I was just posting a related article.
Sometimes I end up with expired food from supermarkets and stores like Big Lots.
One time I bought two boxes of Caramel Junior Mints at a convenience store, as stocking stuffers for other people. They both tried it and had to spit it out because it tasted like soap! I returned them to the store even though it wasn't that much money, because I thought the person behind the counter should know to remove them from the shelf; but I don't know if she did.
I should've just sued the Junior Mints company.

I'm probably 3 times as old as you are: this has NEVER EVER happened to me! NEVER on a consistent basis.
Not only that: it's a health food store. The dates are printed by the fancy company on the carton (for the cream) so it cannot be removed and replaced by a sticker. (Maybe the eggs were, though)
However, like anyone else, this has happened to me once in a blue moon. NOT 3,4, 5 items per grocery trip. WTF??
It's like I dont' want them giving me the stink eye when I go return it, telling me I caused it cos it might turn me violent.
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Supermarket workers are speaking out to CBC's Marketplace about how stores tamper with best-before dates and how it can make food unsafe.
For five years, Mohammad Saffari has worked as a bakery clerk at a Loblaws store in Montreal. He says he was told to change best-before dates on fresh or frozen bakery items such as cheesecakes, muffins and pastries that were weeks or months past the best-before date.
Saffari says he was told to take cheesecakes that had passed their best-before dates and add toppings, so they would appear fresh.
He says cakes were then given a new best-before date and put back on the shelves for sale.
"I decorate it and I'm selling expired stuff for $13.99," he says. "I won't eat this cheesecake myself. But I sell it to you."
After speaking up about this on a number of occasions, Saffari decided to secretly record a conversation with his supervisor where he asks about the practice. He shared the recording with Marketplace.
"Every store does the same f—ing thing. You think other stores don't do it?" the supervisor says on tape.
"Everyone f—s with the dates, Mo. Because at the end of the year, the managers, their bonus, you understand?"

Someone mentioned a fridge that malfunctioned but I question how: I bought 2 cream containers, 1 was fine the other nasty. Same with other food: cottage cheese, 1 looks like gel snot threads and the other normal. I lost money on 3 containers, and that was another (convenience) store plus other foods too that I've let it slide.
The convenience store would not refund opened items.
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It may have been improperly stored. It's been happening a lot lately with all the supply chain disruptions.
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Next time get the stuff in the back which is where they put the newer things.
I check it and if it looks good I may eat it.
Those exp. dates are mostly for when to rotate stock instead of suggesting when something actually goes bad.
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Thanks for reply. Yeah, that's what I've done since this past summer. But it's EVERY damned grocery trip. I'm feeling cheated. I could use my $10. I'd rather send it to Christina than have the million dollar grocery store cheat me out of ten bucks.
PS: You can't eat it: EXPIRED dairy. I took 1 sip and spit it out!
I don't mean expired fine.
I mean the expiry date is 5 days away and it's disgusting already.
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I would eat it or throw it away. I'm not returning a 10 dollar or less food. Im lazy.
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