tesco reduced goods (ood stock )

C_Ronaldo

calleyw wrote: »

Thick question. As most items have at least 5-7 days date on them apart from some cakes and breads and stuff off deli and fish counter. Why do you not start to discount it 2 days before. Surely that would mean you would never have to reduce to something silly like 20p. As people would buy it with say 30p reduction in price..

Now there may be some obvious reason why that is. But I am just lost as to what it is.

Two of my local supermarkets reduce down to 10/20p a item. I have three slices of pre-packed beef from the best ranges for 10p when it retails for £2.99 and a beef joint that was nearly £12 for 70p. Does not happen very often but when it does it a bonus for me.

Yours


Calley

that is something ive wondered we should do, if we did it taht way we could cut how much stock we chuck away,

i know, its stupid but its how it is,

calleyw

C_Ronaldo wrote: »

that is something ive wondered we should do, if we did it taht way we could cut how much stock we chuck away,

i know, its stupid but its how it is,

Well it seems an obvious answer to cut down on wastage and it just seems to strange to me. That the supermarket would rather get 20p for an item rather then just 20p off the full price.

I just though I was being thick and there was a really obvious reason why it was not done.

Yours

Calley

annabelinda_2

I have seen the guy who works at the locla Chinese takeaway stand guard using his trolley as a means of stopping anyone get near the reduced stuff, (especially the fresh chickens) while his wife grabs everything!

Westywoodpecker

lkmc01 wrote: »

We also follow the reducing staff with the sticker hand guns to see where they are going.

I can hear that hand gun from the other side of the store :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

~Jem~

calleyw wrote: »

Thick question. As most items have at least 5-7 days date on them apart from some cakes and breads and stuff off deli and fish counter. Why do you not start to discount it 2 days before. Surely that would mean you would never have to reduce to something silly like 20p. As people would buy it with say 30p reduction in price..

Now there may be some obvious reason why that is. But I am just lost as to what it is.

Two of my local supermarkets reduce down to 10/20p a item. I have three slices of pre-packed beef from the best ranges for 10p when it retails for £2.99 and a beef joint that was nearly £12 for 70p. Does not happen very often but when it does it a bonus for me.

Yours


Calley

Where i work we have recently started a new way of reducing.
In the evening we look check for stuff that has a display until date for the following day, its reduced by a small amount and left on the shelf. The next day its reduced a little more in the afternoon and then put in the reduced section. Come late at night whatever is in the reduced section then gets reduced again.

This really has cut our wastage totals as most people who buy off the shelf are taking the reduced items, so usually most reduced stock gets taken off the shelf, if it doesn't then it most certainly will get taken off the reduced shelf.
This also cuts down on the collection of people waiting in the reduced section, although a few customers spot the reductions label printer and follow the member of staff around!

hazeyjewel

So what time is it best to go to my 24hr tesco for reduced stuff?it's late and i'm tired:o

~Jem~

hazeyjewel wrote: »

So what time is it best to go to my 24hr tesco for reduced stuff?it's late and i'm tired:o

Your best bet is to ask staff when you see them doing reductions.
All stores have a timetable to stick to, but this can vary greatly eg meant to reduce from 7pm but got caught up dealing with customer etc or pda not working properly/out of labels could end up being nearer 9pm.
It's never going to be spot on the same time every day but go on the same days and you will normally see the same members of staff, get talking to them and they'll let you know when they knock stuff down

The_Old_Bag

FWIT
In my experience of buying ood goods in Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose, Somerfield and Sainsburys - have I missed any out ?
There is no set time in any store. Rule of thumb is, Stores reduce food when they think they will be left with it on their shelves, ie not on a Saturday morning, or on Thursday and Friday early evenings when most people do their shopping. I have had some real bargains at 15 minutes before closing, or a couple of hours before. My local Co-op ( I knew I would forget one) tends to be really good before lunch during the week, as they methodically go around the store from first thing marking them down by 50%. Later on ar night they will reduce again depending on how much stock they have left, and even better, all their multi-buy offers still kick in - as does Waitrose.
I usually hit Tescos about 9, but I know they do the main stuff about 7.30. Asda anything from 8pm onwards. Both these are 24 hours by the by.
But, all these store do start reducing chilled stuff a day or two before their sell-by date, but only by say a third. This is a reasonable figure, but the way things are financially at the moment, I have to hold my nerve and wait untill it is virtually 90% off.
BUT, In my experience the timing and the % mark down all depends on the manager/duty manager etc.
My Tesco bakery section used to do some really good reductions, then all of a sudden they only cut say 30% off even being prepared to put it in black bags first rather than reduce it further. I gather they had someone new in charge.
Agree that certain staff obviously have family and friends coming in, and somethime find them in a quiet corner happily putting reduced stickers on everything in their 'friends' trolley. - This is my local Tescos.
Also, different departments do reductions at different times, and by different % in Tescos. Other stores eg Waitrose,Coop and Asda etc seems to do them all at the same time and all by the same %.
Morrisons tend to mark down by the smallest %, untill their final mark down - only ever hit this by luck, as is not 'local' to me. In my Dads Morrisons, staff actually load a trolley with ood reductions and follow you around store and head to check-outs to try and get you to buy it !! I mean how many yoguurt can one person buy for goodness sake !!:rotfl:

Bottom line is, it's pot luck.

peddy

I go to my Local Morrisons for my yellow sticker bargains. Usually it's stuff like pies, pasties and sausage rolls or the cooked chicken and ribs that I get. How much they are reduced to seems to depend on who is working. I've noticed that when one particular manager is working he reduces most stuff straight down to 19p or 29p but if he's not there it's generally 69p.

The best bargains I've had were 3 whole racks of ribs for 29p, a cooked gamon joint for 19p and 6 assorted pies for 19p.

chill£d_sav£r

1carminestocky wrote: »

I read on here a while ago that one member of staff at Asda was sacked for giving all the reduced stuff to 'a friend'. Maybe Tesco have that policy also? Best way to do it without raising your profile would be to contact Tesco Head Office and, firstly, enquire what their policy is and, if same as Asda, tell them the store where it's happening (mentioning no names) and suggest that a memo is sent reminding staff of their obligations? Better than 'outing' yourself at the store's customers services desk IMO.

i heard a guy working in a tesco near me got sacked for reducing items to a very small percentage of the orginal price, normally all below 20p. He did this on saturday afternoon and took half of it for himself and the rest he put out. Dozens people would scramble to grab chocolate, anything really as it was so cheap. I even got an mp3 player for £1.50.

Last week i got strawberry cheesecake for 3p, 3 pack sub rolls for 4p although it was at 10pm on friday night so they need to get rid of stock quickly.