Tesco fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food in Birmingham

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Tesco fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food in Birmingham

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And as if that wasn't enough:
The grocery company was also ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge.
That'll learn 'em. :D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... m-56806641
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Re: Tesco fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food in Birmingham

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The 'Indian' shops in Brum get away with it :)
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Re: Tesco fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food in Birmingham

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Stick a '20p off' sticker on it and I'm all over it like a tramp on hot chips.
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Re: Tesco fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food in Birmingham

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gremlin wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:19 pm Stick a '20p off' sticker on it and I'm all over it like a tramp on hot chips.
When I worked at Morrisons as a kid, we marked bashed cans down by hand and chucked in a big bargain bucket.
When my mum came on Saturdays, a lot of what she usually bought somehow appeared as if by magic. She never twigged ;)
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gremlin wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:19 pm Stick a '20p off' sticker on it and I'm all over it like a tramp on hot chips.
Or a banker on free pizza.
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Re: Tesco fined £7.56m for selling out-of-date food in Birmingham

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Used to be a shop in Belfast that sold food that was a bit close to to the sell by date, used to have literally pallet loads of Swiss rolls marked down to 10p, every student in the town shopped there. It was even in a Rihanna video.

Then the guy sold it to the Romanians and a lot of people got very sick from stuff they sold. Environmental health closed it down.