supermarket waste-anything we can do?

geordie_joe

UnderPressure wrote: »

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

Eat like Kings every week for a fiver

I don't have a wife, but seriously considering a job there myself. You also get the staff discount on the stuff too.

UnderPressure wrote: »

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

My local opened nearly 3 years ago. It used to be great for reductions, you could get great bargains if you went in after 6pm, even better after 7pm (it closes at 8pm).

But in the last 3 months it has changed. Instead of waiting until late in the day to reduce things (a lot), it knocks pennies off them first thing in the morning.

As an example, they used sell their own brand sliced corned beef at £1.49 per pack. They used to reduce it to 20p around 6pm on the best before date, then down to 10p if there was any left at 7pm.

But now they reduce it to £1.45 when they open in the morning and it all gets sold.

It's the same with all the things they used to reduce a lot at the last minute. Now they reduce them by a little, very early, and the people who shop in the morning buy them.

Snakeeyes21

squishysquishy wrote: »

I went into Asda yesterday and a girl was marking down some cakes to 10p. She wasn't putting them on the shelf but putting them in a trolley. I asked her if I could have one. She replied that yes I could but she wasn't supposed to sell it because it has past it's best before date.

If you followed her out back they wouldnt be going in the bin they would be getting shared between the other staff one of the perks of working in a supermarket, im not sure whether the numpties you deal with on a daily basis is worth it though.

LittleVoice

geri1965 wrote: »

and supermarkets are obliged to put "use by" dates on perishable goods by law.

Are apples, cabbages, bananas perishable? They don't have to have a "use by" date.

(and, of course, the OP was writing about a BB date not UB)

geri1965_2

I know the OP was talking about best before dates but I was responding to someone who said you should use common sense to tell if food was off or not - the point I was making is that you very often can't tell if food if off or not by taste or smell.

Are you disagreeing with that?

jenniewb

LittleVoice wrote: »

Are apples, cabbages, bananas perishable? They don't have to have a "use by" date.

(and, of course, the OP was writing about a BB date not UB)

They don't have them stamped on them but if you look on the side of the container it tells you when it is to be taken off the shelves.

mitsubishiash

KimYeovil wrote: »

Nope, that is a bad idea and wrong. The economy would go bankrupt if those living in poverty were given free food. Most supermarkets don't bother marking stuff down in the first place to avoid this. And it is not that they have little to spend on food - the problem is the little they have they choose not to spend on food.

What a load of bull.

Aside from that being a shocking and horrible generalisation, the economy would not go bankrupt if food that was destined for the bin went to some of the neediest people in our society. The little money they do have would still be spent in our economy!

And as for stating that those living in poverty choose not to spend what little they have on food - what planet are you from?
Just because some people make poor life choices doesn't mean that everyone living in poverty is guilty of this. What about the millions of elderly people and children who are unfortunate enough to be poor? Are they choosing not to spend money on food?

If I thought like you I could generalise and accuse everyone in Yeovil of being an in-bred, arrogant fool but that wouldn't be fair.
It's just you. :mad:

Sequeena

I used to work in a supermarket and you won't believe how much would be thrown out each day, it was truly shocking. However imagine if supermarkets still sold those products and people became ill because of these 'out of date foods?'

I used to get a lot of requests about giving the food to homeless shelters and I passed them on to my bosses but they just said no point blank

mitsubishiash

Sequeena wrote: »

I used to work in a supermarket and you won't believe how much would be thrown out each day, it was truly shocking. However imagine if supermarkets still sold those products and people became ill because of these 'out of date foods?'

I used to get a lot of requests about giving the food to homeless shelters and I passed them on to my bosses but they just said no point blank

Yeah I know - I wasn't arguing that it's feasible to do it in this country, I was just enraged by ridiculous and belittling generalisations about the poor.

Barneysmom

Is it time the system was re-hashed, maybe get rid of best before dates, and just have use-by dates instead?

Though I don't know why they put dates on fruit and veg?

Sequeena

mitsubishiash wrote: »

Yeah I know - I wasn't arguing that it's feasible to do it in this country, I was just enraged by ridiculous and belittling generalisations about the poor.

I didn't see your argument until after I posted this, please don't think I was having a go I got these requests all the time and it's a shame that it can't happen.