Missing fruit is driving Brian bananas

A fed-up pensioner gets a bunch of breakfast bother because a supermarket keeps bungling his order.

Bryan Craig does his weekly shopping through the Asda website, and always orders five bananas to have for breakfast with toast and a coffee.

But he says for the past six weeks, when his shopping has arrived, the delivery is always one banana short.

Frustrated at having to switch to marmalade on toast in place of the missing banana, Bryan, from Carlisle, has complained to the supermarket giant.

And after that failed to resolve the problem, the 64-year-old even wrote to Asda chief executive Andy Clarke.

But his shopping has continued to come up a banana short.

And last night he told The Sunday Post: “I am at the end of my tether with it. I can’t get an answer to why they are doing it or why it is so hard to get right.

“Asda ask you how many bananas you want but they cannot give you them.” On Wednesday, when the latest delivery was made to his home, Bryan says he was a banana short once again.

He was also missing a carrot but got more onions than he’d ordered.

Bryan whose wife Brenda, 68, has been in hospital for the past six months after falling and fracturing her femur believes the problem may have been caused because he selects his vegetables by number but they are then issued by weight, with 0.75kg listed on his receipt for bananas.

The retired bus driver stormed: “Every week there is a problem. It is driving me up the wall.”

The retired bus worker says the staff at the Chandler Way store and head office have been polite when dealing with his complaints but the problem persists.

An Asda spokesman apologised for any inconvenience caused.

He added: “We know being able to shop conveniently, whether that’s online or in our store, is one of our customer’s top priorities.

“It sounds like on this occasion we haven’t met our usual high standards.”