Reduced store times

nigelD

I was wondering when different stores reduce there food items , from M&S to Aldi as I saw somewhere that M&S have it first thing on opening but wanted to see other information as I know here can be a font of information

Exodi

I think it's deliberately kept seemingly random to avoid mobs at the reduced sections.

The Morrisons where my sister works has gone through many iterations over the years - First they would send a helpless employee with a labeling gun who would be mobbed by people grabbing things out the employees hand at reduction time. Then they moved to labeling things 'out the back' and bringing the trolley laden with reduced goods to the correct section, but they were then mobbed at the back entrance and stuff was grabbed off the trolley en-route so by the time it reached the reduced section it was already empty. Then they moved to labeling things out the back but preventing items from being taken from the trolley until it was at the reduced section, but as you can imagine this ended up with the employee just pushing the trolley into the mob of people and taking cover as the mob would then frantically push people out the way and grab handfuls of stuff to assess round the corner.

Now they reduce things on a random schedule, which has mostly fixed the issue. I don't see any consistency in the time from my local Lidl or Sainsburys either.

I think combined with this, the discounts are less generous than they used to be as well - they used to be 90% off (I don't know what they are now as I no longer shop at Morrisons, but my local Lidl recently reduced their maximum discount from 70% to 50%).

MeteredOut

My local stores do gradual discounts over the period of the day. So it might be 20% off at 2pm, then 40% at 6pm, then 80% at 9pm. The might change the times a bit each day too - perhaps to avoid the hordes, but most likely just due to finding time when someone is freed up from another activity.

I'm quite partial to yellow sticker bakery items - they typically freeze quite well too.

p00hsticks

I think it also depends on the quantity of any one particular item that needs to be reduced. If, for example, our local Lidl has a load of ham that is reaching it;s sellby date it will knock 30% of the day before , then reduce further to 50% on the day. If there are only one or two packs, then they'll wait until the sell by date itself