Asda selling out of date food

TheBigJewishTakeover

Yea I have to shop at Asda its my closest supermarket and I am not a hater they have some good offers. However I have made the mistake of shopping off the reduced section a few times and paid dearly for it. I believe its not just the going out of date food they reduce but the abandoned items. As I walk round the store I see products abandoned by shoppers who have changed their mind. Many items that need to be frozen or refrigerated are just left on a shelf. It was only after buying heavily reduced items from their bargain section and getting serious food poisoning 3 TIMES I began paying more attention. It was then I noticed a members of staff returning abandoned items to the fridges after god knows how long not refrigerated as well as being the items reduced, so beware!

arcon5

fluffnutter wrote: »

Apparently Use By dates can differ (on the same products) depending on where the food is destined. E.g. two chickens slaughtered on the same day are being packaged in the same packaging plant. One is destined for e.g. the Co-op and has a Use By date four days hence. The other is destined for, say, Asda (which turns its food over quicker) and only has a date of three days hence. Makes a mockery of 'Use by' or you'll die, doesn't it?

Who benefits from this ? It would make more work for the manufacturer and surely both stores would want the latest day possible to food looks fresher

:huh: :huh:

hansi

Sell by dates are just another "con". My fridge has loads of stuff in which has gone past the date. If it looks ok and smells ok, then it's usually ok to eat. Noses are much better than dates!

real1314

TheBigJewishTakeover wrote: »

Yea I have to shop at Asda its my closest supermarket and I am not a hater they have some good offers. However I have made the mistake of shopping off the reduced section a few times and paid dearly for it. I believe its not just the going out of date food they reduce but the abandoned items. As I walk round the store I see products abandoned by shoppers who have changed their mind. Many items that need to be frozen or refrigerated are just left on a shelf. It was only after buying heavily reduced items from their bargain section and getting serious food poisoning 3 TIMES I began paying more attention. It was then I noticed a members of staff returning abandoned items to the fridges after god knows how long not refrigerated as well as being the items reduced, so beware!

Er, you joined just to add a comment on a thread that hasn't been seen for over 3 months?

And to make an unevidenced link between Asda and food poisoning?
Did you report it to your Doctor and Environmental Health?

All a bit inexplicable really. :cool:

stephen77

arcon5 wrote: »

Who benefits from this ? It would make more work for the manufacturer and surely both stores would want the latest day possible to food looks fresher

:huh: :huh:

Its does create more work for the manufacturer.
It does happen.
While the store wants the food looking fresher they also want longest shelf life possible so they do not throw anything away.
Longer shelf life has distrubition / volume benefits.

Some retailers will have different ideas on what is most important to them.

stephen77

fluffnutter wrote: »

Apparently Use By dates can differ (on the same products) depending on where the food is destined. E.g. two chickens slaughtered on the same day are being packaged in the same packaging plant. One is destined for e.g. the Co-op and has a Use By date four days hence. The other is destined for, say, Asda (which turns its food over quicker) and only has a date of three days hence. Makes a mockery of 'Use by' or you'll die, doesn't it?

I would like to think every major supermarket has a built in safety margin.

If a product has a 10 day life from manufacturer it will have to be microboiligcal safe for say 12 days.
the longer the life the bigger the safety margin is as you can not 100% predict when the food will go bad.
best to build in some safety margin.

We have all bought bread before and will have left some, some times it goes mouldy other times it just go stale etc. The supermarkets will have to assume worst case and then build in a little saftey margin.

Also there is not to much space to put coding info. You do not want to put "best best" "display date" and "use by".
So some times when you see a product with use by its because they do not want two or three date codes on it. So easier and looks better if it just has the one. Having to much info can confuse customers as well, hence this kind of thread often comes and lots of people are not aware of the 3 codes options.