food wastage supermarkets and whoopsies

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MrsMow wrote: »

Totally agrees!

Who wants short dated items anyway, by the time you eat some of it, it'll all be gone off... ewww!

i really don't go by the dates, most food will last several days beyond the sell by date, for example i bought some reduced milk and its is still fine 10days after i bought it, alo of fruit if kep in the fridge can last several days if unripe, youghurts can last a while, alot of other bits can be frozen,

4isnotenough wrote: »

I noticed my Tesco store does the previous day whoopsies around 10am, I always go in and get loads of goodies for the freezer.

what do you mean by prev days whoopsies, do you mean the ones left from the night before, surely they aren't allowed to sell these?

i once had an SA refuse tosell me some kiwis that were rock hard and unripe because they were "yesterdays stock" she said they would be binned, i said i'd take the chance of food poisoning and could i just have them if she wouldn't officially sll them (cheeky i know:D) she refused

Middy

Bought some whoopsies bag of apples 6 weeks ago and look as good as I bought them. They got caught behind my salad drawer in the fridge.

jazzyjustlaw

geordie_joe wrote: »

No you don't you are just trying to make yourself look clever and not seeing it from the other side.




And every time you buy a whoopsie, you don't need to buy that item at full price.

And that is the side the store manager sees.



So do most people, but EVERYONE goes into the store needing to buy something. If they get into the shop, and find they can get it woopsied then they don't buy another at full price.



But you can't keep on leaving if there were no whoopsies. Sooner or later you would have to buy food. And if it was not whoopsied you would have to buy it at full price, or starve.

And that is my point, store managers know that if you can't get reduced items you would have to buy full priced items.



But every time you cook a meal with whoopsied items it means you don't have to buy full price items. So the shop has lost the sale of some full priced items.



But now your friends and neighbours don't need to buy something at full price. So the stores have lost out on full price sales again.



Where would you shop if no supermarket reduced their stuff?



I disagree, if there were no bargains then you would still spend, you would be forced to spend or starve.

Try getting your mind off telling everyone how clever you are at saving money.

Stop pretending you look at store managers and think "If you don't reduce it, I won't buy it"

And put yourself in their place, then think "If we didn't reduce it what would you do, starve or pay full price"?

When you have done that, come back and tell me again that if it isn't reduced you won't buy it......and I'll tell you that if they stopped reducing stuff you would either buy it full price or starve.

The question every manager asks them selves is "When a customer buys a reduced item, would they still have bought it if it was not reduced". The answer is "Sometimes yes, and sometimes no, but which ever it is, at some point in the future they will not buy something at full price because they have bought something reduced".

I hope you are not a manager in my store lol. I buy reduced items usually if they are something I wouldnt normally buy such as bakery and I am satisfied if they are half price. I wont buy them if they are not reduced. I do not believe it stops me from buying something that isnt reduced.

However, I do think food is overpriced so I am now turning to approved food and the like. Most of the items I bought recently had long dates on too. Obviously, I cannot do all my shopping there but still.

Are some people saying that shops would rather lose say 50p on chucking something out than reducing it further so that someone prefers to buy something at full price?

I do think bargain hunters are in the minority and I am glad otherwise there wouldnt be enough reductions to go around tee hee.

geordie_joe

jazzyjustlaw wrote: »

Are some people saying that shops would rather lose say 50p on chucking something out than reducing it further so that someone prefers to buy something at full price?

I wasn't saying that, I was saying there are two schools of thought for shop managers and the people who decide the reductions policy for a store.

1. Reduce it and get some money back
2. Bin it and the customers will buy something at full price.

Neither is right, and neither is wrong, it just depends on which some people lean towards.

I know some people have said they walk out the shop if there are no reductions, but that's because they went in intending to buy reduced items only. Most people don't do that, they decide what they want and go into the shop to get it. If it happens to be reduced they are happy, if not they buy it at full price and think nothing of it.

