Shops selling out of date food...

olly300

N20Y1D wrote:

Purchased on the 7th of Feb

Display until 8th Jan 07

Best before 16th Jan 07

"Display until" information for the shop not the shopper. http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/foodlabels/labellingterms/displayuntil/

N20Y1D

olly300 wrote:

"Display until" information for the shop not the shopper. http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/foodlabels/labellingterms/displayuntil/

What about the "Best Before"? i've read the link you posted earlier but this is margerine and therefor contains dairy product?

Labman_2

If the product is truly margarine it will contain no dairy.

regularsaver1

so what they say?

uktim29

If it's best before no law has been broken. Sometimes isolated things like this happen.

With regards to your earlier comment about Tesco's making enough money to make sure that doesn't happen well they have about 10% profit margin I believe which is typical for retail but not huge. To staff a retail store to a level where things are checked 1000's of times over to make sure nothing ever goes wrong or nothings ever missed would end up running at a loss therefore you wouldn't even bother starting the business.

Most have daily/weekly checks of products but that work will have to be done quickly so sometimes things may be missed.

Personally I think you should just take it back and you'll get a replacement/refund. If you plan to create merry hell as you put it your just doing it for the sake of it really. You'll just get yourself stressed, probably abuse someone who's fault it actually wasn't and waste your own time.