There are many stories of supermarkets being sued and having to pay compensation to customers who have slipped and fallen or had some other type of accident in a supermarket.

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One recent example involved Heather Mills who went flying after slipping on some milk while buying groceries at a store. She skidded on the milk and fell backwards, having to be helped up by two men who were following her down the aisles. Of course the former wife of Paul McCartney has an artificial limb and the news of her accident led to charities representing disabled people highlighting the dangers that people with mobility problems face at their local supermarket.

As well as celebrity accidents, there have also been some high profile legal cases involving accidents in supermarkets. Back in 2009 Jeanette Plummer won almost £30,000 in compensation after slipping on two grapes and breaking her shoulder at a Marks & Spencer store in Bath. The incident meant that Mrs Plummer had to have a shoulder joint replacement operation.

In 2008 an accountant lost his case against M&S after he claimed £300,000 when he slipped on a grape. The incident happened in the store's car park in north London and he said the piece of fruit that he found on his shoe after he had fallen could well have been picked up inside the store. However, the judge ruled against him, despite expressing sympathy for his plight and left the accountant with an estimated £15,000 legal bill.

Also in 2008 ASDA was fined £225,000 after a man died in a store car park. The accident happened when a security barrier smashed through the windscreen of the man's car as he drove into the car park. The fatal accident was caused by a sudden gust of wind but the company was fined for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.

Last year a disabled woman from Wales was ordered to pay scooter accident compensation to a supermarket worker after a court heard that she was responsible for injuring the worker's knee. The accident occurred when the disabled woman was using her mobility scooter at a local supermarket. She accidentally crashed it into a staff member's trolley which caused the knee injury to the woman. The woman was ordered to pay £13,000 in compensation to the injured worker.

Accidents or incidents in supermarkets take on many different forms and a more unusual item made the headlines late last year when a shopper at a Tesco in Birmingham was horrified to see six live baby mice drop out of a crisps multipack. The shopper complained that Tesco did not close the store but simply shut the aisle on which the discovery was made and put a cardboard box over the mice. Tesco responded to the criticism by saying that pest control experts were in attendance soon afterwards and that it was an isolated incident.

Tesco was also in the news for a different reason last year after it banned a customer because he was carrying his young daughter on his shoulders. The man was stopped from entering a Tesco Extra store in Cambridge by a security guard. He was told to put his daughter down for health and safety reasons but refused and went elsewhere to shop. Tesco responded by saying that it did not have a blanket policy on the issue but that all stores made decisions on an individual basis.

The news came hot on the heels of Tesco banning customers from shopping in their pyjamas or barefoot. The company said it had been forced to take action because of an increasing number of people, especially young women, dressing down for a trip to the supermarket.

There were also news items which gave fuel to the "political correctness gone mad" lobby such as when Sainsbury's made the headlines last year when it emerged that a butcher in one of its stores had refused to debone a joint of lamb in case he cut himself. The incident happened in a store in Cardiff and a spokesman for the company confirmed that the policy was for it to be deemed unsafe for butchers to use knives in that situation. The spokesman said: "Our colleagues who work on the meat counters are all trained to use knives, but some have not received all of the training to safely de-bone a lamb joint."

Similarly a pensioner at an ASDA in Aberdeen was unable to buy more than one loose lemon, orange or grapefruit because the store said that local youths had been caught pelting fruit at people. He was allowed to buy a pack of 10 lemons because they were smaller in size but was unable to buy more than one loose piece of fruit. ASDA denied that this was company policy, saying that one of its staff had obviously been having a bad day when the decision was made.

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