free food out of supermarket bins ?????

theronkinator

M&S and Waitrose sell it cheaply to the staff. As do Booths which is a northern chain like waitrose.

Lilmiss_2

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.

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

After xmas a few years ago they were giving away stollen. They were past the date but absolutely yummy and the lady just said "Have as many as you like":T

Iheart2poundcoins

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.

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

My local Lidls does this too!
I had some feta cheese pastry things free the other week, and have had crisps, chocolate!, papers and magazines free :T

Happy_shopper

Bump! Heads up, London Freegans! Free food in Trafalgar Square, 12-2pm today.

http://www.feeding5k.org/

simon1987_2

it is illegal that ur trespassing on private land but once the goods are in the bin they no longer belong to the supermarket but belong the waste company who empty the bins. I cant see waste companies sueing you or prosecuting for rummaging in waste

jenniewb

simon1987 wrote: »

it is illegal that ur trespassing on private land but once the goods are in the bin they no longer belong to the supermarket but belong the waste company who empty the bins. I cant see waste companies sueing you or prosecuting for rummaging in waste

Lol- I wanted to contradict you but nothing on Google can help me:rotfl:

HOWEVER! I do know someone who was banned from a certain store for taking waste that was out of date- the people who were writing "whopps" stickers wou;dnt reduce it for her as it was out of date and said it had to be thrown away, but left it on a trolley whilst they went to do something else so my friend took it and didn't pay.
The store "detective" stopped her at the doors as she walked out and basicly the police got called and she is now banned! She said that she explained the put of date stuff to the store detective but he was having none of it. Maybe he had money on her head? She wont go back there anyway, not after what happened, think it really shook her up, don't think she expected to be arrested for what she did.

Not exactly the same as the rest of the thread but beware, it only takes one power hungry store manager/detective/whatever they want to call themselves to really make things nasty.

PixiePie

simon1987 wrote: »

it is illegal that ur trespassing on private land but once the goods are in the bin they no longer belong to the supermarket but belong the waste company who empty the bins. I cant see waste companies sueing you or prosecuting for rummaging in waste

That's not actually strictly true. The goods in the bin still belong to the store, until the point when the waste management company retrieves them from the bin, at that point they become the property of the waste company, not the point where the supermarket put them into the bin.

And even if your theory was correct - the company might sue you on the basis it deters others from doing it, because (in theory) if you are doing it and hurt yourself, you can sue themfor enabling you to do it and hurt yourself.

markl66

MMm as long as its M+S or Sainsbiry...lol. Nothing wrong with it, if it's winter, otherwise a bit smelly.

katrina001

I used to work for tesco, we locked all waste food away. I agree it is such a waste as some of it is perfectly usuable I wouldnt touch it once its been in the bin. The bins are filthy! & apparently some supermarkets will pour bleach on their waste etc to stop people from taking it. Also, as others have said you risk getting glass in the food etc

kimmy112

ahhhh i saw that on wife swap.....