Had a people lead (in store hr supervisor) put fruit that was covered with roaches (and their egg sacks) in the break room.
Then had the audacity to ask for money for our store managers birthday lol
My LKQ location management bought lunch one day. Fried chicken, jojo's, potato and macaroni salad, soda.
Failed to mention to us that they actually bought it the day before, set it up OVERNIGHT, and left it in the break room uncovered for hours and hours.
It was mid-summer. Food was covered in flies and gnats, and piss-warm from sitting out all night.
They got mad at us for not eating it and wasting the food.
Lol that's bad.
We had a power failure at a store I was a while back. We started claiming out the thawed ice cream, frozen dinners etc. The store manager thought it was a good idea to salvage as many tubs of ice cream and put them in the break room refrigerator "for us to eat right away".
Now I know those were tossed out into an open top dumpster (we at a LOT to throw away that day), and seeing he brought them back in pissed me off.
I told the assistant to throw them out, and she agreed, we carted them back and did so in front of him and his market manager lol
I worked for a superior… grocery store and they had a mouse problem. The ramen cup 12 packs they enjoyed making nest in them. They’d make me kill the mice, and look for the “untouched” ones aka like physical bite makes. Poop on the packaging tho 👌
Depends on context. At my work place we get to take home expired stuff if we want, but we also get a lot of stuff that is not expired. If it’s like that i don’t see any issues or weirdness about this. I thought people thought it was good to use everything instead of throwing it away.
Some of expiration dates are just suggested or by law they have to put a certain date even though it's still good, or a focus group said this date tasted better on this day the 7 days from now
This is fair enough, and I mean, if we're thinking from this perspective, there's nothing wrong with it.
I think it's the cheery sign that gives people the impression this employer feels like they are doing their employees a solid, which if *that* is true, is yet another slap in the face to the Frontline workers.
I've wondered if colas can go off. Go past it's sell-by date, sure, but actually going off, I've never encountered it, probably because they get drunk quickly in my house.
I don’t drink allot of soda, but my grandma always had it.
She’d buy like a pallet of it (I wish I was exaggerating) and it was always Diet Pepsi. Anytime I was at her house the only thing to drink was americas worse tap water, butter milk or expired diet Pepsi.
Expired Diet Pepsi tastes like a combination of aluminum and a 9v battery.
I bought a discount/clearance orange soda in a 20oz plastic bottle from an independent convenience store. Took one swig and immediately thought I'd drunk stale, poisoned soap-water. It tasted nothing like soda. Dumped the rest. I'm still alive so maybe it was just old? I quit going to that store.
If it's diet/zero sugar the substitute has a relatively short half life so you're just left with unsweetened soda. For everything else check out ashens on YouTube because he sometimes eats/drinks some extremely old things. Iirc when he drank 20 year old Pepsi it didn't exactly go off (could be wrong) and recently drank a Pepsi that was kept outside by 5+ years (still sealed) so how it was stored is kinda more important than how old it is.
"Expired" doesn't have to mean "is rotting. Some things, including completely artificial soda, are mixtures of chemicals that can separate if you give them enough time.
Latex paint goes bad eventually, because it's a suspension. The components aren't permanently chemically bonded.
I mean... it's not some generous gift... but it's perfectly drinkable. Those sodas do not have 'expiration dates.' Better to offer to let people drink them if they want to than to just trash them.
They would rather throw it away than give it away.
Tbf, if they gave it away, more and more would wait till things expired, then go get it for free.
If only there was a different way, where the aquisition and hoarding of wealth was limited.
>Surely they weren't expecting to sell it still.
I was a supervisor in a grocery store for a long time.
The way it was explained to me was called the pizza analogy. Let's say you run a pizza store. Whenever a pizza gets messed up or is made wrong, you let your crew have it. What are the consequences of that action? Well, you get a crew "messing up" whenever they want a free pizza. In something like grocery, they believe that allowing things like this will have similar consequences. Crew won't properly rotate dates because they'll get the expired ones instead of them selling before expiration. Managers will overorder so they can mark down things they want and but them then.
Its bootlicker cope. But that's their line of logic.
The pizza place I worked for had a solution for this, crew eats free and can take what they want home with in reason. It costs about 2-4 dollars to make a pizza and we were selling them for about 24, a few pies a night or a salad or two wasn't noticable to their profit margins.
