Supermarkets - short dating

Millennium

Did anyone see the news on Saturday about supermarkets short-dating their fresh produce?
I didn't see it but was told about it.
Apparently, supermarkets are putting a shorter than necessary use-by date on fresh foods encouraging people to throw away perfectly good food and then buying more to replace it - thus uncreasing supermarket sales/profits.
A figure of how much food the average family throws away each year was alos mentions, but I can't remember how much!
Can anyone provide any more details?

Cat695

It wouldn't suprise me, I read somewhere that sky actually reduce the quality of their normal service so people go and buy sky HD.

They should be hugley fined and the person who thought of it made to parade around with their underpants on their head!

ethansmum

Short dating works in the customers favour too though. I bought 3 big bags of fairtrade bananas (not plaintans) which had been marked down twice to 30p each because they were best before that day. The joke of it was that they were green and unripe and still are good for atleast a week. People were still picking them up looking at the date and putting them back in favour of the full priced ones (also green!). LOL!

uktim29

Sounds a load of "have a go at Supermarkets again" rubbish.

They can't win. Only a few days again there was a thread that lasted ages complaining about the freshness of Supermarket meat, now it's the opposite again! If things go off before the date you see people moaning on here.

So one day people are complaining the dates are too long because things go off to quickly, the next complaining the dates are too short so people buy more. Complete rubbish!!!!

It's just looking for fault and complaining for the sake of it.

Smashing

You're a bit daft if you throw away perfectly good produce because of an arbitary label Mr Tesco had plonked on it.

Fools and money...

Takoda

Why do people come to the vent forum and then moan about other complaining? If there's anywhere on the site that you're going to get people complaining its here.

That's like someone working in a complaints department and then moaning about the fact that everyone they see is unhappy with their purchase!

Shades of "I'm complaining about you, complaining about me, complaining about you complaining about me etc"

I mean its funny for the rest of us but a bit pointless if you see what I mean.

uktim29

Takoda wrote: »

Why do people come to the vent forum and then moan about other complaining? If there's anywhere on the site that you're going to get people complaining its here.

That's like someone working in a complaints department and then moaning about the fact that everyone they see is unhappy with their purchase!

Shades of "I'm complaining about you, complaining about me, complaining about you complaining about me etc"

I mean its funny for the rest of us but a bit pointless if you see what I mean.

It's what called an opinion!

What would be far more boring is a forum where everyone agrees with each other and writes exactly the same thing.

It's like you think some aren't entitled to any point of view!

DCFC79

ethansmum wrote: »

Short dating works in the customers favour too though. I bought 3 big bags of fairtrade bananas (not plaintans) which had been marked down twice to 30p each because they were best before that day. The joke of it was that they were green and unripe and still are good for atleast a week. People were still picking them up looking at the date and putting them back in favour of the full priced ones (also green!). LOL!

thats coz they're stupid,

Takoda

Millennium wrote: »

Did anyone see the news on Saturday about supermarkets short-dating their fresh produce?
I didn't see it but was told about it.
Apparently, supermarkets are putting a shorter than necessary use-by date on fresh foods encouraging people to throw away perfectly good food and then buying more to replace it - thus uncreasing supermarket sales/profits.
A figure of how much food the average family throws away each year was alos mentions, but I can't remember how much!
Can anyone provide any more details?

I don't have any more details for you but I have noticed that at Christmas they short date stuff so that you can't buy your Christmas dinner veggies etc early and then not have to go shopping again. They force you to shop on Christmas Eve. In the week before Christmas everything has "best before 23rd or 24th December".

This year we are going to a local farm shop and are going to avoid the supermarkets altogether.

I hate Christmas crowds and long queues.

DCFC79

Takoda wrote: »

I don't have any more details for you but I have noticed that at Christmas they short date stuff so that you can't buy your Christmas dinner veggies etc early and then not have to go shopping again. They force you to shop on Christmas Eve. In the week before Christmas everything has "best before 23rd or 24th December".

This year we are going to a local farm shop and are going to avoid the supermarkets altogether.

I hate Christmas crowds and long queues.

sorry but thats a load of rubbish unless you can prove it and ill believe you, produce/fresh food has the same length of time on it all year round

uktim29

DCFC79 wrote: »

sorry but thats a load of rubbish unless you can prove it and ill believe you, produce/fresh food has the same length of time on it all year round

Exactly, complete load of rubbish. If you really thought that was the case then why don't you just keep things a few more days rather than through it away on the date written?

Takoda just wants to join in with the "lets make up something to complain about Supermarkets" crowd. You can tell that because Takoda got very defensive when I wrote my first post here.