Supermarkets discussion

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It is amazing how much your dietary choice changes when like me, an old fogey of 79 living on his own at home....

 

[Jamesrob637]

As explained by @JamesT... but I think they're great. I have one with two compartments and, living within 'pie-land', I place pie of choice in the left compartment, the oven chips go in the right compartment.

Seriously though, they're ideal for two, or people who live on their own. They cook many items well, quicker than an oven and without the wasted heat, although you will struggle with a 22lb turkey! An oven is great if you can fill it though. I'll often use the air-fryer for jacket spuds - pre-done in the microwave and then 10 minutes on the 'max crisp' setting (240 degress) - butter, filing of choice... lovely.

We use our air-fryer (couple no kids) at least once per week!

 

[Gloster]

What's an air fryer? Sounds like a monk from the Ayrshire region.

That might be a chip-monk.

 

[1D54]

Chuck chips with sausage / fish in the same drawer and just wing it for the time. Nothing has gone wrong as yet and it is the best electrical purchase i have made in many a good year.

 

[Trackman]

Chuck chips with sausage / fish in the same drawer and just wing it for the time. Nothing has gone wrong as yet and it is the best electrical purchase i have made in many a good year.

People also forget the £££'s they save on the electric bill. Mine's paid for itself, so to speak.

 

[Cambrian359]

People also forget the £££'s they save on the electric bill. Mine's paid for itself, so to speak.

The whole reason I got an air fryer. I done the maths and realised how much cheaper it is than the ‘main oven’ to run and would repay itself quickly.

 

[Lewisham2221]

Very much so, I don't even trust supermarket recommend air-fryer instructions.
Always better to undercook rather than overcook, as the latter cannot be rectified.

I always completely ignore the air fryer instructions - usually look at the oven instructions, ignore the temperature, knock a few minutes off the timing, and check a few minutes before the timer expires anyway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I don't know if it is only the Wythenshawe store of Iceland that offers a 10% discount to pensioners on Tuesdays, but my friend who lives not so far away from it, aged 76, now goes there every Tuesday. He says he has a card and shows his ENCTS pass as "proof of age".

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I don't know if it is only the Wythenshawe store of Iceland that offers a 10% discount to pensioners on Tuesdays, but my friend who lives not so far away from it, aged 76, now goes there every Tuesday. He says he has a card and shows his ENCTS pass as "proof of age".

Believe its across the whole of Iceland store network, including 'The Food Warehouse'. 10% discount for over 60s on Tuesdays only. Proof of age required. No minimum spend but you can't get a 10% discount on alcohol. Think you also need to sign up to their Bonus Card scheme. Every little helps (or is that Tesco?)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Believe its across the whole of Iceland store network, including 'The Food Warehouse'. 10% discount for over 60s on Tuesdays only. Proof of age required. No minimum spend but you can't get a 10% discount on alcohol. Think you also need to sign up to their Bonus Card scheme. Every little helps (or is that Tesco?)

The Iceland card that my friend has is indeed a "Bonus Card", having just telephoned him to ask.

 

[317 forever]

What sort of bags were/are they collecting?

Anything that says "recycle with bags at supermarkets" are now collected as part of our fortnightly recycling - we have to put them in a blue bag inside our blue bin though.

Mainly the full-size supermarket bags, but also others that could be recycled "with other bags", so for example some pasta or fruit bags.

 

[gswindale]

Mainly the full-size supermarket bags, but also others that could be recycled "with other bags", so for example some pasta or fruit bags.

Ah, so the sort that go in the plastic recycling that I put out for collection every 2 weeks then.

Makes sense to get rid of them from the supermarkets if we can now recycle them as part of the kerbside recycling scheme - see
https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk...ion/plastic-bags-and-wrapping-recycling-trial for more info for in my area - maybe somebody up north is trialling it as well.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Ah, so the sort that go in the plastic recycling that I put out for collection every 2 weeks then.

