To buy yellow lable reduced items..?

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When I shop at small high street supermarkets I look out for and buy items that are reduced due to their use by date where I can use them in my meal planning.

I think it is ethical to avoid food waste and know these items get thrown away if they are not sold. I also don't have any problem with trying not to spend more than I need to, as although I live in a house with a paid off mortgage and my DP has an annual passive income of around £250k, my own passive annual income is less then 10% of this and my DP expects me to split most costs equally with him.

We are in a town where CoL is very high and there is a large street homeless community in the local area.

AIBU?

But it’s very often perishable food that normal food banks can’t use. There are also stickers on high value items which are still expensive even with the reductions. YANBU, OP. The people who are really unreasonable are those who empty the shelves if genuine special offers leaving nothing for other people.

I also think this might be a stealth boast thread under the guise of yellow labels.

The OP does not have a "very small" income. She has a passive income (return on investments etc) of £25k. We have no information on her total income including earnings from the work she mentioned, other than that it's "not minimum wage".

Her partner also doesn't expect to split all costs, just "most" of them. For all we know the ones they split could be smaller than the few he pays. She mentions living rent free, for starters.

I reckon she's doing okay.

None of this means she shouldn't buy reduced price short dated food if she wants to, though. Shops use yellow stickers to maximise their profits and reduce waste, not as an act of charity!

This doesn't really work as a concept unless the deserving poor are there and ready to buy the reduced items. Oh and that they are happy eating short dated items - many people are not regardless of income levels.

If nobody buys it then supermarket has to give it away or throw it away, ultimately leading to higher prices for everyone including the deserving poor.

I buy yellow stickered food items. Sometimes I go to supermarkets and buy YS and liked it and can't find it in the normal section the next time I am in.

I am a code checker at my work - I am one of those who roots through the shelves and put the stickers on. I also use an app called TooGoodToGo which some restaurant chains and retailers sell their stuff cheap which on that date or surplus stock from their buffets in what they call magic bags. You don't know what's in them til you collect and sometimes the bags are cancelled if there's not enough stock. I wouldn't recommend TGTG if you and your family are fussy eaters or have dietary requirements such as dairy free, gluten free. I have one for Greggs tonight and paid £2.60 and usually get at least 6 items from pastries to baguettes to salads. Aldi use it but I see people's TGTG on FB and its like 25 bags of lettuce and 15 bags of parsnips. Love the amount but that is taking the p.

What I do hate are those who clear the entire reduction section. I know one of the regular clearers drives a brand new electric BMW which is about £70k. The other week, I was told by a manager to reduce the 3 packs of peppers to 10p as we had about 120 packs. Got customers who bought about 20 of them.

We had some papayas sent to us by error and no-one bought them until I reduced them to 10p (again another management request). A customer asked what do you do with them. He then bought the whole lot. If you are unsure of something - buy one, not the whole lot.

I agree with the other posters that your husband is a complete idiot for making you pay half the food when your income to his isn't 50:50.

Yellow stickers is creating a sale. A supermarket would rather take 50p for a pack of mince instead of adding £3 to the waste budget. When things get disposed, they are added to the budget at the full price, not at the lowest YS price.

Buy whatever you like - the purpose of yellow stickered food is so the shop doesn't have to record as much 'wastage', not as a good deed to those who are struggling. Some shops now donate close to date food to food pantries/community fridges - the aim of this is the same : to stop waste. Food banks for the really needy are, of course, a different thing altogether.

I don't have access to DP's money and he tries not to spend it

I really can’t understand your partners attitude- what’s the point in having all that money if he doesn’t spend any of it or share it with those who he presumably loves?

There is nothing wrong with buying reduced items if you are the first one to see them, it’s not like you are taking things unneeded from a food bank..

This is financial abuse.

DD has been looking for mini eggs since last week and we haven't managed to find any....at ay price! It felt like everywhere round our way had sold out of Easter stuff on Friday and cleared the shelves.

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Maybe my local supermarket is unusual but there is always lots of yellow sticker food when I do my weekly shop and there is often no one even looking at it so either the less well off have already shopped or they aren't going to be buying it at all

Of course not, but this post isn't really about that, is it?

What food can’t normal food banks use? Where I live they take everything and freeze it. The only food that gets thrown in the bin is stuff that’s mouldy or damaged.

But regardless of this you still mentioned the amount of his income, and your income in comparison. If it’s not relevant why mention this?

You shouldn't be dependent on your boyfriend for housing, it's a vulnerable position and he leeches your money.

Leave the reduced food for people who are genuinely struggling and tell your husband he is a mean fucker who should be giving some of that huge income to charity and accepting that you shouldn’t be asked to pay 50% of costs.
You both sound mad to me.

Hang on there is actually a code of conduct about buying yellow label food?!

This is an unspoken rule that if you can afford food full price you should not buy anything reduced so as to leave it for people in need?

Woah noone cares about the yellow labels as you have a financially abusive husband.

She doesn't have a husband.

The food is very unlikely to be wasted though. Some other poor sod will buy it or it will be sent to a community pantry type place.

It seems a lot of posters here think yellow stickers are means tested, they aren't, any customer can buy them.

Also, how does one shopper know if another shopper needs the reduced goods more?

There's no guarantee that if OP leaves the yellow stickers they'll be bought by someone in need.

but the food will not be wasted
op you are not doing any favours, you are not reducing food waste.

Yes ... she lives 'rent free' with her rich husband!

Is £25K "a very small income"? Maybe by MNs standards!