Supermarket End Of Day Reductions

dervish

Rick38 wrote: »

I'm appalled at the ignorance of 'use by' and 'best before' dates shown. 'Use by' means just that! Consuming the product after the use by date may be harmfull to your health, particularly to elderly or young children. That is why it is illegal for shops to sell products beyond the 'use by' date.
'Best before' dates are different however. It only means that the quality may not be as good after the date has been reached. It is not illegal to sell products with expired best before dates.
There is no such thing as a 'sell by' date.

When I had the misfortune of being a reducer, I would run and hide from my 'regulars'! It is soul destroying being harrassed to reduce things further, and in some cases, customers would hide things earlier in the day only to retrieve them near closing time to get a good reduction! Happy times, not!!

What a pathetic post - for 2 reasons! :mad:

1. It is illegal for shops to sell items once the Best Before date has elapsed. It is also known as 'Display unitl:'.

2. Who are you to complain about decent people who simply want to get a bargain?? Your job was to SERVE the public not to avoid them and whinge about them. Your arrogance is disgusting and ridiculous to boot! :mad:

UltraCheap_2

Went to my Waitrose this evening and they had Turkeys reduced from £50 to £15 - as they had expired. Worth looking out for if you need one and have room in your freezer until Christmas.

Bennifred

UltraCheap wrote: »

Went to my Waitrose this evening and they had Turkeys reduced from £50 to £15 - as they had expired. .........quote]

:rotfl: :rotfl: had they expired or had someone dispatched them?:rotfl: :rotfl:

(sorry - couldn't resist!:p )

norm_diploom

Bennifred wrote: »

UltraCheap wrote: »

Went to my Waitrose this evening and they had Turkeys reduced from £50 to £15 - as they had expired. .........quote]

:rotfl: :rotfl: had they expired or had someone dispatched them?:rotfl: :rotfl:

(sorry - couldn't resist!:p )

ha ha ha very good :snow_laug

dervish

norm_diploom wrote: »

Bennifred wrote: »

ha ha ha very good :snow_laug

should be some very good end of day reductions on Xmas Eve?

What do you think?

Rick38

dervish wrote: »

What a pathetic post - for 2 reasons! :mad:

1. It is illegal for shops to sell items once the Best Before date has elapsed. It is also known as 'Display unitl:'.

2. Who are you to complain about decent people who simply want to get a bargain?? Your job was to SERVE the public not to avoid them and whinge about them. Your arrogance is disgusting and ridiculous to boot! :mad:

Do not tell me what my job is. Your reply is a nonsense. Read up on food safety legislation before spouting rubbish.
Plus, I am not complaining about decent people wanting to get a bargain, I was just stating my experiences.
Merry Christmas

sharronej

Rick38 wrote: »

When I had the misfortune of being a reducer, I would run and hide from my 'regulars'! It is soul destroying being harrassed to reduce things further, and in some cases, customers would hide things earlier in the day only to retrieve them near closing time to get a good reduction! Happy times, not!!

My son works for MrT and he has had the same problem, coming home battered and bruised by customers racing to get the best bargains - in fact the managers have now insisted that reductions must be made in the warehouse area and then brought back into the shop on the dollies (?). My son is well over 6ft but some of the staff are young girls. The management have ruled this in order to try and ensure their staff are not hurt, they have also ruled that food brought to them by customers cannot be reduced out of their trolleys but must go through the same process as the other reductions and has to be put back onto the shelves.

He has also mentioned the 'regulars' who he is sure are buying products for a restaurant or shop because they are in every night and buy things like 15 cabbages etc. The staff where he works would much rather the store came up with a fairer way so that more people can genuinely benefit but the management don't really care as long as they manage to get rid of everything - my son finds this very frustrating.

DCFC79

dervish wrote: »

2. Who are you to complain about decent people who simply want to get a bargain?? Your job was to SERVE the public not to avoid them and whinge about them. Your arrogance is disgusting and ridiculous to boot! :mad:

maybe it was a way of letting off steam, but imo the customer shouldnt hassle the member of staff to reduce items eg the customer shouldnt hand a reduced item to the employee and say "are you going to reduce this" or request that the employee reduces an item becuase they're waiting for it, ive been told by other members of staff from work to not reduce things when requested by customers

DCFC79

sharronej wrote: »

My son works for MrT and he has had the same problem, coming home battered and bruised by customers racing to get the best bargains - in fact the managers have now insisted that reductions must be made in the warehouse area and then brought back into the shop on the dollies (?). My son is well over 6ft but some of the staff are young girls. The management have ruled this in order to try and ensure their staff are not hurt, they have also ruled that food brought to them by customers cannot be reduced out of their trolleys but must go through the same process as the other reductions and has to be put back onto the shelves.

He has also mentioned the 'regulars' who he is sure are buying products for a restaurant or shop because they are in every night and buy things like 15 cabbages etc. The staff where he works would much rather the store came up with a fairer way so that more people can genuinely benefit but the management don't really care as long as they manage to get rid of everything - my son finds this very frustrating.

similar situation where i work but its not as much of a problem as its only a small store i work in, i think there should be a limit as to how many reduced items 1 can buy as some people do grab the whole lot when theres less fortunate people out there who wouldnt turn they're nose up at the food eg sandwiches for the elderly, sandwiches or fruit for the homeless,

sharronej

I find it really frustrating that the big supermarkets cannot give their 'waste' to the soup kitchens but apparantly they can't because of the legalities regarding the eat by dates, my MIL also works in the food industry and she was explaining that the industry has set a time in the evening which is the deadline for that days food.

A few weeks ago my son had to 'waste' seven hundred pounds worth of Apples, it amazes me that they turn their back on the free publicity and goodwill they could have simply by giving these items to a local school, home for the elderly or the soup kitchens...it's the culture we live in, the risk of litigation is too high!