Tesco is renaming the “Reduced to Clear” section of their supermarkets to make it more appealing to customers, as a growing number of shoppers look to discounted produce to cut costs.
If more people want it then you’ve not got to make it more attractive, do you?
It is always
a) full of this vegan rubbish
b) only marked down a tiny fraction
They had some nice steak the other day. It was only down 50p or so and still cost nearly a fiver.
Should be called ” Not reduced by much to clear.”
Otto +1.
In Tesco, the initial reduction seems to be about 10%. If it hasn’t shifted after an hour or two they’ll drop it again, so timing is everything. Lidl and Aldi seem to do 30% as the first cut……..
If, on the other hand, the Tesco guy with the “reduced to clear” sticker gun is your friend, there are some great bargains to be had.
And yet the Daily Wail had a news story just yesterday about a fight at this counter between customers. If you’ve got people doing that…
Of course, this is just a ‘let’s be seen to be doing something, yah? Ok let’s go for coffee’ initiative in the PR department.
Adolff. That’s what we do with things like doughnuts. In places like Tesco and Asda there’s an initial price drop for doughnuts, followed, towards late afternoon / early evening, a bigger price drop. We wait for the bigger price drop and buy doughnuts then.
Ottokring. Don’t ever buy vegan ‘cheese’. I’ve been looking for a non dairy alternative to have with meat (because I keep kosher) but every vegan cheese I’ve tried is awful. I think the worst one I had was a vegan ‘cheese’ that had a worryingly unpleasant texture and looked and tasted like the hard rubbery that car manufacturers make steering bush rubbers from. Made me wonder if some former British Leyland workers had gone into the vegan cheese business.
I can confirm this. I accidentally bought some vegan ‘cheese’ once. Not only was it deeply unpleasant to eat (it was even nastier than American ‘cheese’), it was deeply unpleasant for everyone else around me as it gave me really acrid flatulence.
I have a pal who is a high caste Brahmin. He eats paneer ( Vishnu only knows why, terrible stuff ) but can’t eat chees and onion crisps because they are flavoured with rennet.
I noticed that the Dunkin Donuts in Sainsburys are just thrown straight away and not reduced.
It depends on the store. My local Tesco used to do the main clear out to the discount shelf around 6PM with a final discounting around 9PM of whatever was left. Lots of vegan rubbish as others have said.
A year or two ago the discounts were far steeper (40-60% being typical), but they’re now far less, more like 10-20% at 6PM and 30-40% at 9PM.
This is for stuff which will be thrown at the end of the day after the store is closed, so seems a bit weird, but I’m sure Tesco know their business.
Fahrenheit 211
Spot on – genuinely awful stuff! The worry is based on the story from Stirling university and when looking at the plans of this government is that this is all you’ll be left with when dairy and meat are banned (as seems likely to happen in the next two decades) for general consumption – a lot of acrid flatulence to come!
JG, maybe it’s down to the store manager. My local big superstore Tesco starts reducing stuff just after mid-day.
“even nastier than American ‘cheese’”: at least the Yanks have the decency to ensure that much of their ‘cheese’ is just holes.
I can understand them wanting to make it look more appealing. In my local Tesco it’s a grubby little area at the end of an aisle where the dud and out of date stuff has been chucked on shelves. It always attracts dirty furtive looking types who look desperate.
As a member of the squeezed but respectable middle class, I don’t consider myself in that category. I would like to browse for the odd bargain without being jostled by emphysemic wrecks and starving pikies.
@Sam Vara – November 17, 2022 at 10:29 am
It always attracts dirty furtive looking types who look desperate.
As a member of the squeezed but respectable middle class, I don’t consider myself in that category.
I say old chap! That’s a bit of a sweeping statement… I’ll have you know that Lady Jackfield always makes a beeline for the “Reduced” shelves as she’s a devil for a bargain, and there ain’t no stoppin’ her!!
Fahrenheit211 “I’ve been looking for a non dairy alternative to have with meat (because I keep kosher)”
Outside of your choice in Nugganism….
You do realise that near-all factory cheese is made with bacterial/fungal rennet? And as such is “Kosher” since it doesn’t involve animal innards?
Unless Nuggan, or rather, his mouthpieces have had Opinions about stuff that simply didn’t exist in the stone/bronze age?
But… your life, your fetish.
when dairy and meat are banned (as seems likely to happen in the next two decades) for general consumption
Hopefully some sort of reassessment of the net zero madness will have occurred before then. When I saw “reassessment” I mean the sort that comes after the proles have set a few MPs houses on fire.
Either way, my plan A is to retire somewhere that either doesn’t have such rules or where rules of all sorts tend to be ignored…
Must be quite hard keeping up with the latest Abominations Unto Nuggan. I presume there is a list somewhere?
