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Do you use a lot of milk, fancy a milk bath or have a big freezer?
Coles lite milk 20 cents for 2 litres. Lots of stock, 10 cents a litre, cheaper than bottled water.
[VIC, Short Dated] Coles Lite Milk 2L $0.20 @ Coles, Hoppers Crossing Old Geelong Rd
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subydooby on 20/10/2024 - 13:31 coles.com.au (1761 clicks)
Last edited 21/10/2024 - 16:58 by 2 other users
Last edited 21/10/2024 - 16:58 by 2 other users
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So many bottles all marked for the 21st of October, oh dear. Someone on the team (profanity) up and might get pushed out a window soon.
Also, the deadline is the end of today (20th), not tomorrow, because I don't think it is legal for them to sell it beyond the end of today.
I've tried to buy some bottles that were expiring on the same day and depending on the staff member, some will wretch it out of your hand to dispose of it, some will let you take it for free as long as you promise not to sue them if you get sick.
Also, the deadline is the end of today (20th), not tomorrow, because I don't think it is legal for them to sell it beyond the end of today.
It's illegal to sell after the use by date, selling on the use by date is ok
some will let you take it for free as long as you promise not to sue them if you get sick.
Hard to sue them when you've stolen the milk.
Hard to sue them when you've stolen the milk.
Using that logic, if there's something in your house that you don't need and you've invited me to take it from you for free, is that stealing? Are you going to immediately call the police the moment I step out the door?
if there's something in your house that you don't need and you've invited me to take it from you for free, is that stealing?
No it's not stealing because it's something I own and can choose to do what I want with it.
A staff member at Coles cannot give you permission to take something for free because they don't have the authority to do so and it isn't their inventory. All they can do is look the other way and not report the theft.
It depends on the item. Some can be sold on the expiry date, others can't. The actual expiry date is always coded onto the markdown barcode and the POS system decides whether it can be sold. I've noticed it's mainly meat that can be sold on the date.
It depends on the item. Some can be sold on the expiry date, others can't
No it doesn't
It is illegal to sell foods after a 'use by' date.
https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/food-labelling/stay-saf…
some will let you take it for free as long as you promise not to sue them if you get sick.
Lol umm yeah a pinky promise isn't going to hold up in court. There's nothing for the staff member to gain, and their job to lose so I would understand why they wouldn't be super keen on the idea.
It scans as "unable to be sold".
I had unfortunate experience buying non-discounted new milk at Coles just to realise at home that it is already off. I would not recommend saving this way, definitely not on milk.
If milk was not discounted/ expired how did it go off?
Broken fridge, extended time between the track and store, lighting strike, contamination, whatever else.
Thanks for sharing your experience… so not the fault of the store at all?
Thanks
This would be down to how it was stored in the store. Probably spent half a day sitting on a pallet.
I regularly buy marked down milk from my local and find they often go 2-3 days past the date.
I regularly use a week past
Why would you not take it back to the shop? They would replace refund without questions asked. It’s taken very seriously.
I did get a replacement without receipt before (no refund) but I did have to push it a bit which surprised me - was a block of cheese still well in date and visibly mouldy.
They ended up basically saying "just grab a new one and walk out with it" lol
$2 item not always worth going to the store.
Sucks is life init
Imagine wanting the fat removed from any food. Crazy times.
i didnt know water was so expensive….
compared to most bottled water this is a cheaper way to buy it.
Run it through reverse osmosis for cheaper bottled water
bottle water is more expansive than petrol
Coles sells bottled water for $4.75 for a 10L or $0.80 for a 1.5L bottle.
Might be a good idea to say which Coles it is as there is more than one.
Can make paneer/cottage cheese with it
Ideally you'd want the full cream milk variant…
True, but since this is the product being offered on clearance…beggars can't be choosers
Lire milk still works well with a tsp of easiyo powder sachet culture. 1L fresh yoghurt for ~30c.
Or yoghurt
Make Paneer for ages
If you are with ovo evergy and have a induction stove. It's a bargain
Combine with some chocolate malt and fatten up the whole family.
Mmm, frosty chocolate milkshakes…
Or blend in some banana or strawberrys.
Urrrgh! Blech! I’ll take a crab juice
If only i had a bathtub or spa
Perfect for Paneer or yummy Burfi…
just what I needed. cartons and cartons and cartons and cartons of spoiled milk! 😂
I guess as the saying goes, Coles shouldn't cry over
spilledspoiled milk 😂they should put a sign up at the entrance "All you can drink spoiled milk! $10" so then all the body builders can line up check the expiries and chug the bottles right at the shelf. 😂
i'm sorry i'm an idiot I don't know if body builders actually chug milk.
