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| Thread ID: 106669 | 2010-01-18 08:16:00 | supermarkets and relabelling food | baabits (15242) | PC World Chat |
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| 849709 | 2010-01-18 08:16:00 | walked into paknsave napier today to do my weekly shop. Went to get a prepack of snowpeas and saw that the few packs they had were rotten. On closer inspection I saw that a label had been ripped off and replaced with another one which said that they had been packed the previous day. Picked up another pack and saw the same thing. Are they doing anything wrong in a legal sense? | baabits (15242) | ||
| 849710 | 2010-01-18 08:30:00 | walked into paknsave napier today to do my weekly shop. Went to get a prepack of snowpeas and saw that the few packs they had were rotten. On closer inspection I saw that a label had been ripped off and replaced with another one which said that they had been packed the previous day. Picked up another pack and saw the same thing. Are they doing anything wrong in a legal sense? Depends what packed means. If they move it from one pack into another pack, then I guess they can say that it was packed on a particular date when it was repacked. It is a bit of a useless sort of date, because you don't know how long it has been sitting in the chiller for before it was 'packed' I've had a problem before where the item I purchased was moldy, yet it hadn't reached it's use by date. Supermarkets make alot of their money from produce, as there are quite high margins on it, so as a consumer you should demand that the produce is in good nick. The more people that complain, the better the consumer will be served. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 849711 | 2010-01-18 08:37:00 | quite a shame that there is no law stopping them from committing crimes like that. It is a crime, not to mention a health and safety risk. I suppose people dont have to buy them, but its so immoral and disgusting. | baabits (15242) | ||
| 849712 | 2010-01-18 08:51:00 | Eh? | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 849713 | 2010-01-18 08:53:00 | a/ They may claim they meant "Packed it in". b/ Of course, they could claim they were black-eyed peas with a bit of extra oomph in the black. c/ One law states it is illegal to discriminate on the grounds of age |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 849714 | 2010-01-18 11:03:00 | Big supermarkets are horrible for passing mutton as lamb. It's all about the bottom line, any loss is noted. At countdown, on general grocery items (everything except chilled, meat, and produce) the margins are generally 1/30th of the RRP, so, to recover the loss from one item, they have to sell 30 more. The higher-ups are always giving everyone stick for items that could still be sold. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 849715 | 2010-01-18 11:40:00 | For years Supermarkets have been selling at a reduced price food which is off date. Some is legal. They also pitch food rather than giving it away to charity. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 849716 | 2010-01-18 11:42:00 | Might have labeled it wrong and had to put new ones on. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 849717 | 2010-01-18 21:22:00 | Um obviously they had reduced it. The reduced to clear sticker has a packed on date, and most of the time they will not keep it out on the shelf if it it past it's expiry date, normally they reduce it a couple days before. If they were all rotten, then they would've had no more stock, and just wanted to keep the option to customers to still buy it. What was rotten to you might be someones lunch, for probably 99c. And Sweep, produce scraps in chch go to a farmer who feeds his pigs etc. He pays for them. Can't give most of what gets thrown out to charity unless you're trying to kill them. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 849718 | 2010-01-18 22:48:00 | Bloody waste of decent bread | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
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