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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 16:05:29 GMT
My ex used Asda's home delivery service for a while (going back 8 years or so), but I think I remember her saying she was getting too many products that did not have much lifespan left before expiry.
I'm not sure if its still an issue with Asda- either in that store, or in any other branches- and I don't know if its ever been an issue in any other retailers.
Has anyone noticed short-dated foods being an issue with home delivery shopping?
Because I don't want to have to revisit a supermarket too often, I do tend to reach to the back of the shelf and get the longest-dated products.
If I can get a supermarket to deliver to the nearest bridge (for example), then maybe I can get shopping more often, and thus I won't need to always look for longer-dated foods.
It's certainly good to know that delivering to random locations is a thing. If nothing else, maybe my I can retire my boater's trolley.
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Post by duncan on Dec 23, 2020 16:26:03 GMT
My ex used Asda's home delivery service for a while (going back 8 years or so), but I think I remember her saying she was getting too many products that did not have much lifespan left before expiry. I'm not sure if its still an issue with Asda- either in that store, or in any other branches- and I don't know if its ever been an issue in any other retailers. Has anyone noticed short-dated foods being an issue with home delivery shopping?Because I don't want to have to revisit a supermarket too often, I do tend to reach to the back of the shelf and get the longest-dated products. If I can get a supermarket to deliver to the nearest bridge (for example), then maybe I can get shopping more often, and thus I won't need to always look for longer-dated foods. It's certainly good to know that delivering to random locations is a thing. If nothing else, maybe my I can retire my boater's trolley. We have been click and collecting from Asda weekly since the start of the first lockdown for ourselves and mother in law. Usually the date is fine, but very rarely it is ridiculously short, in one case the produce was past the date so we got our money back. I think it depends on the awareness of the person picking, rather than a store thing. In todays collection for the MIL two puddings were dated today and 2 tomorrow, but I think that is the effect of them being closed for 2 days for Christmas. |
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Post by thebfg on Dec 23, 2020 17:45:35 GMT
The first post retirement job I took was as a Somerfields delivery driver back in 2007 ... back then the customer shopped themselves and then left the shopping for us to deliver ... the tag was 'You shop, we drop'. The deliveries were in timed fifteen minute drops so it was important to chase the clock. Home delivery shopping has seriously changed in the intervening years ... and Somerfields is no more .. rather like BHS ... thank goodness B&M survived employing me  Rog I keep forgetting that back in 2007 we were colleagues. Only just though, as it was that year somerfield brought all the texaco(star) stores in project golden arches, If my memory serves me right. But somerfield lives on, there are many of us still effectively in the same job. There are two of us at the warehouse. My local big coop is run by a former somerfield employee, we were team leaders together at one point, so I get looked after there. JohnV I can't believe in this day and age morrisons managers will have anything to do with ordering. Even at coop I can't remember how long ago we had manual ordering. |
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Post by Jim on Dec 23, 2020 17:56:13 GMT
Smugness prevails. A bit of garden produce comes out of the freezer or garden every day. Raspberries yesterday, kale and chard out of the garden, a bit of salad too, that's mostly purslane at the moment. The extremely misshapen carrots are delicious too. Hens aren't earning their keep at the moment, moulting, should come into lay again in a month. I do keep threatening them with a knife and pan. They may well be on strike cos they are now in a small (16' x 6' ) run cos I can't let them out -bird flu restrictions. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 18:21:10 GMT
My ex used Asda's home delivery service for a while (going back 8 years or so), but I think I remember her saying she was getting too many products that did not have much lifespan left before expiry. I'm not sure if its still an issue with Asda- either in that store, or in any other branches- and I don't know if its ever been an issue in any other retailers. Has anyone noticed short-dated foods being an issue with home delivery shopping?Because I don't want to have to revisit a supermarket too often, I do tend to reach to the back of the shelf and get the longest-dated products. If I can get a supermarket to deliver to the nearest bridge (for example), then maybe I can get shopping more often, and thus I won't need to always look for longer-dated foods. It's certainly good to know that delivering to random locations is a thing. If nothing else, maybe my I can retire my boater's trolley. We have been click and collecting from Asda weekly since the start of the first lockdown for ourselves and mother in law. Usually the date is fine, but very rarely it is ridiculously short, in one case the produce was past the date so we got our money back. I think it depends on the awareness of the person picking, rather than a store thing. In todays collection for the MIL two puddings were dated today and 2 tomorrow, but I think that is the effect of them being closed for 2 days for Christmas. If that happened to me, it would mean me having to eat four puddings in two days. That said, my dessert consumption in times of stress has peaked at four puddings in two hours. I could make it. |
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Post by JohnV on Dec 23, 2020 18:36:45 GMT
The first post retirement job I took was as a Somerfields delivery driver back in 2007 ... back then the customer shopped themselves and then left the shopping for us to deliver ... the tag was 'You shop, we drop'. The deliveries were in timed fifteen minute drops so it was important to chase the clock. Home delivery shopping has seriously changed in the intervening years ... and Somerfields is no more .. rather like BHS ... thank goodness B&M survived employing me Rog I keep forgetting that back in 2007 we were colleagues. Only just though, as it was that year somerfield brought all the texaco(star) stores in project golden arches, If my memory serves me right. But somerfield lives on, there are many of us still effectively in the same job. There are two of us at the warehouse. My local big coop is run by a former somerfield employee, we were team leaders together at one point, so I get looked after there. JohnV I can't believe in this day and age morrisons managers will have anything to do with ordering. Even at coop I can't remember how long ago we had manual ordering.maybe it was just coincidence but there was certainly a vast change at the same time |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 23, 2020 18:58:02 GMT
I shop at Morrisons because it's closest and it's ok but I don't know any other supermarket which runs out of lines as often and at all times of day, their supply chain is obviously a load of poo.
