGBT is not a ‘pastime’.
Jo Nice had been food shopping on Tuesday when she spotted the gay lifestyle publication on the top shelf of the ‘hobbies’ section, next to photography and record collector magazines.
The baffled 42-year-old took a photo and shared it online, ridiculing the supermarket giant with the caption: “Fancy a new hobby? Record collecting? Photography? How about being gay? Nice one, Tesco.”
After posting the image on Facebook, it attracted more than 40 comments, with social media users joking it was the ‘best hobby ever’.
Jo, from Colchester, Essex, said: “I had a bit of a laugh. I was taking my mum for her grocery shop and looking to see if they had any tattoo magazines and I thought ‘maybe tattooing is a hobby?’
“Then I spotted Attitude in the top righthand corner and thought it was funny. I posted on Tesco’s page to make a joke.
“Looking at the other headings they had, I couldn’t see where it would fit.
“I thought maybe ‘lifestyle’ but there wasn’t that…