Increased food wastage at Co-op!!

POPPYOSCAR

Yes it is new policy.


We know someone who works there and is responsible for marking down.


And yes he says they are now throwing away a lot of stuff.


I do not understand this new policy either.


Waitrose reduce down to pennies by near closing and seem to be doing well, as do other stores.


I shopped in the co-op today and one of the things I picked up was a cake reduced from £2 to £1.79 not much of a reduction but it was going to be used today.It turns out the sell by date was yesterday and so they could not sell it to me so they gave me a fresh one at the reduced price.


So not only will that cake go in the bin but they lost another 21p on the sale.

Feral_Moon

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Yes it is new policy.


We know someone who works there and is responsible for marking down.


And yes he says they are now throwing away a lot of stuff.


I do not understand this new policy either.


Waitrose reduce down to pennies by near closing and seem to be doing well, as do other stores.


I shopped in the co-op today and one of the things I picked up was a cake reduced from £2 to £1.79 not much of a reduction but it was going to be used today.It turns out the sell by date was yesterday and so they could not sell it to me so they gave me a fresh one at the reduced price.


So not only will that cake go in the bin but they lost another 21p on the sale.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions :beer:

Time to fire off an email to HO then

ETA: You just reminded me, I picked up a pork pie on Boxing day reduced to £1.79 from £2 but I was planning to use it that evening. When I cut into it, the meat was a horrible grey colour. I went to check the date but the reduced sticker was covering it. Pulled it off to reveal the use-by date was actually 24th Dec. I took it back the following day and they replaced with a fresh one.

hollydays

Feral_Moon wrote: »

That's what used to happen in the Co-op. The day before, or the morning of something reaching its use-by date it would get a 10% reduction. Then again mid afternoon it would be reduced to half price if still not sold. Anything left on the shelf by around 8pm would be reduced by 75%, usually bread and veg.

But now piles of food are still sitting on the shelf at 9pm still displaying the initial 10% reduction. Nobody wants almost out of date food at that time of night if only saving pennies.

Ok, fair comment.

The-Truth

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Time to fire off an email to HO then

HO please get them to order too much stuff so I can then buy it cheap later.

You have no idea how retail works! Fire off an email to HO but seriously I can tell you now you WILL not get your way! What they are trying to achieve and what you think they're trying to achieve are two different things. That's why your email won' work and will get a default "keep em happy reply". Trust me, I know that's what will happen.

ThemeOne

I'd say it's worth a go writing to the Co-op - after all, they are not a particularly well-run or businesslike business so who knows what their response might be.

I hardly ever buy stuff with a reduced sticker - firstly I prefer shopping in the mornings before they usually do the mark-downs, and secondly I'm quite picky about what I buy and don't want to buy things just because they're reduced.

DCFC79

antrobus wrote: »

You have misunderstood.

The deal with FareShare relates solely to surplus food from warehouse depots.

http://www.co-operative.coop/corporate/press/press-releases/Food/the-co-operative-food-commits-to-redistributing-a-million-meals/

Food waste from retail stores is covered by a separate deal with Biffa.

http://www.co-operative.coop/corporate/press/press-releases/Food/The-Co-operative-in-drive-to-divert-all-food-store-waste-from-landfill1/

Thanks, yes I did misunderstand.

Bobcrowther

Feral_Moon wrote: »

You really are a prize idiot!

The issue is with the food ending up in landfill rather than going to charity/homeless shelters or did you not check out the link in my FIRST POST about Hugh Whittingstall's war on waste? No, thought not! I bet you haven't signed the petition either! I have!

Sorry OP, you'd have far more sympathy if you'd have been straight up honest and admitted the truth - it's all very well pretending that it's about "food waste" and "charity" when in reality it's actually about the £££ in your back pocket.
The other poster is right - the co-op are there to make money, not to overstock on mince that will sit there until its use by date when some weirdo vulture buys for 10p once it has gone brown and barely edible.

Pennywise

sheramber wrote: »

A friend's husband had a baker's shop and he binned anything left at the end of the day. He would not reduce the price as he said people would not buy the goods at the full price but wait until closing time to buy it cheaper and he would go out of business.

Likewise, one of my clients is a bakers who do exactly the same. They used to sell it off half price the following morning, but then people started coming in early to buy the half price stuff instead of fresh. Then they started selling it off at half price after 3pm the same day, but people started shopping later in the afternoon instead of the mornings/lunchtimes. Either way, their sales and profits fell because they sold less fresh stuff on the day itself. Then they tried to give it away to charity/foodbanks but they wouldn't accept it for two reasons, one being short shelf life and the other being that it wasn't wrapped/packaged. So, now, yes, they throw it away. In some cases, it's the only viable option!

Feral_Moon

Bobcrowther wrote: »

Sorry OP, you'd have far more sympathy if you'd have been straight up honest and admitted the truth - it's all very well pretending that it's about "food waste" and "charity" when in reality it's actually about the £££ in your back pocket.
The other poster is right - the co-op are there to make money, not to overstock on mince that will sit there until its use by date when some weirdo vulture buys for 10p once it has gone brown and barely edible.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

For a start I never buy mince when it's reduced price and the stuff I do buy is only when it's reduced to a price lower than I can buy it in Aldi for, as I said before, usually bread and vegetables I can convert into soup for lunch the next day! Why would I pay over the odds for out of date food that I can buy cheaper elsewhere! :money:

You really are barking up the wrong tree here but then you only joined MSE to troll people with your AE :rotfl:

ETA: Oh and whilst I think about it, they can actually generate future sales by reducing items to a sensible price. For example, they sell an Aberdeen Angus steak pie which I think retails at something like £2.79 for a single pie. I would never have dreamt of purchasing it to try at that price but recently picked one up reduced to 69p. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was, so much so that I've since bought a couple at normal retail prices. That's over £5 of sales generated from a reduced stock sale.

Feral_Moon

Oh and something else I discovered this morning too is that we are now being asked if we want our receipt before they actually produce them, so a) they can reduce the amount of paper used in till rolls, and b) reduce the amount of "money off" coupons generated for customers.

I usually pick up at least two a week offering either 10% or 15% off my next shop so ensure I always ask for my receipt