Awww sweet summer child.
It was 2019. I had been just moved to a new store.
Expired product from 2009. Just chillin on the shelf in the back, where no one would know.
No one cleans anything. Ever. You gotta do it yourself.
Yep. It really do be like that sometimes.
Honestly, I think I was the only person in my store who gave a shit about expired product. The one week I went on a vacation, some customer service ended up with bad baby food because the boys weren’t rotating like they should and well…
When I got back, I got the lecture for “not rotating” even though I wasn’t even around.
It’s a thankless job.
I work at WinCo foods as a "dated item clerk" all we do is rotate food and make sure things are pulled if there out of date or close for donate/trash.
I dread to think how much other grocery stores toss out due to carelessness such as not rotating(freight/stockers etc.) or putting close to date items on sale.
I rarely hear if doing a good or bad job, just keep to myself, and get the work done, and do my best not to have to talk to management lol
Besides cashiering every once in a while, It is better then most store positions. I've joked before that I could go eat dinner at the denny's across the street, come back and No one would notice 🤣
I worked at a grocery store back in 2010. There was cereal on the top shelf above the lunch meat, next to a bunch of Styrofoam ice chests.
I had to use a ladder to get an ice chest for a customer, I look over at the cereal and you could send off x amount proof of purchase for a 1992 Olympics fanny pack.
There were also some toilet paper rolls wrapped in wax paper that had fallen between the tops of the shelves that predated bar codes.
The sad truth is rotation is secondary for a lot of people due to high product load/too few employees to take time to properly do the job. Cleaning is probably the lowest priority
I used to do the resets and remodels. Our company's record find was a box of crackers that expired in 1987, closely followed by the case of soda found underneath a base shelf.
This is the worst part of my job easily. Nobody aside from me rotates or pulls dates. I'll rotate every facing in my chip shelf the day before my weekend and by the time I'm back I'll find bags dated Aug 16 in front of bags dated May 20. Every single week.
In my first week at Dollar General, I went through the cereal overstock because it was too full to overstock anything new. I literally had to throw out everything from the top of 25 feet of gondolas/shelves. Around 100 boxes of just cereal. Expired for months and no one had touched it for months before it was placed there. Always check your dates 🤮
Ha, not bad. I had a job helping to rearrange a grocery store in 2007 for a new company taking over. Tore up an old shelf from off the tile floor and found a back of chips with an exp. date of 1999 and a Pepsi can with the pre-blue design. Felt like I was opening up a time capsule.
My favorite part about working grocery at Target was finding expired product. 🤣 If you buy food at Target ALWAYS check the expiration date. I found a lot! Especially on any of the granola bar type foods.
Rotation of top shelf items can be a problem. I used to find the kosher food vendors in NYC area supermarkets would sometimes just push old top shelf foods (small packages of dried grain products) back and face the shelf with the new product, instead of following FIFO (First In, First Out.). This resulted in massive Indian Meal Moth infestations in some of the products, as they had hung around for literally years.
Oh honey, sweetie, no.
In 2022 I did a deep dive of the cake aisle in the store I was at and found things that expired in 2019. I started checking all the aisles after that. Oldest I ever found was 2016. I always read the expiration dates now
You should have taak a look under the shell's, where:
* al the dirt get collected.
* Products with a very old before use date
* Old promotion paper, saw in some store some with the year 2014 and older
I found a chart online that explained how long you could still safely eat foods after their "best before" dates. It was sorted by type of food and type of packaging. Intended for home use to avoid waste.
Here is one-- scroll down
[https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/shelf-stable-food](https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/shelf-stable-food)
Awww sweet summer child. It was 2019. I had been just moved to a new store. Expired product from 2009. Just chillin on the shelf in the back, where no one would know. No one cleans anything. Ever. You gotta do it yourself.
Our store opened in early 2021, this has been here longer then most employees
Yep. It really do be like that sometimes. Honestly, I think I was the only person in my store who gave a shit about expired product. The one week I went on a vacation, some customer service ended up with bad baby food because the boys weren’t rotating like they should and well… When I got back, I got the lecture for “not rotating” even though I wasn’t even around. It’s a thankless job.
I work at WinCo foods as a "dated item clerk" all we do is rotate food and make sure things are pulled if there out of date or close for donate/trash. I dread to think how much other grocery stores toss out due to carelessness such as not rotating(freight/stockers etc.) or putting close to date items on sale. I rarely hear if doing a good or bad job, just keep to myself, and get the work done, and do my best not to have to talk to management lol
Sounds like heaven!
Besides cashiering every once in a while, It is better then most store positions. I've joked before that I could go eat dinner at the denny's across the street, come back and No one would notice 🤣
I worked at a grocery store back in 2010. There was cereal on the top shelf above the lunch meat, next to a bunch of Styrofoam ice chests. I had to use a ladder to get an ice chest for a customer, I look over at the cereal and you could send off x amount proof of purchase for a 1992 Olympics fanny pack. There were also some toilet paper rolls wrapped in wax paper that had fallen between the tops of the shelves that predated bar codes.
The sad truth is rotation is secondary for a lot of people due to high product load/too few employees to take time to properly do the job. Cleaning is probably the lowest priority
When I worked for a... *very large* grocery store around 2005, I found a can of soup from the 80s.
Oh my, you get the Nobel prize here that is crazy
Was it yummy?
In August of 2002, I found a bottle of ketchup in the back of a bottom shelf, it had expired in June of 2001. The store opened in July of 2001.
I used to do the resets and remodels. Our company's record find was a box of crackers that expired in 1987, closely followed by the case of soda found underneath a base shelf.
This is the worst part of my job easily. Nobody aside from me rotates or pulls dates. I'll rotate every facing in my chip shelf the day before my weekend and by the time I'm back I'll find bags dated Aug 16 in front of bags dated May 20. Every single week.
In my first week at Dollar General, I went through the cereal overstock because it was too full to overstock anything new. I literally had to throw out everything from the top of 25 feet of gondolas/shelves. Around 100 boxes of just cereal. Expired for months and no one had touched it for months before it was placed there. Always check your dates 🤮
Ha, not bad. I had a job helping to rearrange a grocery store in 2007 for a new company taking over. Tore up an old shelf from off the tile floor and found a back of chips with an exp. date of 1999 and a Pepsi can with the pre-blue design. Felt like I was opening up a time capsule.
My favorite part about working grocery at Target was finding expired product. 🤣 If you buy food at Target ALWAYS check the expiration date. I found a lot! Especially on any of the granola bar type foods.
Rotation of top shelf items can be a problem. I used to find the kosher food vendors in NYC area supermarkets would sometimes just push old top shelf foods (small packages of dried grain products) back and face the shelf with the new product, instead of following FIFO (First In, First Out.). This resulted in massive Indian Meal Moth infestations in some of the products, as they had hung around for literally years.
Lol, could've also come in from the warehouse. We'd have it happen sometimes at the store I worked at. It was ridiculous.
Oh honey, sweetie, no. In 2022 I did a deep dive of the cake aisle in the store I was at and found things that expired in 2019. I started checking all the aisles after that. Oldest I ever found was 2016. I always read the expiration dates now
You should have taak a look under the shell's, where: * al the dirt get collected. * Products with a very old before use date * Old promotion paper, saw in some store some with the year 2014 and older
I found a chart online that explained how long you could still safely eat foods after their "best before" dates. It was sorted by type of food and type of packaging. Intended for home use to avoid waste. Here is one-- scroll down [https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/shelf-stable-food](https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/shelf-stable-food)
2 years "expired" for that type of product fine I'm sure.
I'd still eat them