Do Tesco always refuse to sell broccoli without the stalk on?!

Amistoso_2

kalaika wrote: »

TBH, I snap the stalk off my broccoli too. I've never even thought about doing it when the employees are not looking (I find there's rarely any employees around anyway...). If there's a broccoli head I'd like to buy I'll just chop the stalk off and be done with it. The shop is still able to sell that stalk to someone else who wants it (as others have already said they like the stalks).

To me, the analogies to bottles, packaging, etc on other goods don't work as you don't buy other items by weight where the packaging is included in that weight. E.g. if you bought, say, a kilo of pasta, you buy exactly that, a kilo of pasta. The packaging isn't included in that weight.

yeah, people are really gonna pay for JUST stalk!!! others may like them but wouldn't want to only buy that part...

kalaika

drsquirrel wrote: »

Packaging (the bag) is included in £/kg products though

(the comment was in jest anyway )

Yeah, I guessed I can't see a polythene bag being a problem, but if it was done with the glass bottles of whisky as mentioned by DvD I think there may be a bit of an uproar...

pendulum

If Tesco feel they are losing money to the !!!!takers who snap the stalk off because they don't want it they are entitled to stop selling stalkless broccoli to quell the practice, end of story, if you can't buy it without the stalk then people will stop snapping the stalk off, its the only way to stop the practice. If you don't like it shop elsewhere.

Nothing is yours until you have paid for it so nobody has the right to snap the stalk off, what you 'want' doesn't come into it.

Amistoso_2

Laz123 wrote: »

At last, a sane voice amongst all this madness.

Have all the cyber saints here had a look at Tesco's profits lately? (And yes, it is relevant). This retail virus are killing our town communities and riding roughshot over councils. If you don't believe have a look here http://www.tescopoly.org/

All your analogies are completely bonkers. You need to think first before spouting out your knee-jerks.

Every little hurts (us).

off topic much?!?
is it only Tesco that sell broccoli?
so in your reasoning it's ok to snap bits off that you don't want to pay for in Tesco but don't do it in a small local grocers?

kalaika

Amistoso wrote: »

yeah, people are really gonna pay for JUST stalk!!! others may like them but wouldn't want to only buy that part...

Jackieglasgow (post #6) might if she was feeding her 2 boys... ;)

Swan_2

Amistoso wrote: »

yeah, people are really gonna pay for JUST stalk!!! others may like them but wouldn't want to only buy that part...

kalaika wrote: »

Jackieglasgow (post #6) might if she was feeding her 2 boys... ;)

:wave: I'd buy bags of stalks provided they were nice & fresh

I always feel broccoli before buying, & if it's floppy, it gets left on the shelf

Oopsadaisy

Swan wrote: »

I always feel broccoli before buying, & if it's floppy, it gets left on the shelf

Yeah, nothing worse than a floppy stalk.

fluffnutter

Tiggywood wrote: »

...he repeated 'we are not allowed to sell broccoli without the stalk on as I normally work on 'fresh' and we make most of our money on the stalk, so you can't have this one...

Aah, supermarkets... you've got to love 'em. Usually they're not so candid about how everything they do is just to fleece those extra few pennies out of their customers. You should have applauded the guy for his honesty!

How many rants on this site are about the four main supermarkets? Loads of them! Because they're !!!!!!!

tanith

Next thing will be people peeling the spuds cos they don't eat the skin or coring the pineapples cos they don't eat the core..... the worlds gone mad!!

Equaliser123

kalaika wrote: »

TBH, I snap the stalk off my broccoli too. I've never even thought about doing it when the employees are not looking (I find there's rarely any employees around anyway...). If there's a broccoli head I'd like to buy I'll just chop the stalk off and be done with it. The shop is still able to sell that stalk to someone else who wants it (as others have already said they like the stalks).

To me, the analogies to bottles, packaging, etc on other goods don't work as you don't buy other items by weight where the packaging is included in that weight. E.g. if you bought, say, a kilo of pasta, you buy exactly that, a kilo of pasta. The packaging isn't included in that weight.

Ever bought a whole chicken and tried to take out some of its bones? or try and take some fat off a steak? What about peeling bananas before you buy them?

I think it is pathetic how people try and save a couple of pennies by damaging produce.

I really wouldn't stoop as low as that.