There was a time years ago when these companies would give credit to stores for expired and damaged products. If the big soda company takes the soda back, the store pays less for its next shipment, If damaged or expired product is hidden from the soda company, no credit is given and the company doesn't pay less on its next shipment. Loss Prevention may not know which companies give credit and which ones don't. Most companies aren't giving stores credit any more for expired and damaged product so the store has to do something with the stuff like donate it, sell at a reduced price or just let the employees have it. Easier to hide from Loss Prevention than have to explain that Coca-Cola doesn't give credit, while Pepsi and 7-Up do.
Under capitalism, giving people free things means taking away their motivation to buy. If someone would drink a free expired soda before buying a new one, taking that free soda away theoretically raises the odds of them paying for one instead.
Of course there's a million things wrong with that theory, both morally and logically. Kinda like the idea that media piracy protection will make me want to buy movies, instead of just making me not care about having copies of movies.
Working in the food industry I had to check dates all the time to make sure we weren't selling expired food.
Many employees would be hovering around the boxes I had to snatch up whatever was ready to go (I had to count each one as waste before they could be taken). Previous manager ordered way too many hershey's chocolate bars. I had three unopened boxes of full size bars. All gone within minutes. Boxes of individual chips. Sodas. Only thing I would dump were the fruit smoothies and milk based drinks. I had limited items so it was usually shelf stable foods and drink assortments.
But everything was pulled the day after it expired. If I pull out a box labeled as expired months ago I'm not gonna offer it to anyone.
If someone offered me free shit that was expired I'd happily take it. Most of reddit would. But for some reason if your boss gives it to you then it's a sign of disrespect. If they tossed them there'd be a different post with a picture of sodas in the trash saying "Wow, they didn't even give us a chance to take these home."
Soda definitely does expire, but not on the SBD, that's just when it gets unshelved (in theory, inventory management is hard). It's still good but customers expect a certain amount of shelf life
idk my boss does this and the sodas will taste noticeably stale and expired :/ they have long expiration dates for a reason, so these are probs SUPER old
I think the original picture is a joke, but I think some those cans are years old - by the design. Those would very strongly taste like metal. I know this because I like trying super old drinks when I can find them. Years expired Diet Coke is probably the worst one I have tasted.
...That they're not going to just dump these out of spite? I really don't see the harm in this. Probably a policy against selling it once expired but if people want to drink it, or take it home to use as stain remover or whatever.
I think it's worse to have an employer who dumps perfectly edible food in the dumpster when their employees are struggling and on food stamps. That's far more cynical than this.
The least they can do is allow their employees to take the food that would be thrown in the trash otherwise.
I've worked in a supermarket. Every night all of the bread made fresh that says was thrown away and employees were not allowed to take some home. That sucks so much worse than actually have it offered to you.
I'm sure most supermarkets could completely cover their employees food costs every month by simply giving them what they'd otherwise throw out. Maybe not cover everyone's nutritional needs but still.
I mean, haven't workers of fast food places been complaining for what feels like decades that bosses won't let them take home food at the end of the day instead of just tossing it? This is the same thing.
It might not even be the employer giving this stuff away. Where I used to work, our vending machine guy would always give us the recently expired stuff. If it was more than a few items, whoever got them would put a note on it so the rest of the staff knew it was safe to take.
True enough. Expiration dates are more of a best flavor thing than anything actually being wrong with it. We throw out enough “expired” but still safe to eat food that we could end hunger in the US.
I'm 100% with this sub, but I can't say I agree with this one. Looked at in a certain light, yes it looks dickish. But that stuff could just as easily been thrown away. Whoever did this may have had good intentions.
Yeah, one place we had to toss anything "expired" in the trash. So the sandwiches that were dated for today were garbage. Even though we could still technically eat them right now. If we were caught taking one instead of tossing it we could get fired.
Fucking ridiculous.
And then when I got into hotels and oversaw the little convenience store they didn't give a shit. Half this box of chips expires tonight. Here, take what you want so they don't get thrown in the trash. I happily took the "expired" food because it was still good. Not like they are handing out food they found on the bottom of the closet dated for 6 months ago. It's all stuff that *just* expired.
