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What was the verdict, in the Iceland case?

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I assume the problem would be invalidated if Ic*land actually put the waste food outside the front doors of the shop? although they would then most likely be liable for prosecution by the local authority for littering or obstructing the footway? Interesting times eh?

Perplexed_Pineapple

Thanks for the chilli jelly recipe maryb, definitely one to try when apples are in season..

alfsmum wrote: »

Getting hold of your own money is increasingly difficult, it seems. Had long 'discussion' in branch of bank on Monday re transferring savings to current account (finally had to admit defeat on old car and replace it as can't get to our gainful employment without it so reluctantly draining what savings we have) but faced the hard sell about what was I doing with money, did I want new account (with fat fee - no thanks), did I want loan or mortgage instead. Dh and I are off back this afternoon to carry out transfer, not in the mood for more discussion!!!

I would be so put out by that sort of interrogation I think I'd be going back in to close the account. Where to move it to though, that's the question, all the banks seem to be as bad as each other :huh:.
No prepping to speak of today although have bought a larger billy-can pot for the camping stove, the one that came with it isn't really big enough to cook a meal for the whole family, gannets that they are.
I'm not really picking up any more bad vibes than usual, the main event of the next week or so is the Americn debt ceiling crisis (round 2) but it looks as though that will be less tense than last time (when federal workers were told not to come into work as they couldn't be paid :eek:).

GreyQueen

I hope the CPS drop this. They're making themselves a laughing-stock.

That bloke who runs Iceland has always struck me as a throughly decent sort, too. I'm an Iceland customer and I don't care who knows it.

It's a pretty poor excuse for a society when the CPS goes grovelling around in obscure parts of a seldom-used Act from 190 years ago to do nothing more than bully poor people.

But hey, what did I expect? So much easier than trying to get wealthy and powerful criminals to face justice. I wonder if they feel a sense of pride in their work as they defend the public interest from these heinous freeganeering types? I shall sleep safe in my bed tonight, folks.

RAS

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

What was the verdict, in the Iceland case?

The CPS have dropped the case; it appears Iceland were unhappy and told them so.

Apart from the poor publicity for the CPS.

mardatha

Well it would lose Iceland customers wouldn't it lol So they will say noo noo don't prosecute - and at same time you can bet your a$$ they're out back as we speak, pouring brake fluid/diesel on their bins to stop anybody else getting a free bread roll.

greenbee

Exactly Mar. After all, they haven't been saying how they're looking at ways to make sure that the unwanted food gets to people who need it. It's not as if they've been making statements about how they partner with people like Fareshare and Foodcycle ...

GreyQueen

They do have a link about what they do with their food waste on that article. In fairness to Iceland, the lion's share of their stock is frozen foods and it's a lot more complicated to handle them in the donation way than it is shelf-stable packaged goods.

I'd like to see a world in which wasting food is regarded as abominable and something which mountains were moved to prevent happening. When you think of the joules' worth of energy represented by each morsel of food, and how much oil that represents, you'd shudder to be a waster.

More slightly off-food, a well-known chain of clothing retailers in this city did have a nod-and-wink relationship with the bin-diving fraternity. When people were harvested clothes for their own personal use, it went well enough. It was a pretty much open secret that it could be done, if you walked on the poorer side of the street. The store was sorely-abused when a bunch of chancers moved in and started taking lots and selling-on and the store stopped allowing the bins to be riffled. Pity.

I'm a cheerful diver-into-skips and have been since young childhood when we used to go skip-diving as a family. These days I have all the furniture I need and limit myself to scraps of wood and other materials, but if I saw a fellow human bean bin diving, I'd smile and give them the nod.

I had a pine bedstead from a skip once. Took me several trips to fetch it back. We had to do a couple of mends and get the fittings from the original manufacturer. I tried to buy them and they sent me them for free, bless their cotton socks. Pal still has that bedstead........

Nargleblast

Regarding shops being busy...either people are rushing out to the shops because they've just been paid, or rumours of gales and floods at the end of the week have prompted people to get out and stock up?

jk0

Don't take your mobile when you go out protesting folks:

http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2014/01/24/the-text-that-changed-the-world/