PURE INSANITY!!

I doubt it's a huge percentage. Supermarkets are pretty good at stock management.

Disclaimers don't absolve supermarkets of the law. They cannot knowingly sell or even give away spoilt food for ingestion (or implied spoilt by their own Best Before measures).

We have pretty high food standards in this country and I like it that way.
 
Yes this is a waste,It seems to happen everywhere though,I know of one store near me (which has recently closed down) but it was a well known store..they would throw out of date bread,Ready made sandwiches etc in the outside bins then pour Bleach over it all to stop people taking them.

Just pathetic,They're going to be thrown anyway,and the stores already lost their money on them..but they apparently do this because if someone takes the food from the bin and eats it,Then becoming ill the company/store in question could be liable to been sued.
 
I used to work in a supermarket whilst i was at uni and i did get lumbered with throwing perfectly good food away a few times.

The reason i was told was that someone had sued at some random point in the past changing the laws or something stupid. but yeah i agree a waste.
 
TheVoice said:
OP doesn't work for Sainsbury's at least, as I know from experience that they don't throw any food into bins, it gets bagged up and sent to an anaerobic digester or something.
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Well I doubt ours goes straight into landfill. Otherwise there wouldn't be separate bins. They must do something with them to do with composting, or the like.
 
funguST said:
I used to work in a supermarket whilst i was at uni and i did get lumbered with throwing perfectly good food away a few times.

The reason i was told was that someone had sued at some random point in the past changing the laws or something stupid. but yeah i agree a waste.
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how strict are they on monitoring if you have off with it?

would be quite nice to get the basics like potatoes etc for free :p
 
TheVoice said:
If only.
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Depends on your definition of good. 1% loss of stock may be good but will look like a lot if you stacked it up all next to each other.

Supermarkets compete pretty fiercely with each other and spend loads of money on supply chain management. They are the best at that compared to pretty much every other industry.
 
On my way home in The City I often see Pret/EAT etc.. putting out bags of unsold sandwiches and there is often people hanging around to pounce (often bicycle couriers and homeless people). Nice that it is not wasted there.
 
Couldn't you just have said to your boss? I'll take these away and then take them to said homeless charity or whatever yourself?
 
muon said:
Depends on your definition of good. 1% loss of stock may be good but will look like a lot if you stacked it up all next to each other.

Supermarkets compete pretty fiercely with each other and spend loads of money on supply chain management. They are the best at that compared to pretty much every other industry.
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Well I can really only extrapolate based on my experiences of working in store, but I've seen enough supply chain stupidity to make me wonder what goes on in the offices and supply depots sometimes. Obviously it's a huge operation but it's one of those things where a screw-up at the top really only affects the people at the bottom and there's never any way of reversing it.
 
They monitor it pretty closely. If they see you put something aside for no good reason that's out of date, then they'll question you about what you're doing. If somebody sees you leave the store with it, you'll be fired on the spot.
 
It is a terrible shame and something should be done so that it can be given away without fear of prosecution for any liability.
 
Where I work we get dibs on the nearly out of date stuff. Get bags of tatties for like 20p. Sounds like your supermarket isn't as understanding.
 
Monkeynut said:
Where I work we get dibs on the nearly out of date stuff. Get bags of tatties for like 20p. Sounds like your supermarket isn't as understanding.
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What on earth are tatties? Other than womens boobs, as that is what it normally means and last I checked you can't get them by the bag load and definitely not for 20p.
 
TheVoice said:
Well I can really only extrapolate based on my experiences of working in store, but I've seen enough supply chain stupidity to make me wonder what goes on in the offices and supply depots sometimes. Obviously it's a huge operation but it's one of those things where a screw-up at the top really only affects the people at the bottom and there's never any way of reversing it.
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Well it's not going to be 100% efficient. You don't have perfect employees or environmental conditions for that to happen.

However, considering that the margins of supermarkets is in the single digit percentages, even an improvement of 1% point in loss in stock means a lot to them.
 
Out of date how? 'Use by' or 'Best before' if the former then I say wtf, thaat shouldnt be used on un prepared spuds. If the latter, then they are able to be sold.
If this is down to "display until" or "sell by" labels then these are BS and the FSA would much rather see them not used at all.
 
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