Approaching Use By Meat
ALWAYS pick up meat that's priced down, and approaching it's "Use By"... chances are it'll be gone off and you wont be able to use it, instead return it the next day and ask to "Exchange"... sometimes you'll have to get a refund, but if it's simply carrying a bag up a road and back down as you go about your business, then it's only a couple of minutes of your life... and if the meats worth £5 and you pay £1 for it, and then it's no good and you get it exchanged for £5 worth of good meat, then you can't say fairer than that!
(Universon, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:25, 18 replies)

You're a moron.
thanks for the 8th useless tip in the last 5 minutes, but you'll find if you return something past it's 'use by' date, you won't get an exchange or a refund.

How about you stop making stupid shit up?
(username failed moderation, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:29, closed)

Thanks for the insult, but i'm not and you are wrong....

If you read what I wrote "Approaching Use By Meat
ALWAYS pick up meat that's priced down, and approaching it's "Use By"

You will notice that I am not advocating purchasing Meat that is past it's Use by date (at which point they are not allowed to sell it to you anyway). I am advocating purchasing Meat approaching it's "Use By" date.... something I do at any and every available opportunity by the way.... You will get an exchange or a refund.

I have done this in Asda, Tesco, Tesco Express, Morrison, and Iceland.

I am making nothing up.

And you CAN return something AFTER its 'Use By' Date... if you purchase it on the day it goes out of date, take it home, it's no good, bring it back the next morning.

Why call me a moron? I provided perfectly usable information, that's perfectly legit and not in any way made up!
(Universon, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:36, closed)

OK, Mr Trolly
McTroll.

Nearly 5 years of lurking, and you've lasted less than an hour.
(username failed moderation, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:41, closed)

I'm the Troll?
I make a good suggestion, of something that I do regularly, that is completely fine to do, that isn't even being the slightest bit naughty, and you call me names, suggest i'm making it up, and the next guy reckons it's fraud? Seriously... more namecalling?
(Universon, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:51, closed)

It might not technically be fraud (in the legal sense),
but it's sure as hell dishonest if you're doing it on purpose. You're basically working the system to get £5 worth of stuff for £1.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 21:14, closed)

It's not fraud in any shape or fashion.

My primary purpose is to get 'cheap meat'.
The meat is for sale as 'good' and is labelled as being within the 'use by' date.
If I take it home and it is good then I eat it or freeze it for another occasion.
If it cost £5 but was marked down to £1, I have saved £4.
If however the meat is not good, despite being sold to me as 'good' then I return it, as was not good.
Dependent upon the store they either give you your money back (refund)
OR they will exchange what was supposed to be 'good meat' for another pack of 'good meat' - this time one that was not originally marked down, but is of the same weight/range etc.. (exchange for like).
Asda once refunded me £6 for meat, and then gave me £6 extra as an apology.
There is NOTHING fraudulent / Dishonest, it is STORE POLICY.
Bizarre that people think there's something wrong with this.
(Universon, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 10:26, closed)

Doesn't matter how you dress this up, this is fraud.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:30, closed)

There is no fraud in this at all.

1. I purchased goods 'Approaching' their 'Use By' Date.
2. Therefore they should be 'fit for purpose' which is 'human consumption'.
3. If they are not 'fit for purpose' / 'human consumption' I am entitled to return them.

In returning them I am entitled to exchange/refund - dependent upon store policy.

My personal strategy is to buy something, and cook it that night if it's good. If not, then i'll get my money back, or i'll get some 'good' food of the same variety in exchange (having paid less).

This is NOT in any way fraud whatsoever
(Universon, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:38, closed)

So what you're saying
is that this meat you buy is rotten before it's use by date, right?

Yeah, this sounds like a lucrative little scheme. Supermarkets are always awash with rotten meat.
(username failed moderation, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:42, closed)

Walking home from work, I stop in the supermarket, there is normally a section that they mark down in price late in the afternoon, and again later at night... I dont know any supermarkets that dont do this now...

If you purchase meat/prawns whatever, goods that do turn very rapidly, and you purchase them on the 2nd, with that being the use by date (because it includes it), you then walk the next 10 minutes home, open the packet, and the goods are no good - then you can take it back right then, or take it back the next day.

If it's good you cook and eat it, if it's bad you take it back. They sold it to you as 'good' and inside their timelines, it was not good, so they are legally obliged to return it. I'm not talking about swapping products out, or putting meat ontop radiators to make it turn or whatever... that'd be pointless, because you want the food you bought... and all you're getting the next day is a refund on an attempt to get food cheaper (that failed due to product quality) or you're getting a replacement of good quality, that if you purchased it in the shop that day, you'd be paying in full for.

It's not rocket science... i'm not trying to get bad meat, i'm trying to get good meat, but with the safety of knowing the two alternatives.

No idea how it's meant to be 'lucrative', you'd be saving £4 on a £5 piece of meat if it was good, if no good and exchanged you'd still only be saving the same (with the discounting transferred due to a 'like goods' policy) or you'd get a refund and the opportunity to pay full price.

Any reason why you're continuing to insist i'm making this up, when in fact it's something I do every week, and you've no reason to suggest it doesn't happen and wouldn't work, whilst calling me a Moron.
(Universon, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:50, closed)

Good tip but wrong advice
simply buy it and then stick it in the freezer, nearly every piece of reduced meat I've seen has a 'safe to freeze' label on it.
(sailorspoon started wiping his own arse from, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:51, closed)

Portion it first
for extra ease of use.
(sailorspoon started wiping his own arse from, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:52, closed)

Yeah that too, but my advice still applies - or you're shooting yourself in the foot!

Before putting in freezer, examine it and smell it first... or you'll be freezing gone-off meat... in which case - take it back and get a refund/exchange (and then freeze it), i'd probably have said the same thing too, only my freezers been full and continuously topped up for the best part of a year;) So obviously you're right.... if it's good fill your freezer. I've come home from Morrisons with 2 turkeys covered in bacon, 4 chickens, 2 joints of pork and a sirloin steak for £8 quid before, saving me about £35 (that steak was £1, down from an original price of £8...)

But yeah, my freezer is full up of chopped up chickens, joints of pork, sliced meats etc...

Definitely a good addition!
(Universon, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 17:55, closed)

My freezer
is full of chopped up hookers.
(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:14, closed)

More often than not, the meat will be perfectly useable.
I don't think your trolling, but you might have overstated the likelihood of getting a refund/higher value exchange.

My freezer is full of dismembered hookers. Try as I might, Tesco won't take them.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:27, closed)

Nah, I get a refund each and every time, because what they sold was not good as promised. It's their gamble, not mine, because they're not allowed to sell bad meat, so they have to offer a refund etc...

Figure it to be like buying a new car just before they change the shapes/plates. You get it at a discount price, if it's defective, you can return it and get your money back OR they'll offer to swap you for the new model. (Obviously they'll try and get some more cash out of you, these are car dealers, but yeah....)
(Universon, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 10:28, closed)

Universon
I'll stand by you on this one as i've done just the same, and yes, all you doubters out there, Tescos etc will always refund or exchange.
(boarders You won't catch me with my trousers, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 23:12, closed)

Just choke the stuff down
If it's bad it will come up on its own.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 0:09, closed)