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.

In our tesco I was "told off" when waiting as the bakery guy put our reduced items. A tesco employee pushed to the front and said that it was the end of his shift and he had an arrangement with the bakery section that he had the right of first refusal!

And as others have pointed out, the bargains are rarely worth having

To you, maybe. I used to have to haunt the reduced section in order to feed my family, for a while. I was rarely a scrum, though the odd occasion it was I would still do it.
I used to get quality meat, fish etc for up to 90% off. Whole chickens for a euro, steaks and all kinds. One evening of good timing could get a weeks worth of dinners for almost nothing.

If it wasn't for the reduced section my children would have spent a year eating toast and beans and fuck all else. For those of you sneering, be thankful you never had to sharpen your elbows and get stuck in so you could put decent food on the table.

I think it very much depends on the timing and the shop, Narky. If the manager is really tight on ordering compared to consumption, then you're only likely to have some wilted vegetables and exotic cheeses etc. If they're not so tight, they probably won't last long. Things change from month to month.

New shops take a while to get stock right. So the brand new bypass with a brand new Morrisons in a we hate new things community gave us bargains for a couple of years. And they still did the multibuys discounts on the reduced food then. Even now they stock forrin' food and exotic mangos and the like, the locals don't know what mozzarella is so we get lots of good bargains. Two days after xmas I was the only person stood beside the fresh meat and fish as they put on the average of 90% off stickers on. My freezer is rammed. Two days later we hit the 90% reductions for the bakery, deli counter and other chilled food. Still don't understand how last week I picked up a hot cooked chicken for 9p in the middle of the afternoon. Only once have I witnessed chaos there, the worst offenders we witnessed later inspecting their trolley, turned out they had no idea what much of it was. The breaded stuffed chillies they had all 10 boxes at 9p they worked out they didn't like but kept them anyway. Why be so rude to people for food you don't even understand?

I saw such a trolley full to the brim with bags of various reduced fruit and veg and decided to have a rummage - 10p this, 10p that .... then I heard a voice behind me asking what I thought I was doing stealing from her trolley! There must've been literally hundreds of things in there! oh god this happened to me and DH shopping in Tesco, he rummaged through what he thought was the reduced trolley just standing lonely on an aisle, very pleased with a couple of bargains he picked out then I clocked that people were glaring at us and a woman said ' I think that's someones trolly' we were 'omg so sorry, didn't realise etc etc' but got the distinct feeling no one believed us

As a student I worked in Iceland in the days before Sunday opening. Saturday, 5pm was bread reduction time.
Every Saturday around lunchtime a woman would turn up outside the store in a wheelchair, chuck a cap on the floor and pull a tatty blanket over her and spend the afternoon begging.
4.59 she'd be watching the bread section through the large glass window and first sign of any of us with a reduction gun she'd be up like Usain Bolt.

She could get from door to aisle in a nano second and would actually load up her wheelchair with reduced bread and push it home.

She became quite well known in the area, certainly wasn't short of a few quid and our manager had quite the argument with local Police about shifting her on.
Nowt as funny as folk.

Our local morrisons used to do great reductions and I would get loads of meat reduced to do us for a week when I was making every penny count. But that all seemed to have stopped and only the bread and cake type stuff gets properly reduced now.

I wouldnt go in especially now to find 20p off some pack of meat or even worse something that was 2 for £5 and now 'reduced' to £3!! They must think we are daft!

Maybe I am going at the wrong time but its not that local so not worth it to go just to check out bargains. Only the coop is 5 minutes away and rarely there anyway but I have had good bargains in there on occaision.

Thankfully never seen the chaos there seems to be elsewhere even when Morrisons did have fab bargains!

Janey jesus I hope she charged her with assault! Thats madness.

No, but I'm usually looking for fresh stuff with the furthest away sell by day so it keeps better

A little off topic but I have done something worse than mistake a stranger's trolley as up for grabs - I was with my parents (about 10?) and went up to my step dad and jumped up on his back, hugging him. He turned around and it wasn't him. Mortified. He was groaning about his poor back as I apologised and back away!

I have had someone point at something in my trolley and ask, ''Are you buying that? There's no more left'' No I'm just carrying it around for a laugh!

Newtssuitcase Dibs is dibs, you better back away from the reduced section!

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You're like me. If I'm buying items with a standard price - and I trust the store's stock rotation - I generally pick from the back of the shelf and not the front.