Who was it complaining about the big stores a while back<#
Say what you will, when they mark all their organic fruit down to 10P per pack, you can't complain. I just finished preserving 5 1 litre jars of cherries, and the same of peaches. Plus 4 jars of peach chutney, and 4 jars of fig chutney, plus 5 jars of mango chutney, plus 7 jars of mango jam.
crikey blimey thats really good. my christmas present is a food dehydrator so hopefully there'll be some reduced fruit etc in my local area too. peach chutney sounds great though - any chance of a recipe (or a link to the recipe?)
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snapdragon wrote:flippin 'eck You have That Many jars?????
I collect Kilner and Parfait Jars whenever i can, no jars are ever thrown away from our nomal shopping, and when adsa does their mint sauce for 3p, i normally buy 48 at a time.
hoomin_erra wrote:Who was it complaining about the big stores a while back<#
Say what you will, when they mark all their organic fruit down to 10P per pack, you can't complain. I just finished preserving 5 1 litre jars of cherries, and the same of peaches. Plus 4 jars of peach chutney, and 4 jars of fig chutney, plus 5 jars of mango chutney, plus 7 jars of mango jam.
All for a fiver
Good for you. Less good for the producers as they take the financial hit of reduced prices, not the supermarket.
Do they? I would have thought goods were bought for a set price, and if the supermarket had to reduce the price due to a "Display until" date, that was their hit?
I remember lots of things from Not on the Label, but the producer taking the hit on reduced items was not one of them.
I am very guilty of filling the freezer with reduced items. The Co-op staff in Dunny must hate me - peeling all them labels off and manually punching in reduced prices
I think that the producers often have to take a cut if something is on special offer - i.e. chicken on promotion for 2 for 1, BOGOF sausages etc - but that if something is reduced because it's going out of date, then that's just a way of the shop getting something for it rather than it going as wastage, so the producer isn't affected.
I think...
They're not weeds - that's a habitat for wildlife, don't you know?
Read the Competition Commission reports, among other papers. Supermarkets pass the costs back to suppliers for transport, packaging, food wasted at the store, in-store promotions, artwork, market research and the supermarket buyer’s expenses.
Food wastage and in-store promotions include items sold cheaply when close to their sell-by date. The supermarkets also allow for a certain amount of wastage and promotion by passign the costs on, so it has no effect on their bottom line. They are not taking a financial hit when they mark things down suddenly.
And don't forget, the supermarkets won't have paid the suppliers and producers for the goods and produce that's on sale in the stores. Payment goes through weeks or even months after the goods have been sold, and it's the supermarket that decides how much it's going to pay.
By all means take advantage of offers, but don't kid yourself that it's not at someone else's expense down the chain. It's called externalising costs. An apple may cost you 10 pence, but the real cost of production may be 25 pence. The missing 15 pence has been externalised and paid by other people along the way.
When my son-in-law drove a big skip lorry for a living he rescued many a date-expired box of stuff which then followed him home. His shed was a real aladdin`s cave of tins and bottles sometimes.
I suppose the cost was still `trickled down` but it didn`t go to landfill.
He rescued a fig tree for me once - which still produces a lovely crop every year.
