What do supermarkets do with all the unsold food past it's shelf life?!
Answers: Is it just binned? Surely there must be alot of wastage.
They take it into a back room and re date it.
They reduce it on the last day, and if its still not sold, they bin it. Criminal isn't it?
It just gets binned.
If you watched the last 'Wife Swap' on Channel 4, you'd have seen evidence of this. One of the wives went to the bins of a supermarket and took all of the binned items that were still edible.
They sell some stuff off to staff cheaply but bin the rest, it is very disgraceful I think, why they don't just flog everything for 10p on the last day I don't know.
They do bin it
There are lots f people in the UK and USA that live on this food by skip diving .
Some of it gets thrown away. But other things - like tins, jars - get given to charities
what they do is either they check before it really expire ... they will try to sell it off really cheaply ... till the end when they cant be sold they will usually donate it the walfare home thats what i know abt some supermart
There are a number of discount stores that get salvaged or freight damaged goods. I'm sure that they also get the out-of-date foods from grocery stores. I shop them on a fairly regular basis. I see no problem with getting Kettle Chips for 50 cents a bag that expired December 2007. Last month I got bread that was a day or so away from the date for 4/100. This was top of the line Franz bread. I also got Ragu sauces (spaghetti and alfredo) that do not expire until 2009 for 50 cents. If you have a Big Lots in your area, they get merchandise from damaged trucks. You'll see brand names that may not be familiar in your local area but they are the same product (i.e., Hellmans / Best Foods mayo). Hope this helps.
There is a lot of waste. It has been known for fish and prawns that are past their sell-by to be re-dated and sold.
They sell some of it at a discount price and then they give the rest to different charities and welfare organization.
Well first you reduce it, and then it's binned but they do try to reduce the wastage. They have targets for each department (Dairy, meat, produce..) each month/week to meet
I work in co-op and It is put throught the system as waste and then binned.
I work in a supermarket. If it's todays date it gets reduced by 75% to be sold. If it's not sold by that date then it gets binned. An awful lot of food is wasted (a good few thousand pounds a week!)
somethings are marked down and some things go to day old bakery type places where they can still sell it for a limited amount of time.