Tesco's rotten fruit

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3 Punnets of fruit, 2 donut peaches and 1 of red plums, ok 69p is cheap but every piece was rotton. Bought on the 24th Aug rotton same day. I'm not traveling 20 miles to Porthmadog to return them. Back to Lidl in Pwllheli, they do have good fruit. I had thought that I would give myself a treat and go to Tesco's.
 
Asda and Morrisons the same. I think its because they keep them in a refridgerated store room then put them out on the shelf where condensation forms on them and the rot begins. I'm getting fed up of throwing rotten food away that I've bought two or three days earlier.
 
If they were rotten the same day, they must have been rotten to some degree when purchased.
If you bought them at 6am, took them home, and left them in full sun, they'd be hard pushed to degrade to the point of rotten in that time, unless they were naff to start with.
Did you check them when you bought them, or just go by the price?
 
I bought some bananas from Asda the other day. They were wrapped in plastic, and inside a box. The bananas were soaking wet, and I had to dry them off. If I had not of done that, they would have ended up rotten. They only last a day or two as it is.
 
I get the opposite with Morrissons. I buy a punnet of ready to eat plumbs or peaches and they're like rocks. Leave them a week and they just turn mouldy. There interpretation of ready to eat is very different to mine.
 
Are these the ones that they laughingly call ripen at home, go from hard as a rock to rotten, nothing in between.

Fortunately my only local supermarket is Waitrose who sell a range of fruit called perfectly ripe and it is, White flesh Peaches are lovely
 
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Shirleyr said:
3 Punnets of fruit, 2 donut peaches and 1 of red plums, ok 69p is cheap but every piece was rotton. Bought on the 24th Aug rotton same day. I'm not traveling 20 miles to Porthmadog to return them. Back to Lidl in Pwllheli, they do have good fruit. I had thought that I would give myself a treat and go to Tesco's.
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You should see the crap we get at Spar Abersoch, having switched from a local supplier to the cheapest of the cheap from a Liverpool market. I suspect partly the same as Chris954, that the chillers they are kept in are not doing a lot of the produce any favours.
 
The logistics of fruit and veg must be a nightmare. Hard to pick when ripe, as by the time it is shipped, and finally on the shelves it will have gone off. So it is picked too early, then shipped. It is supposed to ripen at home probably. Most of the problem is probably at supermarkets, as they probably keep the fruit chilled, and bring it out to replenish the shelves in an unripe state.
 
cmon shirley ,clear some of the weeds out of them old greenhouses and grow your own .:) :) :banana: :banana:
 
Supermarket fruit is the same here, even with the massive throughput of customers in one of the huge stores.
Often the best before date is only 1 or 2 days away from the purchase date, and goes off very quickly.
I pay a (little) bit more, and buy from a greengrocer, which is not as "convenient", but the quality of his fruit and veg is leagues ahead of Tesco and the like.
Sadly greengrocers are becoming a rare commodity now.
I appreciate not everyone has access to local shops though.
 
No blueberries in the Inverness Tesco today and apparently none since Tuesday. "Must be a supply problem somewhere" according to the man from the Fruit& Veg Team, although that seems a bit outrageous at this time of year? Plenty of other fruit, so definitely not a transport issue.
 
I buy my fresh fruit from Tesco, it goes in the cool bag with the frozen stuff for the journey home and goes in the fridge when I get home. It lasts well past the best before date too.
 
Peter B said:
No blueberries in the Inverness Tesco today and apparently none since Tuesday. "Must be a supply problem somewhere" according to the man from the Fruit& Veg Team, although that seems a bit outrageous at this time of year? Plenty of other fruit, so definitely not a transport issue.
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If they are sourced from outside the UK, containerised for instance, it can easily be a supply chain problem.
Not all foodstuff originate from the same place and magically appear in the back of the same reefer :LOL:
 
Does no-one have any old fashioned greengrocers?

Good quality fruit and veg, paper bags and decent prices :)
 
kendo1 said:
Does no-one have any old fashioned greengrocers?

