Sainsburys throwing it all away.

paadzer

I have been to my local Tesco, large store, at 10 minutes before closing and there is no reductions on the bread baked in store. All other items are reduced including a corner of longer-life products that are slightly damaged, lids missing, dented or torn (e.g. cereal boxes, shaving gel, tinned food and multi-packs of crisps). I like to get reductions in Tesco as they make enough money

SeriouslyStressed

Helix wrote: »

You have no idea what needs to be done after the store closes. I used to work in Sainsburys at there is a lot of paper work that has to be done, to go with the items being disposed of so that the items are written off correctly. Our store generally only had one person that could do disposals at store closing time.

Well, you know.. how can I put this... if they'd made the effort and price reductions to SELL the reduced items, there wouldn't BE all that paperwork to make sure it was written off properly

Simple.. SELL it... it's less work for the staff!

seeing items at 33% very near to closing time is rather poor.

It'd be nice for someone in my local Sainsbury store to wheel the bread items to the tills, ours are still sat on the wheeled trolleys, at the back of the shops far corner where the bakery is.

I'm starting to wonder who employed the manager there, maybe he secretly works for the opposition?

p.s the local store appears to have 4 reductions staff in the evening and two through most of the day.

londonTiger

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.

poor animals, i bet theyre fed to pigs, pigs are like humans, they'll eat any old crap.

Helix

SeriouslyStressed wrote: »

Well, you know.. how can I put this... if they'd made the effort and price reductions to SELL the reduced items, there wouldn't BE all that paperwork to make sure it was written off properly

Simple.. SELL it... it's less work for the staff!

seeing items at 33% very near to closing time is rather poor.

It'd be nice for someone in my local Sainsbury store to wheel the bread items to the tills, ours are still sat on the wheeled trolleys, at the back of the shops far corner where the bakery is.

I'm starting to wonder who employed the manager there, maybe he secretly works for the opposition?

p.s the local store appears to have 4 reductions staff in the evening and two through most of the day.

When I worked there they did, bakery items were regularly down to 20p and placed at the front of the store and they still didn't sell them. So they had to get disposed of at some point, which was usually upto an hour before closing.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

*It must be to thrawt the Bargain Hunters as does selling Reduced Goods at times maximising inconvenience for the Shoppers*

Edwardia

I have to say that people crowd round the reduced sections like flies on cowpats in my local ASDA. The only things I will nose through are reduced veg. I just won't buy ready meal rubbish, full of the worst offcuts and lots of chemicals, salt and flavourings to make it palatable as a student I worked in a factory putting the lids on Sainsbury's ready meals and packing frozen chicken kievs for Marks and Spencer.

caroc

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.

I don't believe for a minute that any supermarket food goes to farms to feed animals. Farm animals have a specific diet to grow fast and be slaughtered. They just said it to make you feel better. They put it all in the compactor like I used to and then it goes to land fill. Ask them what farm it goes to and they won't know !

NoGoodNamesLeft

SeriouslyStressed wrote: »

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.

Not sure about the bread, but it may go to Knoxwood wildlife rescue. They get reduced bread from some of the Cumbrian supermarkets.
I know that Sainsburys send their leftover fruit and veg to Trotters zoo, so they might send the bread too.

ScratchandSniff-->[X]

londonTiger wrote: »

poor animals, i bet theyre fed to pigs, pigs are like humans, they'll eat any old crap.

Definitive explanation of what should/shouldn't happen to returned supermarket waste:

http://animalhealth.defra.gov.uk/managing-disease/animalbyproducts/food-and-feed-businesses/use-disposal-abp-food-businesses/supermarket-manufacturing-returns-depots.htm and http://animalhealth.defra.gov.uk/managing-disease/animalbyproducts/food-and-feed-businesses/use-disposal-abp-food-businesses/retail-manufacturing-distribution-premises.htm

It's certainly prohibited to feed catering waste to animals in the food chain. See archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/byproducts/documents/swill-leaflet.pdf


I don't know what the score with zoo animals is, but suspect it's permitted because they're not for human consumption and it's part of their natural diet.

bramble1

We feed our cows with the baked goods that no body buys. (some time the dog sneaks inthe shed and has an absolute field day too.