Sandys Slams Tesco
- 12 December 2013 07:37255179I saw this story on the Sky News Press Preview. It was about Tesco supposedly saying that their customers are to blame for not selecting misshapen fruit and vegetables...thereby causing massive waste. But it is as ever a case of how the story is spun. The Daily Mail stuck the boot into Tesco in blazing angry headline style, while the Daily Telegraph saw it differently saying Tesco are looking at ways of encouraging people to buy misshapen foods...
Looks like Laura Sandys MP took the Daily Mail version onboard..
Latest Press Release as follows...
Laura Sandys, MP and food campaigner, today slammed Tesco for blaming shoppers for not buying 'ugly' food and "causing the majority" of food waste.
Speaking after Matt Simister of Tesco made the claims at a House of Lords inquiry, Laura Sandys said, "I cannot believe the audacity of Tesco to accuse hard pressed consumers of generating food waste - supermarkets need to be better at marketing ugly food and stop blaming consumers. While I agree that households do throw many products away, this is largely down to promotions which encourage waste, such as unnecessary BOGOF deals, and excessively strict sell by dates."
"In 2012 I set up a company called 'Ugly Food' to raise awareness of this very issue and to encourage the sale and use of misshapen food - something that another leading supermarket has now adopted."
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ps: Consumer campaigner Laura Sandys is our neighbouring MP ( South Thanet) covering Sandwich Ramsgate etcemail: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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12 December 2013 07:43255180Well she is on the tail of the big retailersALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 12 December 2013 07:50255187Yes she is definitely on the trail of the big retailers. I think you mean trail above there.
She has always been a good consumer campaigner but as was discussed on another thread recently, is amazingly and suddenly packing in her political career.
But the real question for everyone is...would you buy a misshapen carrot.?
They throw masses amounts of these foods away because they are not supermarket perfect.They never reach the shops.A sad waste.email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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12 December 2013 07:53255189I think its probably more about tesco's attitude towards its customersALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - Jan Higgins
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12 December 2013 08:40255192This is another example of what a good MP she is, I almost feel sorry for whoever follows in her footsteps she has set such a high standard.
Laura is completely right in what she says, supermarkets are entirely to blame for much of the food waste as they are the ones that stipulate what we can buy, be it the shape or the packet size which might be to big for many.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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