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To expect M&S Christmas meat to have a a SBD longer than 26th?

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Twinkie1 · 25/12/2015 17:45

Was carnage Christmas Eve picking up my order. Was due in London at 11 so collected 9.30-10.00 to give myself time to get there. Silly me didn't realise that although I was standing at the front of the queue at 9.30 this by no means meant I could collect my food. I had to wait until 10am as they were bringing orders down in blocks and mine was at the end of the block of 30 mins rather than the start.

Thankfully DD was v well behaved for the 50 minutes we ended up waiting which for a 2 year old is bloody marvellous. Sadly we missed all the festivities in London at her fathers work which was quite sad.

But the thing that's really pissed me off is that the 3 joints of meat we bought for Boxing Day and the one we bought for Christmas Day all have a use by date of 26th December.

Do you think I'd be unreasonable to complain? Really didn't think about checking dates due to time constraints and the utter bedlam during the collection process.

Was hoping that could stretch the joints to last over another few days at least. Hmm

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Gileswithachainsaw · 25/12/2015 20:41

Yanbu.

I don't trust tbimgs that only have a day or so less but been burnt to many times before with things going off befire the date.

and Xmas is not just one day you need to be able to use things for at least a day or two before and after as people see different people on different days.

I'd be pissed off that most of what I bought had a day left on it when I purposely left the delivery/pick up as late as possible to ensure the longest dates

Caboodle · 26/12/2015 17:10

Yanbu. Carnage at M n S when DH got ours on the 23rd. It always is poorly organised - I've no idea why they haven't sorted a better system yet. Also-the pre-prepared veg was awful this year. We won't be ordering Xmas dinner at M n S again. As for the use by...yes I would expect a longer date.

Buxtonstill · 26/12/2015 17:38

Ocado meat is beautiful. We had a rib of beef. £70, but the meat just feel off the bone, and fed 8 adults, with plenty left over for the next day.

Buxtonstill · 26/12/2015 17:40

it was delivered on 23rd, use by 29th. even have some left for tomorrow as well.

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