Shopper given 'greatest substitute ever' when Asda swaps baby wipes for bottle of whisky in online shop

The shopper had planned to buy a £6 packet of towels...

Kashmira Gander
Wednesday 18 November 2015 16:19 GMT
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A man who requested baby wipes from Asda received a surprising substitute...
A man who requested baby wipes from Asda received a surprising substitute... (PAUL BARKER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Grocery shoppers who bought baby wipes as part of their online grocery shop got more than they bargained for when the packet was substituted for a litre of whisky.

Twitter user Art A., a freelance copywriter, shared a photo of an Asda receipt showing that the £6.64 packet of baby wipes had been replaced with a £18.50 bottle of Bell’s Whisky.

“Greatest. Substitute. Ever," he wrote alongisde a photo of the receipt that he said wasn't his.

It’s not clear what the Asda worker was thinking when they swapped the moist towels used to change baby’s nappies for a litre of hard liqour, but many on Twitter joked that staff member probably thought they were helping a stressed parent cope.

Art A., who like most of us generally receives a handful of retweets and ‘hearts’ for his post, later tweeted his amazement that his photo - which he said wasn't his - had been shared hundreds of times. The popularity of the tweet also saw it trending in London.

The Twitter user isn't the first to be left scratching his head by a supermarket substitution.

Last year Tesco replaced a woman's walnut loaf with a whole octopus after a stock shortage, The Mirror reported.

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