The great Tesco banana dump!

WEEGIE

calleyw wrote: »

I know we are talking about Tescos. But all supermarkets are like it.

I was in a local sainsburys at 7pm the other night and they where marking down bread and cakes only to 50% off. They shut in a hour and still wanted silly money. And had two shallow trolleys ram packed. Rather than knocking it down to 10p a loaf. Unike my local Asda in there at 3pm sunday and was getting pre-cut baps 12 in a packet 10p normal price well over a £1. They just wanted to get rid of it all.

In another Sainsburys I witnessed 15 mins before closing bread and cakes only marked down to 50% being stuffed in clear plastic bags in readiness I assume to be dumped.

Yours

Calley

That isn't the case in all Sainsbury's stores. Every Sainsbury's store has a budget for waste,shrinkage and disposals, obviously your local Sainsbury's store was trying to get as much for their bakery products as possible to try and cut their waste.

Teahfc

OK lets throw some more light on the Situation.
Each Supermarket store has targets.
Most Supermarkets have what they call category managers who look after there particular product in this case Bananas. Using just one or two suppliers per product gives the Supermarkets more power to get help from the supplier ( thus saving head office costs) So a supplier would organise all the promotions and also have a link to every store and know how much product is sold. They then push the stores who are selling out early and push the stores that are not selling enough to push that particular product.

If Supermarkets reduced product to cheaper prices then many would get wise of that and less full price product would be sold and the public would wait for the product to be reduced before going shopping.
To throw product away is not nice but as I said before it is built into the margin so you and me as consumers pay for it anyway.

re Market stalls selling Supermarket labelled product, they should not but if for example marks and Spencer order bananas and they are not good enough due to not enough shelf life then the supplier sends them to wholesalers who sell them at the best possible price they can and they end up on Market stalls.

patchwork_cat

Taste is subjective - I hate ripe bananas and only like them when they are a pale yellow with no brown.

calleyw

WEEGIE wrote: »

That isn't the case in all Sainsbury's stores. Every Sainsbury's store has a budget for waste,shrinkage and disposals, obviously your local Sainsbury's store was trying to get as much for their bakery products as possible to try and cut their waste.

Where did I say it was in all Sainburys I said my local ones.

And yes I am well aware of wastage policies. Use to shelf stack in a supermarket not sainsburys I might add. So know all about stock rotation :rolleyes: shame 99% of the other staff had no clue. Wonder how much wastage is created by that problem.

But I know for a fact, knowing the supermarket and the area they where never going to sell that amount of bread at that price before closing in one hours time. It was not a few loaves we are talking about here, it was two shallow trolleys as well a some racking full to bursting.

All the reduce to clear people had been in and out as they are in at 6pm ish to get the fruit, meat and ready meals that are reduced to clear. And they will not buy it at that price. And neither will I when I can get the same branded product for 10p in Asda's reduced to clear.

I have a feeling there has been a change in management and this could be why prices are not being dropped as much. But the problem remains they are not shifting the stuff. So are creating more waste by throwing it in the bin. Rather than starting to reduced the day before by a couple of pence.

As I said on another thread the other week there where 6 beef joints all in the £7-£8 region marked down to 80p I was :j as I managed to get two but as the manager of the supermarket I would be :eek: for selling them at the price.

Yours

Calley

Ballymackeonan

Strangely rnough, I called into the Tesco branch where the banana dump that started this thread had happened last Sunday, and found the shelves full of nice ripe yellow bananas!

Maybe somebody is paying attention?

oliveoyl

In my local Tesco I've seen the staff clearing bananas off the shelves... just shoving them all into carrier bags for dumping. In my local Asda I've seen the staff clearing bananas into food bags, putting a reduced sticker on, and allowing them to be sold cheaply.

If Asda can do that, why can't Tesco? I'm sure Trading Standards don't have different rules for each supermarket.

WEEGIE

calleyw wrote: »

Where did I say it was in all Sainburys I said my local ones.
Calley

I did not say you said all Sainsbury's, I was merely pointing out what happens in the aforementioned company.
It may not (please note I have said may not) be a change of management, the reason they do not reduce as much as they do is the fact that all the stores in that particular retailer are under pressure from their regional managers to cut down on waste, that is why you will not see massive reductions. I can't speak or comment on other retailers as I don't know how they operate.

DCFC79

calleyw wrote: »

I know we are talking about Tescos. But all supermarkets are like it.

I was in a local sainsburys at 7pm the other night and they where marking down bread and cakes only to 50% off. They shut in a hour and still wanted silly money. And had two shallow trolleys ram packed. Rather than knocking it down to 10p a loaf. Unike my local Asda in there at 3pm sunday and was getting pre-cut baps 12 in a packet 10p normal price well over a £1. They just wanted to get rid of it all.

In another Sainsburys I witnessed 15 mins before closing bread and cakes only marked down to 50% being stuffed in clear plastic bags in readiness I assume to be dumped.

Yours

Calley

i can confirm all sainsburys store are either or due to be on the policy where all food waste is to be put into clear plastic sacks and collected and its taken to a site where the waste is thrown into an incincerator and the energy created is used to power a depot. On the subject of bread and ckas being reduced by 50% with only 1 hour of trading left well its the JS policy, the ones doing the reducing have to follow strict rules as to how much they can take off food, its the managers discretion whether there are further reductions or maybe there was a shortage of staff and there were more important jobs to be done and reducing food wasnt one of them,

i used to work for JS so i know how it works

calleyw

DCFC79 wrote: »

the energy created is used to power a depot. On the subject of bread and ckas being reduced by 50% with only 1 hour of trading left well its the JS policy, the ones doing the reducing have to follow strict rules as to how much they can take off food, its the managers discretion whether there are further reductions or maybe there was a shortage of staff and there were more important jobs to be done and reducing food wasnt one of them,

It seems strange that JS policy that there is only 50% or sometimes less than 50% off of bread and cakes when as I said I have bought £8 joints of beef for 80p in the same supermarket. And I see the bakery manager lurking around seeming to be doing very little. This is happening every time I go in there. Which is at least a couple of times a week. So don't think it is a shortage of staff.

In my more local JS up until about august of last year I was getting danish pastries down to 20p. And I know there has been a change of management recently. So maybe they are implementing the policy more strictly than it has been before. Who knows

I do understand it is a fine line. But if it is to pricey people will not buy it and then it gets chucked. I suppose at least it is not going in the bin to landfill.

Yours

Calley