To take all the reduced meat?

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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

I would have done the same. You saw something for sale and picked it up.

You’ve also alerted thousands of people on mumsnet to the time and location of these deals so added many more people to the race to the meat which might not have been your smartest move.

Selfish. Many people go every day to buy the meal for that night, it's how many people can afford to eat.

Working in a shop is such a thankless job. You bend over backwards and get nothing but abuse back. I sold turkies at christmas and people regularly went ballistic at us if there'd been a misunderstanding. Which was understandable (xmas without a turkey which is not customer's fault) but the abuse i got as a teenage worker working v long hours was nasty. I have the utmost respect for retail workers, not paid half enough.

Definitely it will!

I might have taken them if I was going to eat them and had room in my freezer. All it means that you're not going to go shopping for meat for a while, unless you're the kind of yellow sticker hunter who obsessively buys and hoards until it gets freezer burn and you have to throw it out. Yellow sticker shopping can be addictive.

Most of us are not more deserving of saving money than most other people and if you leave it, what is to stop someone richer and ghastlier picking it up?

However, there's a problem in my supermarket with taking stuff from the trolley before it goes on the shelf, so I wouldn't have done that. Liz, the woman with the reductions gun, was telling me but I didn't understand it.

To be honest, I wasn't paying much attention. I had my eye on a whole Gressingham duck reduced from £9 to half the price of two of the ordinary duck breasts - £8.50. I got it, but I left the other one because I really didn't need all that duck. It is now nestled in the freezer cut up in two breasts, two leg quarters, two wings, giblets to have fried on toast and carcass with bits of meat clinging to it for a Chinese-style noodle soup and skin to render for fat for roast potatoes.

I wasn't being rude to Liz, btw. We get on well and she has saved stuff for me - once a pork belly serving 3-4 at 80p. Neither I have ever grabbed things from her trolley or elbowed anyone else out of the way. It's just my focus was elsewhere at that moment.

We've never had a lot of money but we've managed
We're struggling a bit now

My local food bank put out a crisis call two weeks ago and this is the third week that I have gone out and spent £10 on items for the food bank. Despite the fact we are struggling a bit

I'm not trying to set myself up as some sort of saint, but I think this is a really disappointing and sad thing to do. So many people are struggling right now.

Yeah and the OP goes once a month to do the same thing. Why is she any less deserving than they are?

That is lovely of you do. Fair play to you.

No, they don’t do that.
Clearly a goady post, you know you’ve been a selfish arse and you don’t give a stuff so why post at all 🙄

When she clears a shelf with a queue behind her it is shitty. Where is the solidarity with a fellow human? Where is that bloody wartime spirit you hear so much about? It doesn't matter that it's once a month, the point is she's taking everything with a queue behind her who possibly need the cheap food.

well, you're obviously proud of yourself for being so greedy - I presume that's why you posted, or were you expecting a round of applause and congratulations?

@Daisydaisy69 my local Morrison's starts reducing between 5-6 pm
The pies /pizzas etc are normally 50% off
The fridge items /meat goes to 90% off

Also there wasn't a queue behind me
They were stood halfway down the store at the reduced fridge
I walked up to the butchers
There was nobody stood behind me

You said yourself that you had seen the butcher and also noticed that the others had not seen him. You knew what you were doing

Why on earth do you want an internet argument about this, OP?

I apologise if i got it wrong, it sounded like there were people waiting behind you. But tbh i still don't agree with taking everything for the freezer when others have nothing. But i suppose neither of us know their circumstances so i can't 'pass judgement' either way.

Exactly! And then bragged about her bargains knowing full well other people had been waiting. It's the selfish society we live in nowadays unfortunately where unthinking people don't give a shit about others in need. Technically within her rights but it's morally repugnant.

But you knew that no one else had noticed, and you went over and took all of everything you knew you would eat. You basically didn't share.

From now on I'm not going to buy anything reduced, just carry it around with me in my trolley looking for someone who I feel deserves it more.

@AutumnCrow who wants a internet argument?
It was a post asking if others might do the same
A simple yes or no would of been fine

They were queuing at the fridge, and you pounced on the stuff before the staff had a chance to transfer it to the fridge 🤷🏻‍♀️
Why do you continue to justify this?
It’s alley cat behaviour.

Ah yes, the “f** you, I got mine” mentality. I think you know it’s unreasonable or you wouldn’t have posted this.

Her secret is safe. Times differ. It depends on footfall. My mum's local supermarket begins to reduce stuff from 2.30pm with final reductions at about 4.45pm. That was because there are a lot of afternoon shoppers - SAHMs or retired people and it's near the station in a commuter town and most people who work full time are home by about 7pm so it's dead until it shuts at 10pm. So they'd get stuck with stuff. It's better to sell it and recoup some of their losses than leave it to go off.

I live in a busier place and my supermarket still has a decent number of shoppers at closing time at 11pm. It's really busy at 7pm so obviously the manager wants people to buy lots of full-priced stuff for their dinner.

I'm a keen amateur student of yellow sticker times and the instincts of individual managers. My local Waitrose is rubbish for reductions all day until 9pm when they have a fire sale and literally pay you to take it away. I only discovered it because we ran out of wine one evening and the off licence was shut. I got so much stuff - four free range chicken thighs for 35p! But even though it's only five minutes' walk, I can't be bothered to go. But if I was ever passing again at that time, I'd definitely look in.

That's a good point.

If you didn't think you were unreasonable, why did you post? What prompted you to post?

If it's supposed to be funny, it's not. People are struggling to buy food, assuming you're in Britain, food banks have been hugely in demand for a long time. Do you think that's an acceptable way to live? Or worse, something that's ok to openly laugh at?

The thing is, MN as gone all 'think about the poor people' now, it's hard to really have a discussion on anything without it being brought up, constantly.