free food out of supermarket bins ?????

evespikey

I used to work for One Stop and all the out of date food the staff got given for free. Mind you this was 5 years ago now. However that manager was later fired, so that may not have been a good idea...

DCFC79

LisaB85 wrote: »

Very recently a woman was charged for taken food than Tesco had thrown out due to a power cut.

They chucked it out so how could they still own it? surely if you put something in a bin it's anybodies?

if the bin/skip is on the stores property or within an area thats locked then its still the supermarkets,

LisaB85

DCFC79 wrote: »

if the bin/skip is on the stores property or within an area thats locked then its still the supermarkets,

It wasn't someone else gave it to her and she was charged, with so many people starving they should let them have what they don't want with a disclaimer that if anyone is ill then no legal action is able to be taken.

Plus most food chucked out for being past its sell by date is still edible months after, there is a site where they sell food that is past its sell by date and it is legal as they let people know.

mummyplus3

i think given the stae of the economy this is something that should be looked into becomming legalised, not dumpster diving as such but food that shops can no longer sell etc, If someone wrote up a contract for the freegan that said that they fully accept the risks of taking the food/products etc and should they become ill, have an accident or be injured there wont be any reprocussions for the store then that should suffice?

DCFC79

Well hopefully more stores will follow sainsbury's example and send it all to an incinerator

altojack

And what a waste that would be. They could always donate to the YMCA, I know that the Greggs bakery in some towns do this.

ceridwen

mrwurzal wrote: »

I work for a large DIY chain and it is such a sad state of affairs that I see being destroyed products that have nothing wrong with them...

Boxes of unopened wallpaper, BRAND NEW lawnmowers, Generators and various other things..

To prove that there is nothing wrong with the lawnmowers we started one up and tried it out, it started first time and was cutting the grass with no problem...

It had been returned to the store with a fault... no fault existed, but they are not allowed to resell the items and for the wallpaper we are forced to mark the tops of the rolls with black markers so that the hole roll is unusable...

Such a wastful way of trading, but they are not allowed to resell or give any of these perfectly good products away!!

So So Sad!

Just come across this thread - and seen this post.

Actually - there would have to be a safeguard if shops were able to sell on stuff like this - ie for it to be clearly marked as "Pre-used" and a cheaper price charged for it.

I suspect this chain are pretty much in the minority taking the moral stance here in one respect - in that I've found a sizeable number of shops sell on goods as perfect and at the standard price when they have been been used and returned by a previous customer. I've found Arg*s has done it before now - and when I mentioned it there one time I got the comment that they "cant check all returned goods to make sure that no-one has used them" - but I've certainly found that I got things like a hairdryer that had a couple of hairs in it (ie obviously been used) and its frequent to find parts missing (ie a customer unpacked the goods and didnt even bother to put all parts back in again).

I've bought a breadmaker from an electrical goods shop that had obviously been used.

I've bought a skirt and worn it before realising there was a fault in it. I took it back and got a refund - and then saw MY skirt there on the shop rails again being resold!!!

So - I think shops should try and resell products where possible - but it DOES have to be plain that they are secondhand and a secondhand price level charged for them.

antrobus

DCFC79 wrote: »

Well hopefully more stores will follow sainsbury's example and send it all to an incinerator

I read that Tesco were aiming to have all their waste food turned into biofuel and burnt to provide electricity. At least I seem to remember there being complaints from some vegetarian group who are unhappy at the thought that their homes might be powered from electricity generated by waste meat. No idea how far down the line they got with that project.

catkins

I hate waste of any kind, particularly food waste. If I could get to any of the bins at my local supermarkets I would. I do not need to do so financially but it infuriates me that supermarkets throw perfectly good food away.

I know people who work in supermarkets and they say if there is a pack of say 20 cans of drink and 1 gets broken the whole lot are thrown away. Also once items reach their sell by date they are thrown but anyone with any sense knows that some food items are fine to eat long after their sell by date.

Supermarkets should sell the food more cheaply to the public (some of the markdowns on food on the sell by date are pathetic i.e. 20p off), sell it cheaply to their staff or even give it to the staff, give it to a homeless charity, a hospital, childrens home etc etc. If they do not do any of this they should be fined, the amount depending on just how much perfectly edible food they throw away

eeeeeee

get a grip things are tight for alot of people and i mean alot ; the supermarkets waste and awful amount of food ; i remember seeing a documentary on channel 4 ... with pallets of ready meals fresh vegatables bead biscuits cake all going too be crushed mushed and destroyed ; the owner of this plant said that none of his staff EVER buy food as they can just help them selves too whats available ; these were well known high street supermarket who were paying this guy too collect food .., it was gobsmacking ; The more waste the supermarkets create the higher are food prices will be ... its a viscous circle ... supermarkets individually could donate these spares too charity instead of throwing them out or destroying them ;;;