A SHOPPER who generously paid for a Morrisons breakfast for a homeless man claims that staff let the man go hungry because of "company policy".

Lucy Davies blasted the supermarket's decision to undo her husband's kind act at the store in Kirkham, Lancashire.

Lucy said kids had stolen the homeless man’s crisps and as a kind gesture her husband went inside and paid for a breakfast at the store’s cafe.

He then went back outside and gave the man the receipt and told him to eat at the cafe when he was ready.

But when Neil went back the next day he found out the man had asked to take the breakfast away as he was “embarrassed” about how he looked and “didn’t want to cause offence” to other customers.

Neil claims management told him this wasn’t allowed and Lucy said the man felt so ashamed he ended up leaving the store without eating any food.

When Neil challenged store bosses she said they claimed it was company policy not to allow customers to take food away from the cafe and “they didn’t want to encourage this kind of behaviour".

Lucy described their lack of compassion as “frightening” and “shocking”.

In another tweet, she added: “Apparently giving him to take away was against company policy. So the poor man had to go hungry.

"You might want to have a word with your management team as this is disgusting. [I'm] truly saddened and upset by this.”

Morrisons responded by saying it was not company policy to stop customers taking food away.

A company representative tweeted: “I've now passed this to the Store Manager as [it's] not Company Policy as we would allow customers to take away food.

“This will not be repeated in the future in any of our stores.”

A Morrisons spokesperson told The Sun Online: "This is not our company policy. Customers are free to take food away from the cafe if they wish.

"We have apologised to the customer."