free food out of supermarket bins ?????

therealbobbo

I used to work in the office at Reading Gas works,and the Huntly and Palmer biscuit factory was opposite.There was a constant stream of tramps climbing in to the skip,eating their fill of broken biscuits,stuffing their pockets,and dissappearing till tomorrow!
we regularly go to Corfu,and know of a shop where most of the food sold is taken from a supermarket skip,we onl;y found out because we saw them taking bread and other goods from a supermarket skip,later in the day we went into their shop!
The bread was the same price as in the supermarket!

Stryder

Truewolf wrote: »

Yea not quite free food...

I work in Loss Prevention and can say on many occasions we have caught people "Dumpster Diving" majority of these people ended up with a fixed penalty of £80 and a Civil Recovery Bill for around £90. I admit some of these people have gone to more extreme conditions like breaking locks etc, however, its not just the fact that the person is tresspassing but also using the Supermarket goods. If someone were to get a disease, food poisoning etc from the goods the Supermarket would be liable! In some cases causing unnecessary court hearings thats why its taken so seriously. I know not everyones the same and some people would understand if they eat something from a Supermarket bin and get ill its not the Supermarkets fault! However, some people just see an opportunity!

Remember if its thrown away...its rubbish!

What a load of twaddle ... "if its thrown away... its rubbish!

If it is thrown away all I means that someone does not see value in it. My office is using a laser printer which I found in a bin AND the laser cartridge was full! Someone could not be bothered selling/freecycling, so it got dumped.

The issue of food is disgusting. I often see mouldy food in tesco being sold cheap on the last day. However, the other day I saw about 3 trays of peppers - perfectly firm - being wheeled away. When I asked if I could take one I was told they could not be taken away due to the "sell by date" ruling. Food that some people can not afford being slung.
many super markets are reviewing the concepts of sell by dates for fruit and veg ... and to be fair i never seen a green grocer use them. But nicking people for stopping good food going into land fill??? Legal problems for the supermarkets or not (they cause the problem, they should resolve it) fining people equates to 1 thing ... jobs-worth!

Truewolf ..... Boooooooo

Supermarkets should be forced not to throw edible food away and THEY should be fined for wasting it. Especially as they take the mickie on the prices they pay farmers

Supermarkets ... Booooooooo

moonpixiewitch

I am fortunate enough never to have had to do this, however I know people who have done this . I do have enormous respect for those who do this for whatever reason , whether it be free choice or circumstances . They are helping to prevent the destruction of this planet by stopping this "waste" going to landfill (and it does go to landfill - i used to work there !) .
http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/home

mont99

Stryder wrote: »

What a load of twaddle ... "if its thrown away... its rubbish!

If it is thrown away all I means that someone does not see value in it. My office is using a laser printer which I found in a bin AND the laser cartridge was full! Someone could not be bothered selling/freecycling, so it got dumped.

The issue of food is disgusting. I often see mouldy food in tesco being sold cheap on the last day. However, the other day I saw about 3 trays of peppers - perfectly firm - being wheeled away. When I asked if I could take one I was told they could not be taken away due to the "sell by date" ruling. Food that some people can not afford being slung.
many super markets are reviewing the concepts of sell by dates for fruit and veg ... and to be fair i never seen a green grocer use them. But nicking people for stopping good food going into land fill??? Legal problems for the supermarkets or not (they cause the problem, they should resolve it) fining people equates to 1 thing ... jobs-worth!

Truewolf ..... Boooooooo

Supermarkets should be forced not to throw edible food away and THEY should be fined for wasting it. Especially as they take the mickie on the prices they pay farmers

Supermarkets ... Booooooooo

I'm sorry, but this is just one of the most ill-informed comments I've ever read. Supermarkets/shops should simply leave themselves open to lawsuits because some people are going hungry (or - even more ridiculous - in your case simply wanted a freebie)?

It's well known that many places (as alluded to earlier in the thread by the Boots employee) used to give their leftovers to the homeless, until someone got greedy and sued. Now the supermarkers have to watch their backs - hardly their fault.

I'm no far of major retailers, and rarely comment on here, but I felt compelled this time.

chelms38

I think you will find many more people will start doing this when the price of food shoots up in January.

mrwurzal

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!

anna_p86

I was heartened to see a documentary about the homeless on BBC4 which showed EAT in London giving food away at the end of the day so it could be handed out to those who need it.

Madness isn't it mrwurzal? Makes me feel quite ill.

matj16

mont99 wrote: »

I'm sorry, but this is just one of the most ill-informed comments I've ever read. Supermarkets/shops should simply leave themselves open to lawsuits because some people are going hungry (or - even more ridiculous - in your case simply wanted a freebie)?

It's well known that many places (as alluded to earlier in the thread by the Boots employee) used to give their leftovers to the homeless, until someone got greedy and sued. Now the supermarkers have to watch their backs - hardly their fault.

I'm no far of major retailers, and rarely comment on here, but I felt compelled this time.

I cannot agree more, i'm a law student, the amount of possible lawsuits resulting from negligent actions by the supermarkets etc would be absolutely phenomenal.

The principle laid out in Donaghue v Stevenson (which is still the most commonly reffered to case for negligence) is unequivocally clear; as per Lord Atkin:
''You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour. Who, then, in law is my neighbour?... persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question.''

e.g. leaving bins easily accesable which could cause injury if searched through or eaten from.

I do not on any account blame supermarkets. By taking such actions they prevent lawsuits which would be crippling to their profits. And i'm actually thankful in a way; if such lawsuits were common place then the price of ALL products would have to go up to account for the losses.

(sorry to bring in the legal jargon, not necessarily everyones cup of tea ;however i felt the need to explain :rotfl:)

Kilty_2

jenniewb wrote: »

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!

I don't agree with it at all, but what's to stop the supermarket disposing of a burst bottle of bleach along with the food waste?

VintageToon

I've done work down a fish quay in North Shields and at night i saw them throwing aload of fresh fish into a bin. Thinking i could get quite a bag of fresh fish for nothing i was quickly shocked at what happened.

They came back out with a few buckets of blue dye and threw it over the fish in the bin, Completely ruining them. I asked why they poured the dye on.

Apparantly it's because if they reduced it at the end of the day or gave it away, The stock they sold in the morning. would be de-valued. Which is a complete waste of all that fish.


I also work at an Asda. and the amount of food thrown out is disgraceful. i do the fresh food waste on a sunday morning (produce, meat, chilled products, bread) and the amount of stuff i waste is a joke. Meat i suppose once it goes out of date its dodgy to have, But all the produce stuff is out of date but is perfect. All those starving people and all this food just gets discarded. Having said that. Up until last year all this waste would go straight into the skip/bin. But now i've got to bag it off and it goes away for recycling. although i'm not sure what kind of recycling. I'd imagine to feed cattle.