free food out of supermarket bins ?????

rochycoo

The asda i work at sells items that have passed the 'best before' date to staff members. They also reduce all the bread and cakes to 5p or 10p on the evening of the 'use by' date, so there is rarely any bakery items that get thrown away. Any damaged items that are thrown away go straight into a huge compactor which is inside the electric fenced back yard of the store, so no chance of any freebies from there!!

alanrp123

Do these so called veganists pay tax and insurance for their camper vans??.
I doubt it!!

VeggieCatLady

alanrp123 wrote: »

Do these so called veganists pay tax and insurance for their camper vans??.
I doubt it!!

That's a rather unnecessary use of a stereotype there-an inaccurate one at that. If you look up the definition of vegan you will see it has nothing to do with getting free food from supermarket bins. It means not consuming any animal products. I'm not quite sure how you made the link considering supermarkets do not have specific 'vegan bins'. In discussions like this it is clear that there will be conflicting opinions, which is fine. But it would be nice if people could maintain respect for others.

Loucien

alanrp123 wrote: »

Do these so called veganists pay tax and insurance for their camper vans??.
I doubt it!!

FREEGAN, vegan is different. Though I suppose someone could be both. And I imagine most live in houses, and many have jobs.

immie

I considered doing this when I was dead skint, but all the supermarkets near me locked their bins, like an individual padlock on top of the container. Though sometimes when I walked past T*sco express at night and I'd see a homeless person with a dog rummaging through it, don't know how they manage to unlock it though...

I've only gotten free food this was twice in my life, once we were shopping in T*sco express and we saw an SA scrape all the fresh bakery items into a big clear bin bag. My friend started talking to him about what a waste it is and charmed the SA into giving the bag to us. :rotfl: about 20 stale donuts and 4 dried up brownies:rotfl:
Another time I was walking past a sandwich/salad shop around 7pm in Covent Garden. They had loads of fancy lunch salads in a clear bag outside on the pavement, I guess they didn't have proper bins... I saw some student types picking at it so I got a few as well, again not the nicest, it was borderling *off*, will probably make you ill if you're not careful...

A lot the stuff we see on TV and on the net about Freeganism tend to be American, I think the shops in America are even more wasteful than here and thus 'dumpster diving' is much more do-able over there...

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I don't do it as often as I used to here in Copenhagen. Most supermarkets in the last year has started locking the bins up. Still strike it lucky every now and then.

dandelionclock30

jenniewb wrote: »

They can be held responsible- even if they are from the bins, outside the store bins are not their responsiblility, but their own bins are supposed to be guarded and if not, and people are able to take food from them, its the supermarkets negligence and they are liable to court action, fines or at worse being sued.

Not saying its right, but if they are trying to retain their profits, which is theor sole purpose (that and trying to make a profit!) people sueing left right and center wont help, can see their point. Its a shame a few money hungry people can really spoil it for so many others, I am sure there were far more posative reactions to the freebie food given to homeless then the few food poisoning ones!

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Giving food away to the Homeless is not as straightforward as people think.A variety of different problems can occur which is why some projects wont have the food even if its given free.
Problems include, homeless people arguing and fighting for the food etc. Arguing with one and other about whos got what etc.
Also then selling on the food in various dubious pubs etc for beer/drug money.
Staff taking the food themselves which was meant for the client group.

One supermarket stopped giving the food to projects because it ended up back on their shelves.

gayleanne

One of the Tesco's in our area it is only a small one, had a power cut, the power was off for hours, so they bagged up everything that was in the chiller cabinet and put it out side the store, a few people realised what was going on, and they took bags of the food. The Police arrived and arrested them charging them with theft.

EarnMoneyOnline

I've not specifically "bin-raided" for food before, but there have been plenty of times when I've gone into the local Tescos or ASDA late at night and one of the shelf stackers has been taking things off the shelves and I've asked them if I can have them. They often say yes then stick a reduced tag on them for a few pence.

DaveTheGeordie

When I worked at Iceland a guy used to come take our bins as soon as we emptied the store waste most of the time. We would catch him half the time because we would empty some and then I imagine he thought we were done but then we'd go out with a second or third load - and catch him like that. He used to almost run away as soon as he heard us open the door so I never got to speak to him.

I only wanted to say something like 'Cool man! Very sensible being frugal like that' *makes peace sign* or 'Best leave the sausages mate. They've been sitting out for 14 hours.' Really if you go skipping/dumpster diving avoid the meats - and only eat sealed stuff. And always wash it properly. That's how most people get dysentery.

I'd do it if I had my own place but I live with my parents. I watch loads of random dumpster diving/frugal videos on youtube. People upload their finds. I think people have found game strategy guides and sold them on ebay. I read a while back that some people go around student apartments bins around final exam time looking for course texts and sell them back to the stores. I.e. stores that sell 2nd, 3rd/2nd hand editions etc. I would do that too if I happened to live in the main city area next to student complexes.