MC
They seem very committed to it (Net Zero) and as we see in the US they have mastered vote fraud on a scale where it doesn’t seem to actually matter what the populace wants. I agree history is not a one way ‘progression’ but currently the Extreme Left control much of academia (As our erstwhile host pointed out yesterday) and the cultural zeitgeist in the form of big technology. I don’t think people’s desires enter into their calculations at all.
Grikath We try to stick to the vegetarian cheese where we can but from what I can gather there is a lot of commercial rennet that may have bovine origins many microbiological generations and does not directly come from a cows gut.
If it is bacterial or fungal rennet then it does not count as ‘meat’ or a meat product. It really depends on how strictly you follow the Kashrut rules. As we are not close to any kosher shops (ours is 150 miles away) you have to become your own personal food scientist and get good at ingredients reading. There’s stuff we really avoid such as Skittles sweets as they have cochineal in them which comes from beetles. The only time we go really mental/meshuganah is at Pesach where we only buy stuff that is certified kosher for passover, lock away our forbidden stuff and temporary sell it to a non Jew (local vicar sometimes) to buy back after the festival is over. We also cover the kitchen and cooker in loads of tin foil just to make sure that there’s a barrier between any surfaces that might have been in contact with bread and the passover food/plates/pans/cutlery etc.
Yep Kashrut is my own very odd fetish and I’m happy with that LOL
Are Skittles still cochineal? I think I recall a few years back Smarties stopping being so but don’t know about Skittles.
Mr Worstall. We found that the red skittles are. My boy wanted some in the local shop ( for us local people) but he could not have them as the dye used was Carmine which is a derivative of cochineal. He whinged but understood they were Trayf (non kosher) and ended up with some galaxy chocolate instead.
Interesting. So Mars Inc isn’t as worried about it as Cadbury (now Mondelez). Not – from out here and not trying to keep kosher – important perhaps but interesting.
It might be market size is a factor here. Apologies I meant to say Nestle dairy milk rather than Cadbury’s. Mars might not be looking at the Israeli market as they might have their own local alternative for skittles. The US kosher market, which is huge, tends to have its own suppliers not necessarily the big confectionary conglomerates. They have stuff that you can’t easily get here. Cadbury’s I try to avoid as there’s been rumours that their toleration for bug bits in raw chocolate is higher than other companies (we are only allowed to eat certin locusts as if you’ve got locusts then you have probably got sod all else). Nestle obviously think it’s worth the extra cost of having a Rabbi supervise the milk sources (gotta make sure there’s no camel milk in there) for at least some of their chocolate which is why Galaxy dairy milk choc bars are Kosher but the Rabbis wag their finger at other products that use the same chocolate but with different fillings.
Yes, grasp all that. I was being much more specific. Cadbury’s made the decision not to use cochineal in Smarties in order to be kosher (to some level of those restrictions of course). Skittles has not……
@Sam Vara: ’ I would like to browse for the odd bargain without being jostled by emphysemic wrecks and starving pikies.’
My local Waitrose and M&S slap a ‘reduced’ sticker on stuff and leave it on the shelf where it normally sits…
Aha! Now I understand. Apologies for getting the wrong end of the stick. Cadbury’s may also be going after the veggie / vegan market as well as the Kosher one. Maybe the producers of Skittles doesn’t feel that they need to chase after niche markets or market research has shown that removing the Carmine was unpopular with more customers than it would be popular with?
Which colour Smarties gave one cancer ?
“we are only allowed to eat certin locusts”
If it was good enough for John the Baptist ( did he spread the honey on the locusts?)…
“Reduced to Clear” aka Paupers Corner.
“ Cadbury’s made the decision not to use cochineal in Smarties”
Cadburys didn’t, cos Cadburys don’t make Smarties, Nestle do.
Tesco reduce the price through the day. After a certain time (8pm maybe), all the reduced stuff that has a little ‘sc’ on the yellow label is free to staff. Number one son shares a house at university with a fellow student who works in Tesco – they eat some crap but at least it’s free!
Just come back from local Morrisons. I don’t often go there, because their choice isn’t very good, but I wanted something from their excellent deli.
They call it Last Chance to Buy and it was ALL meat free stuff.
F211 – what is the reason for that? I can understand locking it away and ensuring no contact on surfaces / cross-contamination, but why the repo? Does the vicar actually take possession and remove them from your house, and then return them? Is it that titular ownership is an offense?
This is a potential problem with the WEF’s plan to force us all to eat bugs, they ain’t kosher and mostly not halal either.
This is a potential problem with the WEF’s plan to force us all to eat bugs . . .
Which must be tough for those who believe the WEF is a Jewish conspiracy.
