Sell by dates in Tesco

I agree with annep. For instance, the tesco carrots had no date on. I want to buy the freshest veg I can, not some that have been around for a week or more.

Then I can choose when I will eat them at home. I go by look, smell, feel. I am not wasting things, I put old veg on a soup. I just want to buy it as fresh as possible.

Two things strike me.
One, turnover of veg in a supermerket wiil be so high that nothings likely to have been lurking on the shelves for long

Two. Carrots! Remsrks on 'freshness' might be applicable to 'new season' carrots but for a large part of the year theyvwill have been in storage for ages before they get to the supermarket... I think yhis makes 'use by', 'sell by'or any other 'by' a trifle irrelevant.

I wouldn't buy any packaged 'fresh' meat, or milk, without a '.. by' date on it, but then, I only buy meat from the local butchers, so I know it's fine.

Ooooh, apologies for typos. Fat fingers on tablet and proof reading failure.

I'm not sure how I feel about this, really. I get what they're aiming at but will the consumer lose out? Suppose you buy a pack of strawberries which then turn to mush by the next day. Does that mean you have no come-back from the store, because they were edible at point of sale?

Not labelling meat is madness! How will stores manage their stock control without an indication of how old something is?

I recall the days before dates on meat, buying from a butcher, and it was not uncommon to have to throw away meat because it had gone off by the time I went to use it. The pong of rotting chicken or pork is not to be recommended!