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Are Supermarkets using short use by dates for profit?
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It's true geordie that I haven't been in every store and I don't know for sure what i suspect is even correct, however the point is somebody nameing no names fixed the use buy date of any product so it is shorter than it needs to be then they would sell more that is a fact.
Of course I'm being a bit extreme with that but if you could just manipulate the dates you have to maximise sales you KNOW the supermarkets will.
PS Yes I get stuff from back of shelf too ...My local shop keeper mixes them up his not daft lol0 -
Thats my point Tanith which adds to mty suspisions bread always seems to last much longer than its use by date why???0
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p24hrsmith wrote: »It's true geordie that I haven't been in every store and I don't know for sure what i suspect is even correct, however the point is somebody nameing no names fixed the use buy date of any product so it is shorter than it needs to be then they would sell more that is a fact.
Of course I'm being a bit extreme with that but if you could just manipulate the dates you have to maximise sales you KNOW the supermarkets will.
PS Yes I get stuff from back of shelf too ...My local shop keeper mixes them up his not daft lol
You may be right, I have no experience of shopping at "out of town" type supermarkets where the customers arrive in cars and do shopping for a week/month.
I guess if most of your customers are weekly/monthly shoppers it would make good business sense to have short life products on the busiest days.
Where I shop most of the customers pop in regularly every day or two, so there's no point in trying to encourage them to shop more, they do it anyway.
If it does happen, does the supermarket buy older bread at the weekend, or do they get the baker to print a shorter life on the label?0 -
p24hrsmith wrote: »Thats my point Tanith which adds to mty suspisions bread always seems to last much longer than its use by date why???
Because they have to put a use by date on it by law, so they make it a short one so you will either eat it or throw it out when it reaches the use by date. Whichever you do, you have no bread so have to go out and buy more.0 -
It's FIFO (First In First Out) Basically, when food comes in, all your old stuff goes to the front, then all your new stuff to the back, so the shorter dated stock sells first and the new stuff doesn't. Most of the time use by dates mean nothing as stuff is still usable.** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
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p24hrsmith wrote: »I'm pretty sure supermarkets get deliveries ever day. If what your saying is correct ALL Supermarkets have there delivery on just Tue/wed which wouldn't be practical.
depends really, some could get deliveries every day and some could get deliveries every 3 or 4 days,0 -
It's FIFO (First In First Out) Basically, when food comes in, all your old stuff goes to the front, then all your new stuff to the back, so the shorter dated stock sells first and the new stuff doesn't. Most of the time use by dates mean nothing as stuff is still usable.
this is how it happens but if the person putting the bread out has put the new stock at the front so it leaves the old stock at the back the during the day the new stock is sold leaving the old stock at the front which could explain what the OP saw,0 -
this is how it happens but if the person putting the bread out has put the new stock at the front so it leaves the old stock at the back the during the day the new stock is sold leaving the old stock at the front which could explain what the OP saw,
This does happen in my local Morrisons. They employ young kids (showing my age) and I often see them pushing stuff to the back and putting the new stuff in the front.
It's funny, I haven't stacked a supermarket shelf for over 12 years, but I still spot others doing it wrong0 -
p24hrsmith wrote: »I shop mainly at Asda and have noticed that “use by dates” appear to be getting much shorter depending on the day you shop.
I started to notice that use by dates on Friday to Sunday are (or appear) to be much shorter than say Wednesday. The I noticed this is in all fresh products, for example on Fri<Sun a loaf of bread seem to only have 2 days life but on Wed they would have 4 or 5.
Are you buying the same bread as me?I've noticed that I can buy a loaf on Wednesday, or wait until the Saturday, and get the same Use-By date on both, even if I dig to the back of the shelf for long dates both times. Perhaps they do indeed only get the one delivery a week from that particular manufacturer (begins with a W).
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All your comments that may explain the reason for this could well be true and like I said I could be just paranoid and maybe the supermarkets are victims of their supplier’s dates I don’t know.
I just think if shorter use by dates would increase sales would supermarkets OR there supplier’s (must be fair) manipulate them? I don’t know for sure but I would not imagine it would be illegal to put a shorter date than needed on a product and if that was the case surely nobody would be naive enough to think it would not happen if it improved profits.0
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