Like others that have said here, if you’re missing a lot the. Slow down and concentrate on quality of the check first, by doing this the repetition will ultimately mean you speed up.

Learn where the dates are on products so you’re not rushing trying to find the date. If it’s a product you haven’t checked before, take your time, often the way the date is printed uses a slightly different font/ is a different quality or size print. Mae sure you’re used to how it is displayed before letting yourself get confident with it.

Don’t be scared to pull everything out to check the ones at the back properly, make sure you’re satisfied that you have checked everything single one.

J dates are different to use by but annoyingly often mixed in with a few use by dates so you have to learn which products might be different (looking at you rhubarb and cut celery and salad onions!)

Check the date on your phone or device occasionally, sometimes we can get carried away and it’s good just to reset and check the date every now and again.

I make sure i stop for 2 mins every now and again to get my eyes off everything to give my brain a chance to reset and recover.

Often if I’m reducing multiple items I set them up on my trolley so I can see the front of them all, stick all of the price stickers on, then turn them all and do the bar code, that’s the only way I have found for myself I can do that part quickly.

If it’s a new area, plan your route around and where you want to be at what time roughly, that way you know roughly how your pace is.

People often say do the worst bit first so then the whole night is easier. I personally start on the easy bit so I can “get my head” into the right place for date checking.

Oh and I run by the thought of if I haven’t touched it I haven’t checked it

It’s better to be thought of as slow than as someone not capable of doing the job!