Makes sense to get rid of them from the supermarkets if we can now recycle them as part of the kerbside recycling scheme - see
https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk...ion/plastic-bags-and-wrapping-recycling-trial for more info for in my area - maybe somebody up north is trialling it as well.

Making the supermarkets handle the recycling will encourage them to reduce the amount of packaging.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Making the supermarkets handle the recycling will encourage them to reduce the amount of packaging.

Supermarkets do already recycle vast amounts of cardboard and other packaging material that bulk goods are delivered in to the store warehouses.

 

[gswindale]

Making the supermarkets handle the recycling will encourage them to reduce the amount of packaging.

There is only so much you can do to reduce the amount of packaging - for instance one of our local supermarkets has already taken the trays out of the Babycorn packets - what else can they do there? I'm not going to traipse back to the supermarket to give them my recycling after they've delivered it to me, so it makes sense for me to put it in my recycling rather than the general waste.

I had a conversation not that long ago with my parents where they have something like 7 different receptacles for recycling/waste and it appears that by getting people to sort at home it increases how much is actually recycled.

My main issue is just remembering to do so.

 

[jon81uk]

Making the supermarkets handle the recycling will encourage them to reduce the amount of packaging.

Most supermarkets already collect the soft plastic (bags etc) that can't go into mixed recycling.

 

[AM9]

Most supermarkets already collect the soft plastic (bags etc) that can't go into mixed recycling.

Here, we can use the soft poly bags for the food caddy, (assuming they are the right size for the caddy). The contents are separated by automation at the recycling centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am sure that I have seen a store carrier bag with a note printed upon it to say "this bag is recyclable" but I cannot remember which store.

 

[Gloster]

I am sure that I have seen a store carrier bag with a note printed upon it to say "this bag is recyclable" but I cannot remember which store.

I think that quite a few have similar inscriptions: the supermarkets must ensure that we know just how much they care about the environment. Of course, they don’t tell you that there are only two recycling centres available: one on Fair Isle and the other on Tresco.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think that quite a few have similar inscriptions: the supermarkets must ensure that we know just how much they care about the environment. Of course, they don’t tell you that there are only two recycling centres available: one on Fair Isle and the other on Tresco.

Well I learn something new on this website every day. I had always assumed the the supermarkets concerned intended their customers would put these bags in their home recylcling recepticals, as occurs with the small recyclable bags that fit inside the small waste food containers.

Reading your somewhat humerous comment above regarding locations and remembering that this is a supermarkets thread, could I ask if there is a Tesco in Tresco...

 

[Lewisham2221]

Well I learn something new on this website every day. I had always assumed the the supermarkets concerned intended their customers would put these bags in their home recylcling recepticals, as occurs with the small recyclable bags that fit inside the small waste food containers.

Reading your somewhat humerous comment above regarding locations and remembering that this is a supermarkets thread, could I ask if there is a Tesco in Tresco...

At risk of straying even further off topic, but it's worth remembering that household recycling arrangements vary quite significantly between local authority areas.

Where I am, there is no household recycling of "soft" plastics. The rest of the recycling all goes into one large blue wheely bin - except paper, which allegedly has a seperate box/bag, although I don't know anyone who actually has one, so paper just ends up in the normal grey bin. There is no seperate collection of food waste, it goes in the general grey bin. Food waste could be put into the brown garden waste bin so that, during the summer months, food waste was collected weekly rather than fortnightly. There's now an additional charge for the brown bin collections, so all food waste now goes in the grey bin regardless.

 

[jon81uk]

Here, we can use the soft poly bags for the food caddy, (assuming they are the right size for the caddy). The contents are separated by automation at the recycling centre.

Mine (and I think many others) are very specific that food waste bags must be the compostable one and no plastic at all should go into the food waste bin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I believe that some local councils who collect and empty all the normal household "assorted coloured bins" do supply "small food caddies" and the compostable liners for them free of charge. One of my twin sons who lives in an area administered by Stockport council tells me that is the case in their area.

