A grandmother has been banned from Asda after she was allegedly caught switching yellow stickers on a ‘pack of bacon’.
Jan Rhodes, 67, can no longer enter the store on Hall Road in Norwich, Norfolk, over the next three years despite having shopped there since it first opened in 2015.
Bosses say they caught Ms Rhodes red-handed swapping the stickers in order to save cash.
But the 67-year-old has denied all wrongdoing. She explained: ‘I went in to buy three things and while I was there, the security came up to me and said I wasn’t allowed in anymore.
‘I’ve never done that [switch stickers].
‘I’m angry and I’m upset. I used to go in there all the time. I know loads of them in there. I just want to prove them wrong.’
Her partner, Rob Gillies, said one of the misappropriated items mentioned to Ms Rhodes by Asda staff was a pack of bacon.
He said this had been purchased the day before his partner was told she was banned.

Jan Rhodes, 67, can no longer enter the store on Hall Road in Norwich, Norfolk, over the next three years despite having shopped there since it first opened in 2015

Bosses say they caught Ms Rhodes red-handed swapping the stickers in order to save cash

Ms Rhodes’ partner, Rob Gillies, left, said one of the misappropriated items mentioned to Ms Rhodes by Asda staff was a pack of bacon
Mr Gillies said: ‘She bought it the same day it was expiring. I went back with the bacon to show them.’
Ms Rhodes’s stepdaughter, Leanne Hutchings, said she had also been to the store to plead her stepmother’s case.
She added: ‘They say she’s been doing it for a prolonged period of time.
‘I explained saying that this is a case of mistaken identity. They also said she’s been abusive. She would never be nasty to someone.’
A spokesman for Asda said: ‘We ask all customers to treat our colleagues and stores with respect and do not tolerate any form of abuse.
‘While banning a customer is always a last resort, this decision was taken due to repeated disruptive and abusive behaviour.’
It is not the first time a pensioner has got into trouble with Asda. Last year 68-year-old Andrew Oliver demanded an apology after he was barred from a store in Sittingbourne Kent.
The full-time carer was attempting to rush out of the supermarket having received a call from his wife that she was struggling to breathe.

It is not the first time a pensioner has got into trouble with Asda. Pictured: The Asda store on Hall Road in Norwich, Norfolk
But workers tried to stop him from using the travelator as there was a chair in front of it that prevented people going down.
After escaping to tend his wife he later returned to the store, and was informed he had been banned for four weeks.
The pensioner admitted he had been verbally abusive.
In October 2024 it emerged a disabled woman had been banned from every Asda in the UK.
Elanor Maxey, 32, was told she couldn’t bring her dog Genie into any branch of the supermarket after an argument with one of the shop’s security guards in Bexleyheath.
The woman claimed she was branded ‘rude’ by the female member of staff and told she was breaching the Data Protection Act by recording the incident.
Asda later apologised to Ms Maxey and reversed the decision to have her barred.