DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Tedious.
Tesco store caught out dumping £4,000 of unsold bikes
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Tedious.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Nowadays, senior managers ARE junior managers. Junior managers are kids on work experience placements.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
pisspoor
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Nothing wrong with my local Tesco Express, the 2 self service checkouts are rubbish, most of the time they fail in some way halfway through the process. I indicated to an assistant that the self service checkout needed some technical attention & her response was "yeah, most people don't pay for half their stuff". 
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
I've seen worse looking bikes at the Dr Bike sessions I do. These bikes, if they were "missing parts", could have been sent to community bike groups to be fixed and then given to schools as pool bikes for training sessions. Fucking idiot capitalist fucks.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
He's being all super ironic. He thinks.
Whaaaaaat?
Seriously????
You don't think Tesco's behaviour of throwing away bicycles is disgusting?
I seriously do and won't be shopping with them again.
Maybe if others shop elsewhere in protest, Tesco may think again in future.
I'm quite surprised that a major supermarket would endanger so bad PR tbth.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
LOL!
How old are you?
Some store manager in Manchester lobs out a few bikes (not Tesco policy) and you decide to boycott them entirely?
A major supermarket would probably not seek to "endanger" such bad publicity. Now have a think about that.
What other businesses do you boycott? If you're in any way consistent, which I very much doubt, there probably aren't too many places that you can use.
mauvais
on reddit or something
I don't think it's quite enough to justify putting them in a skip, but supermarket bikes are properly shit bikes, not as in 'that's shit mate, you should have spent five graaaaand', but as in so shit that if you even get to ride them a couple of times, something major will break, and the time of a minimum wager to fix them - or indeed the other things a volunteer could be doing - soon eclipses the cash value of the thing. Plus some literally can't be fixed except by cannibalising another exact copy of the same as they're not built to any kind of bikey standard. So if you like the bigger sin might be building this disposable junk in the first place.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I gave up shopping at Tesco a while back, when they seemed to be buying up every empty pub and land banking. Can't stand them.
Unfortunately other supermarkets are not much better, and I have to shop somewhere - though I avoid it as much as I can but I'm fortunate that my area has a good market and independant shops.
Supermarkets encourage waste at everystage of production. They use their huge buying power to strongarm small suppliers. They provide unfair competition to small shops, with their low business rates and free parking. They are destroying our town centres. They keep prices up by throwing stuff away.
Best avoided if you can for so many reasons.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
I work for a charity and I wouldn't give someone something that was broken or had missing parts. How insulting and humiliating. If they are given to charity then either they should be fixed first or given to a scheme which has a focus on bike repair.
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
I do find Tescos uniform size & shaped Aubergines annoying, they all look so neat & shiny, what happened to all the others?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
And when did they start packaging them individually in plastic wrappers?
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
The froze them and sold them to the Liberian police force to use as cheap truncheons.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Many years ago I remember buying one, must have been well over a decade ago, in a wrapper - and not getting round to eating it and was horrified when I went to throw it out weeks later and it had not gone off. What to hell had they done to it? Have not bought veg at supermarkets since.And when did they start packaging them individually in plastic wrappers?
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Eggplants don't kill people. People kill people.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Some of the apples you buy are two years old. They have warehouses where the oxygen is pumped out and nitrogen pumped in. The lack of oxygen keeps them from spoiling.
xslavearcx
time for a nu-metal revival?
Totally right... I work for one of those bike refurbishment charities and basically an assessment is made on bike like that based on how much labour is required,cost of replacement parts (in order for the bike to have a guaruntee it has to have new parts such as brake cables etc) the cost of which makes profit margins very small... When it comes to lowest end of market bikes it often turns out to be uneconomical to put labour and parts into refurbishment... They often end up being scrapped in such cases...
Whagwan
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It's quite common, pretty much all supermarket meat (from the chiller, not the counter) will be packaged in a Modified Atmosphere to slow spoilage...
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
yum.
NoXion
his soul is marching on
Why is that a bad thing? I hate it when stuff goes mouldy or manky, especially vegetables.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It's what they put in them, or do to them to make them last that long that's concerning.
Last weekend Mrs Spy found a packet of tortillas in the back of the fridge that had been there for over a month. She was about to bin them and I stopped her and read the use by date. Apparently they're good until June 2016!
NoXion
his soul is marching on
It's what they put in them, or do to them to make them last that long that's concerning.
Last weekend Mrs Spy found a packet of tortillas in the back of the fridge that had been there for over a month. She was about to bin them and I stopped her and read the use by date. Apparently they're good until June 2016!
In the case of fresh fruit and veg, "packaged in a protective atmosphere" just means they've replaced the standard air mix with nitrogen. As a chemical it's almost entirely unreactive, and therefore the only health risk it presents is asphyxiation, which is obviously not a concern with the small quantities used in food packaging. You're more likely to suffocate yourself with the wrapper. I don't see how irradiation would be problematic either.
Processed foods are another matter entirely, but most of the time they last so long because they've been packed with salt and/or sugar. In the case your tortillas, packaging aside I would imagine that their longevity would be largely due to the nature of the product itself - it's not fluffy like bread is and thus has fewer nooks and crannies in which mould spores can get going.
Or it could be a preservative that's responsible. But I don't see how that's so terrible. Those E numbers might look scary but quite a few of them are simply reference labels for ingredients that are found in natural products.
Not that I think that just because something is natural that means it's harmless. Chemophobia is a singularly idiotic method for deciding what's good and what isn't. It also pretty much always ignores one of the key factors that makes a substance a poison - the dosage. A sufficiently minute amount of cyanide won't hurt you, and too many vitamins can actually kill you.
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
probably best for everyone that these were disposed of tbh. you *could* have taken them to a scheme like recycle or the guys at elephant and castle or one of the charities transporting containers of bike bits to remote parts of africa but i'd pity the mechanic lumbered with that horrible lot.
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