Normally they just erase the print (possible when printed on plastic), or repackage it.
Are you sure the guy didn’t just do it by accident? I’ve done this job before and having to manually check everything makes room for mistakes, no one is a robot. Definitely messed up the dates before.
It reminds me that there was a scene from Pepper Ann where she Milo (male friend of Pepper Ann) were working in a grocery shop and Milo relabeled a product right on the expire date, the shop keeper saw it and toke his hat of. Pepper Ann (and I) thought he was fired, but he was promoted.
Yes fellow Americans, we also watch disney
I would hope that it is illegal to tape these kind of reduction labels over the expiration date.
Could be mistake. Probably is. If you really wish to fake it you put a new normal label on top of it . Or you repackage it.
That’s not relabelling.
so you’re saying they’re trying to hide the exp date, with a label that gives a discount because its about to expire and thus cant be sold anymore? (delhaize almost always gives a 30% discount on these kind of products)
now the worst ones I have seen are where the exp date is eg 19/04
they put a label with ‘frozen on 20/04″ and a new exp date somewhere in june… but that often happens with food banks afaik
But I believe this is not one of those products, they didn’t purposfully try to hide it, honest mistake on their part.
I did a summer job in a Carrefour once and it’s pretty normal to discount products that are about to expire (-30% if it expires tomorrow, -50% if it expires today). We didn’t do that with expired products though, those we got to take home. It was always nice if some eclairs or other patisserie expired (which expire in a week or so).
Online form, free telephone number or send all possible details via email.
An investigation will happen and, within the privacy laws, you will also receive a summary of the results and actions taken.
* If you noticed expired products in a store
* If you see spoiled products being sold
* If you see companies that don’t follow hygiene rules
* If you get very sick after eating at a place
They’re all good reasons to report it and start an investigation.
It’s important to report the bad companies because there is no budget to check them all. You have to help to find the bad apples.
There are 2.5mil companies to inspect and about 130 000 inspections are done each year. Risk profiles are used so that slaughterhouses are inspected daily, biggest processing factories monthly and some of the biggest stores yearly. All new companies will also be inspected within the first months. But then there are all the small stores or companies with very few activity that can be inspected every few years and if there are bad ones, they need to be found asap.
First of all, the exp date has ± 10 days of wiggle room on fish that was sealed like this IF it was constantly cooled to 4-6°C (for consumption, not for selling..)
Edit: this point is elaboeated in a followup comment. This only counts when product is handled perfectly and so without flaw among packaging/storing/transport/temperatures.
Second of all, this video is only proof that the shop is giving a discount to a product that is at it’s shelf-life end. Nowhere in the video is it proven that it’s taken after the exp date.
Third and last, stop posting this BS and talk to the store manager about it on the spot. People make mistakes, reddit doesn’t fix them.
Raw fish tend to have a really short sell by date. Those in particular I think only have 2-3 days for the best before date.
That said I have never seen them discounted where I live.
That label has to cover the bar-code which I think is down to the right on the label. Alternative would be to put it vertically and cover up the name instead….
I think the date on fish is when it’s packaged. Does it say expiration date?
it is certainly simply an oversight, when there is this “anti-waste” promotional label you have to be even more careful because the expiry date is very close. Simply give it to an employee to be removed from the shelf instead of crying foul…
I did a vakantiejob in a supermarket once and we would take these prepacked trays of cheese slices that were over date, throw away the first slice and repackage them with a new date
Unnecessary post
What else is new? This is commonly done in a lot of supermarket chains.
Thank you for sharing this, this is really disgusting ! i can’t beleive what i’ve just seen !
25 years ago I did a student job at a Carrefour and was asked several times to label new dates on expired vleessla. Another jobstudent cut his fingertip off on his first day while cutting ham without the security on. I was asked to take the ham to the back, wipe the blood spatters off the ham with a paper towel and put it back in the toog. Good times.
Fish over date, I’m getting sick just by thinking about it.
Yellow -35% on meat … Don’t need to see the date to know it’s not in it’s prime
I’d rather blame a dumbass employee than a whole chain.
As someone who worked in a Delhaize I can tell you that you might have to stick 200 hundred of those stickers a day and the only rule is that you have to cover the original barcode. They’re waste reduction stickers, so it’s normal that they relabel when the product is about to expire.
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That should be illegal…. ah wait, it is.
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Today is 20/04
That’s original.
Normally they just erase the print (possible when printed on plastic), or repackage it.
Are you sure the guy didn’t just do it by accident? I’ve done this job before and having to manually check everything makes room for mistakes, no one is a robot. Definitely messed up the dates before.
