Would you have bought the fish?

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My DH has just gone to the supermarket. There was a young lad reducing stock, had been told to reduce a whack of fish (mainly salmon). Reckon he's made a mistake - instead of reducing it BY 10%, he reduced it TO 10%. About twelve packs of fresh fish fillets, reduced in value from about £80 to £8.

Another employee had clocked it and came over to say 'You're going to get a row for that'. So there was a very limited number of these really, really cheap packets of fish.

He bought the lot. Was this unreasonable, knowing it was a fuck up? And was it unreasonable, as in greedy, to take them all?

i would have bought it all too and frozen it.

Exactly!

Have u read the original message.....
Colleague??????

If I had a freezer (which I don't) I'd have bought the lot too. All good just taking one or 2 and leaving the rest for multiple others but the next person that comes along might be someone wealthy who could easily afford the full price and buys the lot discounted anyway. My DC love salmon and it's so nutritious but it's now completely out of our price range. Id oh w to have some stored for them.

I walk around the supermarket sellotaping twenty-pound notes to anything with a yellow sticker on it.

Can't believe the selfish old witches on here who just leave the discounted items.

DH doesn't work at the supermarket. It's not his colleague.

If the staff had wanted to stop him surely they could have done so. As for saying to leave it for others - by the time "others" had got there the price would probably have been adjusted.

It's very easy for people to say they have morals and would never do such a thing when they haven't been in that position!!

Yes.

The shop assistant may not have been wrong. I've been in Waitrose just before closing and they have given the leftover fish out for free.

My DH has just gone to the supermarket. There was a young lad reducing stock, had been told to reduce a whack of fish (mainly salmon). Reckon he's made a mistake - instead of reducing it BY 10%, he reduced it TO 10%. About twelve packs of fresh fish fillets, reduced in value from about £80 to £8.

I read as there was a big pack of fish containing 12 portions (as clarified later) which was priced £80 and then reduced to £8. The DH bought it for £8. How could he buy "2-3 portions and leave the rest for others" like some posters are suggesting? It one big pack which I assume is sold as one pack.

Wasn’t that though about buying them for dog food? (May be misremembering)

Depends what time of day it was. Maybe he had been asked to reduce it by that much as there was so much to get rid off. And why would he get into trouble, he did what he understood what he was asked. So the fault of the person who instructed him to do it. People interpret things differently, and certainly should not lose your job over a misunderstanding. If your husband had not taken it some one else would have. Got to do whatever you can in these expensive times. Enjoy all the nice recipes your hubby is going to make.

How are you going to get through 12 packets of salmon in 4 weeks OP? You can have too much, especially depending on the ages of the kids unless older teens. I feel bad for the kid making a mistake in that moment and for your DP to take all of them was greedy so overall YABU

It's not so much the act, it's the gloating. I can understand somebody wanting to fill their freezer and taking everything but, rushing here to post about it? Absolutely no excuse for that and I expect we'll see many more posts like this one and the chicken one because that's the level of some posters.

I can't imagine anybody reading MN at the moment, with posters really worrying about paying the bills, and thinking that posting about grabbing every reduced item is in any way decent. Ugh.

Why on earth would they need to use is all on 4 weeks?

Id hâve been like him. Very British attitude to think it's a dick move.

As PP have said one portion for freezer as from experience it might be safe to eat for a few weeks more but past it’s best after 4

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If he heard the colleague say that to the boy and still carried on with the purchase then ye really dick move

I can't speak for every supermarket but the one I used to work for once an item was reduced and the sticker put on we weren't allowed to up the price only lower it. So the lad might of been in for a telling off either way. Also ime people don't buy those big packs don't sell when reduced unless they're reduced by a good chunk so maybe not.

As for taking the lot, meh. As long as you weren't rude to the staff then whatever. Although my view may be coloured by many a Sunday with the regulars who would hang around in store all day demanding I reduce stuff from their trolley (not allowed) bombarding you when you bring stuff out in the afternoon and outright fighting to get final reductions

So many people with such high moral compasses. I really dont think whrher your DH bought it or not would factor into what happened to young worker. Its only a few packs of salmon, shops have to allow for these sort of loses all the time.

getting a bargain,I’d consider that pretty clever move
it appears to be a dick move to some because the op didn’t dissolve in tears at their good fortunate and then conspicuously leave a bundle in case any poor salmon loving peeps were passing. On mumsnet The art of securing a bargain must be accompanied by guilt and histrionics

Of course I’d hoover up the bargain,and be pretty chuffed too

I have over a years worth of flash kitchen cleaner as I was lucky enough to be in the store when it was being put on the reduced racks for 25p a bottle so I bought the who case of 12. I don’t feel guilty or that I was depriving someone else of a bargain. I have no idea of the financial situation of the next person to go to the reduced shelf but I know my own and know that on my budget every little helps.

I’m on team DH for this one. He was at the right place at the right time.

Reminds of a time I was shopping with DH at a store going out of business, it was a bankruptcy liquidation of a big chain store that sold white goods. DH and I stocked up on sheets and towels, blankets an I even bought a big fuzzy robe as everything was 25%. 50%, and 75% off. The cashier rang everything up and gave me my total which was very low, unexpectedly low, crazy low. Think even with the discounts we had probably ~$300/$400 worth of stuff. The total came to about $125-$150. She paused looked at the till sort of shrugged and confirmed the low total.

When we got home I looked at the receipt and saw what happened… at some point the items stopped being scanned… despite the ‘beep…beep…beep’ which had continued as it should have it wasn’t capturing or adding to the total. She had noticed it, but clearly didn’t care to go back and rescan everything and just let it go.

right place right time…