am I doing anything wrong

I have never done it and would rather trim it off in the store than wait until I got home to do it. TBH I haven't seen or heard of anyone else doing it until now though

you bunch of tight gits.

I now do internet shopping cos I hate shopping and always end up buying whatever is on offer. Buy big jar of whatever and get another free - even when I dont really like whatever.

Much as I hate the direction knife legislation is going I'd have to say you probably are doing something wrong.

Firstly, I've been warned (off the record, not an official caution or anything) that carrying a swiss army knife - a standard short blade, non-locking one - in my glovebox has the potential to land me in trouble. If this is potentially iffy then surely carrying one round a supermarket, getting it out and waving it around in the fruit and veg isle is surely going to get you some attention.

Secondly, the store is choosing to offer you a set amount of goods for a set price - it's up to you whether you accept that price, but I'd say it's not up to you to arbritarily change the terms of that offer to better suit yourself. If you only fancy half a pack of biscuits can you cut the pack in half and only pay half? What is the vendor supposed to do with the other half of biscuits?

I certainly see where you're coming from in that the supermarket are potentially adding dead weight to a product sold by weight, but surely your recourse is to negotiate a better deal, not to simply change the terms of the offered deal to better suit yourself without negotiating this with the vendor.

Having said that, Tesco seem to be raking in the cash, so screw 'em

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

I certainly see where you're coming from in that the supermarket are potentially adding dead weight to a product sold by weight, but surely your recourse is to negotiate a better deal, not to simply change the terms of the offered deal to better suit yourself without negotiating this with the vendor.

Having said that, Tesco seem to be raking in the cash, so screw 'em

But if enough people do it, market forces will dictate that Tesco's get the message and stop trying to rip people off by putting excessively long stalk on their broccoli. The broccoli and oher stuff that comes in my orgnanic veg box never has the amount stalk etc that you see on supermarket veg. Think about the cost ratio of haulage - Tesco will soon stop once they realise they're paying to ship stuff that goes in their own bin.

sweet jeeezus, never even heard of that

what about peelin the oranges and apples and potatoes, that would be a few quid saved


sounds like there are plenty of "Tam Mullin's" down south

I take the green stalks off my tomatoes, and get them to weigh them out of those bags! I saved at least 3p last time I went shopping by this method, enough to fuel the scooby 1/7th of a mile

I cook what's left on the stalks, I don't throw any of it away. It's tasty. Next year I'm going to grow my own as I'm fed up of being conned by supermarket prices. I planted some onion sets today

[Stingo]

I have no objection to purchasing the stalks as the kids love 'em (strange things - kids). but what I do find annoying is the persistence of supermarkets to sell their veg in shrinkfilm stuff. In the past, I have taken this stuff as a.I do not see the need for it and b.the veg is alive, it does not need suffocating in a plastic thingy and c.It's another piece of rubbish/packaging that I end up ditching on behalf of someone else.

Do the same at the fish counter, ask them to remove the heads and fillet it

[Stingo]

Originally Posted by cuffy

Do the same at the fish counter, ask them to remove the heads and fillet it

*snigger*