Beware of Sainsbury’s Short Date Policy

pbartlett

Sainsburys seem to recently have started removing dates from the fresh fruits and vegetables - for example most of the bagged apples in store were dated 'eat within 7 days'

stopped buying those from sainsburys now

jon81uk

pbartlett said:

Sainsburys seem to recently have started removing dates from the fresh fruits and vegetables - for example most of the bagged apples in store were dated 'eat within 7 days'

stopped buying those from sainsburys now

Tesco did this almost three years ago Tesco removes 'best before' dates on some fruit and veg - BBC News

You should be able to tell when an apple is bad.
For the supermarket staff they have week codes on them so they know when to yellow sticker if needed. 

pbartlett

anybody know what the sainsbury week codes look like?

cannugec5

I’m not sure how Sainsbury works as it isn’t availability here, but with Tesco I have the ability to make a note on each individual item. For example if I’m ordering pork chops I could state that I require a use by date - no sooner than xxx. (Within reason) 
If you don’t do this the picker has no knowledge if you are planning to eat the item on the day of delivery or a week later, or we’re going to freeze it anyway. 

I think it is good if supermarkets are being more proactive on food waste. I’d doesn’t take too much effort on the customer to be more specific if it matters so much to them. 

missile

jillyr said:

Tesco’s is warm you about short dated products with a much longer life and highlight in their website when they naturally have a short life , so no Sainsbury’s is the worst policy I’ve come across - let’s face it how could it be worse than 1 day?

When we ordered fish from from Tesco, it was the day we took delivery. No warning, but did get a refund.

Murphybear

SPOWER said:

Hi.  You could insert name of any supermarket there to be honest.  I worked in a J Sainsbury when they first brought out local.  Before that you had only seen central and the supermarkets.  I'm not a huge fan as I went to the one in the west end and the security guard followed me around and made me feel uneasy.   I left thinking I must look a certain way to cause him to do that.  It spoilt my afternoon.  That was earlier this week.  The thing about dates, I don't go by these too much.  I ate a lasagne that was 2 days out of date.  It was fine.  Also I googled it, yoghurt can ben eaten up to 1 month after date as it's sour cream or something.

SPOWER said:

Hi.  You could insert name of any supermarket there to be honest.  I worked in a J Sainsbury when they first brought out local.  Before that you had only seen central and the supermarkets.  I'm not a huge fan as I went to the one in the west end and the security guard followed me around and made me feel uneasy.   I left thinking I must look a certain way to cause him to do that.  It spoilt my afternoon.  That was earlier this week.  The thing about dates, I don't go by these too much.  I ate a lasagne that was 2 days out of date.  It was fine.  Also I googled it, yoghurt can ben eaten up to 1 month after date as it's sour cream or something.

We buy Yeo Valley full fat yoghurt.  If the inner seal has not been broken then the yoghurt stays perfectly edible a long time after the dates.  We’ve used it 6 weeks after and it was perfectly fine.  Tasted ok and no after effects.

I’m convinced most products have an unnecessarily short date on them. 

powerful_Rogue

jillyr said:

I do realise dates, especially  before, are a bit arbitrary but it would actually be illegal for them to sell out of date food so why should they get away with piling it into online shoppers’ ‘trolleys’ when there is no reasonable hope of them eattit when it’s in date??

Not strictly true.

Best Before - Not illegal

Use By: - Illegal

brucieb29

Thing is use by dates are just to keep them covered and being honest they really exaggerate the dates to make extra sure they are covered and to keep the whole chain moving and also you could complain that customers that order for the convience of having there whole shopping delivered to there door the next day miss out on in-store special offers or the opportunity of finding a bargain in the reduced section most people would understand that the convience of them doing your shopping for you and driving straight to your door with zero effort expended should also receive all the best freshest items as Well or those who actually put the effort to physically go in-store and do the job of picking there own items foregoing the convience of delivery there reward is being able to pick and choose the items they want both parties can't have it all another thing if you put yourself in the place of the person who has to do your shopping for you and think about how much time it would take to search and then rummage to the back of the shelves for the newest products that would waste so much time. The saying that comes to mind is "if you want something done right do it yourself" And really we should all be grateful that we can have all our lovely products every day and it being delivered next day should be praised instead of complaints that it's not good enough we all need to lighten up and instead of looking for the negative points we should be praising all the positive things we have n our lives cos it seems we are all trudging along moaning about how nothing's good enough that everyone is seeing the negatives and no-one notices or mentions how good we have it or what a good service we are provided from someone who is probably exhausted and could use the boost of somebody being grateful so let's appreciate the good things and stop moaning about small bad points we shouldn't even mention those as it brings attention to them 

lincroft1710

You have replied to a 3 year old thread. Also you should use paragraphs as many MSE members do not like reading a block of text