Store immediately regrets asking customer to back up faulty carrot claim

This shopper was not messing around.
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- If there's ever the opportunity to get one over on a brand, people are normally more than happy to go the extra mile.

Aaron, a Tesco customer from Manchester, UK, is a brilliant example of this.

It all started when he tweeted the following complaint about a bag of carrots he'd bought from Tesco.


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Tesco responded asking Aaron to "elaborate on the issue".

45 minutes later, Aaron delivered.

Here's a close up of the "representative cross sample".

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In the end, Aaron's tactic seemed to pay off.

Never come between a man and his carrots.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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