There will still be best before dates on it but it will be a letter and the date like B24 that will be the 24th for that month.
The “encrypted codes” are rubbish. This isn’t doing anything to get rid of best before dates it just makes them ever so slightly more difficult to read.
Co-op have shitty standards anyway, unless it’s just the specfic one by me. Only supermarket that’s given me food poisoning twice, and their veg is commonly sold mouldy or rotting already. Finding a bag of onions or carrots without one that isn’t completely rotted is an achievement.
Best befores are just a guide, and probably shouldn’t exist.
Use bys are important, and going nowhere.
No wonder coop wants to remove them when they are usually the same day or day after. Especially on bread – infuriating
Nonsense. It helps them save waste by increasing my waste instead. What the best before date actually does is give you an idea how long the food has been sat on their shelf. If I buy food that has been on their shelf 2 days it will last a lot longer when I get it home than if it’s been on their shelf for a week.
If they take the dates off then I will be buying food which doesn’t last as long and will throw more away because it went bad before I got around to eating it. Surely everyone can see that this is for their benefit not ours? I mean if they wanted to they could have ‘picked on’ dates on the food …
They’re doing it because a lot of produce is now sat at the border until the paperwork is complete.
They’ve taken those dates off because it’s easier to bamboozle you into buying old stock, any other “green” (excuse) comment is just PR
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There will still be best before dates on it but it will be a letter and the date like B24 that will be the 24th for that month.
The “encrypted codes” are rubbish. This isn’t doing anything to get rid of best before dates it just makes them ever so slightly more difficult to read.
Co-op have shitty standards anyway, unless it’s just the specfic one by me. Only supermarket that’s given me food poisoning twice, and their veg is commonly sold mouldy or rotting already. Finding a bag of onions or carrots without one that isn’t completely rotted is an achievement.
Best befores are just a guide, and probably shouldn’t exist.
Use bys are important, and going nowhere.
No wonder coop wants to remove them when they are usually the same day or day after. Especially on bread – infuriating
Nonsense. It helps them save waste by increasing my waste instead. What the best before date actually does is give you an idea how long the food has been sat on their shelf. If I buy food that has been on their shelf 2 days it will last a lot longer when I get it home than if it’s been on their shelf for a week.
If they take the dates off then I will be buying food which doesn’t last as long and will throw more away because it went bad before I got around to eating it. Surely everyone can see that this is for their benefit not ours? I mean if they wanted to they could have ‘picked on’ dates on the food …
They’re doing it because a lot of produce is now sat at the border until the paperwork is complete.
They’ve taken those dates off because it’s easier to bamboozle you into buying old stock, any other “green” (excuse) comment is just PR