free food out of supermarket bins ?????

kimmy112

jenpoptrash wrote: »

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.

i used to reduce food when i worked at tesco, everything close to date or damaged was reduced and if it didn't sell it had to be put in the bin(depended on the date) - because of the law we couldn't sell it, often tho the staff would get whole chickens that didn't sell for 10p

lawrie28

A twisted one, but as soon as it is in the bin, it is legally waste. Therefore to move it, you need a waste management license, so by doing this the environemntal health may prosecute...............

I used to work at Morrisons, again lots of stuff in the staff break room, and TBH the stuff they through away you wouldn't want anyway. But the bins were in the yard, which had security gates on, so no one could ge to them anyway.

dehaani

lawrie28 wrote: »

A twisted one, but as soon as it is in the bin, it is legally waste.

The bin is on private land though and many products are in a certain bin because they are destined for recycling. I know this is the case with bread, it's supplied to supermarkets on a similar deal to sale or return (like newspapers) except it doesn't need to be returned. The bakeries credit the supermarket for bread that has been disposed of and this agreement between the supplier and retailer would be in jeopardy if the supplier discovered that significant levels of "disposed" stock was being taken for human consumption.

I personally think it's a disgusting waste of food, I've seen how much bread gets binned at supermarkets. But when you understand how their supply chain works, you then understand that they are protecting their property and revenue, they aren't just being awkward by securing their "rubbish".

I would much rather see bread supplies run out more often than pallets of the stuff being sent for composting or animal feed. I'm certain that's the reason a loaf has become so expensive, when you consider that wheat is still one of the cheapest foodstuffs available.

Isn't taking from a bin called "theft by finding"?

jenniewb

dehaani wrote: »

The bin is on private land though and many products are in a certain bin because they are destined for recycling. I know this is the case with bread, it's supplied to supermarkets on a similar deal to sale or return (like newspapers) except it doesn't need to be returned. The bakeries credit the supermarket for bread that has been disposed of and this agreement between the supplier and retailer would be in jeopardy if the supplier discovered that significant levels of "disposed" stock was being taken for human consumption.

I personally think it's a disgusting waste of food, I've seen how much bread gets binned at supermarkets. But when you understand how their supply chain works, you then understand that they are protecting their property and revenue, they aren't just being awkward by securing their "rubbish".

I would much rather see bread supplies run out more often than pallets of the stuff being sent for composting or animal feed. I'm certain that's the reason a loaf has become so expensive, when you consider that wheat is still one of the cheapest foodstuffs available.

Isn't taking from a bin called "theft by finding"?

I've never understood that one tbh! Seems a bit nanny state to be taken seriously. Still can't get over the fact that if you find any money in the street you are supposed to- by law, hand it into the police station or leave it on the floor for the owner to come back!

That would have made both my sister and me -and infact many of my 2 year old friends criminals- the amount of times we'd find money in the street- one time my sister found a £5 note which bought quite a bit back in the '80s!

dehaani

jenniewb wrote: »

That would have made both my sister and me -and infact many of my 2 year old friends criminals- the amount of times we'd find money in the street- one time my sister found a £5 note which bought quite a bit back in the '80s!

My ex found £3000 once in a brown paper bag, hidden in some bushes. She handed it into the police.

Turns out it was the proceeds of a Post Office robbery. She got no reward, but she was cited as a witness in the case against the armed robbers.

Sometimes it's better just to pretend you saw nothing.

Check this poor guy's story: Man's suspended jail term for handing in a weapon.

The law really is a mess.

dehaani

Kayteehee wrote: »

I work in Boots and apparently the store used to give the leftover waste food to a homeless charity

My cousin used to work for a supermarket in the city centre. They had "trouble" with homeless people raiding the skips so they decided to spray all the waste food with a strong blue dye to put people off.

It makes no sense!

jenniewb

dehaani wrote: »

My cousin used to work for a supermarket in the city centre. They had "trouble" with homeless people raiding the skips so they decided to spray all the waste food with a strong blue dye to put people off.

It makes no sense!

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Guess they think all the homeless stand around all day looking in a make-up mirror saying "my, I don't like that shade of blue on me, I don't think I'll eat there again"!
:rotfl:

But the posts on them spraying waste with bleach are just evil- I think if I'd not eaten for days (and I have been in a similar situation) when I did find some food, I'd be so overcome with hunger I'd eat first and taste later. The bleach could cause so much damage and I hope for that reason the supermarket that did that would be made to pay damages!

continualdiamond

A friend at work once bought in loads of carrots that a supermarket had refused to accept to sell when her husband delivered them as they weren't cut right.....it's carrots for goodness sake, they were perfectly okay to eat but just because the cut wasn't right they didn't think they'd appeal to customers to buy.

They could of at least reduced them or something if they were that concerned. As you can imagine our work ended up with loads and loads of bags of them. Though some people have horses so their horses had a nice feed off them.

debtmess

food waste is awful, i used to work for three cooks bakery at the end of the day there had to be a certain amount of waste otherwise they see it as you hadnt made enough of something for a customer to buy

at the end of the day it was counted then thrown into black sacks for the big bins behind, terrable terrable waste and we wasnt supposed to take anything home, though we did many a time

waste on a big scale drives me mad, if i had the guts id ceratinly try looking in a supermarket bin

borders_dude

Lots of supermarkets give to Fareshare who then give the items to the needy.

A jolly good idea!