being left by the roadside,
look at the picture, what does the writing on the bottom say? in case it is too small it says, 'great for school and home' but stop, if you go to the 99p Store you have to be over 18 years old to buy a set of colouring pencils, so when 11-year- old Charlotte Howard went in to buy a set for school she was she could not buy the pack because it contained a pencil sharpener, it was only when her mother Alison, went inside to find out what had happened that it became clear the 99p Store cashier was slavishly following company policy on preventing the sale of 'dangerous objects', such as knives and other sharp objects, to under-18s, 
Mrs Howard was also told she could not leave with the set of 30 pencils - because she might hand them to her daughter, the bizarre incident happened when Charlotte was out near her home in Sudbury, Suffolk, buying items for a school project, the 99p Store chain's commercial director Hussein Lalani said he was 'proud that our processes restricting the sale of certain items to under-18s have been proved to work' the good news is that they bought a set of pencils with sharpener in another store with no problems, that's what I like voting with your feet!
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