Kildare supermarket honours voucher from 26 years ago

A Kildare shopper who found an expired voucher, purchased in 1999, has had it honoured by the supermarket.

The shopper, living in Athy discovered the 26-year-old voucher valued at £5 - in the era of punts, before the euros arrived - and decided to see if it would be accepted by Perry's Supermarket.

Surprisingly, the store obliged.

The manager of Perry’s Supermarket, Noel Perry, told the Kildare Nationalist: “We always said we’d honour vouchers, doesn’t matter how long people had them, it’s no problem.

“Last week someone brought one in from 2011 with a value of €100 and we honoured it.”

The store has been operating in Athy for over 70 years.

There is a 5-year minimum expiry date for all vouchers sold after December 2nd, 2019.

For this to apply gift vouchers must either have no expiry date, or be valid for at least five years from the date the gift voucher is issued.

You must also be given details of the expiry date in a durable format (for example, on paper or by email) at the time you buy the gift voucher.

However, the legislation does not apply to gift vouchers bought before December 2nd, 2019. And certainly not to ones bought 26 years ago.