Valentine's meal deal...people have become so shameless.

[surrealpotato]

AIBU to think that people have become shameless, selfish and greedy?

I noticed the Asda Valentine's meal for two offer earlier this week: starter, main, two sides, pudding, and a bottle of wine, all for £12 quid. Amazing deal really and a nice idea for a night in together.

Went back today to get it... Absolute hoards round the fridge, loading their trollies with multiples meals worth, everything times five or six... scrambling for all the best dishes. By the times I got to the fridge there was hardly anything left.

Am I being unreasonable, or have people always been like this?? I'd be embarrassed to do that, but no-one seemed to care.

You are so brave. What an ordeal 🤣

Jesus Christ Haffiana, let’s hope you never find out!

😂😂😂

If people think these ready meals are good value they need to consider how shops can afford to sell them at such cheap prices and still make a profit. In a ready meals the actual food cost will be 40 to 50% of the sale price so the ingredients will be rubbish and it will be high in salt, sugar and flavourings to counteract the poor taste. If you look at the nutritional information a single meal deal can add up to more than 2000 calories and 2 x daily allowance of saturated fat. It is no wonder so many people are obese.

I got two from M&S because my son wanted to try Beef Wellington and I can't be arsed to make THAT from scratch. The four of us (!) ate both meals (!!) yesterday (!!!) - do you think M&S police will come arrest us?!

Oh dear

Here we go, another one barrelling in without reading.

Do you reckon they put extra sugar in the steaks, haddock and lamb shanks?

That made me laugh out loud. Like the vicar of Dibley Christmas lunch - rushing from home to home rustling up romantic dinners six times over.

Yes I do!

Pack your bags and absconded to another country, you’ve used those meals not for the right intentions. You’ve also involved your child in this crime.

I bet you were one of the hordes and I bet you were scrambling for the best dishes (not just picking up the one you wanted!) actually scrambling!

And remember it’s not just police, it’s M&S police!

Yes, I don't understand why it's more shameful and greedy for some customers to buy a product than others.

I wondered why people were staring at us yesterday. I went to load up on the m and s meal deals 😂

I think it’s because people are skint and going out less so spending more attention on good deals for meals at home

We've lost sight of what a normal loss leader looks like these days.

(Thank God we'll never lose sight of our superiority complex!)

thats probably it then, it’s opened up the deal to people who dont or can’t drink. Good marketing , especially in an area where you’ve a good chunk of people whose religion means they can’t drink.

You aren't in traffic.
You are traffic.

This! They are aiming for zero stock by the end of today. Good business!

Went back today to get it... Absolute hoards round the fridge, loading their trollies with multiples meals worth, everything times five or six... scrambling for all the best dishes. By the times I got to the fridge there was hardly anything left

exaggeration for effect?....

"Love Sausage"??

Too - many - responses...

We bought one last year and it wasn't very nice.

But yep, it does feel a bit wrong when you know it is all going in a freezer and wont be used for its intended purpose (Valentines meal).

So does that make me immoral when I stock my freezer up with items which are only on sale usually at Christmas time? You get things like party foods, stuffing flavours, desserts etc then that you can't get at other times so I make the most of it when I can. But as it's only sold at Christmas, will the food police come after me if I cook my favorite pork, sage and caramelised red onion stuffing in February, or serve up the canapes which you can only get in December when I have family round at Easter?

Last one on the shelf… except there’s a crate full in the warehouse out the back that then get put on the shelves 🤣 hardly a moral dilemma

I cannot fathom getting this worked up about a flipping ready meal deal. It's ridiculous.

Surely yesterday wasn’t the first day it was on the shelves, I saw the meal deal in Tesco early this week so plenty of time to buy too I’d the rush.

Edited to add, and you can guarantee there will be various oddments in the whoops fridge on Monday.

There is nothing in those dine in for two specials all the supermarkets do that I couldn’t cook better myself. Uninspiring, overpriced and often upf

V different scenes in Waitrose yesterday. Their meal deal was £25 and they had stationed an employee by the meal deals all day, to explain the deal to people and help them pick what they wanted. At that time of day in our particular neck of the woods the average age of the Waitrose shopper is around 75, and judging by the hoardes surrounding this poor young man he was absolutely necessary!

I didn’t fancy a load of ultra processed stuff to sit in my guts like clay all evening, so spent around £10 buying the ingredients for Korean fried chicken (with pickled cucumbers, kimchi and sticky rice), which I am VERY excited about making tonight.

Asda should have capped the amount people can buy. ALthough, obviously people could just buy in separate transactions !

Sadly, deals bring out the worst in people

I bought one of the £12 deals at the beginning of the week (a friend and I are having it tonight )