To all those who work in supermarkets within the u.k. how much food do you actually throw away that is edible?!
A major reason so much is thrown is because code checkers who reduce it due to short life are USELESS and depots send out too much.
Answers: I'm a night shift grocery manager for a Tesco Extra taking ￡1.4million per week and the store throws away between ￡11-13,000 per week in waste. Most out of date, damaged or poor quality. You can only give fruit and veg away to homeless shelters/ zoos etc due to food poisoning.
A major reason so much is thrown is because code checkers who reduce it due to short life are USELESS and depots send out too much.
loads o the stuff, when it reaches that sell by date we got to throw it out dont see why we couldnt give it to old folks homes or the homeless its not past its best before date
I live in the US, and we donate as much food as we can to homeless shelters. But that's just our store... It's small and local. I'm not sure about the big stores.
My son works for Tesco and they throw about a biffer load every day because of the date has expired but like all supermarkets they come out with the excuse we have to put our prices up due to petrol delivery, to me this is a bad excuse. they throw away the food which costs money instead of giving it to the needy before the expiry date.
my tesco express can get thru ￡15000 of waste every week! n this is including edible food, if theres a slight rip in the packaging its waste. pretty bad.
we do recycle thou. every litte helps?
I use Asda's Stockport, also Wythenshawe They have special shelves where the near out of date stuff is sold slightly cheaper.What I have noticed is in wythenshawe the wholemeal bread label tells us to keep it refrigerated, I've stopped buying it now.