Persons with disabilities can now be added to Tesco’s priority shopping list after legal action was taken by a mother with a disability unable to buy food, reports BBC.
Joanne Baskett, 48, who cannot leave her house, says she was discriminated against because she could not secure an online shopping slot.
A further 318 people sent claims to all of the UK’s major supermarkets for breaching the Equality Act 2010.
Tesco has now agreed to add all those people to its priority list.
The individuals were not named on the Government’s Extremely Clinically Vulnerable list, but nevertheless felt their access requirements should be taken into consideration by supermarkets.
“For six weeks I would stay awake until midnight to try and get a slot but I couldn’t. It has had a huge mental and physical effect on me.” she said.
She took legal action and accused the supermarket of breaching the Equality Act 2010 for not making reasonable adjustments to enable her, as a person with disability, to shop.
