Supermarkets may be convenient, but they just aren’t the best place to shop for meat. And they may not be the best place to purchase seafood, either. Buy it from a reputable fishmonger if possible. If you don’t live near a fishmonger, however, the supermarket seafood is probably safe.11 Reasons ... Read more
Yeah, fishmongers and butchers deserve a tax break – BUT ONLY IF THEIR SOURCES ARE SUSTAINABLE. We also need more people to shop local wherever they live, Its a growing problem in south west England.
Connecting the public to local, sustainable seafood – The Fishmongers’ Company
Here is your answer – and why its an awful idea once you give it some thought. “A round can is easier to produce by curving the sheet around a drum. It stores more volume of liquid per amount of metal used. Aluminum is more expensive than the rectangular cardboard packaging for the flats. Makes way more sense to optimize for aluminum cost to have round cans than to optimize it for “storage”.
I rant about weird things... a lot.
So, canned food is usually in round cans. Square cans would make much better use of precious storage space.
I poked around. I found other folks with the same idea. I also found a patent on a canning process for square cans... but I wasn't able to actually...
They should just have a QR code on the till where it says the cost, that way we don’t need receipts or any of these recept scanner apps, Currently for business expenses though, I use this, when I remember to, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts&hl=en_GB
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A freezer packed with ice or food needs to be defrosted. If frozen food is stuck in the freezer, then you might need to defrost the entire compartment.
Can’t for the life of me work out why we still have receipts in this day and age, all the info is on your bank account anyways, unless you are a diehard cashead.
Receipts are secretly really bad–why are we still using them?
Journalist Josephine Moulds looks at the environmental impact of paper receipts and how Starling's partnership with digital receipts provider Flux can make managing money easier.
It takes approximately 15 trees to produce a single ton of paper. Receipt paper demands in the US are 640,000 tons per year. This equates to 9,600,000 millions trees cut down each year just to produce paper receipts.
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No one seems to want paper receipts, and few people really need them, yet they are ubiquitous -- and even worse, unsustainable. Over 250 million gallons of oil, 10 million trees and 1 billion gallons of water are consumed each year in the creation of receipts for the United States alone, generating ... Read more
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theres a half-hearted attempt by Sainsbury’s here, but why no device to do it at the front of the store? Get with it, it would save people so much time and make you more sales via suggested items
Valentine’s Day is breaking hearts as sales mirror the current state of our high streets: Stockpiling at the end of aisles is not sticking and retailers need to reform. Ubamarket presents the solution for retailers With Valentine’s Day upon us, businesses across the UK will be expecting one... Read more
Education would help too. Not many people know what they are actually paying for when buying from supermarkets, its an eye-opener.
Yeah, fishmongers and butchers deserve a tax break – BUT ONLY IF THEIR SOURCES ARE SUSTAINABLE. We also need more people to shop local wherever they live, Its a growing problem in south west England.
If that’s the case, let me introduce you to corned beef…
Here is your answer – and why its an awful idea once you give it some thought. “A round can is easier to produce by curving the sheet around a drum. It stores more volume of liquid per amount of metal used. Aluminum is more expensive than the rectangular cardboard packaging for the flats. Makes way more sense to optimize for aluminum cost to have round cans than to optimize it for “storage”.
They should just have a QR code on the till where it says the cost, that way we don’t need receipts or any of these recept scanner apps, Currently for business expenses though, I use this, when I remember to, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts&hl=en_GB
Good idea, i resort to doing this https://www.hunker.com/13408196/how-to-get-frozen-items-apart-in-the-freezer
Butchers should just provide this service when you buy meat.
Can’t for the life of me work out why we still have receipts in this day and age, all the info is on your bank account anyways, unless you are a diehard cashead.
Would help these guys who make money from scanning receipts too.
It takes approximately 15 trees to produce a single ton of paper. Receipt paper demands in the US are 640,000 tons per year. This equates to 9,600,000 millions trees cut down each year just to produce paper receipts.
theres a half-hearted attempt by Sainsbury’s here, but why no device to do it at the front of the store? Get with it, it would save people so much time and make you more sales via suggested items
mentioned here but i only see these available in Argos stores, not sure why