AIBU to think Too Good To Go is mostly disappointing?

Remember that good businesses plan stock very carefully to avoid excess. Its often better for a business to run out of a popular item (running out makes things seem sought after and drives people to buy earlier/reserve what they want because they don't want to miss it) than to have too much stock you end up discounting. If you are a posh bakery and are regularly putting those focaccias in too good to go bags at half price, it gets where people don't want to pay full price any more.

The thing is why would any business give away cheaply good quality stuff that's still saleable?

You will get the odd time when they've overstocked on something perishable and recognise early on they've too many to shift. But business who do that a lot lose money so mostly what will be on the app is produce thats a step away from the bin.

Its not a charity. Its a business monetising food excess. If you read the section of their website targeting businesses its very clear - it's all about creating a market for unsold food, driving footfall/getting people through the door.

Yeah I don’t bother with it anymore. And think it’s bad that you can’t read reviews.

They can vary a lot. The only one we consistently get now is Krispy Kreme do a mixed dozen for £5 on too good to go. Plus our local independent bakery occasionally does

I agree you need to live in a city for it to be good

I’ve pretty much been lucky 95% of the time. I have a few not great ones but they are good at refunding / giving voucher where it’s not enough value etc.

i do look at scoring though, I also think sometimes a retailer goes down over time - they start with great bags and the the quality / quantity drops.

If I time it right for going into our nearest city, I have a fantastic bakery I got some amazing treats from at the end of the day. Not actually that cheap, but worth it.

A lot of them look uninspired!

I’ve only tried it once post not knowing about it and being told by friends. I was gutted. Twas a wanky bakery in a tourist location and I had high hopes for a few scrummy things.

A dried out (grey) bacon roll from breakfast, a limp pre-made salad, and some other dried up thing I’ve long forgotten.

I think it’s a shame that places have used the concept to charge for ‘stuff’ that would otherwise get sent to landfill, rather than doing their bit for those that might be thinking they could get a dinner they could otherwise ill afford.

That said, I wonder if you live in a location with multiple independents that you would get lucky on occasion?