Removing best before dates from fruit & veg

Whilst I can see the reasoning behind the removal of best before dates, personally as someone who only shops once a week and needs produce to last at least a week if not longer, I find any date useful for comparison purposes. In Lidl they code their packaged produce with week and day numbers, so you can at least choose the most recent delivery. Lidl's produce can be suspect at the best of times so their coding is quite useful.
As an aside I picked up a pkt of YS bbe the day of my shopping, GOSH vegan cocktail sausages for 70p, just to give them a try. The blighters at the checkout charged me full price and to add insult to injury, the bladdy things were mouldy underneath the covering. My fault for not checking I suppose. I will have a conversation with Lidl next week.