Reduced OOD foods in supermarkets.

jaymac_2

another echo here! you have as much right to get a bargain as anyone else

dazco

What a silly thread. Why come on to a site filled with bargain hunters and complain about people getting bargains. And these same people then have the nerve to get the food reduced even more, therefore saving more money. The cads!:D

falancan

I m a Chinese and always grab the food bargain . No shame at all.
There is only my boyfriend working but he is on 50K. Whats the point to pay more? Or let the food go to rubbish bin? I also love to take all unwanted clothes, gifts to charity too. Do something for our environment
:rolleyes:

read1

Woah, this has sparked debate. I don't think that the issue is neccisarily a race or social class type of thing. Anyone and indeed everyone can go and look for these supermarket bargains, anything that isn't sold is just skipped anyway. We ain't rich so if my mum can get salmon and scallops at 90% off yes she will go out of her usual way to go and get them as we don't get to eat that sort of food on a regular basis and its a big treat. I don't know, it's a sad state in this country ain't it when people have to go out to supermarkets to stock up on cheap produce and Britain is meant to be one of the richest countries in the world so to say it beggers belief, I think more help needs to be given to families and the elderly especially who are living on the "bread line" .

wannabe_a_mum

ian_duncan_smith wrote: »

I'm British, Asian and Muslim. I used to buy tonnes of stuff from the reduced section when I used to do the shopping. It meant that as a student I was able to get things that I otherwise would not have been able to afford on a student grant. It also broadened my palate, and introduced me to all sorts of exotic breads. Until recently I used to buy up large quantities of bread (especially baguette) apply home made garlic butter and freeze. Sometimes it may look as though a person is being greedy and buying more than they can consume, but to be fair you don't know what use it's going to be put to, how big their family is, or how often that particular type or brand of bread is reduced. If I go shopping I always look out for oat cakes and potato cakes in the reduced, because they are rarely there, but when they are they tend to be in large quantities. I always buy the lot, because they are usually less than a quarter price and no one is usually taking any notice of them, besides they freeze well and last a long time.

In case you're wondering why I say used to, I gave up after being racially abused by staff and other customers. The gist of what they were saying was that unlike them I didn't need to save my money for a rainy day, because I would end up flying a plane into a building or blowing myself up before that day ever came.

It is a sad fact that this sort of discrimination exists in today's society. :mad:

Yesterday, I was in Sainsbury's in Preston in an area densly populated by the asian community (Prestonians will know where I mean!!) and picked up from a reducing trolley a pack of Hovis rolls reduced to 20p or something, and the lady reducing the item snatched it out of my hand and said "Uhhh excuse me"...she then continued to reduce the other 2 items on the trolley and promptly took the whole lot to the nearby reduced items shelf......where there was a group of people loitering for items.....I don't push and shove when it comes to reduced items...so I inevitably didn't get the item....Now, what difference did it make to her that I poicked it up form the trolley or the stand?????

(My trolley was at this stage empty of reduced items - just full priced!)

But hey, I don't get hung up on it these days, my view is.......it makes them the narrow minded person for not embracing a changing world that their living in!

rustynash

this thread fills me with.. yawn

Dustangle

rustynash wrote: »

this thread fills me with.. yawn

I'm very sorry to hear this, but glad that you could take time out to tell us about it.

rustynash

Dustangle wrote: »

I'm very sorry to hear this, but glad that you could take time out to tell us about it.

its quite alright, i took the effort to read the majority and i thought i was entitled to write something. i am not deeply offended.

rustynash

wannabe_a_mum wrote: »

It is a sad fact that this sort of discrimination exists in today's society. :mad:

Yesterday, I was in Sainsbury's in Preston in an area densly populated by the asian community (Prestonians will know where I mean!!) and picked up from a reducing trolley a pack of Hovis rolls reduced to 20p or something, and the lady reducing the item snatched it out of my hand and said "Uhhh excuse me"...she then continued to reduce the other 2 items on the trolley and promptly took the whole lot to the nearby reduced items shelf......where there was a group of people loitering for items.....I don't push and shove when it comes to reduced items...so I inevitably didn't get the item....Now, what difference did it make to her that I poicked it up form the trolley or the stand?????

(My trolley was at this stage empty of reduced items - just full priced!)

But hey, I don't get hung up on it these days, my view is.......it makes them the narrow minded person for not embracing a changing world that their living in!

i don't stand for discrimination but could you please explain why this is considered that way? surely you could argue that it reduced items should go in the reduced item area? admittedly it is a bit unfair but it certainly isn't discrimination!

alex871uk

Sorry but I'm with the lady reducing the items. If you could see a nearby shelf where people were patiently waiting for the items ('loitering' as you put it) why didn't you join them? Its not 'feeding time at the zoo' as someone else put it!

wannabe_a_mum wrote: »

It is a sad fact that this sort of discrimination exists in today's society. :mad: .......it makes them the narrow minded person for not embracing a changing world that their living in!

Fed up of people who never stop demanding apologies.