They hardly discount meat that expires the same day. I went in the Tuesday after Australia Day and they had a full display section of lamb chops expiring that day. Obviously they hadn’t had the Australia Day weekend lamb orders they expected.
None of the $~20 packs that I had gone there to buy were discounted more than 20c. I think they are allergic to offering actual discounts, to the point they’d rather throw out an entire display of lamb than offer them at a discount that would tempt people to change their that night dinner plans.
If they deeply discount those things all it does is lead to customers only being willing to buy deeply discounted about to expire meat, at which point there’s no point them stocking meat because they would just be flushing money down the toilet.
Unfortunately it’s better business to discard it, and our laws basically mean they can’t even donate it once it is even a minute past the best before/expiry date.
They hardly discount meat that expires the same day. I went in the Tuesday after Australia Day and they had a full display section of lamb chops expiring that day. Obviously they hadn’t had the Australia Day weekend lamb orders they expected.
None of the $~20 packs that I had gone there to buy were discounted more than 20c. I think they are allergic to offering actual discounts, to the point they’d rather throw out an entire display of lamb than offer them at a discount that would tempt people to change their that night dinner plans.
Back in the day losing a couple thousand dollars of meat meant you had serious fucking problems.
Now it just means a write off and a tax deduction.
If they deeply discount those things all it does is lead to customers only being willing to buy deeply discounted about to expire meat, at which point there’s no point them stocking meat because they would just be flushing money down the toilet.
Unfortunately it’s better business to discard it, and our laws basically mean they can’t even donate it once it is even a minute past the best before/expiry date.
British supermarkets properly discount meat that’s on its last day, and they still manage to be a cartel running a racket on the consumer.