That programme was a complete hatchet job and their retail expert was a joke.
Do some research into who he worked for before.
Fruit and veg should be bought by look feel and smell.
The same applies to all retailers, there are good and bad practices in them all.

That program was awful. There shouldn't even be sell by dates on fruit and veg. If it looks fine, feels fine, smells fine, it IS fine. Look at the produce yourself and decide whether you want to buy it or not, don't make your mind up from a label.

Essentially what that program was advocating was more needless waste. Really unethical.

The researcher in that program suggested Aldi codes are best before dates, which is why he was so "shocked" to find out of date stock. They are in fact production dates (Aldi appears to stamp their produce one week ahead of Lidl). Fruit and Veg does not need an expiry date - storage conditions will dictate how long it's good for.

After seeing the Channel 4 Dispatches program about Aldi and their sell by dates for fruit and veg being weeks over and still on the shelves, i will no longer be buying any from there.

From store opening leaflet

After seeing the Channel 4 Dispatches program about Aldi and their sell by dates for fruit and veg being weeks over and still on the shelves, i will no longer be buying any from there.

Very hard to see a sell by date on these. Aldi don't put dates on like other supermarkets. I found mouldy tomatoes when I opened the bag at home last week.

I wonder how old this stock is ??

http://www.cheapeats.ie/2012/10/09/lidl-and-aldis-mysterious-best-before-dates-on-fruit-and-veg/

and to work out the week number.....
http://www.epochconverter.com/epoch/weeknumbers.php

Good deal, but with these deals being posted increasingly early on this site, by the time they are available I've forgotten about them and miss them

Thanks for posting the week number link, very useful.

Not much logic in your thought process. The programme, if you could call it that, was about Aldi, so why include Lidl? You'd be as well including Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, Waitrose, Morrisons etc etc etc. And, for the record, I've never seen anything like they showed in my local Aldi (or Lidl). I wonder how many plants they used before they got what they wanted? You've got to remember that they set out to make a programme then go digging till they get enough to "prove" their point.