Strokes Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 The amount of food supermarkets throw away is outrageous. It's not their fault - we're a nation of twattish prannies who would happily try and sue a supermarket after falling ill from a slightly out-of-date prawn sandwich we took out their skip. nonsense, sell by dates were created by supermarkets and manufactures so we don't keep things for too long.
Beliall Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 nonsense, sell by dates were created by supermarkets and manufactures so we don't keep things for too long. wha?
Thracian Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 After my last, and final, purchase from Sainsbury's (in Peterborough) I'd have to be more than destitute to eat the stuff on the shelves let alone what they'd thrown out. Even their compensation offer was less than tasty!
Alexikokopops Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 nonsense, sell by dates were created by supermarkets and manufactures so we don't keep things for too long. Sell by dates you may have a point. However things like fruit, vegetables, cake, and cheese (the stuff that was "stolen") have Best Before Dates which are a whole different kettle of fish. If you buy bagged salad you're lucky if you get a best before date that's more than tomorrow even though you can eat the salad for days after.
Beliall Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Sell by dates you may have a point. However things like fruit, vegetables, cake, and cheese (the stuff that was "stolen") have Best Before Dates which are a whole different kettle of fish. If you buy bagged salad you're lucky if you get a best before date that's more than tomorrow even though you can eat the salad for days after. "best before" is the key phrase there, it doesnt say "inedible after"
Strokes Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Sell by dates you may have a point. However things like fruit, vegetables, cake, and cheese (the stuff that was "stolen") have Best Before Dates which are a whole different kettle of fish. If you buy bagged salad you're lucky if you get a best before date that's more than tomorrow even though you can eat the salad for days after.I agree, alot of veg goes off much quicker because of the packaging though and who is responsible for that?Also a dressed salad only stays nice for an hour or two if you make one at home, so it's kinda obvious it won't last long. Another example, they are quite happy to package and sell a 21 day matured steak but a regular steak has a shelf life of 7 days. They just need us to keep throwing things away so we keep returning asap.
purpleronnie Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Who the **** steals from Iceland? Bankers.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 nonsense, sell by dates were created by supermarkets and manufactures so we don't keep things for too long. The shits I got after eating an out of date Morrisons party selection a few years ago would suggest otherwise
Alexikokopops Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 "best before" is the key phrase there, it doesnt say "inedible after" Exactly. My point was that supermarkets won't sell food past its "Best Before" even though it's fine. I agree, alot of veg goes off much quicker because of the packaging though and who is responsible for that? Also a dressed salad only stays nice for an hour or two if you make one at home, so it's kinda obvious it won't last long. Another example, they are quite happy to package and sell a 21 day matured steak but a regular steak has a shelf life of 7 days. They just need us to keep throwing things away so we keep returning asap. That's because they mature meat by hanging it in near frozen temperatures. A regular steak has a shelf life of 7 days but stick it in your freezer and it will last much longer. I'm not sure who's coming from which angle any more
Strokes Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 The shits I got after eating an out of date Morrisons party selection a few years ago would suggest otherwiseIm not saying things dont go off, just saying the reason they introduced dates was to het us to throw away sooner.
Strokes Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Exactly. My point was that supermarkets won't sell food past its "Best Before" even though it's fine. That's because they mature meat by hanging it in near frozen temperatures. A regular steak has a shelf life of 7 days but stick it in your freezer and it will last much longer. I'm not sure who's coming from which angle any more A piece of beef can be hung in a lader at home until its blue, and it tastes sensational.
Dan Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 It does make you laugh if you ever watch some of these police programmes where they've been chasing down some druggy who's nicked a car, risks lives in resisting arrests, all for everyone to see the evidence in front of their own eyes for the CPS to decide 'there wasn't enough evidence' and the case is closed. And yet, this gets taken further? I'm either believing something stupid or I'm missing something really obvious, but how does that make any sense at all?
