Hello everyone?
I have a small question: I assume that you also have expired products in Migros, or products that you no longer sell? what happens to these products? it would be a shame if they were simply thrown away where others could still eat them? thank you very much for your answers.
Hello, at our store, we give away goods from a charitable organization free of charge. Staff also have the opportunity to buy such goods at a 75% discount. Bread is returned to Jowa. The remaining food is returned and sent to Biogas.
Guest
Animal feeding and fermentation are probably the two other most commonly used methods of recycling bread.
I also found this:
"Recycling into new products (e.g. breadcrumbs) " http://www.energie360.ch/fileadmin/files/Events/4_Präsentation_Erfa-Tag_Biogen-wird-Biogas_Wiederkehr-Luther.pdf
"It is given to farmers as animal feed." http://www.beobachter.ch/konsum/artikel/lebensmittel_das-wegwerf-system
"This means that Migros and Coop alone dispose of around 5000 tons of bread products every year - almost 14 tons per day! " http://www.tageswoche.ch/de/2011_48/schweiz/117762
The question is, is all unsold bread returned to Jowa? And if so, how is it actually used there?
Guest
Hello everyone
98.6 percent of the food that Migros offers in its stores and restaurants in 2015 is also sold or distributed as food - at regular prices,
at reduced prices or free of charge to charitable organizations!
Only just 1.4 percent of the food offered by Migros (Migros stores and restaurants) is not used as food:
1.3 percent is recycled:
0.1% ends up as waste in the waste incineration plant (KVA)
All food that we have to throw away means a loss for us on the one hand and costs on the other. That is why Migros tries to minimize the value of
food waste as low as possible.
@ivan92:I will clarify your question about returning bread with the people responsible at JOWA. I'll let you know as soon as I know more.
Best regards, Tabi
Guest
Hello @ivan92
I apologize for the late response. The bread that JOWA takes back from Migros stores is reused as animal feed.
Best regards, Tabi
98.6 percent of the food that Migros offers in its stores and restaurants in 2015 is also sold or distributed as food - at regular prices,
at reduced prices or free of charge to charitable organizations!
Only just 1.4 percent of the food offered by Migros (Migros stores and restaurants) is not used as food:
1.3% is recycled:
0.1% ends up as waste in the waste incineration plant (KVA)
Then today (01.07.2017) I had such a "0.1% case". Bern region, product "Brönnti Creme" AdR in a 500 g tub. For sale until 26.06., to be consumed by 29.06.
I asked the saleswoman (purely rhetorically of course, I already knew the answer from previous cases) whether I could get the product at a lower price. "No, we are no longer allowed to sell it". "So it will be thrown away?" I asked. The answer was: "Yes!" Too bad, because experience has shown that if the packaging is not damaged and the cold chain has been maintained, such a product can easily be enjoyed for more than a week after the expiry date without any risk. Nevertheless, the very friendly saleswoman apologized and also thought it was a shame, but that was just the law.
Suggestion as motivation for the staff to pay closer attention to the dates and sell items at reduced prices in good time: If a customer finds an expired product, they should receive an identical (fresh) product for free. This is how it was done at Merkur in Vienna and I think it's a good idea, also as a thank you to the attentive customer who does the staff's work by clearing out the expired goods.
