Egg Scam

fancyflowers

Who could be bothered doing this? Call me an idiot, but to me an egg is an egg.

They're either large or small. I use large for scrambled eggs and small for boiled or fried eggs. I honestly couldn't care much about what stamp they have on them.

Obviously this is done by those who want the larger eggs for the price of the smaller.

Dishonest, yes, just as taking one Mars bar out of a packet is, or one packet of cat food out of each carton on the shelves, but these petty thefts happen.

Don't know how you could get away with actually standing in a supermarket and exchanging eggs from one carton to another. Also why bother, an egg is an egg is an egg - to me !

That's good to recycle it but as you say it sounds like theft.

theworriedwell

Primrose53

These days there are scams for everything. The other day I was reading about a Bulgarian man who was travelling around in a big van picking up used cooking oil from care homes etc without permission. Apparently it’s worth quite a lot. Police found him with huge barrels of it.

I do t understand. How was he picking it up, surely he'd have to be given access to it.

Nor me, and I don’t understand it being called a scam!
There are companies which pay for used oil, so if care homes were intending to sell their used oil and those pesky Bulgarians managed to get it first, then surely that was theft, rather than a scam?
Incidentally, my friend’s (non Bulgarian ) son and his wife have built up an extremely successful business collecting and selling used cooking oil, which is used for biodiesel and renewable fuel.

Primrose53

These days there are scams for everything. The other day I was reading about a Bulgarian man who was travelling around in a big van picking up used cooking oil from care homes etc without permission. Apparently it’s worth quite a lot. Police found him with huge barrels of it.

I do t understand. How was he picking it up, surely he'd have to be given access to it.

It w as your sentence “mainly Bulgarians, they operate all over the country” made it sound as if every Bulgarian was a thief

Just ‘written words’ sometimes come across wrongly

My previous dentist was Bulgarian and pretty sure he didn’t go round pinching cooking oil either. 🤣

BlueBelle

Be careful Primrose one of my best friends is a Bulgarian you cannot tar a whole country to fit your story.

Devongrilla I really can’t imagine someone walking around changing 6 eggs bit by bit in their trolly as the trot around I m not saying it didn’t happen just saying it’s far from an easy thing to do, much easier to pick up a whole carton and put it in a bag or something if they are thieves

I am only repeating what the Police and genuine Oil collection companies report.

BlueBelle, I think the point is this is a middle class scam. They somehow switch the eggs into a cheaper carton and take it through the till. Even if a security guard checks them, they have a receipt saying they bought eggs. Who knows what else they are switching, the motto seeming to be - 'better food at a cheaper price'. I'm now toying with the idea that there is a scammers' website giving tips that the rest of us know nothing about.

Be careful Primrose one of my best friends is a Bulgarian you cannot tar a whole country to fit your story.

Devongrilla I really can’t imagine someone walking around changing 6 eggs bit by bit in their trolly as the trot around I m not saying it didn’t happen just saying it’s far from an easy thing to do, much easier to pick up a whole carton and put it in a bag or something if they are thieves

How do they manage to get away with it though? Shops are practically infested with CCTV?

Yes Devorgilla. At the time the chicken was £2 or £3 cheaper than the beef, so DD2 was told to slide the sleeve to check that a more expensive joint hadn’t been substituted. I guess it also prevented an innocent party buying beef, only to discover later it was chicken!

Georgesgran, I found your post interesting. The lengths people will go to to get a bargain.

The story was in the Times on Saturday and the supermarket mentioned was Waitrose but I bought mine in the local Sainsburys. I usually go to my butcher for them. I don't think it would be too hard to swap. You could put two cartons of differently priced eggs in your trolley and swap them as you shop away from the egg bit. Who actually notices someone seeming to check the eggs for cracks but actually swapping them? Easy to pass the egg bit again and replace the carton you don't need. It seems to be a 'till' scam in that why change at all if you are planning on doing a runner. The ones I bought had a lion on which didn't raise my suspicions as I was unaware of the crown stamp until yesterday. Throughout my long life the lion has been a fixture. Anyway, I have flagged up the scam for those of you who like to know what you are buying.

I only buy organic eggs so I expect I could have been scammed!

Sorry, that link does not work but it’s all on AI.

Wyllow3

Gosh, is it just Bulgarians we have to look out for Primrose? I'll be extra vigilant 🤣.

Mainly Bulgarians apparently. No idea why. They operate all over the country.

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BlueBelle

Sounds like the care home was in on it too
I think MacDs advertise that they reuse their cooking oil, after something is done to it, to use in their vans and lorries. I believe there is money in collecting used cooking oil I suppose he was being clever to try and start up a business in it
How can you pick up cooking oil without permission ?? Break into the kitchen at night time ???

I understand the care homes store their used cooking oils outside in large barrels.

Our free range eggs are from hens being less free ranging than previously . In some ways that is better as I always feared running over one of two going up the drive. The grandchildren loved it though.

I'm an egg snob. I only buy mine from our community shop or when my friend who keeps hens gives me some.
No stamps at all but lovely yellow yolks.

There's been an outbreak of bird flu here recently so free range are not so easy to get hold of.

Gosh, is it just Bulgarians we have to look out for Primrose? I'll be extra vigilant 🤣.

Sounds like the care home was in on it too
I think MacDs advertise that they reuse their cooking oil, after something is done to it, to use in their vans and lorries. I believe there is money in collecting used cooking oil I suppose he was being clever to try and start up a business in it
How can you pick up cooking oil without permission ?? Break into the kitchen at night time ???

fancyflowers

Who could be bothered doing this? Call me an idiot, but to me an egg is an egg.

They're either large or small. I use large for scrambled eggs and small for boiled or fried eggs. I honestly couldn't care much about what stamp they have on them.

Ooo, the difference in flavour is worth the extra bob or two, I dont make cakes as it happens but wouldn't bother for that, however for a super omelette or dippy eggs - all the difference if they are "posh".

Primrose53

These days there are scams for everything. The other day I was reading about a Bulgarian man who was travelling around in a big van picking up used cooking oil from care homes etc without permission. Apparently it’s worth quite a lot. Police found him with huge barrels of it.

Didn’t anyone at the care home check his credentials? Assuming they already had some sort of arrangement for this.

I get Aldi free range here - they are cheaper than all our other supermarkets. About $4.50 a dozen for nice large eggs.