supermarket waste-anything we can do?

geordie_joe

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

and it's legal to sell after BB dates providing the food is still safe for consumption.

Who decides if it is safe for consumption? The spotty 16 year old who is marking it down, the store manager, the security guard?

More to the point, how do they tell if the item is packaged?

Helix

When I worked at Sainsburys most things that had past its best before date were sold off really cheap to staff. Had a large area at the back with everything marked down.

lindseykim13

The op said though that the cakes were at their bb date that day surely putting them out on a trolly marked at 10p would have been better that throwing them out the back?
I can understand they can't sell them the next day but it was THE day if that makes sense.
We regulary drop into asda and spot the 10p cakes/breads as they put them at the front of the store the bb date is that day and it's normally late in the evening. They could still leave them on sale until midnight and then not as much would go to waste. Actually the whole trolly usually gets cleared within a few minutes. Essp cakes they can be frozen!

jenniewb

Maybe its Parliment you should be complaining to- if we didn't have such stupid rules where people could sue for eating something that smells bad maybe things would be different.

UnderPressure

I have to agree it is a shameful waste, and when you consider the many many supermarkets all across the UK following similar procedures the amount of food that is simple being tipped into lanffill every must be absolutely vast, not a great advertisment for carbon footprints and global warming really.......

But what can be done? Our UK supermarkets are tied up in sill health and safety laws amongst many othersm Im sure with them all trying to be as carbon neutral as possible if there was something they could do legally they would and no dount be shouting about it in the press as well, unfortunatley it just semms to be a case of nothing CAN be done sad really

So far as them being happy to mark them down to 10p but not put them on sale on the same day, thats just madness, maybe they record losses in the bin less than losses sold to customer? There has to be a reason for it and no dount it will come down to finances somewhere along the line.

geordie_joe

UnderPressure wrote: »

So far as them being happy to mark them down to 10p but not put them on sale on the same day, thats just madness, maybe they record losses in the bin less than losses sold to customer? There has to be a reason for it and no dount it will come down to finances somewhere along the line.

Maybe they sell them to the staff. I know someone who works for Morrisons, and she gets all her bread (in store baked) for 5p per loaf. Whole cooked chickens for 5p, cooked spare ribs, enough for 3 people for 5p. And loads more.

I go into the same store at different times and have never seen items reduced that much.

Owain_Moneysaver

geordie_joe wrote: »

Who decides if it is safe for consumption? The spotty 16 year old who is marking it down, the store manager, the security guard?

How about the customer? BB dates are used for things which aren't unsafe even if past the date.

geordie_joe wrote: »

More to the point, how do they tell if the item is packaged?

Overpackaging is another but related issue.

geri1965_2

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

But these were cakes, with a best before date, and it's legal to sell after BB dates providing the food is still safe for consumption.

That is true, and a lot of people don't know the difference. I have spices and herbs in my cupboard which are years past their best before date, and still fine to use.

UnderPressure

geordie_joe wrote: »

Maybe they sell them to the staff. I know someone who works for Morrisons, and she gets all her bread (in store baked) for 5p per loaf. Whole cooked chickens for 5p, cooked spare ribs, enough for 3 people for 5p. And loads more.

I go into the same store at different times and have never seen items reduced that much.

Right thats it sending the wife off to Morrisons for a job

Eat like Kings every week for a fiver

Speaking of Morrisons we used to shop there every week for years, I will still pop in now and again for their BOGOF's etc, I figured out years ago in my loacl one that it is a waste of time even looking in the reduced cabintet, My local knocks between 5 and 10% off literally thats it, for the pennies you save you may as well buy it fresh I gave up looking in Morrisons years ago

Mrembo

My local store are allowed £50000 of wastage in a week.Sales are around 1 million pounds a week.