Increased food wastage at Co-op!!

Stompa

In recent months I've bought quite a few of a particular item that gets reduced from £4 to 99p. In the last few weeks though I've noticed that it only ever seems to get reduced to £2.19.

Bobcrowther

Feral_Moon wrote: »

: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 Why would I pay over the odds for out of date food that I can buy cheaper elsewhere!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.

Again, proving you don't understand retail economics. The loss they took on reducing that pie by £2.10 isn't offset by the two you then bought for £2.79.

Then again, I think it's obvious to most on this thread that you've already lost your "argument" and attempting to deflect away from it by calling me a troll and a "AE" proves it.

Feral_Moon

Bobcrowther wrote: »

Again, proving you don't understand retail economics. The loss they took on reducing that pie by £2.10 isn't offset by the two you then bought for £2.79.

Then again, I think it's obvious to most on this thread that you've already lost your "argument" and attempting to deflect away from it by calling me a troll and a "AE" proves it.

You're becoming boring now. Perhaps you should look again at the thread title for a clue as to what the thread is actually about.

societys_child

Feral_Moon wrote: »

You really are a prize idiot!

Naughty

The issue is with the food ending up in landfill rather than going to charity/homeless shelters

How do you know where it ends up?

or did you not check out the link in my FIRST POST about Hugh Whittingstall's war on waste? No, thought not!

Maybe the poster has as much interest about anything Hugh Whittingstall has to say as I have, lets face it, he's just a "look-at-me- celebrity " [/QUOTE]

I bet you haven't signed the petition either! I have!

Well good for you, you make it sound like it's mandatory. I haven't signed it either, have I committed a sin?

vuvuzela

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.

The Co-op is run on regional lines, so I suspect policy in one won't be policy in all. I got 2 joints of pork yesterday at 12:10 just after they'd they opened at midday, both reduced by approx 55-60%. Which was nice.
Almost all the veg was reduced by half and the majority of meat likewise. The reductions do seem to vary sometimes though, as you say I've also seen the 10% or 25% reductions on some days.

ThumbRemote

Bobcrowther wrote: »

Again, proving you don't understand retail economics. The loss they took on reducing that pie by £2.10 isn't offset by the two you then bought for £2.79.

What loss did they make?

They may have still sold it at a profit, albeit a reduced profit.
They still made more profit (or less loss) than if it had been unsold and gone in the bin.

In your world does "retail economics" just mean "making things up"?

Bobcrowther

ThumbRemote wrote: »

What loss did they make?

They may have still sold it at a profit, albeit a reduced profit.
They still made more profit (or less loss) than if it had been unsold and gone in the bin.

In your world does "retail economics" just mean "making things up"?

You're seriously suggesting that they'd still have made a profit on 69p instead of £2.79?
Is it April 1st?

KxMx

Re the bakers- there is a HUGE difference between a national business, a national business who portray themselves as a caring, sharing friendly business who care about the community, and a small single or chain of bakeries.

POPPYOSCAR

The-Truth wrote: »

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.

Rubbish!!


When Waitrose changed their My Waitrose free paper to £10 spend they had lots of complaints.


They said they had listened to their customers and so changed it to £10 at weekends only and £5 in the week.


So people power can work.

Malthusian

When Waitrose changed their My Waitrose free paper to £10 spend they had lots of complaints. They said they had listened to their customers and so changed it to £10 at weekends only and £5 in the week. So people power can work.

People power won the right to continue shopping at an expensive supermarket in exchange for a free paper? An offer which costs the publisher very little as the price of the paper is nominal and they will recoup the cost through advertising? Give me the name of the hero who organised this revolution, we need to get a street named after them.

There is a big difference between a trivial offer that costs pennies, and a policy of selling expired food at massive reductions that may significantly cannibalise your profit-making sales and possibly put you at risk of being sued when some superscrimper manages to scrimp themselves into salmonella poisoning.