Reduced OOD foods in supermarkets.

super_dad

anywayyyyy.. moving on from the racism of dervish.

I love the clearance section (white, 27, English... and not hard-up by any means)... I've even adjusted our weekly shopping time til 2pm on a sunday so we always catch "clearance lady" at our local tesco.

Every week I get loads of meat... tesco's finest family sized lasagne's (from a fiver to 50p!) are always there. finest family sized pies... blah blah blah.. it has cut our shopping bill a bit but I do end up buying stuff for the sake of buying it.

If I can freeze it and it looks nice then i'll "grab it". I even know that final clearance occurs at 7:30pm (ish) on a monday wednesday and friday... and slightly later on a tuesday and thursday. So if the little one is in bed and I'm bored, assuming there is someone else in the house... I may go for a walk to Tesco's at about clearance time to see what I can pick up. Not because I'm poor, not because I'm greedy... but because I love the thought of eating a meal, enjoying it and it costing me peanuts... and knowing that i'f i'd have bought the same pack a few hours earlier it would have cost me 10x as much. i'm weird like that!

guess I just love a bargain...I can't resist... but I know I go OTT with it. Ask me if i care what people think! Oh, and I am one of these annoying people who will pass their stuff to the person doing the marking down and ask them to reduce it for me, without waiting for it to be done.... but only because i know that final clearance is 90% off and I can do the maths!!

dervish

super_dad wrote: »

anywayyyyy.. moving on from the racism of dervish.

I love the clearance section (white, 27, English... and not hard-up by any means)... I've even adjusted our weekly shopping time til 2pm on a sunday so we always catch "clearance lady" at our local tesco.

Every week I get loads of meat... tesco's finest family sized lasagne's (from a fiver to 50p!) are always there. finest family sized pies... blah blah blah.. it has cut our shopping bill a bit but I do end up buying stuff for the sake of buying it.

If I can freeze it and it looks nice then i'll "grab it". I even know that final clearance occurs at 7:30pm (ish) on a monday wednesday and friday... and slightly later on a tuesday and thursday. So if the little one is in bed and I'm bored, assuming there is someone else in the house... I may go for a walk to Tesco's at about clearance time to see what I can pick up. Not because I'm poor, not because I'm greedy... but because I love the thought of eating a meal, enjoying it and it costing me peanuts... and knowing that i'f i'd have bought the same pack a few hours earlier it would have cost me 10x as much. i'm weird like that!

guess I just love a bargain...I can't resist... but I know I go OTT with it. Ask me if i care what people think! Oh, and I am one of these annoying people who will pass their stuff to the person doing the marking down and ask them to reduce it for me, without waiting for it to be done.... but only because i know that final clearance is 90% off and I can do the maths!!

please do not libel me!

I will report this!

crystal9

super_dad wrote: »

anywayyyyy.. moving on from the racism of dervish.

I love the clearance section (white, 27, English... and not hard-up by any means)... I've even adjusted our weekly shopping time til 2pm on a sunday so we always catch "clearance lady" at our local tesco.

Every week I get loads of meat... tesco's finest family sized lasagne's (from a fiver to 50p!) are always there. finest family sized pies... blah blah blah.. it has cut our shopping bill a bit but I do end up buying stuff for the sake of buying it.

If I can freeze it and it looks nice then i'll "grab it". I even know that final clearance occurs at 7:30pm (ish) on a monday wednesday and friday... and slightly later on a tuesday and thursday. So if the little one is in bed and I'm bored, assuming there is someone else in the house... I may go for a walk to Tesco's at about clearance time to see what I can pick up. Not because I'm poor, not because I'm greedy... but because I love the thought of eating a meal, enjoying it and it costing me peanuts... and knowing that i'f i'd have bought the same pack a few hours earlier it would have cost me 10x as much. i'm weird like that!

guess I just love a bargain...I can't resist... but I know I go OTT with it. Ask me if i care what people think! Oh, and I am one of these annoying people who will pass their stuff to the person doing the marking down and ask them to reduce it for me, without waiting for it to be done.... but only because i know that final clearance is 90% off and I can do the maths!!

