BM Stores - quicker sell by dates?

m33r4

Have shopped in BM stores getting some sweets and crisps. Just noticed that they go stale very quickly and when I checked the best before dates there was only a month on them.

Am I the only one who has come across this?

blackandwhitebunny

Most stuff in these stores is short dated, its how they sell it so cheaply:D

m33r4

blackandwhitebunny wrote: »

Most stuff in these stores is short dated, its how they sell it so cheaply:D

Aye there's the catch!

Thanks

stephen77

you can get longer dates on some products especially if not popular flavours that did not sell.

m33r4

So BM stores basically is what supermarkets get rid of? Much like Approved Foods?

Callie22

Those kinds of shops tend to have a lot of foreign stuff too. My local 99p stores has a lot of Greek Colgate toothpaste and Korean (I think!) Dettol handwash, plus other less well known brands.

Teahfc

m33r4 wrote: »

So BM stores basically is what supermarkets get rid of? Much like Approved Foods?

The supermarkets do not sell to these 'bargain stores' the producers and manufacturers of the products sell to these 'bargain stores'. Short coded items and also as mentioned earlier the foreign labeled products are what are packed for export, they may have a different ingredient to suit the intended market pallet. like coffee to the Middle East may have to have some sort of additive to allow to be sold in a particular country and if over stocked release some to the the 'budget chain' stores like B &M.

TravellingAbuela

Not everything has a quick sell-by date. You have to be prepared to look at all the dates. At the weekend I got 500 gm jars of Ragu sauce at £1 with sell by date of Aug 2014 and 180 gm jars of Bonners finest fish pie sauce (add double cream yum yum!) sell by Oct 2013 for 39p a jar. It's more time consuming than just grabbing jars and tins off a supermarket shelf but the savings make it worthwhile for me. Plus they sell a good selection of herbs and spices with good dates, at a much lower price than the supermarkets.