Good quality fruit and veg, paper bags and decent prices :)
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There's one at the top of the high street here, and I use it a lot; however, their goods are all locally sourced, and therefore stock can sometimes be limited, and some things they don't stock at all.
Got a good butcher too.
And a baker.
 
viv1969 said:
There's one at the top of the high street here, and I use it a lot; however, their goods are all locally sourced, and therefore stock can sometimes be limited, and some things they don't stock at all.
Got a good butcher too.
And a baker.
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What! No Candlestick maker?:eek:
 
jonbeeza said:
I bought some bananas from Asda the other day. They were wrapped in plastic, and inside a box. The bananas were soaking wet, and I had to dry them off. If I had not of done that, they would have ended up rotten. They only last a day or two as it is.
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Just bought some bananas from the local Asda today. I was going to get the ones in the plastic, then noticed the loose ones next door, and the price, and the loose ones (which you can check) were in far better condition and cheaper.
We buy most of our fruit and veg from local "international" shops, because they are cheaper and fresher.
 
Local shops: use them or lose them.

viv1969 said:
There's one at the top of the high street here, and I use it a lot; however, their goods are all locally sourced, and therefore stock can sometimes be limited, and some things they don't stock at all.
Got a good butcher too.
And a baker.
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Just buy what is available :)
 
nilagin said:
Most of our local shops are takeaways, costa coffee or similar, and charity shops. I have no intention of using any of them.
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So you've lost them already! - the useful ones, even candlestick makers :)
 
kendo1 said:
Local shops: use them or lose them.




Just buy what is available :)
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I do.
But if I want grapes in February, I'm shi....badly out of luck. :-)
 
The only supermarkets near here are a small Tesco and the Coop. Their vegetables are usually okay, fresh fruit is very hit or miss and generally the latter. A lot goes straight from under ripe to vrot. The greengrocer in town is worse, and far more expensive.
 
kendo1 said:
So you've lost them already! - the useful ones, even candlestick makers :)
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Don't think we had any of them, unless it was before I was born. Still have a Cobbler though. :)
 
nilagin said:
Don't think we had any of them, unless it was before I was born. Still have a Cobbler though. :)
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Yes!!
Got a cobbler too.
Though I'm gutted there's no candlestick maker. :(
 
nilagin said:
Most of our local shops are takeaways, costa coffee or similar, and charity shops. I have no intention of using any of them.
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kendo1 said:
So you've lost them already! - the useful ones, even candlestick makers :)
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The problem here and I'm sure its not just my town, the council keep putting up the rent etc and eventually price the shop keepers out of the town.
And of course they then rent out to the charity shops at a very low cost, or even free, "So the shops aren't empty"
Go figure as the Americans say

viv1969 said:
Yes!!
Got a cobbler too.
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A lot of my shops in town are also cobblers TBH ...
Oh I see that's not quite what you meant was it?
 
BSM could probably knock a candlestick or 2 out...
 
nilagin said:
Don't think we had any of them, unless it was before I was born. Still have a Cobbler though. :)
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Well there is plenty of cobblers on here..... [emoji16]
 
Awls.
 
neil_g said:
Unfortunately my experience in other towns is that they don't offer the same convenience of later opening times and most of us have to work for a living :)
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Times have changed.
 
Shirleyr said:
. I had thought that I would give myself a treat and go to Tesco's.
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Yes, not sure on what plane of reality Tesco is seen as a treat.
 
neil_g said:
Fair enough but the last time I had a local it was 9-5. Unfortunately now we don't have anything in town.
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Gone are the days when the woman of the house stayed in her rightful place and could accomplish her tasks from 8 to 5 when the master returned...

But seriously, I suspect the change in work since the 40/50s has had an effect on local shops. Sole traders can't compete with the opening hours of nationals: one of the reasons I had to give up my wine shop.
 
kendo1 said:
Gone are the days when the woman of the house stayed in her rightful place and could accomplish her tasks from 8 to 5 when the master returned...
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Apparently we can't send kids up the chimney either these days :(
 
We can but may not!
 
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