Alex Cleland

But there's products like that, you're talking about beef, like the products that have high retail prices, you make no money on.

And you make no money on because the last thing you want to do is sell a product at the same sort of margins that you need to make because the consumer can't afford it.

So you're losing money.

There's a lot of product that you lose money on.

I mean, one of the things the government could do is abolish best before dates.

They're a waste of time anyway, because they're just purely for advice.

I mean, people seem to think that if you buy a tin of beans and it's got a date on it, you can't eat them after that.

I mean, it's a tin of beans.

No, honestly, it doesn't need a date on it.

It doesn't need a date on it.

It's absolutely stupid.

But you'll get someone coming back saying, I bought these yesterday, they're out of date.

But my understanding is there is somewhere in the legislation where the consumer is supposed to check the date on the product before they buy it, that the

Oh, we do, yeah.

We look after our customers, but they have to have their receipt.

If they don't have the receipt, then we can do nothing about it.

Well, I mean, there's one thing that I would love to see.

I mentioned to Alex there earlier on when I was talking to him this morning.

There's something I've seen.

It was many years ago over in, I think it was South Africa.