Reduced OOD foods in supermarkets.

Daisymac_2

Does anyone have any idea when Tesco Amersham do reductions ?, I only ever see things reduced by about 10%. I think with the prices for food and fuel at the moment, everyone could do with a little help with the odd bargain now and again.

mcallister1

The best reductions imo are in co-op where the meat often has 2 for £5 or similar reductions on it which still apply after its been reduced. Lovely.

grannybiker

Had also been enjoying the Co-op still applying the 2 for £4 etc to their reduced items to the point where they sometimes paid you to take it away! E.G. items reduced right down to 50p on date of "Use by," but £1.20 deducted to comply with the multibuy discount.
Sadly they've stopped doing this at my local one. Apparently they've been told from "Those above," to enter the 2nd item as "Groceries, 50p" etc so that it doesn't trigger the extra discount.
Sadly they've also got a little tighter with the size of reductions too, often still well above 1/2 price shortly before closing on the "Use by" day.

oystercatcher

I too have never seen anything reduced by more than 25% but when I was visiting a friend in Durham she could regularly buy food for a few pence . Is it a north south divide thing or just random depending on local managers. I live within commuting distance of London maybe they assume we are all wealthy here ????

Oystercatcher

doubleuc

I'm regularly on the trigger side of the reduction gun at the bakery/pb in my tesco(not telling where). I can safely say EVERYONE likes a reduction regardless of colour/class.

I've had posh people come up in the morning when doing the 35% on plant bread asking is 'this getting reduced', i laugh inside when i get to say no lol! In the evening it's 65% on whatever's left.

The bakery is much more popular, all the regulars come out for them, we have names for them! This one guy always tours the shop for hours until i reduce the batons, which get done last. I get a chinese couple in regularly now who pull off a trolley load of pastries at reduction time. Saves me fishing them out i guess? !!!!es of the other regulars though. I've established they have some kind of restaraunt.
We have another lady who also has one who comes in for cookies, potato scones and pastries also, she comes in in her whites lol! Then there's the normal regulars who always turn up. Most of it is just random people in at the right time though, usually after 6pm for 65%.

Can't believe there's a Tesco doing 95%, my boss would rather put it down as damaged or waste it than go that far.

Saddako

I too am the 'other side of the gun' and have to do reductions every night when i'm at work. And you have no idea how annoying and rude customers can be. We actually have 'regulars' in our store that have nothing better to do with their lives other than come in at set times (they know when happy hour is). They stay in the store for a couple of HOURS at a time, putting things in trolley, thus giving no one else a chance to take them, and then come 9:30pm shove the items under your nose shouting 'reduce this!'. Possibly the most stressful thing at work!

dervish

Saddako wrote: »

I too am the 'other side of the gun' and have to do reductions every night when i'm at work. And you have no idea how annoying and rude customers can be. We actually have 'regulars' in our store that have nothing better to do with their lives other than come in at set times (they know when happy hour is). They stay in the store for a couple of HOURS at a time, putting things in trolley, thus giving no one else a chance to take them, and then come 9:30pm shove the items under your nose shouting 'reduce this!'. Possibly the most stressful thing at work!

If they put have put it in their trolley already then how can they ask for furhter reductions??? - they agreed to buy it at its stated price?!?

:mad:

doubleuc

Can't say i've seen anything as bad sounding as that. Gives me faith in my fellow Scots :-)
The Chinese couple are the only ones who take stuff from the shelf. Not seen it much before.
One time my boss told me whenever anyone comes up demanding a reduction, take it and take 10% off it lol! Not had anyone annoying enough to try that though.
Also, don't get so stressed, it saves you looking for it lol.

UnlikelyButTrue

doubleuc wrote: »

Can't believe there's a Tesco doing 95%, my boss would rather put it down as damaged or waste it than go that far.

go that far? you mean selling perfectly edible food to people who probably are struggling to feed themselves and their families during this credit crunch?

or putting it into skips in the back of the stores to go to fill up already full landfill?

nothing personal to you doubleuc- your posts were very interesting- i just know how much food gets wasted by huge corporations and it makes me SO angry...

Pound

A bit OT; don't want to start a new thread.

When getting some tinned tomatoes I noticed a load of them were all bashed and dented. Are the supermarket going to give me a discount if I take it to the counter and ask? I daren't try because I don't want to look like an idiot that's complaining about it being damaged when there was plenty of good ones to pick up?