What are Asda playing at???

Olliebeak

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

Longwell Green, Bristol: Usual reduced section now full of flans & quiches and all the yellow labelled stuff still in its section. Still managed to find 450g of turkey mince for 69p (CCC methinks) and 2 twin packs of mini naan breads for 52p each.

PS. Consumer revenge: I re-arranged the remaining naan breads with the yellow stickered ones on top, label side up.

Well done, Stephen - the consumer bites back!

lil_me

It is a good point that this now might make it easier in one way (as in you won't get your toes stamped on sort of way) to find bargains. I am put off even looking at them usually because of the attitudes of many shoppers. I remember being thanked from my Mam (who works in a shop) for standing up for a member of staff who was shouted and sworn at by a customer demanding she reduced an item further. My comment was 'Do you want me to tell her to **** off for being so rude because you aren't allowed to?' needless to say the ignorant wench stormed off.

Pink.

As this thread has dropped off the front page of Old Style I've moved it over to the Shop but Don't Drop board so that other MSE'rs will see it.

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cheerfulness4

Glad I spotted this thread because I too had noticed my local Asda and Sainsburys had no reduced sections. I went round and round mystified.
I noticed a few whoopsie stickers but it was chock a block and couldn't find many.

Our Tesco and Morrisons both have reduced sections but I had noticed in the past fortnight that reduced labels were to be found on the general shelves, too. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

inspace

Against what seems to be public opinion for the whoopsi counter hunters I think its a good idea to put the reduced stuff where it belongs on the shelves.

I very rarely go to the reduced stuff sale corners as I dont need anything not on my list - so if persay if fancy a steak pie and troddle off to get one and find it where it should be but with a third off on the shelf it makes my day - Somerfeild have done this for a while now and to me it makes sense as the people who get the discount are the ones who genuinely wanted the item in the first place.

C_Ronaldo

Does it matter where theyve put the items, its most likely come form the manager or higher up

all_hours

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

PS. Consumer revenge: I re-arranged the remaining naan breads with the yellow stickered ones on top, label side up.

in a way youve done their job for them - the shortest date should be most visible at the front/top. you should have asked for your naan + mince for free as payment.:D

some of the local tescos have decided to add security protect the meat - are chicken breasts really top of shop lifters shopping list unfortunately the security stickers are yellow too - making it very hard to spot the reduced products on the regular shelves.

talking of yellow - why is your grin yellow and mine green.

keith99_2

Olliebeak wrote: »

There's no intimidating the staff at our Asda! - they just threaten to walk away with the gun and not reduce anything at all. They're worse than doctors receptionists !!!

I dont blame them. Having worked in a supermarket, i know only too well how rude and intimidating people can be over products going out of date. Its shoppers at their worst i am sorry to say. Makes you proud to be British doesnt it.

FairyElephant_2

I'm missing the Whoops fridge at Asda Bedminster (Bristol) too - if it has come back at Longwell Green maybe there is hope?!?

Often my shopping list has several different 'options' on it, depending on what I manage to get cheap! I don't mind too much the stuff being on 'normal' shelves, but it does take me longer to shop as now I have to wander back & forth a lot more (and DH complains!).

They did the same thing & took the sep shelf away from the Sainsbury's, but my mum tells me it has come back again.....customer pressure? Although Sainsbury's never reduce by anough to make it worth the extra distance travelled.

mushypeaman

At my Asda the reduced 'chill' is all together but frequently gets shifted round to different locations.
Reduced fish has it's own section alongside the fish counter.
Reduced 'bought-in' bread and cakes are together in their own section near the bread shelves and never moves.
Reduced bread, cakes and pies from the in-store bakery are reduced on-shelf in their original locations.
Reduced tins and dry goods have their own section but it moves around from time to time.
Reduced frozen has it's own section but constantly moves around.
Veg is reduced in it's original location.

Got all that?

PS Sounds to me as if it's at the discretion of local managers.