Page 6 | To take all the reduced meat?

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 16:37

I know you're not in Ireland OP but there's an app called too good to go, it has surprise bags from various places. The stuff is getting towards the end of its shelf life bit is fine, not gone off. In my area, the stuff is mainly bakery but there also lidl or aldi ones. Might be worth seeing if there's something similar where you are?

holycrapweasel · 03/08/2023 16:39

That's very selfish and mean spirited.

Ylvamoon · 03/08/2023 16:39

Life is to short to worry about who leaves what for others!

Hana89 · 03/08/2023 16:39

It's really selfish behaviour, OP. I love a yellow sticker bargain, but I would never take so much when there are others waiting too. These are hard times and we need to stick together. Especially in cities like Manchester where the rent is insane and people are really, really hurting.

Whatyoutalkingabouteh · 03/08/2023 16:39

Think you know it was selfish- you wouldn’t have asked otherwise

Meeting · 03/08/2023 16:40

So fucking selfish. But you obviously don't give a shit so not sure why you even asked.

User165753 · 03/08/2023 16:41

greenteaandmarshmallows · 03/08/2023 16:37

Have you seen it when theu put it in the fridge? It's like seagulls. People literally are starving desperate.

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A lot aren't starving, desperate though, a man up our street who is quite well off always goes out for the reduced meat, he has got some very large dogs though. You don't know why people want it.

GodisaBC · 03/08/2023 16:42

Tesco’s reductions are shit by the way.

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 16:43

I wonder if it would help if more places did the yellow stickering like they do at my local Sainsbury's. The items aren't moved to one part of the supermarket they're yellow stickered in situ and kept in place. It will stop the hoardes descending on the poor workers and stop people like the OP feeling guilty for having a much needed trolley of yellow sticker items. We are all struggling.

Museya15 · 03/08/2023 16:43

Yeah whatever, another made up post.

TwoPots13Pans · 03/08/2023 16:43

Hana89 · 03/08/2023 16:39

It's really selfish behaviour, OP. I love a yellow sticker bargain, but I would never take so much when there are others waiting too. These are hard times and we need to stick together. Especially in cities like Manchester where the rent is insane and people are really, really hurting.

I wouldn't class Manchester rents as insane, city centre yes but plenty of commutable places to live around it. Don't see many family homes available in the city anyway... it's all posh flats and student houses.

That aside YABU OP. I hope someone does the same to you next time and you go home hungry and empty-handed. You deserve it.

234vhh · 03/08/2023 16:43

I would've felt really sorry for everyone else if I'd taken as much as you did. Community spirit and all that.

M4J4 · 03/08/2023 16:45

Tesco Weybridge has a good system. You queue up (without trollies) and are allowed to pick out 3 reduced items.

And if you want more you have to go to back of queue.

I wish more supermarkets would implement this, as in most supermarkets it’s the people with pointy elbows who get the most, whilst gentler people get the plant based leftovers.

Marsyas · 03/08/2023 16:46

GodisaBC · 03/08/2023 16:12

So you see 5 x £10 on the floor and no one’s around. Do you take £10 and leave £40 for others to find.
op you did nothing wrong, there are 30 days left of a month for others to get their meat.

No....you take all the notes and hand them in to the local police station, or the shopkeeper if it is in a shop. Obviously. You'd steal them, would you?

Flickersy · 03/08/2023 16:46

Not quite the point, but you know you can make roast potatoes for less than 33p right?

All it takes is some potatoes and fat.

Buying them ready made isn't a bargain, even when they're yellow-stickered.

Chowtime · 03/08/2023 16:46

No, I would never have done that.

M4J4 · 03/08/2023 16:47

ballipp · 03/08/2023 15:37

So last night around 6pm I went to the supermarket and specifically went for the 90% off bargains
I went to the main reduced fridge (after waiting for 15 mins for them to reduce ) and got 2 packs of roast potatoes 33p each ,3 packs of bbq chicken legs for 46p each
pork kebabs for 44p each
Then normally 15 mins later they bring down the reduced meat that day.
There was about 5 people waiting around and I seen the butcher fill his green tub up with the meat and leave it on the counter
So I walk up (everyone was just waiting by the reduced fridge and didn't see what he had done )
I walk up and got 2 steaks 59p each
A beef joint for £1.03p
A pork joint for 43p
Two chickens 38p each and 4 packs of burgers 26p each.
Would you have done the same ?
Or left some for someone else
My freezer is now full for the month and that came to well under £6/£7

OP, for future reference, this is very much the type of boast you save for your mum or husband, not MN.

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 16:47

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 16:43

I wonder if it would help if more places did the yellow stickering like they do at my local Sainsbury's. The items aren't moved to one part of the supermarket they're yellow stickered in situ and kept in place. It will stop the hoardes descending on the poor workers and stop people like the OP feeling guilty for having a much needed trolley of yellow sticker items. We are all struggling.

I think people who are properly struggling can't affored to stockpile food though. It's not great to empty a shelf when there's a queue of potentially equally (or more) poor people behind you.

Twiglets1 · 03/08/2023 16:47

You didn't do a poll but surely you know really that what you did was selfish?

PoshPineapple · 03/08/2023 16:48

Thinking about it, someone who is so devoid of moral standards that they would even do this in the first place, very likely wouldn't give a flying fuck what others think of them or their actions.

So, I can only conclude you just wanted to jump on here and brag about your looting. I'm sorry you didn't get more kudos from most of us.

Iamacatslave · 03/08/2023 16:48

Greedy and selfish.

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Marsyas · 03/08/2023 16:48

Personally I lost my faith in human nature when I went to Glastonbury aged 18 (30 years ago) and they were giving out free firewood - and campers were taking massive amounts and stockpiling them, rather than just taking what they needed and leaving the rest for others. Until then I had sweetly believed that we could all live in a socialist paradise where each gave according to their ability and took according to their need.

Growuppeople · 03/08/2023 16:48

just bloody greedy! god you ain’t the only one struggling 😡

OhmygodDont · 03/08/2023 16:48

I mean depends how skint I was. If I had to feed my children and had barely any cash damn right I’d take everything to keep their bellies full and give no fucks. My children come before everyone else when it comes to stuff like that snooze you loose.

If I had £400 in the bank for food I’d take what I genuinely wanted for that night/the next night and leave the rest.