An Aldi shopper was confused to see she had almost been charged £972.43 for a supposed 15-stone piece of meat.
The 43-year-old from Newport, who asked not to be named, was doing her weekly shop when she ran into a bit of a blip at the till. When trying to pay her contactless card wasn't being accepted.
She told Wales Online: "I'd gone to the checkout and tried to pay contactless with my card, but it wasn't going through. At which point the lady on the till told me she was going to have to call a supervisor to help with voiding an amount."
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The shopper said that once the supervisor sorted things she managed to pay for her shopping and received the receipt. That was when she noticed the staggering amount noted on the bill.
She said: "It didn't click until after I'd picked up my receipt that a leg of lamb worth almost a grand had popped up from nowhere at the end of my bill. Thing is, I don't even like lamb.
"So I wouldn't even consider buying a couple of chops, let alone the 97.340kg that Aldi was suggesting. That's like just over 15 stone in weight. Way heavier even than an average bloke."
The customer said that, with a normal leg of lamb usually costing about £15, no one in the store could explain from where the amount had materialised or how. "I hadn't bought any lamb and neither had the person who was before me in the queue.
"And the same goes for the person who was behind me. So how did it suddenly materialise on my bill like that - and with that huge price tag? I could buy a second-hand car for that sort of sum and I'm just glad it was spotted and voided by staff before I actually put my card in the machine and entered my PIN. So, fair play to them."
An Aldi spokesperson attributed the problem to "a wrong button being pressed" and added that "at no point was this customer in danger of actually being charged that amount. It was spotted immediately by the cashier who corrected it."
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