Supermarkets are no big suprise
but remember that tv programme on a few months ago? where 2 people went undercover and filmed people picking up fish from the floor and putting it on display? Well it is all true, no matter what the companies say like "It is only a few isolated incidents" or "only a few rogue stores or members of staff".....Bollocks.

We regularly got 'direct orders' from the highest level to try and sell out of date meat if 'it smelt ok' and our store manager used to check the delivery for damaged items and try to 'fix' them. His crowning achievement was gluing the lids back onto yoghurt pots that had come off.

Also we had to dispose of bread after a certain time, which meant 100's of loaves and buns, baps, scones etc went into the skip and they were still perfectly fine for at least another week...yet it was fine to sell out of date meat. Also when one staff member asked if the store could donate this bread to the local homeless shelter she was told that this would breach food health and safety (!?!?)

Anyway, my advice don't shop there (it was the first of the big English supermarkets to open in N.I.), or in any supermarket...buy your meat from a local butchers or bread from a bakers.

EDIT: Oh and one other thing...their chicken comes from the local factory just up the road....those chicken burgers are the out of date chicken fillets and breasts sent back to them, mashed up, repackaged and stuck straight back on the shelf.

No length jokes i'm afraid, they have been done to death and were never that funny to begin with.
( Bamboo Steamer, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 13:43, Reply)