:cool: wow i like the way you are, i to love a good deal but never seem to catch things that cheap.....have to change my shopping times

newkidontheblock

I worked in Safeway (as it was then!) in the mid 90's and had the wonderful job of reducing all the fresh stuff that was going out of date (bread, cakes yoghurts etc). Pretty much every night people would do exactly what the original poster has described and put the stuff in the trolley then put it back when it was time for further reductions, so I'd have to reduce it down further. It put me in a bit of an awkward situation to be honest, but the stock would only get thrown out otherwise so I had to reduce it down again. It was the same few faces every night who kept doing it lol! They were known as the 'scavs' by us.

On a different note, It does peev me when for example fresh cakes are being reduced and one person grabs the lot. errrm what are they going to do with 5 fresh cream sponge cakes lol that won't be fresh after today???? Is their family really that big???

dervish

TESCO in Durham is great for reduing foods on a night.

Got 6 pizzas reduced from £2 to 24p each.

easy_on_the_cash

newkidontheblock wrote: »

I worked in Safeway (as it was then!) in the mid 90's and had the wonderful job of reducing all the fresh stuff that was going out of date (bread, cakes yoghurts etc). Pretty much every night people would do exactly what the original poster has described and put the stuff in the trolley then put it back when it was time for further reductions, so I'd have to reduce it down further. It put me in a bit of an awkward situation to be honest, but the stock would only get thrown out otherwise so I had to reduce it down again. It was the same few faces every night who kept doing it lol! They were known as the 'scavs' by us.

On a different note, It does peev me when for example fresh cakes are being reduced and one person grabs the lot. errrm what are they going to do with 5 fresh cream sponge cakes lol that won't be fresh after today???? Is their family really that big???

I work in a supermarket, and it is the scavs you call that keep your waste down.
Better to be sold than on the ooc the following day:D:rolleyes:

adiwood

Got two bags of salad, which looked quite fresh still for a grand total of 2p each reduced from £1 in Tesco last night :T and had half of one bag for my lunch today covered in a dressing.

Hootie19

I'd love to know why there is such a disparity in the reductions offered between branches of the same supermarket. My local Tesco is as tight as a drum with their reductions - even at the very last minute their stuff is rarely reduced down to even 50% of the full price.

Tesco in another big town nearby, reduces much more generously. Really "posh" bread for 4p a loaf (I filled my freezer that night!) whereas our local one never reduces bread to less than 55p a loaf. I've bought chicken breast fillets for 6p in there. Tubs of rice for 3p.

I just wish it was economically viable to go to the other town more often to fill up. The petrol costs make it not worth it when you don't know that you are definitely going to find bargains.

A_little_stressed!!

I am shocked and appauled by the comments on this thread, I cannot believe race/colour has even been mentioned, why the hell does it matter what colour anyone is? Do you really see everyone as different? Are we not all the same?

Also those of you who ridicule those less fortunate than yourselves for trying to feed their families on a tight budget, have you never gone through hard times? I'm sure these people are not scroungers, but hardworking people like myself that recent events have made life harder and this food is what makes life slightly easier, and nice meal as a treat after weeks plain value cheap rubbish.

ravylesley

well I cant recall a thread I have read with more amusement than this one.I often look in the reduced cabinets and never find anything worth having but then again I shop in the mornings.I'm all in favour of people getting a bargain but I think some people take it to extremes and that they need to realise its a bonus to find a bargain not their god-given right.I cant comment on what race/age/class get the most of the reduced bargains as I'm never around when the mayhem commences.But maybe all of us should stop being so selfish and instead of taking all the reduced items for themselves should share them around and then there might be less acrimony and hassle

Lesleyxx