Well Past Best Before Date - What Are My Rights?

earthstorm

the first thing i do if i but chocolate is to check the date.

But selling a Best Before item after the BBD they have done nothing wrong. Are you sure you never picked this up from one of their many Reduced price shelves.

It is strange for a store like Asda to have such an item that far past the BBD due to their stock rotation system and footfall.

cakeforbrains

No, it wasn't from a reduced shelf. Just the normal shelf, although it did have a promotion on it.

Oh well. I'll probably take it back. Maybe.

earthstorm

cakeforbrains wrote: »

No, it wasn't from a reduced shelf. Just the normal shelf, although it did have a promotion on it.

Oh well. I'll probably take it back. Maybe.

you could take it back and see what they say as its bad publicity for such a large retailer if it gets out, so more than likely you will get it refunded and replaced and their std £2 gift card

VoucherMan

cakeforbrains wrote: »

before date is 05/2013. Over two months ago.

What should I expect from Asda when I take it back?

:confused:
You said well past the BB date then you say only 2 months or so :cool:
I'm still happily munching through stuff with a BB date of 2011 or 2012

Expect nothing then anything you get is a bonus

earthstorm wrote: »

It is strange for a store like Asda to have such an item that far past the BBD due to their stock rotation system and footfall.

You have better supermarkets than me. I often find new stock is just put on the front of the shelf. The stuff behind is frequently older. Once found some tins of pasta almost a year past the bb date at the back of a shelf. I didn't buy any of them though. Thought I'd leave it to some one with more experience at suing them

earthstorm

VoucherMan wrote: »

You have better supermarkets than me. I often find new stock is just put on the front of the shelf. The stuff behind is frequently older.

Our Asda its the other way round, they do it correctly by placing the newer stuff behind the older stuff.

I am always checking the dates on stuff at the back to get the longer dated stuff

Queenriderbrekke

earthstorm wrote: »

the first thing i do if i but chocolate is to check the date.

But selling a Best Before item after the BBD they have done nothing wrong. Are you sure you never picked this up from one of their many Reduced price shelves.

It is strange for a store like Asda to have such an item that far past the BBD due to their stock rotation system and footfall.

Not strange at all, I regularly find items witth a Use by out of date (Which I point out and complain about as if an elderly person didn't notice it may cause food poisoning) in both my local Tesco and Sainsbury's, recently I found a Use By date 2 weeks out of date on a Goats Cheese product, so somebody was obviously not doing their job properly:(

bris

For such a heinous crime I would ask for the first born of the managing directors head on a stick, that will teach them not to do it again.

LittleVoice

cakeforbrains wrote: »

No, it wasn't from a reduced shelf. Just the normal shelf, although it did have a promotion on it.

Oh well. I'll probably take it back. Maybe.

I don't shop in Asda often (no convenient store) but I have noticed with another supermarket that they seem to use promotional offers to shift stock which is approaching or past its BB date.

sharond101

I'd email or write to them as you have better chance of getting compensated than if just taking it back to store who will just offer a refund or exchange.

mije1983

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

Not strange at all, I regularly find items witth a Use by out of date (Which I point out and complain about as if an elderly person didn't notice it may cause food poisoning) in both my local Tesco and Sainsbury's, recently I found a Use By date 2 weeks out of date on a Goats Cheese product, so somebody was obviously not doing their job properly

There is a difference between a 'Best Before' date and a 'Use By' date though.

As said above, 'best before' means just that, it's best before a specified date. However 'use by' is normally put on foods that may be harmful if consumed after said date.