It reminds me that there was a scene from Pepper Ann where she Milo (male friend of Pepper Ann) were working in a grocery shop and Milo relabeled a product right on the expire date, the shop keeper saw it and toke his hat of. Pepper Ann (and I) thought he was fired, but he was promoted.
Yes fellow Americans, we also watch disney
I would hope that it is illegal to tape these kind of reduction labels over the expiration date.
Could be mistake. Probably is. If you really wish to fake it you put a new normal label on top of it . Or you repackage it.
That’s not relabelling.
so you’re saying they’re trying to hide the exp date, with a label that gives a discount because its about to expire and thus cant be sold anymore? (delhaize almost always gives a 30% discount on these kind of products)
now the worst ones I have seen are where the exp date is eg 19/04
they put a label with ‘frozen on 20/04″ and a new exp date somewhere in june… but that often happens with food banks afaik
But I believe this is not one of those products, they didn’t purposfully try to hide it, honest mistake on their part.
I did a summer job in a Carrefour once and it’s pretty normal to discount products that are about to expire (-30% if it expires tomorrow, -50% if it expires today). We didn’t do that with expired products though, those we got to take home. It was always nice if some eclairs or other patisserie expired (which expire in a week or so).
You can and should report this to the hotline of the FASFC (FAVV/AFSCA).
NL https://www.favv-afsca.be/consumenten/meldpunt/
FR https://www.favv-afsca.be/consommateurs/pointdecontact/
Online form, free telephone number or send all possible details via email.
An investigation will happen and, within the privacy laws, you will also receive a summary of the results and actions taken.
* If you noticed expired products in a store
* If you see spoiled products being sold
* If you see companies that don’t follow hygiene rules
* If you get very sick after eating at a place
They’re all good reasons to report it and start an investigation.
It’s important to report the bad companies because there is no budget to check them all. You have to help to find the bad apples.
There are 2.5mil companies to inspect and about 130 000 inspections are done each year. Risk profiles are used so that slaughterhouses are inspected daily, biggest processing factories monthly and some of the biggest stores yearly. All new companies will also be inspected within the first months. But then there are all the small stores or companies with very few activity that can be inspected every few years and if there are bad ones, they need to be found asap.
You can also research any company that needs inspections to find out if there have been problems in the past. https://www.foodweb.be/Operator/Public/SearchOperator.aspx
The main company of Delhaize is https://www.foodweb.be/operator/Public/ViewOperator.aspx?id=33642 but many proprietors of smaller local Delhaizes place them under their own parent company so you won’t find them in the list of the main company.
First of all, the exp date has ± 10 days of wiggle room on fish that was sealed like this IF it was constantly cooled to 4-6°C (for consumption, not for selling..)
Edit: this point is elaboeated in a followup comment. This only counts when product is handled perfectly and so without flaw among packaging/storing/transport/temperatures.
Second of all, this video is only proof that the shop is giving a discount to a product that is at it’s shelf-life end. Nowhere in the video is it proven that it’s taken after the exp date.
Third and last, stop posting this BS and talk to the store manager about it on the spot. People make mistakes, reddit doesn’t fix them.
Raw fish tend to have a really short sell by date. Those in particular I think only have 2-3 days for the best before date.
That said I have never seen them discounted where I live.
That label has to cover the bar-code which I think is down to the right on the label. Alternative would be to put it vertically and cover up the name instead….
I think the date on fish is when it’s packaged. Does it say expiration date?
it is certainly simply an oversight, when there is this “anti-waste” promotional label you have to be even more careful because the expiry date is very close. Simply give it to an employee to be removed from the shelf instead of crying foul…
I did a vakantiejob in a supermarket once and we would take these prepacked trays of cheese slices that were over date, throw away the first slice and repackage them with a new date
Unnecessary post
What else is new? This is commonly done in a lot of supermarket chains.
Thank you for sharing this, this is really disgusting ! i can’t beleive what i’ve just seen !
25 years ago I did a student job at a Carrefour and was asked several times to label new dates on expired vleessla. Another jobstudent cut his fingertip off on his first day while cutting ham without the security on. I was asked to take the ham to the back, wipe the blood spatters off the ham with a paper towel and put it back in the toog. Good times.
Fish over date, I’m getting sick just by thinking about it.
Yellow -35% on meat … Don’t need to see the date to know it’s not in it’s prime
I’d rather blame a dumbass employee than a whole chain.
As someone who worked in a Delhaize I can tell you that you might have to stick 200 hundred of those stickers a day and the only rule is that you have to cover the original barcode. They’re waste reduction stickers, so it’s normal that they relabel when the product is about to expire.