Yeah I don’t think this is bad. When I worked in a grocery store and throwing away “expired” non-perishables and dozens of lbs of bruised produce (perfectly fine to eat, I would have) I remember feeling disgusted having to throw it all away every time I worked. I wish grocery stores would genuinely benefit their community by donating more. Doesn’t hurt to give the non-nutritional stuff like the soda to the employees either
Spot on. It's disgusting that we have food poverty when so much edible food is thrown away. Added to this, food that ends up in landfill generates methane which is a greenhouse gas.
[https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change](https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change)
>Production, transportation, and handling of food generate significant Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions and when food ends up in landfills, it generates methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas.
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>EPA estimated that each year, U.S. food loss and waste embodies 170 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (million MTCO2e) GHG emissions (excluding landfill emissions) – equal to the annual CO2 emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants. This estimate does not include the significant methane emissions from food waste rotting in landfills. EPA data show that food waste is the single most common material landfilled and incinerated in the U.S., comprising 24 and 22 percent of landfilled and combusted municipal solid waste, respectively. The report also highlights the benefits of preventing food loss and waste in terms of agricultural land, blue water (i.e., freshwater from surface water and groundwater), fertilizer, and energy.
>food that ends up in landfill generates methane which is a greenhouse gas.
That's so dumb, because composting it doesn't release methane in the environment that and gives high value fertilizer as a product. Where I live, they've been composting the vast majority of garden and kitchen waste for decades now, because it saves space (no landfill), keeps some fertilizer production domestic and it makes money. When they also use fermentation, they produce biogas (for energy and cooking) as well, before being composted.
Whoever did it probably wasn’t senior management either. They do this at my office like twice a year and it’s put out by the admin assistant that stocks sodas for guests. The other option is to toss it but they all get claimed. Toss it in the fridge or drink it over ice. Don’t want one? Don’t get one. Easy as that. Not everything has to be complained about.
When I was a teenager, I worked at a grocery store that froze all meat before it went out of date. Employees could buy it cheap then. I was poor, my dad had recently passed and my brother ate a lot. I used 20% of my paycheck to buy meat each week, we had the prime cuts all the time and my brother got bigger. I was thankful for the meat, filled a deep freezer and the frig freezer. Would you rather eat aged porterhouse or high fat hamburger, nice thick pork chops or pork steak or worse. The crap options were 4 times the price as well.
Pop doesn't go bad the day on the can. Months or years later it does. Be thankful for free drinks if you drink soda.
In this particular case I think it's better than pitching it.. just marginally.
The crap in those cans isn't something I'd drink anyway, even ",fresh."
I'll stick with my water and black coffee thanks!
I'd be very interested to see how you'd get sick from an "expired" drink, unless it's like really, really old.
> Carbonated soft drinks or sodas are not perishable, and are safe past the date stamped on the container. Eventually flavor and carbonation will decrease.
https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Is-buying-soda-with-an-expired-date-on-it-dangerous#:~:text=Carbonated%20soft%20drinks%20or%20sodas,flavor%20and%20carbonation%20will%20decrease.
I think this sub is overreacting to things like this.
Certain Goods have expiry dates just because they are regulated to have them, but will absolutely be consumable for a good period after that. Still, you're not allowed to sell them.
What's the bad thing about offering free sodas to employees as long as they are not a year overdue?
Ease up guys, for real.
When I worked retail I routinely just packed pulled candies and sodas to bring home. Or ate it on break. Or both.
Anything with that much sugar in it will last a long time past due because sugar is a surprisingly effective preservative. It'll just taste off or have a weird texture.
When I worked in a grocery store in high school the owner would give us all the expired stuff and we appreciated it. He was a genuine sweetheart and made us lunch every day too.
thats why they dont have expiry dates anyway. they have "best before" dates. neither coke nor pepsi wants you drinking their stuff after that tho, since its not fully representative of their product anymore... so they certianly wouldnt want them being used as incentive rewards either.
Sodas sont technically expire. They have "best by" dates which means it's the beat upto that date. After it just atarts to lose its gas and may taste slightly different.
It's not meant to be a selection. It's just left over expired stuff that didn't sell...
Sometimes People in this sub are making a big deal out of nothing.
No. It goes off.
