The great Tesco banana dump!

redandwhite

Ballymackeonan wrote: »

I'm just back from my local Tesco. I needed bananas, but they never seemed to have any that weren't green - now I know why...

One of the staff was going through the banana section, and throwing all the stock into a trolley. I asked her why - they were going to be dumped! These bananas weren't even fully ripe - they were still green at the ends. I asked her why they were being dumped, when they wouldn't be ready to eat for a couple of days, and she said it was management policy and they had to be dumped once they went yellow....

There were 4 trays of bananas - I reckon that's at least 40 bunches - going to waste. Not to mention the cost to us consumers - that level of wastage must be reflected in the store overhead!

Simply not true, they only get 'wasted' if fail a 'WIBI' (Would I buy it) check. Being ripe would not suffice, battered and bruised and it would.

PasturesNew

I've bought about 6-8 bananas turning quite brown - usually at 10p for that lot when the price started at £1.20 ... and they still last 2 weeks and are edible.

If I used them in cooking I t hink they'd be OK for 3 weeks.... I buy them to cook with, but I seem to eat them before I get round to it.

Miroslav

What a waste.

I'm not surprised though. I wouldn't put anything past Tesco.

clutterydrawer

disgusting, when there are so many people in the world going hunry

i have to say i went to tesco the other day and there were no ripe bananas so i had to settle for a green bunch. Weird cos it's not like this in other supermarkets as far as i know.

i might email them and ask what they think they're playing at.

CG19a

I know how silly it seems, I've even commented on it myself. The reason that we have to waste them is because the bananas come into store with a "display until" date on them, and even though the bananas are not ripe, we would get into a whole lot of bother if we were to sell them.

andyrules

Must be a recent thing - and that explains why I can't find yellow ones. Bought a bunch of green ones last week, now they have ripened into a mass of bruising - hardly any edible bits. :sad: If they're yellow you can easily see this before purchase.

broclo

Why on earth would they not put them in bags, weigh, then put a sticker on for 50% off the price, the day of the sell by date then?

MENTAL They should be ashamed of their policy!

jackieb

Don't Tesco sell the bags with half of the bananas green, and the other half yellow - Keep 'em, Eat 'em, or something like that? Or have they stopped selling them?

broclo

jackieb wrote: »

Don't Tesco sell the bags with half of the bananas green, and the other half yellow - Keep 'em, Eat 'em, or something like that? Or have they stopped selling them?

Still on website

Which means that their policy is TWICE as stupid!

Edinburghlass_2

Sounds like a staff member couldn't be bothered to bag and reduce them, no matter the colour, in my store thats what they do with all vegetables around 8.00 pm and there is always a queue for the bananas.