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. Bakery goes stale and fresh food lose some of the freshness, and typically is battered about a bit having been handled by customers.

Take the Sweet & Pastry bag... 4 items for let's call it £4 making it a pound each seems a complete bargain especially when some items go for that alone. You have no control over what you will receive - which can be exciting and help you try new things - and can include duplicates. Some items just don't cut it and there is a huge chance you will end up with them.

Products in demand sell out. Products which nobody likes, hang around. This can be due to trading patterns or oversupply so not necessarily a poor product. Unless you have different tastes to the common man, chances are the products left on the shelf at the end of the day (or in some cases the following day) have been left for a reason.

Starbucks are particular with their price points, so products in the same class have the same price regardless of the variation in cost price. This is to prevent people buying solely based upon price (i.e. everyone buying the cheapest product, so the rest don't sell).