Ocado put a minimum guaranteed life for each product on their website.
And missing or sub items are pretty uncommon, as they can have much better stock control
Ocado put a minimum guaranteed life for each product on their website.
And missing or sub items are pretty uncommon, as they can have much better stock control
In message , tim...... writes
Yup.
I don't eat meat, but if I did and was buying a week ahead I'd stick it in the freezer (actually, I'd probably buy it from the village butcher about 300 m away.....)
Nah. Most of our stuff is online but I still find reason to pop and get the odd thing from the supermarket - (wouldn't make a special trip, but when passing). I don't mind a quick pop in to get half a dozen items, but a full shop is just tedious, and a faff, esp. as I would normally have 2 kids with me as well. Much rather sit at the kitchen table with a cuppa :-)
Dont tell me, you are Muslim and they sent Israeli ones instead of Moroccan...:-)
They are very good but unfortunately their lower limit is too high for m= y =
Mum
IIRC, that was the old sterilised milk from wartime days which some got the taste for and continued with after fresh became available again.
UHT has a very different taste from sterilised. But I'd rather have just plain old fresh stuff the supermarkets sell. If I do run out I'll have creamer powder in my coffee.
Whey protein is one which amuses me. "Buy this, it's marvellous and healthy stuff". Quietly ignoring the fact it's a bit of a byproduct.
Cravendale will tell you if you ask, but basically it's sieving it to get the big bacteria out.
Oh come on.
If you buy stuff to use by tomorrow then you didn't sort through the pile properly.
It's impossible to get meat more than about 6 days ahead, however hard you try
tim
Most people I used to supply to when I was a manufacturer worked on at least a 100% markup to cover their own overheads.
Colin Bignell
And a real pain for us, there are quite a few Waitrose products that are not handled by Ocado. And vice versa.
The end result is that whatever we try to do, we end up in more than one shop/supermarket every weekend.
Whether to eat it or not is not based on the date, for instance I had a chilli last night and sprinkled cheese on - carefully avoiding using the mouldy bits.
The trouble is that many things are perfectly edible, but nowhere near as enjoyable. In some cases, the taste and texture can be noticably worse as something gets nearer the date, never mind over it.
I have wondered that. There is no chance of milk here getting anywhere near its date; we drink a lot (pints at a time) and can't fit more than a couple of days' worth in the fridge.
SteveW
Sorry, but you're wrong. There isn't any flavour, just normal emulsion paint.
SteveW
It lasts about a day here due to rate of consumption - and there's only me and my wife drinking the semi!
SteveW
I knew that someone would pun on that.
SteveW
almost
Ah, don't eat the stuff so don't know what the dates are like. But off meat pongs summat rotten and it's going to be cooked properly... That's te other half of the problem people don't cook "risky" things properly.
Well we've certainly had some items that have use by dates of the next day! Yes they'll be fine for longer than that in reality, but they're not as nice to eat.
SteveW
crown
ITYRC B-) Sterilised not UHT.
One would certainly have to "aquire the taste"... and we are talking about people in their 50's during WWII.
Yup, friend of mine is a retailer, were discussing this once and they said about 100% (at least) was a typical markup. Sounds a lot, but once you break it down it soon disappears.
Sterilised milk was very popular around here until the milk deliveries started to disappear a decade ago. I don't think supermarkets sold it.
That's the bit that nobody seems to have solved. Buy online, but no one at home for delivery.
I was working outside a house a few weeks ago & watched a postie trying to deliver small packages without much luck. Almost every house he tried he got no reply & had to leave a card. He reckoned an 80& failure rate.
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