Tesco store chucks unsold bikes in a skip

Having worked on some Tesco bikes, I can confirm that the skip is the best place for them, and puts them out of reach of innocent victims.

And £4,000 worth of Tesco bikes would be 4,000 bikes, not 24.

The crazy thing is that it would be cheaper for Tesco to give these bike away rather than chucking them bikes in the skip. Pretty dumb management. And they wonder why their profits are down!?!?!?

its a shame and maybe from now they'll donate any future stock to charity, a lesson learned, or even could be used for parts, the cost of the labour to build them isn't free wherever there made, some people think there bso bikes but not everyone wants or can afford in our economy a carbon fibre bike which is basically glued together for the sake of saving a gram or two, well done road cc good article.

Not sure why Road.cc chose to remove this snippet of information from the story, but all the bikes were toddler bikes or younger child, no adult, and all BSO.
Sure it doesn't take away from the fact that this was needless waste, but it does seem to be that Road.cc just jump on the bandwagon of anything with the slightest bicycle connection for copy, even if it has no real relevance to the publication.
I was particularly annoyed when they published a story about the Paris attrocity a day or so ago, purely because a musician used a bike to pull his instrument, that wasn't journalism, if was a sad attempt to use tragedy for copy, clickbating at its worst.

Come on, sort your house out, if you report something, include all the facts, don't cherry pick!

Some years ago I bought a 16" wheeled bike for my son from Tesco in Cirencester for £7.50.  They needed the space in the warehouse so priced them to sell.  I needed to make a few alterations, but it was a bargain and I gave it away once he'd grown out of it so it was win-win-win.

Probably the best place for them, in a skip.

The cynic in me thinks that they realised how lethally flawed their BSOs were (perhaps following some customer complaints) and did half of the right thing and skipped the unsold stock. However, it would be embarrassing and costly to admit it. I find it hard to believe that they had 24 ex display bikes. I've never seen many bikes on display in a Tesco.

Perhaps a charity could have done something with them, but chances are even the frames are too shoddy to be useful. If the dropout alignment was far enough off, for example, the bikes would never work reliably.

Guaranteed that some middle management bod has been leaned on by a senior manager and made the call to clear a corner in the warehouse. Rather than investigate on what recycling schemes there are, he/she has just skipped them.

 Whatever people's view are on BSO's the frames could be stripped down and better components put on or simply built up to either sell or donate to youngsters in the community. Who knows, a future Chris Hoy could emerge as a result. 

Average of £166 per bike. Blimey BSO's are fetching a bit these days !

Cannot make up my mind between:

- Should have donated to Bike relief 

- Best solution for BSOs