any supermarket employees in here?

starlite_2

hi...hoping this is the right place, it seemed like the obvious one
if anyone works in a supermarket, could you please tell what time you tend to reduce goods, and what time you reduce them to silly prices.
i always try to go an hour before closing, but find all is left is a bunch of pork pies or something similarly useless, yet on one occasion at 3pm found all sorts of goodies at 80% off

wirm

well I work in Tesco! I do the reductions in my store. My shift normally starts at 6.30pm and I do everything down by 80% from that time!

bluep

Good idea! My safeways used to do it at 4 o'clock and then again at 5.30 but they've just switched to a Morrisons and they laughably do the same but only take 10p off!!! All the local bargain hunters crowd round, then see the measley discount, laugh and walk off!! We're used to Safeways taking 50% off then reducing everything to like 9p!!!

wirm

bluep wrote:

All the local bargain hunters crowd round, then see the measley discount, laugh and walk off!!

In the store I work I wouldn't call them 'bargain hunters' more like scroungers! And in my case they don't laugh and walk off. They stand there and shout abuse etc at me! All in a days work!

starlite_2

ha ha..i know the types you mean, they block the shelf with their trolley and take almost everything...
i'm just always up for a good bargain, if its something i regularly use...

wirm

starlite wrote:

ha ha..i know the types you mean, they block the shelf with their trolley and take almost everything...

I have my own security guard when I'm reducing things! To keep the cattle away!

bluep

LOL. Well i do live in a small country town and things are rather....gentle around here. But in Stoke or Derby...my! how the urbanites crowd for reductions!

Anya

In Iceland it's first thing in the morning. Always get my bread for the week then and freeze it, fruit and meat as well. The bread and that tends to go very quickly so best getting there early.

wirm

Whats always really funny in my job is that people always make excuses to me about why they buy reduced stuff! (The nice people do anyway).

But to be honest I don't really care! lol

Do any of you make excuses???? lol

newfunk

Mu OH works In somerfield and they rduce around 6pm, with another reduction the following morning at 8am...

starlite_2

why reduce in the morning? surely people will buy it anway..though personally if i see the sell by date for meat etc is the same day i look for more fresh stuff or feel disgruntled that it wasn't reduced
what really annoys me in our sainsburys though, is if say a whole chicken is on half price offer, you wil see someone with a trolley full..probably businesses who find it easier/cheaper than buying wholesale