Short-changed on milk

sarah1972

General_Grant said:

greyteam1959 said:

If the cauliflowers are sold by weight I always pull the outer leaves off & leave them.

And the retailer is offering them for sale at a price which includes all the product.  If they wanted to offer at a price excluding the outer leaves they would sell them on that basis.

I agree!  I also don’t understand why anyone one would take off and leave perfectly good food to rot on a shelf 🤷🏻‍♀️ Whilst I understand that people are buying a cauliflower and may not want the leaves, why would you waste it?

General_Grant

prowla said:

General_Grant said:

greyteam1959 said:

If the cauliflowers are sold by weight I always pull the outer leaves off & leave them.

And the retailer is offering them for sale at a price which includes all the product.  If they wanted to offer at a price excluding the outer leaves they would sell them on that basis.

So maybe they should start including the weight of packaging with items too then?

Leaves on cauliflowers aren't packaging: they are part of the edible product.

elsien

I also don’t recall ever seeing a cauliflower sold by weight anyway.

General_Grant

elsien said:

I also don’t recall ever seeing a cauliflower sold by weight anyway.

Neither do I.  The diversion onto cutting off bits of vegetables began with broccoli but then moved on to "if the cauliflowers are sold by weight".

YoungBlueEyes

I'd say we've solved the mystery of why stuff started being shrink-wrapped.  This is a broccoli, buy it or don't!

FatherTireseus

Bradden said:

Your mention on broccoli made me chuuckle.. I saw someone cut the stalks off with a pair of scissors in Sainsbury last week... saved them some money I'm sure but I/m not sure I'd be comfortable doing it.

I recall some years ago watching a woman in Waitrose carefully breaking off all the florets from a bunch of broccoli to put into a bag which she then weighed.  I wouldn’t resort to scissors, but I do spend a bit of time rummaging through the loose broccoli to find one that isn’t mostly stalk.

And back to the original subject of milk; I haven’t noticed being ‘short changed’ on the quantity, but I did get home with a pile of shopping once to find 4 pints of milk were now sloshing around in the rear footwell on my car, the bottle having split.  And I’m usually very careful about how I pack things.  Waitrose did refund me the cost of the milk and a replacement bottle, but I spent more than the cost of the milk on products to try and get rid of the smell….

J63320

Diverting away from milk and vegetables … I live alone, so I often open a tin of soup, tomatoes, beans etc. to use half and save half for another day. As I keep my kitchen scales on my worktop, the easiest way to divide the food is by weight. It is my understanding that weights printed on packaging are averages, but although I find plenty of tins that are underweight, I have never found one that was overweight.

pumpkin89

J63320 said:

although I find plenty of tins that are underweight, I have never found one that was overweight.

It's surprising how much of the product remains coating the sides of the can when you think it's essentially empty.  I've started using a silicone spatula to get the last bits out and it's amazing how much further a can goes now!