Short-dated produce more expensive than the regular price

MavisTheMaven

pawsies wrote: »

Would rather it was reduced further than chucked out. We have enough food waste in this country.

They make such enormous profits they probably don't care. All this eco stuff that they promote is just greenwash, like when they do organic cotton t shirts. If they really cared then the entire range would be organic cotton, not just a tiny bit, for marketing reasons.

I wouldn't have a go at their workers, though, that's not fair, he doesn't set the pricing policy.

Edwardia

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

One potentially positive side-effect of the current meat issues is that people are becoming more informed about food labelling and conscious of where things come from etc. Hopefully that will reduce confusion.

I hope so too.

Marks and Spencer Oakham chickens don't come from Oakham, it's just a brand. Same goes for their Lochmuir salmon, because there's no such loch with a salmon farmng operation.

Morrisons is selling chicken fillets from The Netherlands in its Helmsley range, which has nothing to do with the town. Morrisons was criticised for doing this by the NFU this week.

Some people may not know that Hereford is a cattle breed and may think it means the beef comes from Herefordshire, not Uruguay. The Grocer highlighted that last year.

Lidl uses the MeadowFresh brand for both organic and non organic, so you could pick up a product thinking it's organic and it won't be.

If something says British but doesn't have the Red Tractor label it may just have been repacked here.

Red tractor does have some really strict welfare regulations, I read through them. But the farmers can still feed GM crops or feed made with GM crops without the resulting meat, poultry, eggs, milk etc needing to be labelled showing the animals and poultry were fed that way,

http://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/rtassurance/global/home.eb

ASDA and Morrisons relaxed rules for farmers supplying them last year, so that they could feed either GM crops or feed made from GM crops.

The resulting meat, poultry, eggs, milk, cheese, butter etc don't have to be labelled as coming from animals/poultry fed on GM/GM feed under EU regulations. Because it's a regulation not a law, either the previous government or this one could make labelling compulsory but chose not to.

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jenniewb wrote: »

Sorry but I think your on your own with that one. I'm in agreement with your "customers". If you really want to reduce it and for people to want to buy it, actually reduce it.

If its not something your allowed to do, tell your customers that, if you are in full control of your price reductions and you think this is a decent offer, I guess you've not yet been in a position where you avidly look for discounts to make ends meet or you'd perhaps have a some understanding for what your customers are saying to you.

First reductions start off at 10% or 25% or there about depending if there are loads of reductions that day and get reduced more later on in the day. I'm not going to risk my job by reducing it more to please some vulture.

Not everyone who would buy it at full price will take up the 2 for £5 offer anyway. I know I don't. I have a shopping budget and tend to stick to it. If I bought every multisave offer my shopping bill would double.

I take it you've never worked in retail.

pawsies wrote: »

Would rather it was reduced further than chucked out. We have enough food waste in this country.

Nothing goes to waste. Everything gets reduced more and more towards the end of the day.

i_love_freestuff

Go into my local T's and watch the bedlam when the reduced stuff comes out, entertainment every time. I once watched 2 grown women fighting over a reduced pineapple and I mean hair pullin, punching ect. The gangs hang around the section where they put the 'whoopies' and its a frenzie once the stuff arrives.

I really feel sorry for the staff, the bloke who brings the reduced fish now has to have a 'bodyguard' because he got assulted in the scrum.

Saying that they are better than my local co-op who only seem to reduce yoghurt or I seen some eggs reduced by 11p yesterday whoopiedoo.

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i_love_freestuff wrote: »

Saying that they are better than my local co-op who only seem to reduce yoghurt or I seen some eggs reduced by 11p yesterday whoopiedoo.

Maybe the Co-Op are better at stock control.

We are meant to be trying to save the enviroment and substaining organic food and all that nonsense are we not. :rolleyes:

fionajbanana

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Saying that they are better than my local co-op who only seem to reduce yoghurt or I seen some eggs reduced by 11p yesterday whoopiedoo.[/QUOTE]

Even 'better', I saw some Haribo Starmix with a short date on it - 5p off!

I do find it funny in the Co-op reduction section they are still selling things more expensive than Asda.:rotfl:

newlywed

I got parsnips and a swede for 27p each in my local coop. However it does seem to be healthier food that is reduced that low, any junk food type stuff only has 10p knocked off - but I think it's the area I live, junk food seems more popular than veg!

bubbs

Ive been asda ang got
Carrots, cauli, chicken breasts, cheese, ginsters steak slices, pack 4 lamb chops, bread, hot x buns , cucumber, green beans, plate apple pies, cooked meat, an indian meal for 2!! all for 10p each :T:T:T:T

Edwardia

Waitrose reduces prices and keeps reduced stuff in original section which means if you were looking for that item you get a nice surprise and it means no scrums.

ASDA chilled YS cabinet gets hordes of people round there but I avoid the scrum if I'm in there because ASDA doesn't exactly sell a lot of organic stuff in the first place. My mother picks up reduced stir fry packs (without bean sprouts or noodles) for 10p and uses them for soup.

My local Sainsbury's has three non-perishable reduced areas for things like bashed tins and leaking flour. There's an area in salad stuff for reduced price salad stuff but anything else seems to stay reduced where it was.

I can't remember seeing more than the occasional yogurt reduced in my local Lidl.

LittleMax

Edwardia wrote: »

When ASDA puts 2 for £1 when the unit price is 50p, that's misleading. IMO that should get a visit from Trading Standards.

There's no consumer law that says a multibuy has to be cheaper than buying products individually. 50p each or 2 for £1 - perfectly legal.