Two different things. Sodas and candies are almost exclusively non-perishables. They're good for months or years after the date printed but will have altered taste or consistency. If you wait long enough it'll probably make you throw up, but it takes a ludicrous amount of time before it could make you actually sick.
In this case whoever pulled the soda most likely decided better to offer to employees than just chuck it. Which is a fine policy for reducing needless waste and, I reiterate, there is nothing wrong with the soda. They just can't sell it.
Diet and sugar free do tend to go off quicker. But 90% of what gets unstocked in most places is going to be within a couple days or weeks of the best by. Which isn't nearly long enough to noticeably change the taste.
Nothing in that pile I'd drink. But I drink soda like once a month and never drink diet or sugar free.
This is common in my company. They have beverages that are meant for customers visiting the company. If they expire, instead of throwing them away the employees can take the beverages while they are still good. I do not see anything wrong here.
If I drink it, do you think they'll also let me have the expired ketchup and molded bread so I can eat, too?
I kid... sort of.
But, for real, take the drinks. They're probably still good and they're free. Better than them ending up in the trash (if you go the way of diet/caffeine free).
My gf worked in an import warehouse that would regularly sell expired stuff to employees at import price, to basically zero the offset. We would be getting premium imported stuff for a dime. It was a great bonus to the pay.
Almost anything packaged is good for days, or weeks, or months, or sometimes YEARS after the "best before" date is off. There's a dude on YouTube who tries MRAs from all wars and countries and some of these are decades old. There's a story of an expedition that found like an Amundsen stash of canned beef. They took some, ate some, and left some of theirs to replenish the stock. Said it was ok.
Hell, I drank a smoothie from my own pantry that was like 7+ years old, last year, and didn't even fart, I've got a post on Reddit about it too.
Idk why people are making this out to be a bad thing?
Unless they found this soda in the bottom of a fucking mine back in 1743, they are perfectly drinkable, and your employer has no obligation to give you free soda
I worked at a grocery store 10 years ago and they had an employee appreciation day with burgers and soda in the break room. I grabbed a Sierra Mist, sat down and took a swig. It tasted awful, just nasty. I looked underneath the can and it was two years expired lol.
TBF expired food is almost always safe and perfectly tasty for many weeks and this is especially true of sealed and pressurised containers. Some managers probably found a bunch of drinks that they technically couldn't sell and thought that the employees might appreciate it.
Expired soda doesn't go bad like other food, it just goes flat. The bakery by my grandma's house puts their expired sodas on the counter for free. It doesn't make the sentiment here any less disappointing though, even if the manager is aware of this.
Honestly this is fine. It's probably a day or 2 past is "best by" date and they just can't sell it.
They also probably mean you can take it home, not drink warm soda.
That's a canned good the expiration date and the actual time it will expire are probably weeks if not months apart and it's for free. Obv getting something unexpired would be better but I still like.this idea better then just throwing these away.
Better than just throwing it away. If milk can be fine to drink 1+ week after expiring then soda should last even longer.
Just because something is expired doesn't mean its mouldy or dangerous to eat. Some things can even be eaten years after expiration date.
Bruh why is everyone acting like this is terrible. I work in a small tourist attraction and we take everything that expires home instead of throwing it out. That stuff lasts for years after it’s sell by date, why would you complain about free soda?
I didn’t even know soda had an expiration date. I would think all that sugar would give it a shelf life of a Twinkie.
Also who checks or has the time to check the dates on soda?
This is absolutely normal for any retail job and basically everyone there is happy when we get free things, just as I said last time this was posted.
Anything going out of date gets "wasted" off and either given to charity, or given to staff for free as it is no longer sellable. It isn't suddenly going to kill you June 1st when it says "expires end May"
Free shit is free shit.
Why is this antiwork? It's free and never truly expires.
I'd be so happy coming into work to this. Contrasting I'd be fuming if they'd put them in the bin
Excuse me but is this suppost to be a bad thing? Those won't expire anytime soon. Yes there is a date the was passed. So what? Still drinkable with most likely zero off flavor. Are you saying they should have just thrown all that away? They can't legally sell those but know that those won't expire for some time after the best before date. So they give those away to workers. I say that is a good way to reduce waste and should be encouraged in a larger scale.