To dcardno
We are not allowed to own stuff that is leaven or Chometz as it is known in Hebrew for the whole eight (seven for the non Orthodox) days of Passover.
The vicar of other non Jew (the Israeli military sell all their Chometz to a respected Muslim family at Passover) doesn’t take physical possession of the Chometz normally it’s locked in its own special cupboard and the legal title passes to the non Jew for the duration of the festival.
The sale has to be fully legal and proper and in theory the non Jew could knock on my front door and demand any beer whisky flour and Marmite, that’s in the locked cupboard. The non Jew must under Jewish law make a profit on the sale so the non Jew might pay a pound for the Chometz but we have to buy it back for slightly more than that even if it’s only a penny more.
If you don’t divest yourself of the Chometz then bad things can happen as in the case of a Kosher whisky distiller who forgot to sell his Chometz and therefore still legally owned the stuff over Passover. The rabbis in his community put ban on Jews buying his whisky for a whole year and the company lost a lot of money over that.
It all comes down and from Exodus 12:15 / Deuteronomy 16:3. The extra strictures have been put in over the last few thousand years by the Rabbis in order to prevent people from making errors and accidentally or carelessly breaking the rule about Chometz. There’s lots of ‘weird Jewish stuff’ like this including living in a roofless tent for seven days during the autumn harvest festival.
‘Which must be tough for those who believe the WEF is a Jewish conspiracy.’
Well PJF, one could argue that they just want us to eat the damned things. They certainly don’t want to eat them themselves.
But all wokism seems to involve doing it to other people. You can still fly in your private jet to some tropical paradise, to commiserate with others of your ilk about the gross overindulgence of the lower orders.
Chris Miller/ PJF
According to the Greens and other Hard Leftists all Jews are racists and oppressors so as part of the Great Replacement they’ll be killed off or forced to renounce their faith. Even in the latter case they’ll be killed off or enslaved. There’s no future for Whites of any faith under the current zeitgeist – these people are atheist So have no respect for any religion.
We are not allowed to own stuff that is leaven or Chometz as it is known in Hebrew for the whole eight (seven for the non Orthodox) days of Passover.
It’s bizarre how this unleavened bread thang has morphed from the original:
https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.12.15?lang=bi&aliyot=0
שִׁבְעַ֤ת יָמִים֙ מַצּ֣וֹת תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ אַ֚ךְ בַּיּ֣וֹם הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן תַּשְׁבִּ֥יתוּ שְּׂאֹ֖ר מִבָּתֵּיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י ׀ כׇּל־אֹכֵ֣ל חָמֵ֗ץ וְנִכְרְתָ֞ה הַנֶּ֤פֶשׁ הַהִוא֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִיּ֥וֹם הָרִאשֹׁ֖ן עַד־י֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the very first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
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A simple and clear prohibition – only eat unleavened bread during Passover and remove any leaven from the house so you don’t prepare leavened bread by mistake.
There’s nowt about ownership or other consumables. But somehow over the millennia this has expanded into complex and selective restrictions that can be set aside by equally baroque circumventions. So you can sip your Passover wine (made by yeasty fermentation) safe in the knowledge that your whisky (made from yeasty fermentation) is taped up in a box in the garage that you’ve nod-and-a-wink sold to a cooperative goy down the road. Flat bread for a week becomes the State of Israel selling $150,000,000 of national emergency supplies to an Arabic hotel manager for $6,200.
Ah, religion. What a surprise the priests got buying and selling into the excommunication mix. Oh, the Rabbis act as sales agents? I’d bet a jar of fuckin’ marmite that at some stage some of that buyback add-on went to a “worthy cause”.
PJF I agree that a clear and simple instruction has got steadily stricter over the millenia. This is because of the concept of having ‘a fence around the Torah’ to make it absolutely impossible that someone could break a law by error. Same as for the prohibition of mixing meat and milk. Because the instruction ‘do not boil a kid goat in its mothers milk’ appears several times the religious thinkers interpreted it very strictly to say that the Eternal One meant don’t mix meat and milk. That comes from the Exile in Babylon where kid goat boiled in its mothers milk was a local delicacy and the Israelites wanted to keep their community together and not lose people to the Babylonian culture. The buying and selling of Chometz has indeed accrued a charity aspect and the charities that benefit are sometimes those I agree with and sometimes not. We choose carefully with this. No problem with charity going to Jewish educators as my kid benefits but I’ve more of a problem with money going to extremists who believe that men and women should not sit together on buses.
BTW if you like laughing at hypocrisy then you will love this song about a ‘Bad Rabbi’ by Daniel Cainer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmyiPYMjBZA
F211 – thanks for that, and PJF, too. I was (am) only vaguely aware of Kosher requirements; all very interesting.