No such thing as a free lunch? There is, from Lidl’s skips

James Debono
Known for luring customers by offering bumper offers on the goods exposed on its shelves, retail giants Lidl have inadvertently lured people by the promise of a free lunch from their skips.
The Lidl supermarket chain was ordered by the health authorities to keep its skips under lock and key at night amidst reports that someone was relieving them of rotten vegetables and fruit.
This was revealed by Social Policy Minister John Dalli in parliament on Monday.
Dalli confirmed that the department has investigated reports that people were collecting free food from the Lidl supermarket’s skips in Luqa, San Gwann and Santa Venera.
But nobody was actually apprehended collecting food from skips when inspections were held by the health department and the police at night.
The matter was raised by Nationalist MP Charlo Bonnici who asked Social Policy Minister John Dalli whether the Health Department was investigating reports that a number of people were collecting frozen chicken from the supermarket’s skips.
But in his reply Dalli made it clear that no frozen chicken was available from the Lidl skips, but only “rotten vegetables and fruit.”
“The operator disposes frozen meats and chicken in appropriate skips according to law,” Dalli told parliament.

jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt

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