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Swiping Too Good To Go once told uncollected bags are no longer available

Girl tried to collect Too Good To Go bag after the unit has closed. She tried to create convo through the half-down shutter. After being advised that the store is now closed and uncollected bags have been wasted, decided to swipe on the app to force the issue. It is complete stupidity to swipe after being told all uncollected Too Good To Go Surprise Bags have been binned.

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You do his order first before mine, he is in a hurry

Customer hadn't even got the app open ready, instead having the email confirmation of the reservation. A good 30-40 seconds later, he finally swipes, I go get him a bag I have just assigned to him... and as a goodwill gesture I completed the POS parts of the transaction later saving him a couple of minutes (not to mention the queue was building).

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Too Garbage To Gain: Remote TooGoodToGo Collections

Starting to get more and more people with either an email, text or screenshot of the app or the email, trying to use that to collect a Too Good To Go bag. You have to use the app - you need to swipe to collect. We need to see the wonderful word in green "collected" next to your collection code.

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Understanding Too Good To Go

You order (reserve) a Too Good To Go Surprise Bag from £3.99. You collect within the advertised collection times. Don't assume you will be the only person in the queue. There is no priority line for Too Good To Go. When you are next-in-line, ensure you have the app open. Do NOT Swipe in advance. You don't get to choose or negotiate contents of the bag.

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Too Good To Go Karen

Karen ordered a Too Good To Go bag. Tried to collect it when the unit was temporary closed for my break. Correctly didn't swipe in advance and cancelled the reservation. Yet decided to wait around to try to wing a free Too Good To Go bag. Had a full temper tantrum when I was unwilling to give her a free bag, after she declined the option to repurchase the last bag remaining.

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Let's talk Too Good To Go

There is still a lot of fanfare about Too Good To Go which is a great initiative to reduce food waste. There are variations but the original and most common offer is £3.99 and you are supposed to receive goods of 3 times that value or more. Where it falls short is product value on already overinflated prices at places such as Starbucks fall with age.

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