Tesco customers are in uproar after it emerged that the supermarket is selling fruit pots as a main course and not as a side dish in its meal offering.
The British supermarket is offering a main course, snack and drink for £3.90 or £3.40 for those with a Tesco Clubcard.
Typical main courses include a sandwich or a wrap, while the snack is often a packet of chips, fruit or a sweet treat.
An image has since emerged of Tesco offering an insubstantial fruit jar filled with berries as a main course within the meal deal.
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The introduction of a fruit bowl as a main dish in the range came as a shock to many customers who are used to buying fruit as a side dish.
Normally fruit, including sliced Pink Lady apples and pineapple chunks, can be bought alongside a sandwich and drink for £3.40.
However, in the updated offer, a sandwich would not qualify for the deal if you purchase the berry and grape blend.
The discovery has caused a storm on social media, with customers claiming the change is ‘sickening’.
The new revelation has caused a storm on social media, with customers claiming the change is ‘sickening’.
One said: ‘This is actually insane. ANGRY!’ A second added: “No, this is wild.”
“I got some of the mango thinking it was a side dish and ended up paying £8 for three things,” a third wrote.
A fourth said: ‘2000s eating disorder culture is back, baby.’ Another said: ‘This is so insulting.’
When MailOnline contacted Tesco for comment, a spokesperson said: ‘We are always looking at ways to expand, improve and update our meal deal offering, depending on the evolving tastes of our customers.
‘Over a year ago we introduced a number of larger fruit pots (between 230-300 grams) as a main option, following customers telling us they wanted more main courses suitable for breakfast.
‘Our smaller fruit pots (between 80-145 grams) are still included as snacks in our meal deals.
‘In our large stores, customers can choose from more than 10 million meal deal combinations and in the Express stores there are more than 4 million possible meal deal combinations.
‘This huge choice means there are options to suit most tastes and dietary requirements.’
It comes after Tesco was forced to change its Clubcard logo after losing a multi-million pound battle at the Court of Appeal over claims it had copied rival Lidl’s yellow circle branding.
Lidl had accused Tesco of ‘deliberately playing on Lidl’s reputation’ by using a yellow circle to promote its Clubcard scheme – and is now being backed by judges after a £2.35m legal battle.
Defeated retail giant Tesco – Britain’s largest supermarket company – is not expected to appeal today’s ruling and is expected to update its Clubcard prize logo in the coming weeks.
The company has previously said that removing all the infringing logos would cost it almost £8 million.
A spokesperson for German discount supermarket Lidl said the grocer was “delighted” by the verdict.
Last year, Lidl won initial High Court claims for trademark infringement, passing off and copyright infringement against the rival chain over its use of yellow circles.
Tesco introduced its unique Clubcard loyalty program prizes three years ago, using a yellow circle within a blue square to promote them.
Tesco denied the infringement and challenged the ruling in the Court of Appeal last month, arguing there was ‘no basis’ for High Court Judge Joanna Smith’s decision.
But today, in a ruling, Lord Justice Arnold rejected the bid by Britain’s largest supermarket chain to overturn claims of trademark infringement and ‘passing off’.
Lord Justice Arnold, joined by Lord Justice Birss and Lord Justice Lewison, said the High Court judge found that the yellow circle with a red outline on a blue background had become ‘distinctive of Lidl’ and that the Clubcard price signs were the Lidl logo would contain ‘to imagine’.
He continued: ‘Tesco could easily have used a different sign to promote Clubcard prizes. There is no error of law or error of principle in that reasoning, and the conclusion was one to which the judge was fully entitled.’
However, Lord Justice Arnold overturned the previous finding of copyright infringement against Tesco.
He said: ‘Any painter will confirm that placing one color opposite another changes the viewer’s perception of both. This also applies to placing one shape within another.
‘Although Tesco have copied the visual concept of a blue square surrounding a yellow circle, among other things, that is all they have done.’