Supermarkets

[Bazile]

I notice that the supermarket where we shop have stopped putting dates on fruit packing

Packet of grapes bought were mouldy - we didn't notice it at the time .

Anyone else noticed this at the supermarket where you shop ,or perhaps our experience was not typical ?

[MargoTester]

^ aldi or Lidl

[burlyshirley1]

It's become the norm now to save food wastage.

[Bazile]

Asda

[ubasses]

Yes, a few of them announced a couple of months ago they were taking dates off. It's to stop people throwing away perfectly edible food just because it is past sell by date on pack. If you look carefully at the labels there is a code on them, the higher the number the fresher the goods. At least it is in Sainsburys, didn't take long to work out.

[MargoTester]

Oh I just wondered because they never used to put dates on

[Zacs-Master]

'Asda is set to remove ‘best before’ dates from the packaging of almost 250 of its fresh fruit and vegetable products across UK stores, replacing them with a display code used by employees to gauge a product’s freshness'
https://packagingeurope.com/news/asda-announces-removal-of-best-before-dates-from-fruit-and-vegetable-packaging/8638.article#:~:text=Asda%20is%20set%20to%20remove,to%20gauge%20a%20product's%20freshness.

Looks like it's not working.

[Buenchico]

The removal of 'best before' dates on packaging, in order to save food waste, is something that's common to all supermarkets:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2022/07/supermarkets-best-before-use-by-dates-food/

[Bazile]

Ubasses

//If you look carefully at the labels there is a code on them, the higher the number the fresher the goods//

Higher the number , compared to what other number ?

[barry1010]

There is never a best before date on fruit and veg sold at greengrocers and markets. I don't have a problem with it if the stock is properly rotated and managed

[Bazile]

^^^there was previously on the ones we bought at Asda

[barry1010]

There was previously what?

[Barsel]

I've thrown several cucumbers away because there is no date on them and because they are tightly packed in cling film, you can't even feel them. Both were soft and dark around the edge.

[naomi24]

Barry, they’re talking about supermarkets - not greengrocers and markets.

[barry1010]

I am aware of that, naomi, that is why I specified greengrocers and markets. Nobody questions the fact that those outlets don't have BB dates on their fruit and veg so I never really understood why supermarkets did.

[Bazile]

I have no.problem with reducing waste .

Indeed we buy stuff even it's one day before best before .

With a best before date at least you can see that the product hasn't been sitting on the shelf for donkeys

[ubasses]

If there are 2 boxes of the veg/fruit you require look at the labels in both boxes if 1 is higher than the other that is the freshest. Sometimes they are all the same batch but frequently they have put more recent delivery on the shelf.

[Bazile]

Barry
I've always accepted that if you buy fruit from a market ,then you take the risk that there will be bad ones shoved in

[Bazile]

ubasses
Thanks - I suspected that's what you meant

Just wanted to confirm

[roopower]

I think theres a move to take best before dates off milk too. Use the senses - if it looks, smells and tastes ok, it is!

[gl556tr]

Think I'll stop dating.