Ironhide wrote:I can understand why no shop would give away expired food even if it was technically fit to eat as there would be a risk that it could make someone ill, however, throwing away food which is simply near its expiry date is just wasteful as it could easily be given to the homeless and the very poor.
Supermarkets will always need to throw away excess stock but it shouldn't happen with food still in date.
Yeah, but what I was talking about in regards to milk... they deliberately stock more than they can sell and factor the wastage into the margins. In fact, Tesco do not make much money selling stuff like milk; basic commodities like that are priced as cheaply as possible in order to attract people into the store. They would probably still stock it in such levels even if they were losing money.
The point is that it is unnecessary wastage. Milk not shipped to supermarkets for direct consumption can be rendered into products with much longer sell by dates and even reduced to a powered form. The fact that so much of it is wasted is scandalous. It was probably better when it was common place to have milkmen delivery it to people; seeing as then they would know in advance the amount they would need for any given week.
