the whistleblower undercover in supermarkets

ti1980

Hi Lynz, did you get paid more for being trained to work in the instore bakery?

I will watch this programme tonight, should be interesting. I do agree with chrisico in that this kind of thing goes on everywhere.
I do buy meat at Sainsburys, not at the deli counter though. The butcher on my high street looks a bit skanky to me.

Hapless_2

I would say it was rogue staff or managers as my SiL got a written warning when she was at Sainsburys for not noticing sell by dates on deli food. (mainly because she was too damned lazy)

Little_Miss_Saver

I read this on the BBC website earlier so I will be watching the programme later. I'm sure it will be interesting viewing.

LMS xx

lil_me

Supposedly this was in The Sun yesterday - neighbour told me as I don't buy it. We then got on the subject of buying food etc, told him where I got my meat etc (they are getting veg from same lady now too) and he's going to try it.

Must say I have worked in several supermarkets aswell as fast food chains etc and have never ever seen any date labels removed, changed etc. In fact they were so strict loads was wasted which I hated. Mum works on the deli for Sainsburys, they won't even let staff take out of date stuff home, has to be binned.

Worst offender for dates is my local village store, bread 5 days out of date, was solid as a rock! Local butcher does it aswell, amount of times have got home to find stinking meat in my bag, stopped using him anyway as he lies about things like saying eggs were so expensive as they were free range when they were'nt

Be a shame if even more is wasted because of removing the reduced sections, will cost those who shop there and use that to save money aswell.

lynzpower

ti1980 wrote: »

Hi Lynz, did you get paid more for being trained to work in the instore bakery?

I will watch this programme tonight, should be interesting. I do agree with chrisico in that this kind of thing goes on everywhere.
I do buy meat at Sainsburys, not at the deli counter though. The butcher on my high street looks a bit skanky to me.

No course I didnt!

But I did it out of love of the job T^o be honest I did enjoy it a lot. there were 3 shifdt bakers who did the hand baking ( loaves, rolls some french sticks) but everything else ( donuts, french pastries, croissants, some speciality breads - rye multigrains etc) they are ALL FROZEN and BAKED OFF IN THE OVEN which is why I seldom buy instore bakery bread any more.

ellie14

At my local S/markets I have seen them do it on several visits ,re dating meat cutting bad bits off cheese,re dating cakes,also unsliced bread out of date being sliced for next day .I have pulled them about it but they dont answer you ,they just stare back at you ,I think its disgusting some of the things Ive seen ,but they treat you like the Wicked witch if you speak up.

hollyh

Hi

I used to work in a pub and we had to put stickers with 2 days date away on food items ( meat, cheese, cream, deserts etc) that had been opened and put in the fridge.

The idea was each day you had to check the fridge and throw away anything with the previous days date on.

This worked well and i was surprised at the lack of food thrown away.

Until .... I caught the owner changing the labels so something with yesterdays date on now had a new date of 2 days away.:eek:

She explained she did it all the time and used her discretion as to when the food was to be thrown away.

She also said the only reason she bothered with the stickers was incase she got a visit from environmental health.

In hindsight i suppose she stopped a lot of food going to waste unneccessarily and nobody ever got food poisoning from there.:T

Moneybubbles

hollyh wrote: »

Hi

I used to work in a pub and we had to put stickers with 2 days date away on food items ( meat, cheese, cream, deserts etc) that had been opened and put in the fridge.

The idea was each day you had to check the fridge and throw away anything with the previous days date on.

This worked well and i was surprised at the lack of food thrown away.

Until .... I caught the owner changing the labels so something with yesterdays date on now had a new date of 2 days away.:eek:

She explained she did it all the time and used her discretion as to when the food was to be thrown away.

She also said the only reason she bothered with the stickers was incase she got a visit from environmental health.

In hindsight i suppose she stopped a lot of food going to waste unneccessarily and nobody ever got food poisoning from there.:T

When I first got married I worked in a deli and this was the normal practise:eek: too, I handed in my notice for the instore manager to call me in and ask why, I told him out right that I spoke to my manager who basicly said do it or get out!

I did do a call to EH too never found out the outcome, just that they were looking into my complaint. will watch tonight

carolt

But seriously these are health issues. A couple of years ago, I and my family all got appalling food poisoning (worst I'd ever had) from ice creams delivered from Tesco's - we ate them within minutes of shopping being delivered, so it wasn't our fault in terms of storage or anything, and it was definitely the ice creams as that was the only thing we'd all eaten.

Made me very wary. Obviously, it had not been stored at correct temperatures at some point and so bacteria had built up. Got no symathy or interest from Tesco that I recall.

Also when pregnant, sold soup long past it's sell-by date, which I ate without checking - only when I started vomiting violently :mad: did I fish the packet out of the bin and discover the date - if I remember correctly it was a week or two past its date. Luckily I was sick pretty soon so got it out of my system and as far as I know, the baby wasn't affected. But Tesco offered me nothing more than a refund on the soup. If I hadn't been pregnant and shattered and busy, might have chased it up with environmental health, but was and didn't.

But these allegations about supermarket malpractice don't surprise me.

MrsTinks

I have to say my local butchers is very good, but this is a small village and everyone knows everyone and he always has time for a quick chat even if he's busy - and we see him in the pub and wave to him in the street lol Not to mention he's one of Rick Steins food hero's
As for delicounters... never buy anything from them... I hate not being able to see the use by dates on stuff if it's not from my butcher...