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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

OP posts:
Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 17:04

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 17:01

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.

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Everyone's shopping cycles are different. If OP shops monthly on pay day and freezes food for the month should she be penalised because others shop daily?

KnickerlessParsons · 03/08/2023 17:05

got 2 packs of roast potatoes 33p each ,3 packs of bbq chicken legs for 46p each
pork kebabs for 44p each

TBH, it would never cross my mind to buy ready roasted potatoes, or ready BBQd chicken, no matter how cheap. So you are very welcome to those!

Figgygal · 03/08/2023 17:05

That was a dick move op and you know it

Luana1 · 03/08/2023 17:05

I wouldn't have done that personally, as I believe in karma - and the people waiting could have been in worse financial straits than you, so kind of irrelevant that you have £x amount left for the month. Did you at least let the people waiting in the wrong place know there were a few items left at the counter, or just breeze past them with your haul?

Motnight · 03/08/2023 17:08

GalileoHumpkins · 03/08/2023 16:21

38p for a chicken? I hope it lasts you a good week for that price.

It was a Mumsnet chicken 😲

Marsyas · 03/08/2023 17:09

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

I am not sure morality should be based on doing something that's not right because the next person is bound to do it anyway.

Icycloud · 03/08/2023 17:10

Didn’t even need to read the thread, that is an awful thing to do

Original poster
ballipp · 03/08/2023 17:10

I've asked for this post to be deleted as it's causing unnecessary angst
It wasn't meant to be goady
Sorry if it offended anyone
I was excited for a few bargains

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Vegetus · 03/08/2023 17:10

Absolutely nothing wrong with at all.

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 17:11

Motnight · 03/08/2023 17:08

It was a Mumsnet chicken 😲

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That should be a new breed. Farmers should make super sized chickens and name the breed "Mumsnet Chicken"

2135542namechange · 03/08/2023 17:11

I can't really say one way or the other OP, as I don't know your circumstances. If you took all that meat just because you love a good bargain , and you are reasonsbly comfortable financially, then I think what you did was very selfish. But if you are genuinely hard up , what with the cost of living crisis and all then i wouldn't think you were selfish. You were just doing what you have to do to feed your family.

MiniCooperLover · 03/08/2023 17:11

Greedy and a very goady thread OP as you know full well. You know this will piss people off and get a rise out of them. Well done!

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 17:12

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 17:04

Everyone's shopping cycles are different. If OP shops monthly on pay day and freezes food for the month should she be penalised because others shop daily?

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Clearing off a whole shelf of cut price stuff isn't great imo.

Tryingmuchharder · 03/08/2023 17:12

Lots of people are having a difficult time so thinking of others too is helpful @ballipp

It's even worse when people who have plenty of money take it all. Some really don't have much money at all.

Lou670 · 03/08/2023 17:12

@ballipp good idea but hope you are learned something from the replies to your post and will think next time.

GalileoHumpkins · 03/08/2023 17:12

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

Only if OP was putting on a leggy display, wearing her long tresses down or showing some under boob.

DrSbaitso · 03/08/2023 17:13

Tryingmuchharder · 03/08/2023 17:12

Lots of people are having a difficult time so thinking of others too is helpful @ballipp

It's even worse when people who have plenty of money take it all. Some really don't have much money at all.

You may be right, but none of us know who in the supermarket is struggling and who isn't.

uncomfortablydumb53 · 03/08/2023 17:13

No I wouldn't have taken that amount! I wouldn't fit it all in my freezer but even if I could I would always leave some for others
It was Greedy I think

Missey85 · 03/08/2023 17:13

First in first served 😄 yyoj can take what you like so no your not selfish

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 17:13

GalileoHumpkins · 03/08/2023 17:12

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

Only if OP was putting on a leggy display, wearing her long tresses down or showing some under boob.

😂

Andifeelheavymetal · 03/08/2023 17:14

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 17:13

😂

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Complete with sad face?

DrSbaitso · 03/08/2023 17:14

GalileoHumpkins · 03/08/2023 17:12

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

Only if OP was putting on a leggy display, wearing her long tresses down or showing some under boob.

Did you see me in Asda??

FrivolousTreeDuck · 03/08/2023 17:15

Not if they'd only just been put out, especially if others were clearly waiting for them. If it was late and deserted, I'd feel OK about helping myself. Otherwise I would leave plenty for others.

Chickenkeev · 03/08/2023 17:16

Missey85 · 03/08/2023 17:13

First in first served 😄 yyoj can take what you like so no your not selfish

Otherwise known as Survival of the Fittest . Do you really want to go back there? The mark of a decent society is how well they take care of their least well off.

DancingInTheRaindrops · 03/08/2023 17:18

Shops should limit amount customers can buy.
I work in a store and this behaviour causes no end of problems. The poor member of staff whose job it is to reduce items has to be escorted by security where l work as customers can get very aggressive, and if there's any trouble the manager takes it all off the shelf. Some greedy customers will just grab the lot.