Sainsburys throwing it all away.

geordie_joe

paadzer wrote: »

How daft, why don't they just reduce the bread in price by 90% to save waste and make some money? .

The problem with that is, if someone buys bread reduced by 90% then they will not need to buy one at full price. And tomorrow that full priced loaf may have to be reduced to get rid of it.

Reducing things may reduce waste, but every time someone buys something at a reduced price it means they may not buy something at full price. Either at the time, or in the future when they actually use the reduced item.

andrew-the-cat

Not supposed to reduce bread. It doesn't get binned by the way. Were the staff putting it into yellow bin bags? It gets sent to a food recycling centre for anaerobic digestion. Things like meat products go to zoo's.

paadzer

I noticed that Tesco do not reduce freshly baked bread but they reduce all packaged bread loafs (Tesco, Hovis, etc brands) and other packaged bakery items (e.g. bagels, naan bread and pitta bread).

Middy

paadzer wrote: »

I noticed that Tesco do not reduce freshly baked bread but they reduce all packaged bread loafs (Tesco, Hovis, etc brands) and other packaged bakery items (e.g. bagels, naan bread and pitta bread).

Sainsburys is the same - allow to reduce things like Mr Kipling cakes, the New York Bagels, Kingsmill cobs and not the instore bakery.

SeriouslyStressed

andrew-the-cat wrote: »

Not supposed to reduce bread. It doesn't get binned by the way. Were the staff putting it into yellow bin bags? It gets sent to a food recycling centre for anaerobic digestion. Things like meat products go to zoo's.

Yes, all the fresh baked bread was going into light yellow translucent bags, but the yellow label reduced items always go into regular black bin bags.

Unfortunately, as we live in a rather rural location ( small Northern England town ) I cannot see the bagged produce finding it's way to any homeless type charities locally. The nearest area likely to have a homeless organization would be the city of Carlisle, approx 20 miles away, but they have their own Sainsbury store; of course it's possible I suppose, and if it could happen, but doesn't currently, then it's definately something they should be thinking of.

Lynsey

I think in-store baked bread reducing must be store specific.
Tesco still do it, I actually witnessed it yesterday - only half-price.
My small Sainsbury's have stopped it, but a massive one still does reduce - again only half-price.
The branded packeted stuff often gets reduced right down - as low as 5p sometimes.
Asda and Morries (in my area) have by far the best in-store bread reductions.

Lynsey

FatVonD

geordie_joe wrote: »

The problem with that is, if someone buys bread reduced by 90% then they will not need to buy one at full price. And tomorrow that full priced loaf may have to be reduced to get rid of it.

Reducing things may reduce waste, but every time someone buys something at a reduced price it means they may not buy something at full price. Either at the time, or in the future when they actually use the reduced item.

I see your point but, while I was getting some real bargains at my local Sainsbury I was also putting other full-priced items into my basket at the same time. Now the reductions have all but disappeared I shop elsewhere. Dedicated bargain hunters won't ever be doing their whole shop at Sainsburys full price but the chance of a bargain got me through the doors which is surely what they want?

dasophster

My local S (medium sized town centre branch) does reduce all bread including in store bakery loaves, never seen them bagging anything up, same with local W if they have a lot of leftover in store bakery stock-they reduce all the loaves to either 10p or 20p and it doesn't seem to harm sales of their normal full price bread because there are a lot of customers who simply only want to buy full price and longer dated bread xx

SeriouslyStressed

They could at least, at a bare minimum.. only bag up AFTER the store has closed it's doors for the evening. I've seen them bagging up plenty of times now to know it doesn't take them very long at all, so to maximise any sales, and maximise the produce on offer to the public, it really ought to be left on the shelves until after the store closes. Putting the reduced items chiller unit closer to the checkouts instead of at the back of the store would also make alot of sense! ( to me at least )

I too go in there and buy full priced items, the bargains being like a little bonus, but to many people, more and more of late, those end of day bargains are becoming a lifeline, and to remove them whilst the store is still open, is pretty mean. Not reducing most of them beyond 75 and 50% in the last hour or so of store time is also pretty harsh. They either WANT sales, or they don't, and having seen so much binned at that particular store when a further reduction might otherwise have seen it sold and put on someones table, well, I just don't get it.

POPPYOSCAR

Our local Sainsburys all reduce items from the in store bakery and it always gets sold.

I have had some wonderful bargains from there.