Yellow Sticker Madness

fionajbanana

I had this in Tesco last week. I got something from the reduced chiller and placed it in my trolley. A couple of aisles further down, I saw a lady removing this item from my trolley.

I followed her - not in an obvious way and she abandoned her trolley - I took out the thing she pinched from me back into my trolley. I did this when no-one was looking, JIC someone thinks I stole her reduced item.

How can anyone have the nerve to pinch something from another customer's trolley?

Sheel

fionajbanana wrote: »

How can anyone have the nerve to pinch something from another customer's trolley?

It constantly amazes me how people can be so dishonest.

beautybutterfly

Been in my local Tesco tonight and they really are like vultures!!! I left it 5 minutes before I went back and got 2 loaves of bread at 10p each. The bloke in front of me at the till literally had a trolley full of fruit/veg/salad he got £60+ worth of food for £17.

The best of it was that he admitted that there was no way him and his 2 sons could eat it all, a lot of it would almost certainly go off before they had chance.

in that case it was pure greed. He wiped out about 20 nets of satsumas. is there really any need?!

jenster

ive seen the scooping up into the trolly trick, then fishing out what they dont want but not in a nice way it was like an organized ring 3 blokes did the organized scoop making sure they blocked out all other people then a woman came along and decided what she wanted they were like her minders :mad:

honeythewitch

Callie22 wrote: »

You do have to wonder how much of this 'bargain' stuff is wasted though. You see people with piles and piles of stuff in their trollies and although some it of can be frozen - like meat, bread, veg - a lot of it can't and you can't help but think that people are just buying it because it's cheap and then it just sits in their fridge and gets binned anyway.

The people with lots of food might have large families.

fionajbanana wrote: »

Some people buy YS because its has a YS on them. I saw someone buying 30 avocados the other week and wondering how many of these will be binned as I have tried to freeze avocado flesh and it goes brown and it looks very unpleasant to look at..

More fool them.

You can freeze avocado by pureeing it and adding a bit of lemon juice, however, they tend to be unripe even when they are reduced on the sell by date and will keep in the fridge for weeks.

honeythewitch

beautybutterfly wrote: »

Been in my local Tesco tonight and they really are like vultures!!! I left it 5 minutes before I went back and got 2 loaves of bread at 10p each. The bloke in front of me at the till literally had a trolley full of fruit/veg/salad he got £60+ worth of food for £17.

The best of it was that he admitted that there was no way him and his 2 sons could eat it all, a lot of it would almost certainly go off before they had chance.

in that case it was pure greed. He wiped out about 20 nets of satsumas. is there really any need?!

One of the worst things about being poor is the lack of choice with food. If you always have to buy the best nutrition for the least money it can be monotonous.
These people might have thoroughly enjoyed having a selection of food to choose from (like lots of people who pay full price and discard some at the end of the week) and if the excess is thrown away so what?

fionajbanana

Supermarkets have a limit on the number of items you can buy - for example - spirits, 6 of each product, if its on offer.

They should do the same with reduced items and limit the number of the same items and limit the number of YS per customer to 20 items. This way, more people can get bargains instead of some selfish sod clearing the whole reduction areas - meat, chilled, f/v and bread/cakes.

SoWhatIsNext

honeythewitch wrote: »

One of the worst things about being poor is the lack of choice with food. If you always have to buy the best nutrition for the least money it can be monotonous.
These people might have thoroughly enjoyed having a selection of food to choose from (like lots of people who pay full price and discard some at the end of the week) and if the excess is thrown away so what?

For one, it deprives others in their situation of getting the choice. Also, if you're in that situation, the last thing you want to do is waste money on food you aren't going to eat.

zygurat789

fionajbanana wrote: »

Supermarkets have a limit on the number of items you can buy - for example - spirits, 6 of each product, if its on offer.

They should do the same with reduced items and limit the number of the same items and limit the number of YS per customer to 20 items. This way, more people can get bargains instead of some selfish sod clearing the whole reduction areas - meat, chilled, f/v and bread/cakes.

They are trying hard to get rid of stuff with a ridiculous date on it so that they do not have to bin it and end up looking foolish in the papers.
Since this thread is aimed at Tesco I can onoly speak from experience of our local which cuts prices by about 10% at 16:30 and up to 90% if there is anything left by about 20:00.
Perhaps they could cut prices earlier and by more to benefit those who do not work, pensioners & unemployed. This category of shopper is frequently critised for getting in the way of those who work and are always in a hurry. One of my other local stores cuts bread by 16:00 to less than 50P a loaf which is later in Tesco 95p. And our local upmarket store which sells lots of clothes as well as food has spectacular writedowns and no queues even though it's next door.

honeythewitch

fionajbanana wrote: »

Supermarkets have a limit on the number of items you can buy - for example - spirits, 6 of each product, if its on offer.

They should do the same with reduced items and limit the number of the same items and limit the number of YS per customer to 20 items. This way, more people can get bargains instead of some selfish sod clearing the whole reduction areas - meat, chilled, f/v and bread/cakes.

But that would discriminate against those with larger families. Why should a single person have twenty items but a family of four have five items each, or a family of eight have two and half items each?

SoWhatIsNext wrote: »

For one, it deprives others in their situation of getting the choice. Also, if you're in that situation, the last thing you want to do is waste money on food you aren't going to eat.

It is only a shop not a charity, and I don't think anyone should be made to feel guilty for buying what is on the shelf.

If it is cheaper to buy a large amount of reduced food than a small amount of full price food it is saving money not wasting it.