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?

did you check that the packs didn't say do not freeze because they have already been frozen? A lot of (so-called) fresh fish say this?
If your husband heard this comment it sounds like he was somewhat dishonest at the young workers expense somewhat selfish a bit doubtful morally

Yuck. Greedy and selfish.

Reminds me of a guy I met on holiday in an eastern european country, who I had a bit of a crush on. Enjoyed spending time with him until he started haggling with a little lady selling handmade items to tourists. They already cost peanuts, but he got her down to half price. He was so pleased with himself. I felt a bit sick.

If you don’t NEED the saving, leave it. Nobody needs 12 fillets of salmon.

Supermarkets do reduce to 10% and also sainsburys reduce the majority of their sell by date to 10p regardless of price at the final reductions. I’m sure the boy will be fine and well done your husband for getting a bargain

Not greedy at all. For all he knew it was going off and otherwise going in the bin. I assume he’s not pushing other shoppers out of the way to get it. This actually does happen in our Tesco’s when they reduce fruit and veg, there are some ladies who wait around for it and then fight over cabbages…

If it's 12 fillets, that's 3 meals for four of us in our house. My husband also has a bad habit of having two fillets (when they're in the thin side). It's really not a food (or fish) mountain.

Not in my experience.

Nothing suggests it wasn’t 12 packets as the OP said not 12 filets - the prices don’t make sense

From my supermarket days, and memory of those (which may be sketchy), I don't think you can increase a price during the day. So he might not technically have been able to put price back up. I remember something about it and the petrol prices at the supermarket I worked at, they had to be changed by law, by opening time because we couldn't increase them during trading hours. I could stand to be corrected.
The supermarket won't lose money on it, we would have reduced meat to 10% to get rid of it, and they were fit to take it, so I wouldn't worry about the young lad.
Don't know that I'd have taken it and stuffed in freezer. Might have taken alot and given to my mum, my sister, my brother.... share the love ❤

I think he is fine to buy it. He saw a bargain and snapped it up. Great for the freezer and therefore future meals. I assume he isn't cooking It in one go so not greedy.

How can anyone say "no one needs 12 fillets of Salmon" ? OP has said there are 5 in the family - so that's 2 meals for the family plus 2 fillets left over....hardly excessive is it ? And yes in that situation I might well have bought the lot (as long as I knew we had space in freezer) ....Doubt I or dw would then post about it but each to their own !

Wow. What a shame he didn't grill you instead. Incidentally, I'm interested in knowing how many loo rolls you have? Survivor not a victim thing? No one matters more than me? Of COURSE!!! Silly me! You ARE the most important thing! What an ego. Wow.

Or to put it more accurately, decent people who don't take the piss.

OP is not responsible for the failure of our education system.

The employee who doesn't know the difference between subtracting and multiplying needs to go back to school or find a different career.

I'm confused. Was it 12 fillets? Or 12 packs ?
12 fillets is not unreasonable, that's only a couple of meals for your family . Was the use-by date the day he bought it?

It literally says 12 packs in the OP.

Yes rather greedy I think

This

Definitely greedy.

If you are going to freeze & use them then it is not a waste but he could have left some for someone else to benefit from.

Not unreasonable. Store’s fault that employee wasn’t told how to reduce correctly

Not your dhs fault or problem the store lad cocked it up. I would have bought the salmon too.

Your husband didn't do anything wrong. Chances are any packs he didn't take would have been repriced. The co-worker who noticed should have grabbed the packs before your husband did.
I would have bought them all.
Like others we are on a budget.

From Fareshare figures - 3.6 million tonnes of food goes to waste in the UK every year, of which 2 million is still edible. Supermarkets and food producers have to pay FareShare to redistribute their surplus food or pay for disposal. That’s without considering food miles or additional carbon emissions in storing and transporting surplus food. Buy all the yellow stickered stuff you want, as long as you’ll use it, and if you really want to help people in food poverty, donate the savings you made to a food charity; volunteer your time; or campaign to change our broken food system. BTW OP - your DP was nbu!!