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To take all the reduced meat?

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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

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Marsyas · 03/08/2023 16:49

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I would and I have.

TidyDancer · 03/08/2023 16:49

I think you've done a really selfish thing and should be ashamed of yourself tbh. I doubt you are though.

UncertainSmiler · 03/08/2023 16:50

Marsyas · 03/08/2023 16:49

I would and I have.

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Me too

greenteaandmarshmallows · 03/08/2023 16:50

Thing is once it gets to the fridges the first person there is unlikely to say "shall we discuss who needs what?". Nah they'll all swoop in like OP did apart from one or two who'll be left with 1 slice of kipper or something crap like that

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 16:51

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 16:47

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.

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But by the OP stocking up for a month she then isn't there on a daily basis for the next 29 days. 29 opportunities without the OP there for people to buy what they need.

I've lost count how many times I've been to a yellow sticker section at the end of a day in other supermarkets and seen it full still without a person in sight to buy it. Or the times where the section is full of shit like dodgy prepacked sandwiches or meat that has clearly gone off in the packet already but hasn't hit it's BBE date.

The idea of the yellow stickers is to reduce food waste and so the supermarkets still get money from the sale of stock. It really is first come first serve.

CwmYoy · 03/08/2023 16:52

Selfish and greedy, OP.

Winterday1991 · 03/08/2023 16:53

Wow please tell me where this is. Those reductions are unbelievable

Scirocco · 03/08/2023 16:53

You're one of those people who took all the toilet paper during lockdown, aren't you?

I wouldn't take everything, knowing that other people were waiting and would want some.

DarkDarkNight · 03/08/2023 16:53

I think it was selfish. You should just have taken a few things. To fill your freezer leaving others with nothing is too much.

lap90 · 03/08/2023 16:53

I can't say i've seen the moral high ground about this in actual supermarkets where it very much seems to be every man for themself.

OnedayIwillfeelfree · 03/08/2023 16:53

ballipp · 03/08/2023 15:58

The butcher wasn't putting it out down the bottom fridge
He had left it on the butchers counter
I asked if I could take some and he said help yourself

The butcher said Help Yourself? Oh, so it was him that told you to be greedy?

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 16:55

Anyone else think this is going to end up in the daily mail?

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Cerealkillerontheloose · 03/08/2023 16:56

clairethewitch70 · 03/08/2023 16:31

In the 1990's in the days before food banks. We were self employed and our business was struggling. We went months without any wages so we could pay our staff. Our savings were going on bills and mortgage. I had a 4 year old and a 1 year old. DHSS wouldn't give us any benefits as it was our choice to work with out pay.
Almost every night I walked to my local supermarket at the reducing time. I barely managed to get anything. Same faces filling their trolleys with everything that they could grab. I used to leave fighting back tears.
It was in the days of BOGOF's and luckily my parents would give me the free items. They didn't have much money to spare.
Please leave some for others. You really don't know what they are going through.

This. My mum left a violent relationship and we were homeless without thee ability to eat. Our old kind neighbour fed us for 2 years and without him we ed of starved.

he worked at Asda and used to bring us back the out of date tins and we lived in that for years.

leave some for others in this cost of Living crisis. We’ve become a society who values themselves before others

i now work myself with the homeless and pay back everything I can.

greenteaandmarshmallows · 03/08/2023 16:56

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.

Thats a great idea

VictoriaVenkman · 03/08/2023 16:57

pavillion1 · 03/08/2023 16:33

i didnt know morrison's reduced by that much , its a shame other supermarkets cant reduce theirs by 90% it would help so many people out .

Agree. The reductions in Tesco don't make them bargains in any sense of the word.

RainyWeekend · 03/08/2023 16:57

Personally I don't think it's selfish! I assume you don't do this every day! You've got a months supply.

How would you feel if you "unselfishly" didn't take everything and the next person took it all!

No I believe you were not selfish.

I just wish I see such good reductions when I shop!!

Maddy70 · 03/08/2023 16:57

I would have left some for others that were also waiting

DrSbaitso · 03/08/2023 16:57

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 16:55

Anyone else think this is going to end up in the daily mail?

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I don't think so. It's not misogynistic. Maybe if they take the class war angle. OP, update with a career woman and a SAHM braining each other with frozen drumsticks over the last posh filet and see if that does it.

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 16:58

DrSbaitso · 03/08/2023 16:57

I don't think so. It's not misogynistic. Maybe if they take the class war angle. OP, update with a career woman and a SAHM braining each other with frozen drumsticks over the last posh filet and see if that does it.

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Or the update where she lives in a £850,000 detached house in the leafy suburbs and drives a 4x4 while sending her kids to private school AND taking all the meat.

YouveGotAFastCar · 03/08/2023 17:00

ballipp · 03/08/2023 16:27

I'm not minted in the slightest unfortunately
Not drip feeding but put it this way I have less than £200 to last the month

But what if other people are in the same boat? LOADS are, right now. What if they also have less than £200, and have paid £4.50 on the bus, and come once a month - and you've bought all the stuff they'd eat, too?

You'd have done well even if you'd only taken two weeks worth; rather than everything, so someone or a couple of other people could have benefitted, too.

MaggieBsBoat · 03/08/2023 17:00

You are shameless. Truly. Disgusting.

Mammajay · 03/08/2023 17:00

Sadly no Morrisons near me!

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 17:01

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 16:51

But by the OP stocking up for a month she then isn't there on a daily basis for the next 29 days. 29 opportunities without the OP there for people to buy what they need.

I've lost count how many times I've been to a yellow sticker section at the end of a day in other supermarkets and seen it full still without a person in sight to buy it. Or the times where the section is full of shit like dodgy prepacked sandwiches or meat that has clearly gone off in the packet already but hasn't hit it's BBE date.

The idea of the yellow stickers is to reduce food waste and so the supermarkets still get money from the sale of stock. It really is first come first serve.

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But those people could be shopping for today/this week? It is greedy for the sake of being thrifty to empty the shelf to stock for a month. It reminds me of when everyone went mad in Ireland before a storm, stockpiling bread and toilet roll. There were scuffles in supermarkets! But those that stockpiled didn't GAF about anyone else. Lots of people live day to day or week to week, as pp said wasted petrol (£) on a jouney they'll have do again. People are so me fein now, it's sad.

User165753 · 03/08/2023 17:01

Not everyone that hangs around the reduced section is poor

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 17:03

User165753 · 03/08/2023 17:01

Not everyone that hangs around the reduced section is poor

No, but clearing the shelf is unfair imo.