Have you ever witnessed the Tesco battle?

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It happens in the fruit and veg section and in the fridge section.

The reduced stuff gets put out later on at night and its like everyone loses their mind. Elbows go flying, people start swearing. I saw an old man push into a woman with his trolley for some grapes. The poor worker putting the stuff out has a deep, harrowing look in their eyes as they try to throw the stuff down and get away!

It is insane. 10/10 would recommend.

the two vultures suddenly rounded the corner and made a beeline over. This woman saw them and basically just ran her arm along the shelf and dumped the whole lot into her trolley

I bet you just wanted to kiss her, Melj

I must shop at the wrong time because I've never seen this happen. Whenever I look at the reduced section it's all crapy ready meals or 20p off some brown looking mince.

I did get 2 packs of pork pies for 29p each at my local co-op today in the reduced bit. Lunch sorted! And I didn't even have to punch that many people to get them.

Our reduced section is also very civilised although there was an instance a few weeks ago where a few people had blocked the shelves with their trolleys and refused to move while they spent 20 minutes going through every item on the shelf.

Agree tesco reductions are crap unless it's use by the same day, I actually picked up some salmon from the reduced section and payed more than I should dh noticed when I got home it was 30p more expensive on the "reduced" sticker.

To you really need 25 marked down, eat by the end of today strawberry trifles? It's greedy and not letting anybody else have a look-in.

FIL would do this. It was nothing to do with needing 25 trifles but not being able to walk away from a bargain. So he would buy 25 trifles and then gives us a couple, my parents, the neighbours, the neighbours daughter, the neighbours daughters dog.......it was a total waste of his money but he couldnt stop himself.

My personal best was bread in Morrisons. It was reduced to 15p or something for a tiger bloomer but it was on 2 for £1 which still went through on the till. I had bought 4 loaves and for that they gave me £1 back, so it cost them money for me to take it home!

I echo the couple of posters who mentoned the Co-op. The one on my estate has really decent reductions, the best time to go is Sunday evening (they stay open until 10pm). I bought a gorgeous ginger latte cake reduced from £2.79 to 69p the other day and they often have donuts down from £1 a bag to 20p. No scrums, no elbows. No wonder I am fat. Skint and fat and happy!

Our Coop is good too, they had legs of lamb half price on offer and then they were reduced to half again so I got 2 legs of lamb for about £7 each. The chickens are not so good though as they are usually 2 for £7 but are reduced from £4.50 each to £3.79 or something, which is stupid imo.

Like piranhas skeletonising a cow!

Thanks for this Satan

Loved that "Cabin Pressure" episode! Magetherium

Love all of them, actually! Sorry it's ended, but I've got them on CD so that's something.

I wonder if the people who block aisles and hog the reduced section etc. are the same people who try to stop anyone else getting their bag off the carousel at airports?

I bet they are hands

"NOBODY MOVE! NOBODY MOVE! THIS CONVEYOR IS ON LOCKDOWN!" Cue SWAT team hovering over individual suitcases.

I have to comment on a message on the first page who said Lidl/Aldi are more civilised. Not the Lidl I visited yesterday!! it was mayhem at the checkouts with only 2 tills open and huge lines of people doing full shops at 9am. Eventually someone in the queue in front of me got them to open another till (for my benefit, I only had a small bag of pastries!) and a scrum of people crowded onto the newly opened till. Gits.

I bloody hate Aldi and Lidl. They're always such a tip.

Interesting. About a week ago I was in Morrisons and decided to pick up baguette. I was chatting on the phone, so walked to the baguettes, put one in the trolley, but tried to find a price for it, so stayed right next to them. Shop worker just picked up my baguette, stuck a yellow price tag on it and put it back in my trolley. And smiled.
Anyway, I was shocked to see that it was 9p. And there wasn't anyone around to fight about them. Maybe I should go there more often.

I don't live in the UK and am just at this.

Supermarkets here tend to reduce perishable items at the start of the 'best before' day. They then go back on the shelf with a standard 35% off sticker on them. Same goes for M&S. Nobody has these huge last-minute discounts. I don't know whether that's good or bad for people who are on absolute shoestring budgets, but at least everyone gets to keep their dignity. (I realise you can't pay your rent with dignity.)

Our local LIDL seems to reduce items by a third about two or three days before the 'use by' date if that suits the type of item. ((Sometimes they're re-shelved and sometimes put separately.) I'm not as aware of any special sticker time in the store.

Maybe it's at managerial discretion?

Melj your colleague is a hero!

At our local Tesco the reduced section always has plenty of stuff in it and you get a few people looking in a civilised manner , I think the experience of the OP must really depend on where the shop is .

Cherry that made actually laugh out loud! The thought of the Whoops man being stalked by a grandad 🤣

I think the largest reductions I've ever taken advantage of was when I lived in a very poor part of town next to a massive Tesco, and it was at the height of the BSE crisis. Heaps and heaps of steaks for 4p each (literally 4p), and no shoving because there was so much to be had. I don't know if they supplied our tesco with so much because they thought people in the nicer parts of town wouldn't buy it.

Long queues of people at the tills, baskets bulging, all looking like we couldn't quite believe our luck.

I was living in a shared house at the time with a weekly budget of £10 a head, and we lived like bloody kings for a while. I even bought the foxes who used to visit the garden a big tray of steak, and watched out of the kitchen window while they danced around it!

Loving this thread.
Once, in Sainsbury's, I put my basket down, because it was so heavy..... with reduced items.... stepped away all of 2 steps..... I turned around.... all gone!!

Yes, I have and it is awful!

I am all for a bargain, but not to the point of being rude and making store assistants cower.

One of the times I saw it, the store assistant lost it and got quite firm, telling the animals shoppers to back off or he would withdraw the items and to be honest, he was completely justified.

I just got back from work and I'm laughing so hard at all of your stories

cowstits Its the same people for sure!

dh noticed when I got home it was 30p more expensive on the "reduced" sticker. A moment of silence for our fallen comrade.

This thread has made me chuckle Op.
Just got back from Tesco. Bought some yellow stickered Finest tea cakes. No scrummage though they were just on a lonely bread rack.
Feel quite disappointed

What annoys me is the old ones that know what time the reductins take place and stand there waiting for the staff to start reducing stuff then start grabbing everything without giving others a chance. They also use their trolleys to block other people from getting in. I just move them out the way.