Yellow sticker reduced food in Lidl?

asbokid

stephen77 wrote: »

My local asda has done this at 4:00pm on a sunday as well. Any one leaving could have up two items free. Cheaper than binning and keeps the customer happy.

Tesco has a slightly different policy on out-of-date food.

They throw the food into skips outside their stores, and then they prosecute the homeless & hungry for bin-diving.

Every little helps!

A woman who took food from bins outside a Tesco store is facing a crown court trial for theft.

Sacha Hall, 21, is accused of helping herself to items including potato waffles, pies and ham that had been thrown out following a power cut.

She was later arrested by police, who took her from her home in handcuffs on suspicion of what is called theft by finding. The offence carries a maximum seven-year prison sentence.

Hall appeared before magistrates yesterday where she entered no plea to the charge and chose to stand trial in front of a jury.

The case could have wide-ranging implications for so-called freegans, whose practices include salvaging food discarded by supermarkets to ensure it doesn’t go to waste.

Magistrates in Chelmsford, Essex, heard Hall was spotted on the evening of January 29 taking food outside a Tesco Express below her flat in the district of Great Baddow.

Denise Holland, prosecuting, said a power cut the day before meant ‘a large amount’ of chilled products were ruined.

‘This was to be disposed of because it had been unrefrigerated for too long and was due to be collected for further disposal.

Hall helped herself to potato waffles, pies and ham that had been thrown out following a power cut

Police were called and arrested Hall, who earns around £600 a month working for a rival supermarket in the town.

Speaking last week, she said: ‘They knocked on the door and said if I didn’t open up they would use a battering ram. They handcuffed me and treated me like I was a hardened criminal and when we left they raided my house.’

Hall, who is single with no children, said she wanted the food to feed her ‘extended family’.

‘I would think the police have better things to be doing with their time than going after people who pick up potato waffles from the street. It’s all been blown totally out of proportion,’ she said.

‘Tesco clearly did not want the food. They dumped it and, rather than see it go to waste, I thought I could help feed me and my family for a week or two.’

Magistrates heard Hall had taken £215.16 of food, including 100 packs of ham.

Tesco said yesterday: ‘It’s not for us to comment on. That’s a matter for the courts.’

Freeganism began in the 1960s as an anti-consumerist movement in which people tried to minimise their use of resources.

More recently the term has become associated with those who use perfectly good food that has been thrown out by supermarkets because it is past its sell-by date.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357741/In-court-charged-theft-finding-woman-took-food-Tesco-bin.html

asbokid

stephen77 wrote: »

My local asda has done this at 4:00pm on a sunday as well.
Any one leaving could have up two items free.
Cheaper than binning and keeps the customer happy.

Our supermarket was throwing away boxes full of Belgian Frangipanes when there was some scare over dioxins in the eggs.

It was all bu***hit. The cakes tasted fine. The kids loved them. We were eating them for weeks.

DCFC79

asbokid wrote: »

Tesco has a slightly different policy on out-of-date food.

They throw the food into skips outside their stores, and then they prosecute the homeless & hungry for bin-diving.

Every little helps!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357741/In-court-charged-theft-finding-woman-took-food-Tesco-bin.html

same at happened where i used to work who were right to do it, but its now chnaged as any waste is now recycled