When I was in Benfleet the Morrisons was ace ......... then they got a new manager and the standards bottomed .... It's probably not the supply chain, it's probably the ordering
When the bar code is scanned at the checkout, most customers think that all this does is ring up the price on the till to save the checkout cashier from typing it in. However, it does far more than this. Every hour or so, the computer at the store sends a message to the computer at the Regional Distribution Centre telling it exactly what it has sold since its last communication. Immediately, pickers set off around the RDC on low level order pickers (known as LLOPs in the industry or "flip-flops" by those who drive them) replacing the sold items on a one-for-one basis and these items should be loaded onto a trailer within an hour and at the store within an hour after that. At least, this is how it works at Tesco- I've done my fair share of Tesco distribution- and Tesco rarely if ever have empty spaces on the shelves. With Morrisons it seems to be pot luck if they have an item on the shelf so I can only put this down to some type of failure in their logistics operation. |
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Post by thebfg on Dec 23, 2020 19:11:07 GMT
When I was in Benfleet the Morrisons was ace ......... then they got a new manager and the standards bottomed .... It's probably not the supply chain, it's probably the ordering
When the bar code is scanned at the checkout, most customers think that all this does is ring up the price on the till to save the checkout cashier from typing it in. However, it does far more than this. Every hour or so, the computer at the store sends a message to the computer at the Regional Distribution Centre telling it exactly what it has sold since its last communication. Immediately, pickers set off around the RDC on low level order pickers (known as LLOPs in the industry or "flip-flops" by those who drive them) replacing the sold items on a one-for-one basis and these items should be loaded onto a trailer within an hour and at the store within an hour after that. At least, this is how it works at Tesco- I've done my fair share of Tesco distribution- and Tesco rarely if ever have empty spaces on the shelves. With Morrisons it seems to be pot luck if they have an item on the shelf so I can only put this down to some type of failure in their logistics operation. Hated picking but we do have a laugh banger racing on the LLOPs, thank god after a couple of months I took my reach test and now get to sit on arse driving the reach truck. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 19:50:42 GMT
I wondered if empty shelves might be a deliberate strategy to push shoppers towards other products at certain times.
It seems odd that a large supermarket group like Morrisons would get something as basic as logistics that badly wrong.
I don't suppose it is the "value" items which run out, by any chance.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 20:26:14 GMT
Smugness prevails. A bit of garden produce comes out of the freezer or garden every day. Raspberries yesterday, kale and chard out of the garden, a bit of salad too, that's mostly purslane at the moment. The extremely misshapen carrots are delicious too. Hens aren't earning their keep at the moment, moulting, should come into lay again in a month. I do keep threatening them with a knife and pan. They may well be on strike cos they are now in a small (16' x 6' ) run cos I can't let them out -bird flu restrictions. Hens naturally lay eggs in spring, I used to have 14 thousand under my wing(sorry), and the poor things were subject to more and more forced lighting as they got older, then they were dispatched ingloriously, and replaced with a new generation of eighteen week olds. You should bring them inside and turn on the lights |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 20:28:27 GMT
I heard the reason they call them battery hens is because they spend their lives in a space the size of the average car battery.
No idea if that's true or if I made it up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 20:34:44 GMT
Where I lived in Scotland, ASDA pickers were told to pick what they would buy for themselves, and short dated items like raspberries were noted on the delivery slip.
Subs were invariably better, one paid the original price if higher, a quick phone call if anything damaged resulted in a refund.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 20:41:05 GMT
I heard the reason they call them battery hens is because they spend their lives in a space the size of the average car battery. No idea if that's true or if I made it up. I don't think so, more like batteries of cages which are stacked. Feed is dropped in front of them, while the poop drops through the floor bars. I believe there are now regulations on cage dimensions, and in theory they should be able to stretch their wings. UK RSPCA welfare advisories. Food from abroad is a different matter. I never eat Danish bacon for example, or pate de foi gras. |
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Post by dyertribe on Dec 23, 2020 21:23:14 GMT
Virtually all beer sold in the UK, including "foreign" beer is brewed under licence in the UK. As for the rest, probably yes except for fruit. I bet they don't make printing ink the way they used to anymore... No, they don’t it used to have arsenic in it! Midwives would deliver babies onto newspaper in really filthy houses because the arsenic killed the germs |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 21:26:12 GMT
I bet they don't make printing ink the way they used to anymore... No, they don’t it used to have arsenic in it! Midwives would deliver babies onto newspaper in really filthy houses because the arsenic killed the germs That was probably me then. |
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