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Heavily pregnant shopper 'shamed' at Lidl checkouts as worker asks her: 'Nothing on TV that day?'

• Emily Saunders, 34, is due to give birth to her first child in three weeks
• During shopping trip to Lidl, a checkout worker made jibes about her bump
• She said: 'Nothing on TV that day?' and 'You couldn't have read a book?'
• Mrs Saunders said she felt 'insulted' and was made to feel like a 'slag'

A Lidl customer said she was left feeling 'insulted and embarrassed' after a checkout worker implied her pregnancy was an accident.

Emily Saunders, who is due to give birth to her first child in three weeks, said the female employee made her feel like a 'slag' when she made jibes about her baby bump during a trip to the supermarket in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, on Sunday afternoon.

The staff member allegedly looked at Mrs Saunders and quipped 'nothing on TV that day?', adding 'you couldn't have read a book instead?'. She then told Mrs Saunders she 'wouldn't be able to afford cashback' when her child arrives.

'Shamed': Emily Saunders, pictured with husband Craig, said she was left feeling insulted and embarrassed after a Lidl checkout worker made jibes about her baby bump, seen right, during a trip to the supermarket

Mrs Saunders, 34, said she 'couldn't believe' what she had heard, adding the comments were even more hurtful because she and her husband, Craig, 44, had to undergo IVF in order to conceive.   

'I don't mind the normal questions about my bump as it's very visible, but this was just unprofessional and rude,' she said.

'She was basically implying that I was a slag because I was pregnant. She doesn't know anything about me.