Egg Scam

We keep 5 chickens so are scam free. Good thread though I was not aware of this happening.

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.

What an oily character 🤭

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 find this hard to believe it would take a minute or two and some space on the shelf to swap 6 eggs over from one carton to another and for what ….a slightly bigger egg!
Many of us haven’t got a nearby farm shop so a supermarket is our only option I see people checking as I do that none are cracked but beyond that I m surprised if this is a thing

Fallingstar

Allira

www.farminguk.com/News/shoppers-warned-over-egg-box-swapping-scam-in-supermarkets_67970.html

I always check the eggs to make sure they're not cracked.

I do this too, always looking at the eggs and moving them slightly to make sure they are not stuck in the the container due to leakage. And I look at the bottom of the container to make sure no leakage is seeping through. It’s what my old mum always did.

So did my Mum and still does and so do I.

kittylester

We buy ours from a farm nearby. The eggs are free range, fresher and cheaper No scamming there.

We do the same. Ours come from a little smallholding almost on our doorstep. You can see the chickens roaming around free and happy.

We buy ours from a farm nearby. The eggs are free range, fresher and cheaper No scamming there.

Allira

www.farminguk.com/News/shoppers-warned-over-egg-box-swapping-scam-in-supermarkets_67970.html

I always check the eggs to make sure they're not cracked.

I do this too, always looking at the eggs and moving them slightly to make sure they are not stuck in the the container due to leakage. And I look at the bottom of the container to make sure no leakage is seeping through. It’s what my old mum always did.

www.farminguk.com/News/shoppers-warned-over-egg-box-swapping-scam-in-supermarkets_67970.html

I always check the eggs to make sure they're not cracked.

Our supermarkets are so busy I'm sure someone would notice if someone was doing that.

Oh - talk about desperados. Who’d do that ?

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.

British class A eggs are stamped with a lion

Years ago, DD2 worked on the checkouts in M&S and had to check that the small chicken joints (in foil containers in a cardboard sleeve) hadn’t been swapped for a more expensive beef joint, but kept in the chicken sleeve.