Rambo at Tesco's

[Gandahar]

I went down to our supermarket today and bought a st load of cheap food all nearly past it's sell by date.

60p breads rolls for 16p. Some cod fish cakes down from £2.65 to 80p and finally two venison burgers reduced from £3 to 90p. I love this sort of shopping. Sadly you always meet some old hag down there desperate for a bargain too and you end up both riffling through it all as fast as possible, before the other person gets the ultimate bargain of the night; it's a bit like 21st C medieval joust. Eventually I pushed her away with the sharp end of my trolley but you still wonder if you might turn to stone during the evening due to that final look.

It's a neon lit, temperature controlled, jungle out there just in front of the Tesco's Desporados cheap food shoot out booth.

I was thinking that with Brexit about to kick in and yet more people queuing up to "steal" all my bargains, what I need is something like a Terminator Cyberdyne systems robot to just sit there until I can turn up. He picks up all the best bargains and if anyone approaches shoots them with his Uzi 9mm in the 40 watt Tesco value range.

[Sebring440]

A bit council, obvs, but reading the above, you (at least) managed to pick up a few bottles of Mad Dog or White Lightning and downed the lot?

[Pete Franklin]

I once saw two middle age women accidentally head but each other while desperately scrambling for a reduced beef joint. They looked properly hurt but it was impossible not to laugh.

[D1bram]

At my old local Tesco (Seacroft in Leeds) watching the reduced veg trolley was a real spectator sport...

Certain ethnic minorities used to loiter about waiting for it and then literally 'pounce' furiously grabbing as much as they could - I say a staff member knocked flat on their back during the scramble on one occasion.

Watching a guy go through the checkout in front of me with more reduced potatoes than a family of ten could feasible eat in a month... I commented to the woman on the checkout. Apparently they reduced veg is often resold in local shops in and around Harehills which explained the demographic and the quantities being taken.

[sgtBerbatov]

I remember on a Sunday afternoon in a Tesco I used to frequent there being a mad throng of people waiting for the reduced food to come out. As soon as the trolley came out, the poor sod couldn't even put them on the shelf as they were being taken. People pushing other people out of the way.

Two policement just happened to be nearby, and they broke it up. Literally the first and only time I have seen the Police police reduced food. It was like there was a ration on or something.

[dogbucket]

[DJFish]

I was hoping somebody would post one of the Viz cartoons featuring this wonderful phenomenon.
At our local Waitrose there's a little club who all meet up in the coffee shop just before closing, apparently it's all very civilised...at first.

[HTP99]

Back in my student days I worked for Sainsburys, at the end of the day there would be the same gaggle of people all hanging about in the produce area, waiting for the poor guy to bring out the trolley of reduced items, as soon as he would appear there would be a massive bunfight for it, it reminds me of those youtube videos that you get of the rush of sun loungers at a holiday resort.

It was the same people daily, at the same time.

[Type R Tom]

When I worked in a supermarket and old couple used to come around 10 minutes before close and pick up the yellow labels. They had a great eye for finding stuff on the date that had been missed asking "is this going to be reduced?" Didn't mind too much, saved me looking too hard!

[handpaper]

No.2 son has worked at Tesco for 3 months now.
He thinks he should be allowed to go armed when putting out reductions...

[lucido grigio]

I've never seen a scrum at my local Asda for the reduced stuff but maybe I'm just not there at the right time.

I browse the small shelf of short date use by's to see if there's anything worth buying that I can eat same day.