Increased food wastage at Co-op!!

ThumbRemote

Bobcrowther wrote: »

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

I have no idea if they would. Nor do you. The difference is that I don't try and pretend I do.

I certainly do know they'd have taken 69p more if they had sold it for 69p rather than binning it.

POPPYOSCAR

Malthusian wrote: »

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.

Hilarious!!


Reduced food giving you salmonella!! I have heard it all now.


You are more likely to get food poisoning from a restaurant with bad hygiene practices than reduced food from a supermarket.

Pollycat

Malthusian wrote: »

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.

Do major supermarkets actually (and knowingly) sell food when the 'use by' date has passed?

I thought they reduced food when it was just before and on the 'use by' date but not after that date has expired.

Altarf

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Not sour grapes at all. Just annoyance and frustration that so much food is now ending up in landfill. So presumably I'm not the only one not picking up the higher priced reductions. Why buy something on its use-by date at 9pm when you can pick up a much fresher product for just 20p more?

You are clearly not concerned with the food waste, just the fact you are missing out on the bargains.

If you were going to buy the item that had a use/sell by date of today that it reduced by 20p, why does it matter that there is one with two weeks left for 20p more.

If you really did want that item and wanted to eat it tonight, and were concerned with food waste, then you would simply buy the item with the shortest code.

But by rejecting it on the spurious grounds that you can buy 'fresher' for 20p more, you are revealing your true views that the food waste is irrelevant and all that matters is saving money.

If that is the case fine, after all that is what this web site is about, but tell the truth and stop pretending you care about food waste.

ThumbRemote

Altarf wrote: »

You are clearly not concerned with the food waste, just the fact you are missing out on the bargains.

Oh do give it a rest and stop posting the same thing over and over again.

Bobcrowther

ThumbRemote wrote: »

I have no idea if they would. Nor do you. The difference is that I don't try and pretend I do.

I certainly do know they'd have taken 69p more if they had sold it for 69p rather than binning it.

Of course I know that they wouldn't make profit selling an item like that for over two pounds less than their usual price. That's simple common sense. Supermarkets rarely have a margin of that magnitude, certainly not on their chilled pies. Get real.
They recouped 69p, they still lost money. That's a fact. No stock and order system is infallible, thus overages occcur. I'm just glad that stores are seeing sense and binning these items rather than encouraging vultures who clog up the aisle where the reduction shelf is, then taking longer at the till by making sure everything has gone through at the reduced price. It really is pathetic.

Altarf

ThumbRemote wrote: »

Oh do give it a rest and stop posting the same thing over and over again.

Certainly will do Internet Cop as soon as the OP stops pretending they are concerned about food waste.

Bobcrowther

Altarf wrote: »

Certainly will do Internet Cop as soon as the OP stops pretending they are concerned about food waste.

You're clearly wrong.
They sometimes buy full price pies, which due to some special retail magic, offsets the cost of a £2+ reduction in only two purchases :rotfl:

POPPYOSCAR

Pollycat wrote: »

Do maor supermarkets actually (and knowlingly) sell food when the 'use by' date has passed?

I thought they reduced food when it was just before and on the 'use by' date but not after that date has expired.

At the co-op the till will not accept an item past the sell by date as happened to me on sunday, and they will not let you buy it.
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prosaver

it get on my nervous the same old faces grabing all the bargins..they even wait half and hour b4 the time..iwonder why tescos do it.
it should be put on odds times
so everyone gets a fair chance.
fair do's tescos?