> Meanwhile we have gotten rid of expiry dates here in the UK. And I have bought fruits and vegetables that all look fine on the outside but inside are rotten.
It's great! Now the supermarkets can blame us for waste.
Fortunately, every supermarket does still have labels that show a coded date - so that their staff can remove products that are too old.
If you search for the particular store online, you should be able to find their system.
I shop in Sainsbury's usually. Their system is pretty simple. A letter shows the month (A = January, B = February etc.) and two digits show the day of the month.
Thanks for this. In general I'm in favour of products removing the dates so that people don't chuck out perfectly good food based on superstition/misguided obedience, but an annoying side-effect is that if we have two unopened packs of the same product it's hard to know which is older. By sheer bad luck, an old pack could hang around indefinitely and go off.
I was thinking a possible solution would be a simple numerical counter (e.g. days since 1 Jan 2000), which can't be easily decoded by eye, but allowed you to rank items easily by age.
It's great! Now the supermarkets can blame us for waste.
Fortunately, every supermarket does still have labels that show a coded date - so that their staff can remove products that are too old.
If you search for the particular store online, you should be able to find their system.
I shop in Sainsbury's usually. Their system is pretty simple. A letter shows the month (A = January, B = February etc.) and two digits show the day of the month.