Reduced OOD foods in supermarkets.

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UnlikelyButTrue wrote: »

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?

When I worked in a shop I could easily fill up two large bin bags with out of date stock. You'd think management would let us have it cheap but the whole thing had to go in the compacter.

Contains_Mild_Peril

grannybiker wrote: »

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.

That used to work in Tesco years ago, e.g. with BOGOF offers the till would deduct the full price of one item, which meant if they were reduced to half price they were free if bought in multiples of 2, and if less than half price you'd save on your other shopping too. I once got a big basketful of shopping for 16p that way! Sadly Tesco closed that loophole.
In those days, most of us would observe a certain etiquette: for the first of each product being reduced, it was fastest fingers first. Thereafter, if others were waiting, whoever took the first one would wait to see if anyone else wanted any before grabbing another. Most accepted this, but a few spoiled it for the rest of us: on more than one occasion I actually had stuff snatched out of my hand! The atmosphere could be quite hostile when customers did that to each other and it must have been a bit intimidating for the pour soul with the pricing gun, so I'm not really surprised that now they're happy to pander to the greedy/ desperate ones and price whole piles of stuff for the customers who grabbed them as soon as they spotted the person with the pricing machine approaching. Sharing often seems an obsolete concept, though I did meet a lovely lady in Morrisons who insisted on letting me have first pick from the reduced fridge because I was waiting there first. I reciprocated her consideration by sharing items of which there was more than one identical or even similar.

doubleuc

Suprisingly, i don't see many people who look like they're on the breadline looking for reductions. Maybe i have but just can't tell, but no obvious signs.

As for charity, that's the first thing i thought when i saw 8 bags of waste the next day. But there's reasons, it becomes illegal to sell after 12, if it was given away there'd be claims right left and centre from sick people, and charities wouldn't even take it ood anyway. You'd also have to arrange distribution for all this food too, which would cost more money on top of the loss.

Besides, all these companies regularly contribute to charities, right down to staff sponsorships.

Dented tins will get reduced eventually, tins are low priority tho. Don't go looking lol

bigdavieh

I work in a supermarket and will deliberately hold back all the best reduced bargains for myself when I do my shopping after my shift. It's hilarious watching the looks of disappointment on all the scavenger's faces when there is hardly anything going onto the reduced shelves whilst I can do a weekly shop for less than half the normal price.

Oh, and it is amazing how (in my experience) a large majority of the people in my store are in such financial dire straits that they are living on the breadline and reduced food is the only way they can afford to eat but yet they still manage to find the money to buy cigarettes.

sazzywoo

bigdavieh wrote: »

I work in a supermarket and will deliberately hold back all the best reduced bargains for myself when I do my shopping after my shift. It's hilarious watching the looks of disappointment on all the scavenger's faces when there is hardly anything going onto the reduced shelves whilst I can do a weekly shop for less than half the normal price.

Oh, and it is amazing how (in my experience) a large majority of the people in my store are in such financial dire straits that they are living on the breadline and reduced food is the only way they can afford to eat but yet they still manage to find the money to buy cigarettes.

I suppose that makes you a 'scavenger' as well then doesn't it. a sly one at that. :rolleyes:

machofairy

I love a bargain like anyone else but like it to be fair. I wish supermarkets would setup barriers so that people queue up for them and limit them to 10 items per shopper. Can't see how diificult this can be to implement. Sure, you'd get some large family who will come in 2 hours early and start queuing, each with a trolley, but if you want it bad enough, you'd do it. Better than one person grabbing it all.

robpw2

no no no thats not a good idea at all
this would cause fights and chaos

as with all bargains its first come first served. whilst i do not condone the behavior of individuals who take 100 of the same item and then whinge at the employye to get it reduced even more
if you see something and are happy to pay the price on the yellow sticker then fair dos

as for taking stuff out of peoples trolley that is complety rediculous and again would cause unholy rows .
if its in someones trolley it is temporaly unavailible so leave it alone

Pound

Why is it when I'm in Asda and I look in the bargains a lot of the stuff don't have stickers on. I'm surely going to be charged full price?

calleyw

bigdavieh wrote: »

It's hilarious watching the looks of disappointment on all the scavenger's faces when there is hardly anything going onto the reduced shelves whilst I can do a weekly shop for less than half the normal price.

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Sorry but that is a bang out of order calling them scavenger's.

Granted it is sometimes a bit of bun fight with the same people time and time again.

But if the supermarket started reducing the day before the due day then things would not need to be reduced so much.

And for the record I don't hassle the staff and don't wait around hours either. My time is to precious and life to short.

But I will pop in at reduction time to see what I can get. Hardly going to turn my nose up at £12 pieces of beef down to 70p or £6 pieces of pork down to 50p am I. And 2 X danishes for 10p each. Thank you very much go in freezer very nicely.

Don't forget some of us as are on limited budgets and need to make the most of the money.

On Sunday we had roast beef with roast pots and veggies and yorkshire puds and gravy. Followed by apple lattices and custard. Excluding gas for cooking it cost me less than a £1 for two of us. And I have some beef left over to make up another meal. That because the following was reduced the beef, potatoes, apple lattices and milk for the custard.

Better in my pocket then the supermarkets.


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freebiequennie

co-op is great got last nights sausages on 2 for £3.50 reduced to 89p a packet so saved 88p getting both packs for 90p!!! was about 20 packets there but only brought 2 dont like to be greedy.

also got bbq range 2 for £5, chicken thights £1.99 and ribs - 89p and saved 99p so got both for £1.89.

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