Tesco food exchange

[PurpleMoonlight]

What happens to the returned items?

Surely they can't put them back on the shelves.

[Ste1987]

As long as it's in date and, if chilled, is still cool I don't see a problem. To be honest I don't know why Tesco are making a song and dance about it, it's not like it's a new concept to exchange food you've changed your mind about. I used to work for Asda and food was exchanged every now and then due to either error or change of mind, but it was mainly defective. Baby formula, on the other hand, can be exchanged but cannot be resold

[PurpleMoonlight]

Ste1987 said:

As long as it's in date and, if chilled, is still cool I don't see a problem.

Because Tesco have no idea how it has been stored in the meantime, or in the extreme deliberately tampered with.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Imagine eating a returned cucumber..

You'd have no idea if someone teabagged a melon so I sincerely hope they don't resell it.

[Butter Face]

I saw the advert and had a chuckle. What kind of idiot would take back a watermelon and change it for a pineapple (or whatever) just eat the watermelon then on your next trip buy a pineapple.

It's all very odd.

[Ste1987]

PurpleMoonlight said:

Ste1987 said:

As long as it's in date and, if chilled, is still cool I don't see a problem.

Because Tesco have no idea how it has been stored in the meantime, or in the extreme deliberately tampered with.

Yeah I did consider that after posting. To be fair, I can't imagine anyone returning food if there was nothing wrong with it. And who would return a 40p cucumber because they've "changed their mind"

[BRISTOL86]

PurpleMoonlight said:

Ste1987 said:

As long as it's in date and, if chilled, is still cool I don't see a problem.

Because Tesco have no idea how it has been stored in the meantime, or in the extreme deliberately tampered with.

Precisely this. Don't much like the idea of buying meat that's been potentially sat in someone's warm car all day before they take it back on their way home from work!

[spitfire-ian]

Can't remember where I read it now but Tesco aren't putting the returned stuff back on the shelves, it gets binned.

[PurpleMoonlight]

To wilfully design a policy that will waste food is grossly irresponsible.

[Riley Blue]

Probably ends up here where it's put to good use: http://therealjunkfoodproject.org

[Butter Face]

Riley Blue said:

Probably ends up here where it's put to good use: http://therealjunkfoodproject.org

I bet it just ends up on landfill as 'wastage'

[Riley Blue]

Butter Face said:

Riley Blue said:

Probably ends up here where it's put to good use: http://therealjunkfoodproject.org

I bet it just ends up on landfill as 'wastage'

I'd like to think not. As far back as the 1960s, when I had a holiday job in the Naafi in Germany, discarded food never ended up in landfill, it went to a local farmer to feed his pigs.

[21TonyK]

I'd be amazed if it didn't go in the bin. Food safety and potential liability for Tesco, not a risk they'd take.

[S10GTA]

I used to work at tesco and there was a caveat on chilled food, could only be returned within 15 mins.