"If it's hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something that's close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that's the good news,"
The key word in this statement is "can." Even if big grocers will lower prices the closer the products get to the expiration date, how close will they lower it and by how much?
In addition, Canada is moving towards removing Best Before dates (not expiry dates) to combat food waste. While I am behind the reduction of food waste, I can see Walmart and big grocery chains using that as an excuse to only have 1 markdown, or keep canned goods at the same price or higher for years without indicating how long they've been on the shelf.
I haven’t seen this yet regarding groceries but I wouldn’t put it past them to try it. My solution is to opt out. I won’t buy from companies pulling this crap. I also keep a deep pantry I fill when things are in season or on sale. Not everyone can do as much of this as I have but do what you can. Try to plan ahead. I’m also making a lot more things myself. Simple things. They don’t take much time. Like salad dressing as salsa. Looking for a used bread machine currently.
My nearby grocery store of the Texas chain giant HEB recently decided to imprison individual donuts in massive plastic containers. These used to be the ones you grabbed a bag or a box and selected which ones you wanted and paid x cents per donut. I saw an elderly man struggling to carry eight of those he had put in one of the donut boxes. Like who buys a single donut? Even a single person doesn’t. I found an employee and asked what the Fck??? They didn’t know why I was upset. We live in a world drowning in plastic among other things and they pull this crap. Well about two weeks later I saw the plastic donut prisons were gone. I had noticed no one was buying the donuts much anymore. Wonder why? So that’s a long road to say fight them with your dollars. Don’t reward them for stupid and greedy shit.
And just to clarify I was nice to the store person. He was a bakery assistant manager so not just a stocker or something. Some of these ideas are coming from corporate but some are local too.
Ugh! This is so depressing! I had no idea and it is such sneaky greed that goes under the radar that it is beyond wrong! But warriors such as you are sounding the alarm.
"If it's hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something that's close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that's the good news,"
The key word in this statement is "can." Even if big grocers will lower prices the closer the products get to the expiration date, how close will they lower it and by how much?
In addition, Canada is moving towards removing Best Before dates (not expiry dates) to combat food waste. While I am behind the reduction of food waste, I can see Walmart and big grocery chains using that as an excuse to only have 1 markdown, or keep canned goods at the same price or higher for years without indicating how long they've been on the shelf.
Right. They have the ability. We’ll see what they do with it.
I haven’t seen this yet regarding groceries but I wouldn’t put it past them to try it. My solution is to opt out. I won’t buy from companies pulling this crap. I also keep a deep pantry I fill when things are in season or on sale. Not everyone can do as much of this as I have but do what you can. Try to plan ahead. I’m also making a lot more things myself. Simple things. They don’t take much time. Like salad dressing as salsa. Looking for a used bread machine currently.
If more of us opt out, it won't work. There are more of us than of them.
My nearby grocery store of the Texas chain giant HEB recently decided to imprison individual donuts in massive plastic containers. These used to be the ones you grabbed a bag or a box and selected which ones you wanted and paid x cents per donut. I saw an elderly man struggling to carry eight of those he had put in one of the donut boxes. Like who buys a single donut? Even a single person doesn’t. I found an employee and asked what the Fck??? They didn’t know why I was upset. We live in a world drowning in plastic among other things and they pull this crap. Well about two weeks later I saw the plastic donut prisons were gone. I had noticed no one was buying the donuts much anymore. Wonder why? So that’s a long road to say fight them with your dollars. Don’t reward them for stupid and greedy shit.
And just to clarify I was nice to the store person. He was a bakery assistant manager so not just a stocker or something. Some of these ideas are coming from corporate but some are local too.
Ugh! This is so depressing! I had no idea and it is such sneaky greed that goes under the radar that it is beyond wrong! But warriors such as you are sounding the alarm.