Even the ones who claim to only go in for reduced items say if there's none they go to another shop. But what happens if there are no reductions in that shop, do they go to another? And what do they do if no shop has reductions, do without or buy at full price?

I'm sure they'll be along to proudly announce they would do without, but you can't do without forever. If no shop had reductions, sooner or later their supply at home would run out and they would be forced to buy at full price.

I wasn't talking about one particular supermarket either, but shops in general, even though some decided I must be talking about Tesco and proudly announced they would walk out of Tesco and go to another store if there were no reductions.

DCFC79

geordie_joe wrote: »

I know some people have said they walk out the shop if there are no reductions, but that's because they went in intending to buy reduced items only. Most people don't do that, they decide what they want and go into the shop to get it. If it happens to be reduced they are happy, if not they buy it at full price and think nothing of it.

thats just a waste of petrol and isnt worth it unless of course they all live within walking distance of 2 or 3 supermrkets

geordie_joe

DCFC79 wrote: »

thats just a waste of petrol and isnt worth it unless of course they all live within walking distance of 2 or 3 supermrkets

I hadn't thought of that, but you are right. I suppose a store manager would also take into account how far people travel to get the store, and the location of competition, when deciding on reductions.

celebrate

actually I do walk out if there are no whoopsies "cheap enough" for me.

I am lucky and have an Asda on my route home and again when dropping kids off at after school activities, sometimes i am there at the right time but most of the time not (due to timing of the classes i drop them off and am usually too early for the final reductions and my sis picks the kids up -i can't pop out again as i have a youger child who is in bed by then! Actually my sis usually times it right for the reductions about 6.30ish but we often share)

i am usually in the right place at the right time maybe once every couple of weeks and i go in to the store maybe 3-4 * per week.

I have stacks of non perishables bought from offers or DTD
Perishables I usually buy a load once every week while i have popped in for the whoopsies but thats it. I rarely need much else that i haven't got in stock. I find that fruit and veg I hang on buying until I get them as whoopsies as I often have some in the house from the last time.

I'm probably not making any sense but for example I have a fridge full at the moment of pineapple, grapes, oranges, kiwi, peaches and nectarines ,carrots, potatoes and apples, all from a whopsie buys between 1-3 weeks ago, all fine to eat-made half the fresh oranges into juice this morning,

i have loads of milk in the freezer from the tesco milk glitch,

i have loads of whoopsied bread in the freezer

As i have loads in will probably not venture into ANY supermarket for the next week. When I next go in will probably keep an eye out for the things that i haven't got at the moment or that run out first eg bananas

my whoopsies do actually last me a while so i can go in basically JUST to shop for them so I do go out emty handed if none to my liking! I don't go especially to supermarkets out of my way for this though.

I'm one of those people who just doesn't "get" those who go in every week and have a trolley full of shopping! Each to their own though.

zaksmum

There's a Greggs near me, and every morning before the shop opens to the public the staff clear out any unsold bread, cakes, pies etc. from the previous day.

The local smackheads gather at the appointed time, one asks for the "throw outs" and gets a huge bin bag size clear plastic bag filled up.

He takes it to his druggie mates on the grass verge and they divide up their spoils. Probably enough to feed 20 of them for at least three days...thus freeing up their benefits for more drugs.

Rufff

I don't understand Sainsburys policy... I had to chuck out almost 10 kilo's of perfectly good raspberries the other night simply because they wouldn't be reduced before the "display til" date. :eek:

tazmac25

I was at a 24hr Tescos the other night at 10pm and was horrified at the young lad from bakery clearing the 'fresh' in store baked bread into the large clear big bin bags to chuck out
He must have had 5 of the massive wheelie crates full of it, I did ask if it was been thrown out and he replied 'yes, the manager doesnt reduce the instore bread at all!!'
It costs the store so little to bake so they chuck it out rather than reduce it
Crazy huh?