 

[jon81uk]

I am sure that I have seen a store carrier bag with a note printed upon it to say "this bag is recyclable" but I cannot remember which store.

Pretty much all of them are recyclable, just soft plastic needs to go on its own.
The main reason is if it goes into mixed recycling, it jams into the rollers and cogs of the sorting machines.

Every large Tesco should have a collection point https://www.tescoplc.com/shoppers-c...-points-at-every-large-tesco-store-in-the-uk/
Sainsbury's claim 100% of their stores can collect it for recycling https://about.sainsburys.co.uk/sustainability/plan-for-better/our-stories/2021/flexible-plastics

 

[Mojo]

Posts on recycling arrangements have been split to a new thread here

Recycling collection arrangements

I am sure that I have seen a store carrier bag with a note printed upon it to say "this bag is recyclable" but I cannot remember which store. CoOp do compostable bags which I sometimes manage to persuade the missus to use for the food recycling. At risk of straying even further off topic, but...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Acfb]

The Booths in Hale Barns in Greater Manchester closed in April this year & has now been re-opened as an Asda.

Does anyone know how the ASDA is doing? Personally I liked that Booths particularly the cafe and preferred it to Knutsford. It was a shame it closed.

 

[Stan63]

I tried the scan and go thing in my local Tesco on the last 2 visits. I found it really easy to use and great at the checkout. I haven't had a bag check yet so that helps speed things up. I found I spent less as it gives you a running total so its not like my usual trolley dash method of shopping.

Stan

 

[skyhigh]

Interesting experience in Sainsbury's this evening. I popped in after work for a couple of bits and to peruse the reductions. None of the reduced items would scan on SmartShop.

Talking to a staff member apparently someone has managed to crack the reduction barcode and create whatever discounts they want. As a result, Sainsbury's have completely disabled the reduction system from the tills.

The workaround is for staff to scan the full-price barcode, then manually apply a reduction. Unfortunately nobody told the staff applying the reduction stickers, so all the full price barcodes were covered. Trying to remove the sticker removed the original barcode. Someone was sent to the shelf to find a full price item but there weren't any. A manager then tried to create a manual sale for the correct price but that has also been disabled(!)

In the end the manager let me have the reduced items free as he couldn't work out a way of putting them through the tills. I have no idea how this will be resolved, but I suspect in the meantime it'll cause chaos with every reduction needing manual processing and people inadvertently paying full price without the original barcode being obscured.

 

[SuspectUsual]

A manager then tried to create a manual sale for the correct price but that has also been disabled(!)

The whole thing is staggering but that is especially shocking

 

[takno]

Interesting experience in Sainsbury's this evening. I popped in after work for a couple of bits and to peruse the reductions. None of the reduced items would scan on SmartShop.

Talking to a staff member apparently someone has managed to crack the reduction barcode and create whatever discounts they want. As a result, Sainsbury's have completely disabled the reduction system from the tills.

The workaround is for staff to scan the full-price barcode, then manually apply a reduction. Unfortunately nobody told the staff applying the reduction stickers, so all the full price barcodes were covered. Trying to remove the sticker removed the original barcode. Someone was sent to the shelf to find a full price item but there weren't any. A manager then tried to create a manual sale for the correct price but that has also been disabled(!)

In the end the manager let me have the reduced items free as he couldn't work out a way of putting them through the tills. I have no idea how this will be resolved, but I suspect in the meantime it'll cause chaos with every reduction needing manual processing and people inadvertently paying full price without the original barcode being obscured.

I had an assistant insist on doing the same after the first item went through at full price. Interestingly my flatmate's stuff went through with the reduction no problems, so I suspect I'd just failed to cover up the exposed slither of full-price barcode and they haven't set the tills up at mine to ignore the discounts.

The one she couldn't get a barcode for she just scanned something else and then typed in the correct reduced price, which isn't fantastic for stock control but makes more sense than just giving stuff away.

What I couldn't figure out was why they couldn't just scan the reduced price barcode and then override the price on that