Pensioners nicking ‘nanas

[Thegreatfruittheft]

Waiting in line at customer services in Tesco.
Well dressed older couple (70 ish) walk past pushing their trolley. Stop at ‘free fruit for kids stand’, select banana, peel and eat......
Is that CFery or AIBU?

CFs! It's free fruit for kids, they are not kids.

If they are hard up / low on vitamins / need a sugar hit there are other ways to go about it. My suspicion is they are none of those things however and just taking the piss.

It's the same shitty attitude that entitles them to park in the parent and child bays.

Did they take the last banana that your child desperately needed?

Let Tesco address the issue, if they care enough to be bothered. Pensioners are pretty self entitled these days. From queue jumping to stealing fruit, they seem to think it’s their right to do so.

'Tesco to put out all the perfectly good fruit they throw away because it's on its display by date'

You realise the fruit isn't thrown away straight away right just because it's on its display by date? It's reduced 3 times throughout the day with the last reduction being 75% of the original value. If it doesn't sell by half 8 to half 9, it's offered to a different charity every night who come and select any products that are going out of date that they want. If it still hasn't gone, it's left reduced on the shop floor and staff can take it for free after 9pm or later if charity hasn't been yet. And if it doesn't go by midnight, then it's taken off the shop floor, offered to staff in the canteen and will then be wasted the next day.

Tesco and big supermarkets aren't just chucking food away willy nilly, there's a massive process that staff have to follow before things can be chucked away. Even bags of items that are split or missing a bottle etc are resealed if safe to do so, sold at a reduced price and then offered to charity. This happens with every department tpo, so hygience products, dairy, prpduce, meat, ready meals, bread and grocery all go through a massive process so supermarkets can reduce the amount of money they lose.

Let Tesco address the issue, if they care enough to be bothered. Pensioners are pretty self entitled these days. From queue jumping to stealing fruit, they seem to think it’s their right to do so.

Rather like people having children and expecting others to pay for their housing, schooling, childcare etc?

Why is this ridiculous ageism tolerated on MN?

It's pretty weird that you care about this, to be honest.

@Anoni actually I have a friend who runs a scheme that collects mountains of food, including fruit, vegetables, bread products etc from supermarkets including Tesco, that they were going to be disposed of. So yes there is a lot of waste of perfectly good food.

If you read my post, i told you, that we give soon to be wastes items to charity.

Tesco does a massive reductions policy, and then will give items to charity at the end of the night that were going to waste.

But what you see as oh they're just chucking it out, doesn't happen. A manager will go through every wasted item and see if they can go to colleagues for free. Items that grow in the ground are bagged separately and sent to turn into animal food, milk and liquids are tipped out and then the packaging recycled. Fruit and veg that doesn't grow in the ground is sent to a industrial composting site. Bread is sent to a supplier and mashed up basically and sold as animal food. The rest goes to a recycling centre where they'll sort it all out and try salvage the packaging.

I couldn’t care less about this. The fruit runs out, Tesco will refill it. They can afford it.

Rebels without a cause.

Nobody cares about this

Why would anyone care about such trivia?

What I want to know is why isn't there a free banana for the shopper on JSA with a basket of value goods?

@Anoni I did read your post. As I said, the scheme collects perfectly good food that would otherwise be getting disposed of.
I don't see why you've taken such offence to me saying they could put out the fruit that it's at the end of its shelf life for anyone to take

I haven't taken offence, i simply stated that i already said about the charity as you posted as if i hadn't.

They also do , that's what the yellow labels are for, no business is going to go and willingly give every customer free food are they?otherwise if every night tesco put out loads of food for free then surely lots of people would never pay for food but would still cost the business money