Reduced OOD foods in supermarkets.

woodys_wonders

My local Waitrose have excellent reductions on some lovely food, I always call in on my way home from my daughters swimming lesson on a Monday.
My local Morrisons do not do as good and sometimes I have noticed it can be cheaper if the item is on offer than it is to get it with only a few pence knocked off.

Rubisco

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.

My local Tesco used to reduce everything right down, 90% or 95%, used to go at happy hour and do my weekly shop while I was at it. Now it doesn't get reduced as far, nobody buys it and it gets binned at 9.30pm. Asda still reduce their stuff right down so Tesco I'm afraid have lost a customer.

dervish

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?

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...

If you dont have these rules there will be anarchy - is that what you want??

Society is built on rules - life isn't fair - have you just realised?

Remember we only have what we have becuase there are some folk worse off than us. C'est la vie.

knowsleyroader

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.

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I can't believe that is allowed! I thought there was a rule in all retail outlets (food and non-food) that the person reducing the goods isn't allowed to buy them?
I think it's ridiculous for staff to reduce goods on the shop floor anyway. Surely they could do it in a back room and wheel it all out then leave the 'scavengers' as bigdavieh calls them to forage in peace.
BTW, I don't agree with his sentiments.

Saddako

Wednesday night we had loads of stock to be reduced, and we had 5 of the 'regulars' in, christ, it was a frenzy, i kid you not. It's hard to picture acting like they did, but they actually faught over some items!

And they are scavengers, these people are anyway. @They come in every night, head to the cabinet, and that's all they come in for. They spend hours in the store going back and forth between bakery, dairy/meat and produce (fruit+veg).
We might be banning 1 person from wednesday, he is a regular and replaced the 'yellow sticky labels', meaning a nice ready meal went through the checkouts as a bag of potatoes at 5p. He did this with 4 items.

There is another guy who hid a £21 chunk of meat, was down to £11, but hadn't been reduced further, so hid it so he could get it for 20p. We found it at the end of the night, and saw him looking for it. It's incredible, really does has to be seen to be believed.

But i have nothing against people getting a bargain, but coming in especially and harassing the staff to get things even more cheaper is a joke.

doubleuc

No wonder that shop's so bad! A 20 quid piece of meat down to 20p! Who actually ok's a discount that big?

Also, you're not really allowed to keep stuff by, no one bothers if you take the odd thing. They'd bother where i am if you started stockpiling though. And reducing in the back means taking it all off and disappearing for way to long.

machofairy

I totally agree with the term "scavengers".

Online dictionary says:
- One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for food.
The bargain shelves are essentially a refuse bin for food that is near sell by date.
- An animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter.
Some of these supermarket "scavengers" do act like animals, and they do buy old meat and veg, like that pack of brown/green coloured mince.

I do occassionally time my visit to coincide with mark-down time, but I do find the behaviour of some of these people deplorable. There is no ethic nor self-pride in the way they grab and horde these items. I do not accept that they are all poor and cant afford them normally. Look at this woman who bought 20 bell peppers. What exactly was she going to do with them, apart from reselling them on in one form or another. And that woman who bought 15 loaves of bread. If you're poor, you'd have no money to buy a freezer to keep them. If you have such a big family to feed, then maybe its your own fault that you are poor by not learning about family planning. And those who buy meat clearly not in an edible state ... well, I suspect they are probably putting it into tomorrow's pub lunch special.

Ok, so we all love a bargain, whether we are rich or poor, otherwise we wouldnt be in this forum. But I wish the supermarkets would start imposing rules regarding the purchase of these goods. Although it may not affect their profitabliity, it may go a long way towards enhancing their reputation for goodwill, and most of all, stop the scavengers from preventing the regular shoppers from having a slice of the bargains to be had at the end of each day.

jackk_2

machofairy wrote: »

I totally agree with the term "scavengers".

Online dictionary says:
- One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for food.
The bargain shelves are essentially a refuse bin for food that is near sell by date.
- An animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter.
Some of these supermarket "scavengers" do act like animals, and they do buy old meat and veg, like that pack of brown/green coloured mince.

I do occassionally time my visit to coincide with mark-down time, but I do find the behaviour of some of these people deplorable. There is no ethic nor self-pride in the way they grab and horde these items. I do not accept that they are all poor and cant afford them normally. Look at this woman who bought 20 bell peppers. What exactly was she going to do with them, apart from reselling them on in one form or another. And that woman who bought 15 loaves of bread. If you're poor, you'd have no money to buy a freezer to keep them. If you have such a big family to feed, then maybe its your own fault that you are poor by not learning about family planning. And those who buy meat clearly not in an edible state ... well, I suspect they are probably putting it into tomorrow's pub lunch special.

Ok, so we all love a bargain, whether we are rich or poor, otherwise we wouldnt be in this forum. But I wish the supermarkets would start imposing rules regarding the purchase of these goods. Although it may not affect their profitabliity, it may go a long way towards enhancing their reputation for goodwill, and most of all, stop the scavengers from preventing the regular shoppers from having a slice of the bargains to be had at the end of each day.

If i had 20 bell peppers, i could batchcook with them, or even freeze them in usable portions. 15 loaves would provide bread for my family for a month.....Oh and for the poor people who can't afford the freezer, there are people with humility on freecycle. There are also a few charities that would help with something as basic as a freezer .

Jackie x

bigdavieh

knowsleyroader wrote: »

I can't believe that is allowed! I thought there was a rule in all retail outlets (food and non-food) that the person reducing the goods isn't allowed to buy them?
I think it's ridiculous for staff to reduce goods on the shop floor anyway. Surely they could do it in a back room and wheel it all out then leave the 'scavengers' as bigdavieh calls them to forage in peace.
BTW, I don't agree with his sentiments.

Tbh, it is not allowed in general but my senior staff encourage it just so the scavengers cannot get their filthy, nicotine-stained mits on the stuff. Works out great for me.

jackk_2

bigdavieh wrote: »

Tbh, it is not allowed in general but my senior staff encourage it just so the scavengers cannot get their filthy, nicotine-stained mits on the stuff. Works out great for me.

So you scavenge first? .

Jackie x