Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s have been forced to apologise to a lesbian couple after they reportedly asked the pair to stop being affectionate or leave the store.
The couple were issued with the ultimation after a fellow customer called their behaviour “disgusting”. But according to student Annabelle Paige who was shopping with her girlfriend in the Brighton store, they had done nothing more than share a kiss on the cheek.
The pair were approached by a guard in store after other customers complained, with one customer reportedly even saying she was “worried for her child”.
“To be honest, I thought she was just joking,” Annabelle said to The Times. “I’ve never experienced something like that and at the same time as we were in the store there were heterosexual couples being as affectionate, if not more so.
“I’m so shocked and upset about it. I get that if another customer is uncomfortable that’s a bad thing but the problem is is the other customer was in the wrong and essentially being homophobic,” she continued.
“The guard didn’t seem to understand that, I was absolutely humiliated.”
A Sainsbury’s spokesperson has since released an apology, acknowledging that Annebelle and her girlfriend should not have been treated this way.
Annabelle accepted their apology on Twitter.
