A heart warming tale

[Accy cyclist]

Where did it say the food was past its sell by date?

Maybe they weren't out of date on Christmas Eve but most likely they'd be out of date come Christmas Day or Boxing Day at the latest. With the store being shut on Christmas Day and possibly Boxing Day come opening time after the short break, the turkeys would be out of date.Turkeys are for sale all year round. The store wanted rid of them so they gave them to a food bank,but food banks are very picky about sell by dates,even if the date hasn't been reached yet.. Do you realise that "overtly affluent customers" are eligible for food bank vouchers too if their living standards fall below a certain level?

 

[vernon]

Do you realise that "overtly affluent customers" are eligible for food bank vouchers too if their living standards fall below a certain level?

You mean when their budget for a second car only runs to a Mercedes C class.

 

[Mrs M]

As in 'small' or some other meaning ?

Just a small nest

 

[cyberknight]

Sniff date = trust your nose

 

[vernon]

Sniff date = trust your nose

Not strictly safe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20971347

 

[Accy cyclist]

You mean when their budget for a second car only runs to a Mercedes C class.

You wont see THEM in the food bank, as they send their butlers to pick up the free food!

 

[vernon]

You wont see THEM in the food bank, as they send their butlers to pick up the free food!

My cover's blown.

 

[Mrs M]

Best before is ok with me, might just not look as good as it did a couple of days prior.
However, use by to me means just that, I would never risk eating chicken after use by date.
Food poisoning is horrible and just not worth it.

 

[Brandane]

Best before is ok with me, might just not look as good as it did a couple of days prior.
However, use by to me means just that, I would never risk eating chicken after use by date.
Food poisoning is horrible and just not worth it.

Agreed. I once gave something containing prawns a bit of "leeway", and I certainly won't be doing that again. Anything that once was alive (or came out of something alive - e.g. milk, eggs) is not worth the risk, but manufactured food I'm not so fussy about.

 

[speccy1]

The brother of one of my friends works in a Waitrose somewhere near Liverpool. On Christmas Eve they were reducing the prices of their turkeys during the afternoon to get rid of them before the store closed at five o'clock. There were more than a few overtly affluent customers hovering around waiting for the prices for the large turkeys to fall further - they'd been reduced twice from £100 to around £40 and some customers had been hovering for over an hour.

At ten to five an irritated customer confronted my friend's brother and complained about the lack of reductions in the past hour and demanded to know what he was going to do about reducing the prices in the final minutes of the store's opening after all there were around twenty turkeys unsold.

He went to see the manager and pass on the customer's concerns.

The manager's response was awesome. It went along the lines of:

'Twenty turkeys? We'll not be able to sell them in the last few minutes. I've got all perishables ready for collection by the food banks and charities. Bring them into the warehouse and I'll add them to the consignments.'

The customers' faces were pictures as they witnessed the turkeys being loaded into trolleys and wheeled into the back of the store.

Oh to have been a fly on the wall.

Priceless, love it!! Serves the vultures right!!

 

[Markymark]

exactly, its all well and good for those that can afford not to buy from the reduced section or need to wait for food to be reduced but to mock those that have too is just poor form...its great that the supermarkets are trying to not waste food, grant it not all but a fair few of those waiting for the reduced products are not too many steps away from getting the same food from the food banks and charities...

No doubt we'll be told it was a 'posh' supermarket. Trouble is where I live the cheaper stores are out of town and require a car which not everyone can afford to run.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Vernon's gloating report doesn't tell us but I hope the supermarket staff advised the waiting customers that the turkeys were about to be taken off the shelves and gave them a last chance of buying them before their removal.

 

[vernon]

No doubt we'll be told it was a 'posh' supermarket. Trouble is where I live the cheaper stores are out of town and require a car which not everyone can afford to run.

Indeed it was a posh supermarket and the 'victims' trolleys were filled with bottles of spirits, beer and champagne - it gave the game away just a little bit

 

[vernon]

Vernon's gloating report doesn't tell us but I hope the supermarket staff advised the waiting customers that the turkeys were about to be taken off the shelves and gave them a last chance of buying them before their removal.

Yes I'm gloating. The turkeys went to more deserving folk.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Yes I'm gloating. The turkeys went to more deserving folk.

You don't know that.