Oh there'll probably be a tiktok challenge for that 🤣🤣
@pennypincher98: I think I was thinking body builders can just consume a lot of anything. like 4 large pizzas? no problem.
so yeah just have bibs (with coles logo) ready and I think like if 10 bodybuilders show up they can chug 20 bottles each and clear the shelves. 😂
Good for gardening
I guess it's only 10c a bottle as you can get bottles recycled for 10c? Or is milk plastics not accepted for recycling?
Or is milk plastics not accepted for recycling
Yep you're correct, they can't be refunded.
The containers eligible for those schemes are generally ones that you find littered in a park.
That's why things like wine bottles and most milk bottles are not eligible. They are usually consumed at home.
Some milk containers like those 600ml box cartons or smaller flavoured milk bottles are eligible, because they usually get tossed the moment the person finishes drinking it.
The whole point is to clean up streets and parks while also producing a high quality, low contamination recycling stream.
Council recycling bins usually have a terrible contamination rate because idiots throw nappies, food stained recyclables, used paper napkins, etc. Hope-cycling is a handbrake on most council bin recycling streams.
Does most council home recycling just get binned or shipped overseas to be abandoned? I assume the contamination is severe because people are not smart.
A lot of recycling is passed onto private companies.
Private companies understand that they cannot capture absolutely everything. They are there to "fish" for a small % of it and ideally make some sort of profit.
So because of this, they like to pick and choose which garbage lots they process. Obviously those tend to be the less contaminated ones. Even a light amount of contamination can turn them off from processing it if there are plenty of uncontaminated recycling to choose from.
Even if the common person thinks a little bit of contamination isn't a huge deal, if it involves wasting time purifying the waste before processing, that is time wasted, which adds up at scale.
So yes, even small amounts of contamination means they usually end up sending it to landfill, because it isn't worth the time.
If you want to capture a large % of the waste and stop it from going to landfill, it would have to involve:
heavy amounts of education on the general public, which isn't guaranteed to do anything, because education means people who already care will learn more, but people who don't care won't take anything in,
an understanding that large amounts of taxpayer money has to go towards recycling schemes that are unprofitable and expensive, because of the decontamination processes, purely for "social good", which can be political suicide, especially to an area that typically doesn't vote for left leaning candidates.
@non-core promise: That makes a lot of sense! Balancing environmental goals with public support and financial feasibility is a complex task that requires strategic planning and community engagement.
I just wish people who can afford to buy $5 coffees would learn to not dump empty cups in the recycling bin.
@non-core promise: I worked in a university before and you'd think they are educated.
But no, everytime I looked at the recycle bin I cannot help but fish out some rubbish.
Vice versa at the waste bin.
And I am talking about staff pantry which suppose only staff have access.
Human race is truly hopeless.@sneijder: It doesn't take much for one person to spoil the good work of multiple others.
E.g. I've seen people throw in leftover chocolate cake with chocolate sauce into the recycling bin. If that happens and the chocolate sauce gets all over the previously clean-ish recycling, then that bag is likely to go to landfill.
It's like COVID in a way. 20 people can do the right thing, but if 1 person goes around coughing and sneezing on everyone and everything, all that work is undone and then some.
Recycling in any society with some form of free will never work like this. Educating and telling everyone to just do the right thing will never work at scale.
The deposit schemes mentioned earlier are one way to rectify it slightly by dramatically lowering contamination rates, but you cannot do that for everything.
They've stopped putting use by on milk in the UK to reduce waste; if it's off you'll be able to tell very quickly. This will probably be fine for at least a few days.
?? So it's just lucky dip? How do the staff know when to chuck it once it's off?
I presume there's still codes for sellers to know when to sell until.
They haven't provided any context or the full story. It's still got a best before, just not a use by.
There will always be a date on dairy products as it's illegal to remove them completely
All this does is allow it to be legally sold after the date.
I thought the milk supplier takes back the almost expired milk when they restock the fridge and re-use the milk to make other stuff.
cheap milk for some quick smoothies
good for a porn shoot
Knowing Cole's they are probably still making a profit after exploiting the farmers
Don't tell anyone…. usually 18:30 every night the on duty manager starts the process.
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