so angry with tesco.

[lilmissdanni]

I am absolutely fuming. I bought some sausages out of the reduced fridge this morning. Went and opened the packet before and they stank. The reduced sticker was over the date but I knew something was wrong. Looked on the underside of where the date was....and the use by date was up by 3 days. Some cunning get had placed the reduced sticker over the date then put them in the fridge. I know they wernt in the reduced fridge yesterday as I was in tesco at 3:55 (they close at 4) getting milk and I always look in the reduced fridges.

Ive bagged them up, stuck them in my fridge and im ringing trading standards tomorrow. The receipt is in my purse nice and safe.

What has made me so angry is (and maybe I shouldnt admit this) we have been letting rylan play with some food off our plates at meal times....if I was to give him the inside of one of those sausages to squish in his hands, I dread to think what might have happened

 

[Casey3]

Ugh that's a bummer. They should be better at labelling things, some things just shouldn't be sold.

I'm mad at Zara today, I've owned pants for less than a month and they've already ripped. Off topic, but some retail locations just suck lol.

 

[littlegenes]

Maybe im ******** but I thought reduced items were passed their sell by date and hence why they are reduced- I wouldn't kick a fuss if im honest. What would you of done if you lived 50 years ago and sell by dates didn't exist?

 

[2016]

I would also be annoyed by that but wouldn't necessarily ring trading standards. I would complain to the store directly first. It is possible a staff member didnt even realise the date themselves and just zapped the reduced label on the pack without looking. Im not saying its right, I'm saying everyone makes mistakes. If you complain to the store you'll probably find they give you some vouchers to compensate. You won't get anything out if trading standards.

 

[Polarbear]

Ring trading standards, then take your sausages back to the store. If you scream at them angrily for a bit, they'll probably give you free stuff...

 

[omfgski]

.

 

[apple_20]

I used to work at co-op and if the food was out of date it came up on the screen when we scanned it so we couldn't sell it even when begged to. Also they would have known the used by date when reducing it as that helps you decide how cheap to sell it.

 

[ktod]

If its a use by date they can't sell it to you at all after that date. If its display till but not actually out of date they can sell it but usually it is made very clear. Somewhere like tesco I'm sure will have a rule that anything at the display or use by date can't be sold, it's just not worth the risk to them. Definitely complain to tesco themselves, either head office or the store (I'd go for head office) trading standards won't give you any freebies!! Lol

 

[LoraLoo]

Maybe im ******** but I thought reduced items were passed their sell by date and hence why they are reduced- I wouldn't kick a fuss if im honest. What would you of done if you lived 50 years ago and sell by dates didn't exist?

Best Before and Use By dates are 2 different things. Best by dates might not taste as good, but wont make you poorly if you eat them. Use by dates are different- these are things like meat, eggs etc that WILL make you poorly if you eat them past their date. Imagine giving a baby rotten meat? 50 years ago the life expectancy was a lot lower- for good reason !!!!

 

[HPmum2B]

I would think its unlikely its been done on purpose. The guy putting the stickers on have nothing to gain by it.
From a health point of view, use by and sell by dates are guidelines anyway, there is no real science behind them. Its more important food is cooked properly than the date on it. That being said, I always do the sniff test on food that has been in my fridge a few days (even if it is still in date), anything offensive goes in the bin.

It is always a pain in the backside when something is up with your shopping though, so I understand your annoyance. Agree with pp's, prob do better if you go back to the store than to trading standards.

 

[HPmum2B]

Maybe im ******** but I thought reduced items were passed their sell by date and hence why they are reduced- I wouldn't kick a fuss if im honest. What would you of done if you lived 50 years ago and sell by dates didn't exist?

Best Before and Use By dates are 2 different things. Best by dates might not taste as good, but wont make you poorly if you eat them. Use by dates are different- these are things like meat, eggs etc that WILL make you poorly if you eat them past their date. Imagine giving a baby rotten meat? 50 years ago the life expectancy was a lot lower- for good reason !!!!

Actually, I believe eggs normally come with best before dates on them (can't be bothered to go to my fridge and double check). However, they are one of the few best before (as apposed to use by) dates I would not go past.

 

[maisie78]

Bloody Tesco, can't stand them. I bought some dry dog food there the other day (only in desperation as we'd run out), got it home to find the best before date was end of JUNE! I know it wouldn't have done the dogs any harm I was just really angry that it was THAT over the bbe date and I paid full price too. Think Tesco standards are so much lower than many of the other chains.

 

[MLC20]

I bought some pork the other day which was supposed to go out of date Thursday this week but, was off when I opened it. Couldn't be bothered returning it tbh so it's in the bin. It seems such a waste though.

 

[freckleonear]

Complain and hopefully you'll get a voucher! It's illegal to sell things after their use by dates. I find that Tesco meat sometimes starts to go off the day or even the day before the date on the packaging, so definitely not good once it's past the date.

Maybe im ******** but I thought reduced items were passed their sell by date and hence why they are reduced- I wouldn't kick a fuss if im honest. What would you of done if you lived 50 years ago and sell by dates didn't exist?

