Getting people to buy imperfect produce

Re:Getting people to buy imperfect produce by foxhop on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @07:27PM (#20280323)

It's a myth in the USA.

Ugly food doesn't make it to the store, it becomes something else which has a longer shelf life.

Food past it's prime goes into the dumpster, without any chance of a discount or price reduction.

Source: The organic potatoes I tried to buy from ALDI which were very sprouted because it was the end of winter begining of sprint and the spuds wanted to grow into plants but the clerk's manager told me, "I can sell them to your for full price, or I have to throw them away."

Writing an email to ALDI corp yielded no response on this matter.

I am a gardener, I could have prevented food waste in this situation.

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Re:Getting people to buy imperfect produce by londons_explore on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @07:58PM (#20280552)

Employees selling discounted goods to friends is a big source of losses for many retail shops.

That's why they normally have very rigid discounting rules. Discounts are allowed on the day of expiry for example, and the discount percentage is based on how many hours till closing time.

If the goods are bruised and not yet on the day of expiry, they don't allow discounting, although the product can be binned.

Some food gets wasted, but employee fraud would be far larger any other way.

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Re:Getting people to buy imperfect produce by nashashmi on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @08:11PM (#20280653)

Employee fraud can actually be an employee perk. I worked at a grocery supermarket before. No perks or discounts are offered to employees. Sub quality food is actually a great perk.

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Re:Getting people to buy imperfect produce by pwodhouse on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @09:02PM (#20280944)

Most stores lower price on product as it ages, if they don't sell out. they don't waste time negotiating one-off deals for a single item purchase.

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