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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on January 06, 2005, 10:38:49 pm

Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: loulou on January 06, 2005, 10:38:49 pm

I just got some Weightwatchers toffee yogurts and they should have been eaten by 30th december.


I am so going to enjoy complaining to Tesco tomorrow. I shopped online and they delivered out of date yogurts.


Was thinking of pretending i had eaten one and been up all night with stomach ache....start the new year with a claim for compensation.

Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: oldspice on January 07, 2005, 07:02:28 am
Paulham - what do you think about this one?? Have Tesco broken the Food and Drugs Act (Does it still exist???)??
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Post by: chocolate chick on January 07, 2005, 09:25:17 am
That's very bad lou. WW yogurts usually have a life span of about 2 weeks before the BB date.
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: on January 07, 2005, 11:59:58 am
Lou Lou, yes - say you feel ill.  Ask to speak to the manager and ask them for some free food.
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Post by: on January 07, 2005, 12:26:23 pm

If it is a "use by" date on them, then it is a strict offence and they CAN be prosecuted for it. You will thus have a BIG bargaining tool if you threaten to take to your local EH dept.


If it is a long life product with a "best before" date then an offence is only committed IF the product is "not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the consumer" i.e. it is off. It is not an offence simply to sell past a "best before" date.


The legislation is the Food Safety Act 1990. Food and Drugs!? We aren't in America you know!

Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: oldspice on January 07, 2005, 05:55:34 pm
Sorry! I am going back a long time - In the 1970s I used to work in retail management and I am sure we had a Food and Drugs Act - perhaps the Food Safety Act replaced it??
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: oldspice on January 07, 2005, 05:56:17 pm
PS - We also had to know the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act back to front!!
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: on January 08, 2005, 02:41:14 pm
Instead of a 'use by' date or a 'best before' date it would make sense to have an 'ill by' date.  This way there would be no confusion.  This would be particularly good for chicken and cream cakes.
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: goldencup on January 08, 2005, 06:54:15 pm
I've never had a chicken and cream cake!
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: chocolate chick on January 10, 2005, 09:41:46 am

 


Have you done any complaining yet lou?

Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: smurfboy on January 10, 2005, 10:03:09 am
If it was some little 'everything for 10p' shop selling an out of date bottle of pop, I'd say don't bother complaining, but with a big company like Tesco (and a product like yoghurt which really is date sensitive) definitely complain - my dad got a hamper once from Cross and Blackwell after he found a dead bee in his apple chutney!
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: chocolate chick on January 10, 2005, 10:56:46 am
That's not good
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Post by: smurfboy on January 10, 2005, 12:05:36 pm
The bee wasn't, but the hamper was by all accounts!
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Post by: chocolate chick on January 10, 2005, 01:03:22 pm
Did they give you any free stuff to say sorry?
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Post by: smurfboy on January 10, 2005, 01:44:12 pm

Sorry, didn't explain it properly - the hamper was an apology freebie.

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Post by: on January 10, 2005, 02:04:35 pm
I figured the hamper was a gift.
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Post by: chocolate chick on January 10, 2005, 02:40:39 pm

oh I see. So you found the bee, complained and then the hamper was an apology. That's nice of them considering they could have merely ignored you.


We had a few problems with the AA once and they sent us a hamper as a way of an apology.

Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: loulou on January 10, 2005, 04:40:37 pm
Choc chick I took the yogurts back the other night and they gave me 2 bags of bread, cheeses, cream cakes and a nice tin of biscuits.I gave the cakes to my friend but kept the rest.
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: chocolate chick on January 10, 2005, 07:17:09 pm
Thats not so bad lou, it's better than nothing. The cream cakes sound nice!
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Post by: robbie on January 10, 2005, 09:07:07 pm
I bet you fingered yourself when you got home.
Title: past sell by date.........
Post by: cinabar on January 10, 2005, 11:41:25 pm
I bought a chocolate bar yesterday that had a sell by date of Dec 15th 2004... wish I'd kept the receipt, but i tend not to do when a buy a bar of chocolate.