So wasteful

potsofmoney_(I_wish)

We have our shopping delivered (mainly because I can't be trusted to go without spending a fortune), got the delivery and found out one of the eggs in a doz had cracked. I asked OH just to mention it to the man and he said that he would refund us but we were more than welcome to keep the rest as they would only be chucked.

We would ave been happy to pay but I just couldn't believe what a waste it would have been. I know supermarkets chuck out loads but it does seem a bit ridiculous.

Excuse the wording in this but I have a demanding 3 year old determined to stop me typing grrr.

boo81

I used to work in Sainsburys and one broken egg wouldnt mean the batch was thrown. they would be reshuffled or sold as 5's to staff instead.

The home delivery service may have a different policy especially if they are run from a depot rather than a store.

It is a shame but I cannot imagine anyone would give them back to the driver with that advice, 5 free eggs cant be bad!

fuschia_2

Does my head in when they just waste food - why not put it on the bargain shelf or give to the homeless/needy/hospitals??

hazzie123

I work for Sainsburys local and I`ve seen our waste hit £1300 in one week.

Most of this is due to too much stock being sent to one store from head office who controls the stock.
Stock with very short ODC.
Damaged stock.
Customers picking up items such as £4.99 pack of prawns and dumping them in the biscuits aisle because they are too lazy to walk back to where they got them from.So having to be written off as waste.This happens EVERY day!

Also our store can`t reduce any warburtons or kingsmill bread.We write roughly 10-15 loaves of bread off each day.

We do try and reduce as much as possible to at least get something for it.

Curv

I wanted to swap an unopened tin and some cartons of baby milk formula at my local Tesco... DD needed the Hungry Baby version as the regular stuff wasn't satisfying her.

They did the swap but told me they would have to 'waste' whatever I'd taken back as it could have been tampered with.

I'm not sure if they were trying to guilt me into not swapping or were insulting me by insinuating I was trying to poison babies (or both)... but I took the swap anyway and didn't feel too bad... I'd got an opened tin at home which I'm STILL using as powdered milk for making bread.

krispyg76

I used to work at morrisons - we could not give our left overs to homeless/charity organisations as if it was out of date and they got ill they may sue us

seriously

however Morrisons had a policy of very little waste and I could tell you some horror stories about what out of date stock got used for

woofwoofwoof

hazzie123 wrote: »

Also our store can`t reduce any warburtons or kingsmill bread.We write roughly 10-15 loaves of bread off each day.

Why can Sainsbury's not reduce this bread - is it a special policy?

Guapa1

Same with my company. I work for an airline and after a flight we always have stacks of biscuits/snacks left. Or the sandwiches and they get chucked. It's a real shame.

larmy16

however Morrisons had a policy of very little waste and I could tell you some horror stories about what out of date stock got used for[/quote]

My local Morrisons put out stuff reduced that is only fit for the compost bin, and most of it is only reduced by 10-20p. I don't rate their fresh produce much atall, only buy it if using that day.

Quasar

krispyg76 wrote: »

I used to work at morrisons - we could not give our left overs to homeless/charity organisations as if it was out of date and they got ill they may sue us

seriously

however Morrisons had a policy of very little waste and I could tell you some horror stories about what out of date stock got used for

That I can imagine. There was a documentary on TV a few months back about certain supermarket practices...:o

sexki11en

:hello: New to the forum here.

I used to get Mr T home delivery and the first ever one we got all our stuff plus at least 16 items of someone elses. I called up immediately to be told keep it and we'll redeliver to the other customer!

Luckily, despite there only being 2 of us and this order was clearly for a family (15 eggs, about 2 dozen bananas and numerous other stuff) we managed to use it all up before it went off. The stuff wasn't even out of the bags when I called.