Rocket-Ron Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 If you're going to steal from bins, at least steal from M&S bins. M&S have a zero waste policy
Captain... Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Shops chuck out anything with a best before date and a sell by date to cover their asses, it is like the minimum time for something to be inedible or have the taste altered, if it wasn't all chopped up and prepacked it would last longer and you could actually see it, feel it, when you buy it from the Butcher or Deli counter, they never have best before dates, they just know what they are doing. Waste does piss me off, when I worked in Kwik Save, classy, at the start of every day everything going off would be reduced by 50%, people knew this and would come in first thing and clean it all out, anything left at the end of the day would go down to 10p, we had almost zero wastage, but everything was being bought first thing in the morning, so they started dicking around, reducing it by 25% in the morning, then 50% in the afternoon, we may have made an extra couple of quid, but wastage started to increase and it was taking up more time to piss about reducing stuff in the afternoon. Customers started complaining. Now you see things reduced by 10% or 15%, plenty of times I've seen things reduced and they are more expensive than buying them normally as they are part of a multi buy special offer, buy one get one free, or buy this one that goes out of date today for 20p less than normal. That and I often see people not rotating things properly, get the older ones at the front get them sold and the newer ones at the back. It is not rocket science but I find the amount we needlessly waste disgusting.
DB11 Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 I work at a supermarket and people stealing food from the bins used to be a real problem, until cages were installed to put the bins inside. They completely trash the yard, throwing the rubbish everywhere, and the same people that steal are the same that shoplift when the store is open. Complete scrotes
purpleronnie Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Why is the food thrown away anyway? Surely it can still be used? Reminds me of when my Mm was in Tesco, she noticed some flowers were being removed, she asked them if they were throwing them out, they were, she asked if she could have one they said no, she even offered to buy one, they said no.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 It is not rocket science but I find the amount we needlessly waste disgusting. For a second I thought this was a thread about out strikers in front of goal.
Rincewind Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 I buy end of day stuff as its when I go in. But as others said some of the reductions are minimum. Sometimes milk is OK 20p off 89p. Still lasts the same. If there are any pasties or cakes/apple turnovers/donuts I may have them because I will eat them same day.
Beliall Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Sell by dates you may have a point. However things like fruit, vegetables, cake, and cheese (the stuff that was "stolen") have Best Before Dates which are a whole different kettle of fish. If you buy bagged salad you're lucky if you get a best before date that's more than tomorrow even though you can eat the salad for days after.I agree, alot of veg goes off much quicker because of the packaging though and who is responsible for that?Also a dressed salad only stays nice for an hour or two if you make one at home, so it's kinda obvious it won't last long. Another example, they are quite happy to package and sell a 21 day matured steak but a regular steak has a shelf life of 7 days. They just need us to keep throwing things away so we keep returning asap. thats ridiculous. a 21 day matured steak would have been cured. a fresh steak would not.
AdamN Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Why is the food thrown away anyway? Surely it can still be used? Reminds me of when my Mm was in Tesco, she noticed some flowers were being removed, she asked them if they were throwing them out, they were, she asked if she could have one they said no, she even offered to buy one, they said no. I imagine it's the higher-ups not wanting employees to 'accidentally' waste food so that they or someone else can take it home for free. I mean, if they had any decency about them then they'd happily donate the food to homeless shelters or wherever, but I don't imagine many people work their way into upper management by being good samaritans.
ADK Posted 30 January 2014 Author Posted 30 January 2014 I thought sometimes they had contracts to sell the food waste on to other companies for some purpose. So in effect people taking the food are still stealing (although probably a negligible amount). Either way, supermarkets probably wouldn't normally prosecute as the negative publicity would not be worth it.
MooseBreath Posted 30 January 2014 Posted 30 January 2014 Waste food at tesco gets either donated to FareShare, a charity, made into feed for livestock or burned for energy, according to some bbc article I've just read.
Strokes Posted 31 January 2014 Posted 31 January 2014 thats ridiculous. a 21 day matured steak would have been cured. a fresh steak would not. Can you give any evidence of curing? What do they use? Its not salt, sugar, smoked or corned.
indierich06 Posted 31 January 2014 Posted 31 January 2014 Cheese, tomatoes and cakes? What kind of a person goes through a bin and doesn't take the meat? Better off going to the local stables and getting it fresh! Seriously, if you're so desperate that you're rummaging through the bins at ICELAND, you need a ****ing looney-bin, not a prison. Maybe they could use them in their next ad campaign? That's why bums go to Iceland.
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