Best Before and Use By dates are 2 different things. Best by dates might not taste as good, but wont make you poorly if you eat them. Use by dates are different- these are things like meat, eggs etc that WILL make you poorly if you eat them past their date. Imagine giving a baby rotten meat? 50 years ago the life expectancy was a lot lower- for good reason !!!!

Actually, I believe eggs normally come with best before dates on them (can't be bothered to go to my fridge and double check). However, they are one of the few best before (as apposed to use by) dates I would not go past.

Our family eats eggs up to a month after their date. We don't store them in the fridge either, and have never been ill. Eggs keep a lot longer than the best before date and I don't like throwing out perfectly good food. As long as it looks and smells okay, then it's edible in my opinion.

 

[HPmum2B]

Complain and hopefully you'll get a voucher! It's illegal to sell things after their use by dates. I find that Tesco meat sometimes starts to go off the day or even the day before the date on the packaging, so definitely not good once it's past the date.

Maybe im ******** but I thought reduced items were passed their sell by date and hence why they are reduced- I wouldn't kick a fuss if im honest. What would you of done if you lived 50 years ago and sell by dates didn't exist?

Best Before and Use By dates are 2 different things. Best by dates might not taste as good, but wont make you poorly if you eat them. Use by dates are different- these are things like meat, eggs etc that WILL make you poorly if you eat them past their date. Imagine giving a baby rotten meat? 50 years ago the life expectancy was a lot lower- for good reason !!!!

Actually, I believe eggs normally come with best before dates on them (can't be bothered to go to my fridge and double check). However, they are one of the few best before (as apposed to use by) dates I would not go past.

Our family eats eggs up to a month after their date. We don't store them in the fridge either, and have never been ill. Eggs keep a lot longer than the best before date and I don't like throwing out perfectly good food. As long as it looks and smells okay, then it's edible in my opinion.

Yeah, I think the safest thing to do no matter what the date, is just make sure everything is cooked well.

 

[littlegenes]

Complain and hopefully you'll get a voucher! It's illegal to sell things after their use by dates. I find that Tesco meat sometimes starts to go off the day or even the day before the date on the packaging, so definitely not good once it's past the date.

Maybe im ******** but I thought reduced items were passed their sell by date and hence why they are reduced- I wouldn't kick a fuss if im honest. What would you of done if you lived 50 years ago and sell by dates didn't exist?

Best Before and Use By dates are 2 different things. Best by dates might not taste as good, but wont make you poorly if you eat them. Use by dates are different- these are things like meat, eggs etc that WILL make you poorly if you eat them past their date. Imagine giving a baby rotten meat? 50 years ago the life expectancy was a lot lower- for good reason !!!!

Actually, I believe eggs normally come with best before dates on them (can't be bothered to go to my fridge and double check). However, they are one of the few best before (as apposed to use by) dates I would not go past.

Our family eats eggs up to a month after their date. We don't store them in the fridge either, and have never been ill. Eggs keep a lot longer than the best before date and I don't like throwing out perfectly good food. As long as it looks and smells okay, then it's edible in my opinion.

Exactly this- if it looks OK and smells OK when I've cooked it- it will be eaten. Food costs enough without buying it to throw it away!

Im in London at the moment and I went to my sisters for tea (I actually made it) and I used chicken that was 2 days past its sell by date as I have before- several times. I will put things in the fridge that were meant for the freezer and not realize until the "sell by date" was up.

Another way I look at it- my mother is 60, my dad 63 and my grandmother is 92. All three of them have eaten foods with out sell by dates and are still alive and kicking without getting food poisoning. IMO, its just another way to get money out of people- if it smells like the bottom of toilet...don't eat it. Otherwise...fine. Common sense.

OK "life expectancy" was less 50 years ago- more people died of diseases that we have now found a cure for. People didn't just conk out because they eat something that was out of date.


As I said OP- the food is obviously not fit for consumption. But I would find something better to do with your time tomorrow morning than sitting on the phone to trading standards. If you really want to have a moan- go into the store and ask for a refund, but that is as far as it will go.

 

[lilmissdanni]

Im going to try and ring them tomorrow....try being the operative word as they never answer the phone! I've been poisoned by tesco own brand coke once...was in hospital for 3 weeks. Some cleaning fluid got into a batch of the drink either by accident or sabotage, they never found out but I had a bottle at lunch time at work and as it was a hot day, drank a huge mouthful.
I
I'm wary of tesco obviously but its at the end of my road and so handy!

 

[mummylove]

Me and oh bought a cake each from the spa garage near us a few weeks ago the date was to be eaten the same day we went to eat it open mine and it smelt tried a bit and the cream was awful it had gone of and my pjs was. I got him to go back and he got our money back

 

[littlegenes]

Im going to try and ring them tomorrow....try being the operative word as they never answer the phone! I've been poisoned by tesco own brand coke once...was in hospital for 3 weeks. Some cleaning fluid got into a batch of the drink either by accident or sabotage, they never found out but I had a bottle at lunch time at work and as it was a hot day, drank a huge mouthful.
I
I'm wary of tesco obviously but its at the end of my road and so handy!

With a case like that- I hope your took the mofos to court and sued them for all they are worth.

 

[Mama_noni]

I bought some mince from tesco and it had obviously not been stored properly before they put it on the shelves it was well within date but when I opened it to cook it was brown all the way through the middle and on the underside...gross! X