Posted by
tetsuos
16 yrs ago
I just had an amusing email exchange with Customer Support from ThreeSixty. I asked them if I can take or buy stale bread from their bakery. I need a few loaves of dark rye, and their store in Landmark seems to be the only place that has this kind of bread. Since I don't need fresh bread, I thought it would make more sense to take the stale bread they are going to throw away anyhow.
Sadly, my expectations of Hong Kong were once again confirmed: "due to food safety concerns, they do not offer the stale bread to non-business individuals." Seriously? I can't take their garbage, even if I pay for it?
So, my question to this forum is, where can I get some stale dark rye bread in Hong Kong? It feels wasteful to buy fresh bread and wait for it to go stale. I would prefer to make some use out of unwanted bread from some bakery.
Any ideas?
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just stalk their rubbish bins! or befriend the person and ask for a favor instead. i think hk-ers do take quite a different approach from business and personal favors.
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i think if u actually go there in person and talk to the staff they're more likely to sell/give u some stale bread, like u said it's going into the bin anyway.
if u email them their immediate natural reaction would be to say no, as it is 'against the rules'.
the bakery in threesixty is ran by an independent company anyway (pretty sure of this) so they dont care that they're not making money out of things they cant sell.
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your situation sounds ridonculous, them not wanting to sell you stale bread that they are going to throw away anyway. i should think a face to face talk might be better.
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janae13: I agree, but this is quite difficult in ThreeSixty. There are usually hordes of people passing through there, and it's not really conducive to a casual chat. I would totally do this if it were a small bakery or little store (like TC Deli in Hang Hau Village), but I haven't been able to find any dark rye at the little stores. :-(
Can it be that companies are really more afraid of liability here than in the US? I've never heard of any outrageous fines or judgements against proprietors in HK...
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I think that they may be trying to avoid situations like those that you see, for example, at Mrs. Fields locations where the day's leftover cookies are discounted late in the evenings
Nobody buys any cookies during the day and then dozens of people line up as early as half an hour before the discount sell-off time begins, giving dirty looks to any customers who pop in and pay the regular price before they can get them less expensively.
It's also possible that the bakery or the store (or the employees) are selling their stale goods on to some other entity (possibly old folks' homes) rather than just disposing of them.
If I were you, rather than press them further, I would just buy the bread and allow it to go stale at home. You want the bread for some reason, so pay the asking price.
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