Posted on 09/05/2013 8:55:01 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Supermarket says it is angry with supplier Comigel after tests reveal 30% and 100% horsemeat in withdrawn ready meals. The environment secretary is due to meet the Food Standards Agency, food suppliers and retailers on Saturday to discuss the horsemeat scandal after Aldi became the latest supermarket to confirm its withdrawn beef products contained up to 100% horsemeat.
Owen Paterson said it was unacceptable that consumers were mis-sold products, but that the problems originated overseas.
"We believe that the two particular cases of the frozen burgers from Tesco and the lasagne from Findus are linked to suppliers in Ireland and France respectively. We and the Food Standards Agency are working closely with the authorities in these countries, as well as with Europol, to get to the root of the problem," he said.
Paterson said he believed the food was safe but urged consumers to return products to the retailers. "The French authorities are saying they are viewing the issue as a case of fraud rather than food safety. Anyone who has these products in their freezer should return them to retailers as a precaution.".
Findus denied reports that the company first knew there was horsemeat in its products last year.
"Findus want to be absolutely explicit that they were not aware of any issue of contamination with horsemeat last year," it said in a statement
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I live in a community where there are NO loose carts rolling around in the parking lots. EVER. There are places where carts are collected, and EVERYBODY returns their carts there. Sometimes they pass them off to other shoppers who are just arriving. Certainly I’m not too lazy to return a cart. My neighbors and I always do.
I don’t know why Aldi has to operate against the norms of the community. It’s insulting.
If you want to scrounge around for quarters by returning carts — more power to you.
Sometimes on the dinner table, too! But not in America. Americans won’t eat animals they see as companions.
You can get STDs from doing that.
Then the Irish really ARE stupid, as they are eating the same meat.
At least they weren’t putting sand in the taco meat back then.
I love Aldi. First off, you get your 25 cents back when you return the cart. Second, the quality of the food I’ve purchased there is great. The prices are lower than Wal-Mart, and I get better quality food. Also, the milk is over $1.00 cheaper a gallon - which is great, because with 3 grown ups and 3 tween/teen daughters, we go through a gallon a day.
Seriously - you might want to tie up that high horse you rode on to Aldi, and look at the quality and prices.
the French eat horse.
Our Aldi is tiny with second rate goods. I was not impressed. It is definitely in the wrong neighborhood (right across from a Costco which is jammed). I expect it to go out of business when their lease is up.
The one I shop at is across the road from a Sam’s. The area has top notch dental offices and middle class housing, both owner-occupied and nice rentals. They are one of the few places with some shade trees, so one of us can shop while the other sits in the shade with our dog.
Aldi’s has excellent produce at great prices, better than the other two stores I use for produce and usually about 1/3-1/2 off the price.
Snacks, wine and candy are 1/3 cheaper than Walmart and of great quality.
Staples, condiments, spices: all as good as anywhere and 1/2 the price.
Acceptable quality TP and paper towels there are also a good buy.
A quality control dietician told me that every processing plant for canned goods where she has ever worked had the same contents in the cans from the same filling line. All that differs is the label. Now, from experience, that isn’t quite true of some top brand vegetables and after one mistake, I just don’t buy those items again. But, in the main, it is accurate.
I drive 45 miles one way every 6-8 weeks to make a day of shopping that includes Aldi’s. If someone is obviously disabled, the cashier had been seen to simply pull a quarter out of the till for the cart, which is then used for the next person’s order, since they don’t provide free bags. Many folks bring in used paper and plastic bags and just leave them there for other customers to use.
OTOH: except for frozen fruit, I don’t buy their frozen goods or their ready made processed stuff. Then again, I don’t buy that stuff anywhere.
The store is small, well-lit and clean. Some of the displays are just stacked pallets and opened cases, but so what? They are also providing 4-5 jobs per shift, as well as quality low priced food and paper products.
What is really going out of business in my area are all the various Dollar stores. The food/paper/cleaning products at the only surviving one, a Dollar General, have shrunk in size, gone up in price, declined in quality and their soap products are watered.
I lol’d.
Yeah, right. And probably this happened because Syrian jihadists *put* that horsemeat in there. Thanks Impala64ssa.
“Now that I’ve had a knee replaced, I even use electric carts without any payment.”
Sounds like you need to spend a little less time at the grocery store anyway, so I call it “win-win”.
Trundle your big behind around the block every now and then, and you’ll find that physical effort will be less associated with “insult” as you seem to find now.
You have to understand how the Aldi cart system works. Personally I love it. People shop Aldi because their prices are very very good, their “house brand” is quality, and you bag your own stuff (which many folks like to do). The 25 cents you get back when you return the cart. Often when you are walking the cart back someone going in will trade you the 25 cents and you don’t have to walk all the way back. No carts left in the lot and no employee out there fetching them. The carts have a chain lock that releases the quarter when you return the cart and chain it back up. It’s brilliant.
You aren’t paying for it for heavens sake. My goodness. Having to have a quarter handy (I would just keep one in my car arm rest) is nothing if helps them pass on the savings to me in their prices.
The norms of the community??? wow.
My goodness. Do you make it a habit to assail the handcapped?
Yes. The norms of the community.
There are thousands of stores here, and everybody uses carts and baskets on a honor system. Nobody leaves them rolling around the parking lot. Nobody steals them. Everybody uses good manners and returns them to the designated location. Why does Aldi think that they need to impose a different standard?
I have the right to shop elsewhere, and I exercise that right.
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