free food out of supermarket bins ?????

mcjordi

debjk wrote: »

I used to work for safeway we used to watch them on the security cameras once we saw the owner of a local curry house in there fishing out chicken breasts.... lets just say no one from safeway ever ate at that curry house again!

dirty git :eek::mad:

pipjes

i did it alot over a period of yea 13 yrs ago, it was disgusting the things they threw away, toilet rool, kitchen roll etc just becuase of a little hole in the packet, i used to get bacon within its sell by date alot, i must have done it at least twice a week, i ralrely had to buy any food except milk etc...... it is totally illegal unfortunatly, as i foud out when the local police came to arrest me, i got let off with a caution, but it is stealing, and if i got ill from the food i could have then sued. such a waste.................... the did lock the bins in a compound but we climbed over it.....
dont some of you harsh mesers critisise me for doing this along time ago, you dont and wont know the circumstances in wihich i had to do it...

jenpoptrash

I saw that programme too, I assumed that companies have to remove food from their shelves after the use by date but for any other items they would put in their reduced section.
Maybe it's cheaper for them to bin the items rather than pay staff to mark down. It is such a waste - would I ever give bin raiding a go? If it wasn't illegal then I probably would yes.

db-_2

It's not illegal and you can do it, the only problem being it's private property and is trespassing so you could get asked to move on.

chokkers

I would advise you to be careful if you are considering doing this, a good friend of mine used to work in a supermarket (a rather high end one at that!) and they used to get people hanging around outside by the bins when they closed to get free food (rather than buying it reduced) and instead of doing something charitable like giving it to shelters etc they were instructed to pour bleach and other chemicals on it to make sure that no-one could eat it!_pale_
:eek:
Complete waste, and totally immoral IMHO, but just be aware that the supermarkets are not fans of giving out free food, and so they may have a few ways of making sure its inedible!!

choille

I've been in LIDL & they've laid stuff out on the packing shelf to help yourself to - which I think is pretty civilised of them.

What a waste bining food. I've heard of the fregan movement & think it's great.

Confuzzled

choille wrote: »

I've been in LIDL & they've laid stuff out on the packing shelf to help yourself to - which I think is pretty civilised of them.

i've seen this at a lidl in edinburgh on several occassions, i seem to remember benefiting from free cabbage, free bottle water and even free energy drink for my (now) ex!

NaughtyAngel2007

I used to get told of at boots the chemist for bagging up the out of date chiller foods for our local homless. we had three or four reg tramps that came for there food. i made them little lunches lol. boots were so tight and these guys were lovely and very polite. i hate seeing waste.

InfamyInfamy

http://freegan.org.uk/
:j
I think it is illegal though.............

gitw

I think it's a great idea although I don't have the guts to do it myself.

However, I work just off Bow Lane in the City, close to St Pauls and all the sandwich shops pret etc bag up their food at the end of the day and leave it on the doorstep - it is amazing just how many people will happily go through the bags to bag a freebie - and a lot of them are suited and booted.....