'Best Before' dates query

PLog86

stevemLS wrote: »

(note, Regulations, not an Act).

Pointless pedentry isn't going to help your case.

The law is very specific, the food must be labelled "Best before" and Best Before means "up to and including".

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1499/regulation/20/made

Azari goes on to be insulting and offensive to those of us who lack the necessary skills in comprehension, when s/he is him/herself entirely wrong.

I have to say you can be quite offensive, yourself.

Also, you STILL haven't stated exactly what your complaint is. Unless posts have been deleted, all I can find azari saying is that "Best Before" is not "short for" "Best Before End Of", which is correct, if a little pedantic - it is, for legal purposes in this context, DEFINED TO MEAN that - it's not an abbreviation. The other thing he says is that "BB" doesn't actually mean anything (being just two letters) and can be used by anyone as they see fit. Which seems reasonable.

Which of these do you have a problem with? Or was it some other post since vanished?

Really, though, you seem intent on dragging this argument well past its sell by date. As far as I can see, NO ONE has ever disputed what the legal definition is.

Edwood_Woodwood

jhe wrote: »

browneyedbazzi- it doesnt say on the tab 'best before end of' it says 'best before', if you are correct it is confusing not only me but others as well

No, just you.

This must be the most idiotic thread ever.

sabrinas707

Reading this thread has really put me off trying home delivery. I'm one of those annoying people that pulls the newer stock from the back of the supermarket shelf!

If something is on its use by date I would expect to by it by choice i.e. because it has been reduced accordingly

jhe

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

No, just you.

This must be the most idiotic thread ever.

No not just me.
so you bring a thread that hadn't been commented on for 3 days back to life just to post an opinion.
If you don't liker the thread why not just jog on until you find a thread interesting to you instead of being unpleasant
you also should read the forum etiquette- Please be nice to all MoneySavers : There's no such thing as a stupid question and, even if you disagree, courtesy helps.

joeyboy

sabrinas707 wrote: »

I'm one of those annoying people that pulls the newer stock from the back of the supermarket shelf!

At least tell me you don't leave the items you've moved out of the way strewn all over the shelf, upside down etc? ...It makes me want to hunt them down...

With some items I do the same, albeit if something has say 6 days until the BB date, and the ones at the back have 11 days, but I KNOW I'll use it before 6 days, I'll get the shorter date, simply because I've seen how much stuff gets chucked due to a mixure of poor date rotation and customers always wanting the longest date no matter what.

shaun_from_Africa

sabrinas707 wrote: »

I'm one of those annoying people that pulls the newer stock from the back of the supermarket shelf!

Depending on the type of item and when I intend to consume it, I occasionally do this as well.
I don't see anything at all wrong with doing this as the supermarket staff have put the goods on the shelf so that customers can remove and buy them and if a customer wants to pick and choose which particular items they want, so be it.

Edwood_Woodwood

jhe wrote: »

No not just me.
so you bring a thread that hadn't been commented on for 3 days back to life just to post an opinion.
.

Eh?

So, 3 days with no comments means the thread has ended is it?

Also, posting an opinion is part of the whole point of this particular forum!

You really do appear to be a troubled individual.

jhe

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

Eh?

So, 3 days with no comments means the thread has ended is it?

Also, posting an opinion is part of the whole point of this particular forum!

You really do appear to be a troubled individual.

as much as I would like to respond I am going to follow the forum advice and not feed a troll

d70cw6

never let it die

Nada666

Boy. And I thought my life was empty. There really are some total <----> on this forum.