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The great Tesco banana dump!
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Good website called : lovefoodhatewaste.com recommends various use of passed it or left-over food.
One tip for bananas was to freeze them, and cook in the oven with syrup/honey which is lovely.
Also banana skins for garden soil to add potassium
Explains why there is never any yellow bananas in store - what a wasteHow much ?????????!!!0 -
Commonsense should prevail here, there is no indication of a banana or hands of bananas having use by, best before or display until date once it is on the shelves, so who is to know that a green banana is out of code when clearly it is not. Tesco should maybe think about ordering less bananas or any other product they find difficult to sell, that goes for other retailers too.Bananas only have a 1 day shelf life when they arrive in store, if we are lucky they have 2 days. While there it may seem stupid, if we start to sell them after their stamped shelf life, where does it end? Essentially who are we (ie Tesco Staff in store) to decide when we should extend the shelf life? People wouldn't be happy if we did it with mince or a lasagne, so why would we do it with bananas?Like good food and drink?
Try Hotel Chocolat and Baileys.
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my local tesco will reduce everything and i get really cheap bananas nearly every week to use in cooking and if i have a glut my boys love banana jam, it is terrible when shops waste food espeacily when so many people are struggling to make ends meet. could we not all start complaining to head office of supermarkets with bad policys if enough of us complain they might take notice..0
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Bananas only have a 1 day shelf life when they arrive in store, if we are lucky they have 2 days. While there it may seem stupid, if we start to sell them after their stamped shelf life, where does it end? Essentially who are we (ie Tesco Staff in store) to decide when we should extend the shelf life? People wouldn't be happy if we did it with mince or a lasagne, so why would we do it with bananas?
Because people can see if they want to eat them, unlike meat products. Come on, I've seen them reduced in terrible states that even the banana bread making bunch wouldn't touch! The loose ones have no dates on anyway.
What's going on in Tesco? Bring back yellow bananas!
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Commonsense should prevail here, there is no indication of a banana or hands of bananas having use by, best before or display until date once it is on the shelves, so who is to know that a green banana is out of code when clearly it is not. Tesco should maybe think about ordering less bananas or any other product they find difficult to sell, that goes for other retailers too.
I fully understand where you are coming from, however the suppliers stamp display until dates on the boxes of bananas, and for the purposes of the law we need to deal with them as an out of code product. I know personally how to tell when a banana or any other fruit or veg is beyond use, but we have tied hands.
On a side note, again I say where does it stop? These dates are put there for a reason, would you really allow big companies to decide to sell you out of code items just because it looks like its fine?0 -
On a side note, again I say where does it stop? These dates are put there for a reason, would you really allow big companies to decide to sell you out of code items just because it looks like its fine?
Do you really know what you are talking about
You have never seen the Approved food website then, they have stuff with Best Before date in 2005. Yes that is 2005.
All the fruit I have down stairs (bought from 3 different supermarkets I might add) some stuff I bought on reduced to clear about a week ago all has a best before date and not a use by date. Two totally different things. You can still legally sale things after the best before date as it just means that the item is not at it's best. Mind you with fruit it might have turned a little bit runny in a couple of weeks time:rotfl:
You can't sell stuff after a use by date as that covers highly perishable items such as meat, dairy etc. Which could make you very ill indeed.
Might like to read up a bit more about use by dates here
Yours
CalleyHope for everything and expect nothing!!!
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Commonsense should prevail here, there is no indication of a banana or hands of bananas having use by, best before or display until date once it is on the shelves, so who is to know that a green banana is out of code when clearly it is not. Tesco should maybe think about ordering less bananas or any other product they find difficult to sell, that goes for other retailers too.
The volumes that you are talking about being lost are chicken feed to the big picture.
The consumer is sucked in to the bright displays of Fresh produce and for every MSE customer there are 40 that pick it up regardless, As I have said before the margins on fresh produce are huge up to 40% and more in some cases. We trust tesco and the other big boys and get the impression they are giving us the best deal when in fact a trip to your local market ( not all of them but the good ones) or your local greengrocer will see you save 20% of your hard earned cash !
By hey why do that when you can get all the pretty packets and and all under one roof ! :rolleyes:"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
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Any waste, unless the food is actually rotting, is sick. There are so many people who can't afford to eat.:mad: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!An average day in my life:hello: :eek::mad: :coffee::coffee::coffee::T
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I am no expert in property but have lived in many types of homes, in many locations and can only talk from experience.0 -
Where do Tesco get their bananas from? Most stores who sell bananas have a three day life. Did you know you can extend loose bananas by one day?Bananas only have a 1 day shelf life when they arrive in store, if we are lucky they have 2 days. While there it may seem stupid, if we start to sell them after their stamped shelf life, where does it end? Essentially who are we (ie Tesco Staff in store) to decide when we should extend the shelf life? People wouldn't be happy if we did it with mince or a lasagne, so why would we do it with bananas?Like good food and drink?
Try Hotel Chocolat and Baileys.
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Bananas are not the same as mince or lasagne or any other manufactured food or fresh meat. They grow naturally and they do not have an "eat by" date when they are growing on the tree. Oh for goodness sake, this is madness. :mad: I hate green bananas. I also bought mine in Lidl today.I fully understand where you are coming from, however the suppliers stamp display until dates on the boxes of bananas, and for the purposes of the law we need to deal with them as an out of code product. I know personally how to tell when a banana or any other fruit or veg is beyond use, but we have tied hands.
On a side note, again I say where does it stop? These dates are put there for a reason, would you really allow big companies to decide to sell you out of code items just because it looks like its fine?Ellie :cool:
"man is born free but everywhere he is in chains"
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