TESCOS throwing away food

DCFC79

pulliptears wrote: »

Many years ago I worked for Iceland, and I suppose like many inner city towns we had an old homeless man who frequented the bins at the back of the store.
The manager was a lovely bloke, and any fresh produce going out of date he would leave in a little box by the bin for the old man, he wouldnt dream of crushing anything.

thats the sort of thing that id like to see the supermarkets do but these days they cant as they're afraid of poisoning(or not poisoning them but making them ill) people

pulliptears

DCFC79 wrote: »

thats the sort of thing that id like to see the supermarkets do but these days they cant as they're afraid of poisoning(or not poisoning them but making them ill) people

Ridiculous really isnt it?

We would leave him his box with bread, yoghurt's, milk etc as well as big cardboard boxes for him to sleep in. I think we kept him fed and warm for years

When I moved to Tesco we had a staff shelf with items just a few pence, like loaves for 5p etc, just a token price. I believe they have stopped that as well now.

My final job before I went back to education was school lunches, and people could, and have lost their jobs for taking excess food home. We used to come to the end of the shift and find little silver foil parcels of biscuits cook had dropped into our bags because she couldnt bear to throw decent food out!

pink_princess

Every big store i know still reduces their stock.I have their reduction times to a t lol.
I also work in a supermarket and we sell things that are passed their sell by dates (not use by) to companys who then sell them on cheaper ,the likes of can be found on line.
I don t see any problems with this being sold ,but would prefer it to be donated to soup kitchens etc.
The member of staff probably couldn t be bothered to reduce it for you.I bought reductions at tesco on saturday evening so it s not a company policy.

DCFC79

pulliptears wrote: »

Ridiculous really isnt it?

We would leave him his box with bread, yoghurt's, milk etc as well as big cardboard boxes for him to sleep in. I think we kept him fed and warm for years

yes it is ridiculous but my employers policy is to throw stuff away the next day that has the previous days date on,