Sainsburys throwing it all away.

SeriouslyStressed

Hi, not sure if this is the correct thread, but is anyone else here sick of seeing shop staff throw produce out?

Last night for example, 9.15pm ( store closes at 10pm ) they where bin bagging the entire fresh baked bread stands! 45 mins of shopper time remaining, people still in the store buying goods, and the staff are bagging what could have been marked down and sold?

Also, last night spotted at 9.18pm, THIRTY FIVE packets of Bernard Mathews turkey slices on the yellow label chiller shelves marked from £2 a pack down to £1.34 a pack.... at 9.18pm! eh? Clearly nobody was buying them at that price ( all shelf packs still full ) and from experience I now know they don't mark down again beyond 9.00pm, they just start scanning it off and bin bagging the reduced stuff at 9.30pm ( with a half hour of retail time in which they COULD sell it remaining )

So getting my goat this week, are .. binning food that could have been marked down and sold, but instead they just bin it at full price; bin bagging the reduced items when there's plenty of store open time remaining, and finally not reducing the reduced items to the extent it would be more likely to sell off in the first place! grrr.

I know some product lines are slow and the manager does this to make sure he gets less stock in future from central warehouse, but the turkey slices are just this example; throughout the past two weeks I've seen all manner of stock binned early, and likely down to there not being a decent enough incentive for shoppers to purchase it.

Our local Sainsbury store is a newly built and opened SuperStore in Cumbria.

VfM4meplse

My local Sainsburys superstore closes at 10pm and I've seen huge sacks of bakery products being bagged for destruction at just 8.30pm - w/o being reduced first. I commented that it is a real waste and asked whether it was sent to a homeless shelter, and was told that it is sent to a farm as animal feed, so it's not a complete waste.

IMO that's better than people gorging on excess carbohydrates just because they are being sold cheaply.

VfM4meplse

SeriouslyStressed wrote: »

Also, last night spotted at 9.18pm, THIRTY FIVE packets of Bernard Mathews turkey slices on the yellow label chiller shelves marked from £2 a pack down to £1.34 a pack.... at 9.18pm! eh? Clearly nobody was buying them and from experience I now know they don't mark down again beyond 9.00pm, they just start scanning it off and bin bagging the reduced stuff at 9.30pm

Re-reading your post, I really have an issue with this. People argue that there is trade in lifestock because of a demand for meat, but in the example you have given, these animals have been slaughtered for no good reason. What a waste of life.

custardy

VfM4meplse wrote: »

My local Sainsburys superstore closes at 10pm and I've seen huge sacks of bakery products being bagged for destruction at just 8.30pm - w/o being reduced first. I commented that it is a real waste and asked whether it was sent to a homeless shelter, and was told that it is sent to a farm as animal feed, so it's not a complete waste.

IMO that's better than people gorging on excess carbohydrates just because they are being sold cheaply.

sold to a farm
probably less hassle even if it nets less money

Lynsey

One of my local Sainbury's donate bread, fruit and veg to a centre where courses are taken by folks on benefits and it's pretty much help yourself. Normally stuff which is just out of date (so I'm told), but Sainsbury's fruit and veg lasts ages anyway.
Good on them for this effort and hope someone short of money benefits.

It's a shame about throwing meat products away though - what a waste.
Obviously they would rather push their customers into paying more for "whoopsies", or else they just have to pay full price for stuff not near the use-by-date.

Lynsey

chesky369

Why don't you contact your local citizens' advice bureau, or AGE office and ask them to contact the Sainsbury's concerned, to see if the wasted produce could be put to better use?

SeriouslyStressed

it was packs of £3 a packet breaded ham slices one day last week, I managed to sweet talk the girl who was scanning and binning it into letting me have a pack de-scanned so it could be sold, and I got it for 84p. There where probably a good 10-12 packs in the bag but she'd only let me have the one because I asked nicely. It's a shocking waste, and I could have bought a fair few ther eand then, but I didn't want to upset her as I'd be seeing her again and again in future.

SeriouslyStressed

chesky369 wrote: »

Why don't you contact your local citizens' advice bureau, or AGE office and ask them to contact the Sainsbury's concerned, to see if the wasted produce could be put to better use?

Hi , I've already sent my 1.5 week long findings to head office. ( going in store at the generally accepted discount times of mid day, 5pm and 7-9pm to see when they mark down and to what extent etc ) I did that after reading the yellow label whoopsies thread on here somewhere, got all excited about bagging some bargains, but then it slowly turned into concerned and fact finding missions.
Quite dedicated job, 3 visits a day for 1.5 weeks!

Sainsbury email back said they'd investigate, but that was a week ago.

Edwardia

I would just lob into the mix, the fact that if it's a new store, that Sainsbury's don't yet *know* their customers at that store and have to guesstimate at first.

aliaslotte

I worked at Sainsbury's. A lot of the stuff that we couldn't sell was given to a local homeless shelter. There was quite a lot of homeless people in the area, who would often beg outside the store, so they [thankfully] decided to put it to good use.

So, it might not have been going in a bin. It might have been put to good use.

paadzer

How daft, why don't they just reduce the bread in price by 90% to save waste and make some money? My local co-op reduces all bread to 10 - 20p at around 6pm and they close at 10pm and there is never any left if you arrive after 7pm.