Lidl pricing error leaves shoppers with bizarre bedroom problem - and no way of fixing it

These days, getting value for money on the most basic of items can seem like an uphill struggle.

The news that chocolate bars are set to shrink will undoubtedly make our lives that much more miserable when the ruling kicks in.

The rotten cherry on the stale cake, however, was the news that the cost of a pint is set to soar .

Bleak, woebegone times.

A handful of Lidl shoppers in Bath, however, recently bucked the trend due to a pricing error at the Lower Bristol Road store, and ended up with a lot more than they bargained for.

Whether they consider themselves lucky probably depends on how much space they have...

The store in question is currently selling mattresses which have cleverly been compressed into rolls so they can be easily transported, the Bath Chronicle reported.

At £59.99 for a single and £79.99 for a double, the Meradiso mattress is pretty good value for money.

Once opened, the instructions say the mattresses will expand into their actual size within 24 to 36 hours.

All of which is a wonderful feat of engineering, designed to make the lives of shoppers a lot easier.

However, a 'Lidl' advertising error saw king-sized mattresses labelled as being regular double ones, meaning there have been plenty of shoppers who, a day after liberating their mattresses from their packaging, found they don't fit their beds.

Nor can they be easily returned, with mattresses being awkward and heavy to move around.

The Bath store has since put up a notice saying the mattresses were wrongly advertised and apologised for the error.

But now the customers stuck with their jumbo mattresses don't necessarily have the transportation means to return them.

A shopper who called customer services said she was happy to return the mattress but pointed out that, as it had been opened, it would no longer fit into the boot of her Nissan Micra.

She can't be the only one facing this conundrum.