Store's Condom Mistake Nearly Ends Relationship

A British woman almost split from her boyfriend of four years after a retail store's web site showed her joint card had been used to buy condoms.

Upon seeing a purchase for 12-pack of condoms on a list of purchases made with her Tesco ClubCard, Lynn Newby jumped to the conclusion that her boyfriend, Andy Allott, was having an affair.

"It gives a list of everything bought on a ClubCard and there at the top of the list was a packet of Mates condoms," Newby tells 'The Daily Mail'. "I knew I hadn't bought them so I went in and accused Andy, who had not idea what I was talking about."

Newby didn't believe her boyfriend's denials, assumed he was lying, and accused him of deleting the items from the site after they mysteriously disappeared.

She even almost canceled a planned vacation with Allott -- until a friend from work informed her that a pack of condoms had also mysteriously appeared on her Tesco ClubCard account.

After told the chain about her story, Tesco Chief Executive Terry Leahy sent her $200 and a letter of apology, admitting the condoms were mistakenly added to some accounts for a brief period when a new employee incorrectly put information about a promotion into the store's computer.

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