Reduced OOD foods in supermarkets.

diabeticguy

New to the forums, hope this is the right place to post this.

Now I am happy to promote buying reduced foods as and when it is short dated. But I wonder if I am taking the matter too seriously when I start getting worked up at others antics.

I have watched in disbelief as shoppers raid the ambient fridges of reduced food items and fill their bulging trolley's with bright yellow stickered foods and then wheel the items round and round until the next reducing when they attack the poor assistant and demand that their already reduced stuff is reduced again. My argument is that if you take the food at the original reduced price you pay that price, not hoard it until it is reduced again.

Many times i would have been happy to pay the original reduced price but never get the oppertunity.

Other occasions I have witnessed people taking all the reduced foods and then discarding the items they didn't want around the store. Preventing others getting a look-in.

I wish that all reduced food was available to those who could use it the most but this never appears to happen when I am watching; the same people are scavaging at the fridges day in day out. Nobody else gets a chance. Trolleys pushed against the fridge so nobody else can get in.

the_reallongshanks

diabeticguy wrote: »

New to the forums, hope this is the right place to post this.

Now I am happy to promote buying reduced foods as and when it is short dated. But I wonder if I am taking the matter too seriously when I start getting worked up at others antics.

I have watched in disbelief as shoppers raid the ambient fridges of reduced food items and fill their bulging trolley's with bright yellow stickered foods and then wheel the items round and round until the next reducing when they attack the poor assistant and demand that their already reduced stuff is reduced again. My argument is that if you take the food at the original reduced price you pay that price, not hoard it until it is reduced again.

Many times i would have been happy to pay the original reduced price but never get the oppertunity.

Other occasions I have witnessed people taking all the reduced foods and then discarding the items they didn't want around the store. Preventing others getting a look-in.

these people are often elderly and poor, this is the only way they can stay above the breadline (no pun intended). my elderly neighbour does it all the time , shes really sweet, if she can get a weeks food shopping for a couple of pound then good luck to her.

i gave her one of my free tesco gammons today, made her and my christmas

R4pture_2

I always raid the reduced section. Being currently unemployed this the only way to survive.
I have never gone back to get it reduced further though as I am usually very happy to have it at the price it is :P
I have stood around the bakery section waiting for cookies to be reduced

italiastar

diabeticguy wrote: »

New to the forums, hope this is the right place to post this.

Now I am happy to promote buying reduced foods as and when it is short dated. But I wonder if I am taking the matter too seriously when I start getting worked up at others antics.

I have watched in disbelief as shoppers raid the ambient fridges of reduced food items and fill their bulging trolley's with bright yellow stickered foods and then wheel the items round and round until the next reducing when they attack the poor assistant and demand that their already reduced stuff is reduced again. My argument is that if you take the food at the original reduced price you pay that price, not hoard it until it is reduced again.

Many times i would have been happy to pay the original reduced price but never get the oppertunity.

Other occasions I have witnessed people taking all the reduced foods and then discarding the items they didn't want around the store. Preventing others getting a look-in.

I totally agree, however the person posting above does have a valid point, unfortunately, many of the ederly / poor people have not got the front displayed by some of these people and still lose out. Stores should introduce a fair reducing policy - no further reductions of goods in baskets.

firespire

I sometimes pick up the reduced stuff from trolleys when I enter the supermarket but when I have finished the shop if I see staff reducing the prices I swap it for the double reduction stuff or have my stuff reduced too, it seems to be the moneysaving thing to do. No one wants to pay more than the lowest price available. I'm not sure I'm guilty of hoarding but you don't pick up the reduced item when you see it first or it will go. If I decide against an item I will return it to where it came from. Not seen reduced items discarded through our store but can't see how this would stop someone else choosing to buy the unwanted item. The staff seem to have enough fun choosing the most random place to put some of the reduced stuff anyway I wouldn't be suprised wherever I found reduced items

one-non-blonde

the_reallongshanks wrote: »

these people are often elderly and poor, this is the only way they can stay above the breadline (no pun intended). my elderly neighbour does it all the time , shes really sweet, if she can get a weeks food shopping for a couple of pound then good luck to her.

i gave her one of my free tesco gammons today, made her and my christmas

I'm a great fan of out of date produce but never employ unsporting tactics to get it. However, you do get familiar with the 'locals' and in my experience background has little to do with it - one of the people I regularly see with a trolley load of yellow labels is one of the Directors from my work who is on a salary of at least £60k. And yes, it does irk me slightly when there are people in more need (ie. me! ha ha) but I guess he's as entitled to a bargain as anybody else.

furrypig

This is very amusing!

When my hubby was out of work earlier in the year I used to go on a Sinday afternoon for bargain reductions. I soon realised there were a group of people who regularly did this. One women in particular used to pile her trolley up with goods and wait nest to each reduced section until the assisstants came to reduce things further and jump on them to reduce her goods. Once I actually heard her arguing with an assisstant about reducing something further and I found it all a bit embarrassing!
I stopped going on a Sunday but got really lucky one midweek night (my daughter wasn't impressed waiting for me to look through the bargain food section!) we got lots of reduced meat and scarey reductions lady was nowhere in sight! There was however the most lovely elderly gentleman who was so polite he didn't want to get in my way or the assistants so I kept getting things for him and we had a great chat! Much better atmosphere than on a Sunday.

Luckily for me I don't need to only shop this way at the moment but I always have a look in the reduced section.

Might pop in this afternoon looking for bargains though!

Merry Christmas everyone!

shegha

I love to grab a reduced bargin on a sunday afternoon, Sundays tea is alway wait and see pie ( whatever I come home with). Quite a few regulars, we all have a chat and pass thing to each other.

The good thing is this has not maded my boys fussy eaters, they have a very wide selction and combinations of food. Which I could not normally afford.

Merry christmas to all the fellow yellow stickered collectors

basill

Has anyone else noticed the price panels on many items are now yellow too, to catch the eye of the greater bargain hunting yellow ticket spotter

B

odowdchr

the_reallongshanks wrote: »

these people are often elderly and poor, this is the only way they can stay above the breadline (no pun intended). my elderly neighbour does it all the time ,

Lots are also businesses....pubs,cafe's, sandwich bars.
When you see someone hovering by the bread ready to grab the lot etc..

mutley74

odowdchr wrote: »

Lots are also businesses....pubs,cafe's, sandwich bars.
When you see someone hovering by the bread ready to grab the lot etc..

the landlady of a place i used to lodge in years ago also owned a B&B. I saw her buying loads of reduced sausages, tomatoes, bread etc to serve guests. She would freeze what she could.