The waste discounts during the last opening hour of the shops speak for themselves.
We reported earlier that the local market in Salo, S-Market Plaza, stopped the evening sale of fry-up products. The reason was the hoarders, who crammed hot spot products into their carts long before the sale started.
We asked the readers of Iltalehti, have they come across this phenomenon in a grocery store?
Many had encountered this behavior in their own local store. This type of advance hoarding is mostly frowned upon.
– I have seen hoarding numerous times. People collect carts full of goods and then sit on the benches of larger stores, which are in the store for customers, and talk on the phone, says the nickname KN
– I myself work in the store, and many customers hide the products from the frying pan on the shelves and behind the products and then pick them up after the evening sale starts and go to pay, says the nickname Kaupan täti.
– I have come across hoarders. I go to the evening sales about once a week, I usually go to the store about a quarter of an hour before the start of the sale and I personally buy a maximum of 3-4 items for myself and my husband. I don’t think that the products in question should be eaten until the next day at the latest and they are not healthy. “Several times, in the shopping queue, I have noticed a person with many full bags from the frying station, which means dozens of products have been taken at once,” says Niina.
– I am extremely annoyed by the same hoarders who come to the local S-shop several evenings a week as early as seven o’clock. They go around and collect 30 percent red label products in their carts. They linger between the shelves for an hour and rush from the cash register to the cash register. I would personally like to buy 30% of the products, but they often end up in hoarders’ carts. Sometimes they even hide purchases under a shopping bag, says the nickname Early bird eats a worm.
– People hoard everything other than hot-plate products well before 8 p.m., says the brand Hoomattu on.
– I’ve been to my local S-market a few evenings right before the start of the evening sales, when the red-labelled products come on sale. However, lately I have come across this hoarding phenomenon. I have noticed people who have already filled their baskets with sale products and are sitting on chairs in the store browsing their phones. I don’t know how much earlier they have come, but they have already cleared the shelves. I find this pathetically selfish. If a small group hoards everything, the store may eventually give up evening sales altogether. I hope that people would also think of others, so that a useful practice that helps many could continue, says the nickname Hämmentinyt customer.
– I’m not a hoarder. It’s disgusting when sometimes I would buy 1-3 pieces at a fry station in the evening and they are not there, comments Anni the banny.
– Yes, I have come across this behavior, a basket full of products with red tags is placed between the shelves and the fryer smiles blankly at other customers… Rules of the proper jungle: The fast eat the slow (and the slow eat nothing) mentality. Pig-like, dislikes the nickname Jevylin.
– There are so many things in the cart that you can’t see the nose behind them. Another thought is that it’s as if the store is running out of goods. Moderation in everything, comments the nickname Pienituloinen elekäläinen.
– I don’t even eat those Karelian pies and donuts the day after tomorrow or frozen anymore! I don’t understand who wants a bad bun, no matter how cheap you can get it. Here at S-market, school children and elderly people get them for their needs, says the brand Mummo 56.
– Yes, there is such a thing that during the day not a single neighbor goes to hide the waste behind the products and then comes at 6o% time to get the products they hid, the nickname Safe information opens the situation.
– I haven’t come across one, but I’ve seen many videos where people present piles of packaged food they got for really cheap and brag that they filled a cart full of them. I think that’s very selfish and unacceptable. Sometimes I myself buy some random red-labeled product, although I rarely even see such, but never the last thing that someone really poor, living in dire straits, might need for their meal for the day. Stores should put a limit on labeled products, for example only 2 red label products per customer, comments the brand Itskäkat hävekööt.
For some, this is more acceptable and they do it themselves.
– You have to go to the store one hour before the 60 percent discount starts. Otherwise, you will be left without the most wanted, comments Yrjön Kaarle.
– I have not heard of a bigger hoarding and I myself have not hoarded or moved late into the evening in the store anymore. But is there anything wrong with that if a person collects more affordable products and wants to be in the store a little longer to get a discount on them? After all, this is not a question of theft, reflects the nickname Ei ahne.
– There are deals for everyone. You don’t know who needs it and who doesn’t. I’m not into that either. I myself sometimes hoarded for a student girl and her child. Sometimes the money is not enough, explains the nickname Roysmari about her situation.
– I’m not in terms of the frying point, but in terms of other products such as meat. However, the earliest we go to the store is around 19:30 and wait for the sale to go up. At least 1.5-2 hours before, we go and walk around the store to pass the time, looking through each shelf one product at a time, says the name Haidihaidihou.