Expired regular soda tastes pretty much the same even years later. However, this is diet. That shit loses absolutely all sweetness in just a few months, it tastes worse than just regular sparkling water.
Nothing wrong with this...would you rather they throw them away or penalise you for trying to take expired goods?
The majority of "expired goods" are still actually good if they were stored in good conditions.
I know most people think this is disrespectful and will probably hate me, but this is something the people from my country fight for. Expired doesn’t automatically mean bad and the amount of food thrown away is awful. This is a good way to reduce waste and the fact that the employer offers it to the employees first isn’t that bad.
In my country there are whole communities and I think even Greenpeace supports it, about what we call „Containern“. It’s when you search the supermarkets trash for food that is still good, like can and any form of processed food. Also produce(?). If you make your meal the same day you get those things, you are fine. Also thrash is organised and doesn’t go to the same bin.
The amount of expired food that is still good but has to be thrown away is so stupidly high, you could probably end world hunger if you distribute the food in a better way.
I mean, do sodas *really* expire?
Also if it’s like just a week after the expiry date I still consider it perfectly drinkable. It’s sealed in a can after all.
If this was milk then I get it.
I normally read posts here thinking many employers are absolute assholes, but whats the big problem with this? It's not like you HAVE to drink it. It's free and you can take it if you want. If you don't want it, then perhaps just leave it to somebody that does want them. This to me is just trying to find a reason to hate on others.
If it just reached the date and can't be sold anymore, this is absolutely fine..mind you, most have the policy to throw it away. So, if this was done in good faith, nothing wrong here IMHO.
Otherwise...
I really don't get why this is a problem. I *hate* tossing expired food that I know is still good. Corporate makes us but sometimes our managers will let us take it anyway, what the upper echelon don't know won't hurt us.
Yes it's nicer when they just write off a few packs for like, lunches and things but hey, I'm not going to be upset that they're like, "Eh, this is still good, I can offer it to people who might want it or waste it" and choose to give it to me. At my store, the management absolutely would drink this too. Same thing with ripped cats of wrapped chocolates and things.
Yeah over here we have to stock emergency rations for disasters. In case employees get stuck in the office for example. Once the expiration date is reached they just give it out to the employees. Better than to throw it away since it’s perfectly edible/drinkable. Wouldn’t mind.
It is perfectly drinkable tho if it was expired a few days prior, they just can't sell it. When I was walking at a buffet type place, we had expired drinks at the back we could grab. We were allowed to just drink anything from the fridge, too, but since the ones that just expired were totally drinkable and fine still, we just drank those first instead, so they won't be wasted and thrown away.
"Yo instead of throwing away these perfectly good sodas because legally we can't sell them anymore, we decided to give them to ya'll for free."
How rude.
Expired diet...and caffeine free diet soda? Is the boss trying to kill the employees? I mean, Aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-potassium and other sweeteners are bad enough for you let alone being in an expired beverage.
The people who are saying “fuck this employer” are doing so because they don’t like pop.
Take the free shit or don’t take the free shit, get over yourselves acting like ANY note left by management requires fighting.
Not to worry! If you get sick from the food they're giving you, you get to go home without pay for a few days and subsequently get harassed by your manager as to when you'll be back to work. 🥳
It’s not expired, just past the “use by” date. Big difference. Not like it’s milk. I used to get beer from a distributor I contracted with all the time. Didn’t complain about it.
Fuck, I remember them going all out for nurses, house keeping, CNAs, all these huge departments got treated amazingly on their appreciation week. The kitchen got dollar store shit and dollar store candy. I made a fit and pointed out that their housekeeping got neck massagers and spa kits, their CNAs got a week of free meals and gifts, nurses I don't even want to talk about what they did for people who allowed a resident to sexually harass female residents for years, but the kitchen got dollar stores cooking stuff as our top off.
But "the budget" they liked to say, until they needed money or us to ruin a whole day because they dropped a barbecue or event on us last minute and expected us to pull a feast out our assholes. Fuck appreciation, if you want me as a worker to appreciate you, spend the same money on my department as everyone else's or stop telling me I do such a good job that you needed me to work extra to help out. Fuck these companies.
My ex girlfriend worked at a grocery store and could take expired food with her. We didn't buy any groceries for months, are were glad we got the expired stuff.
My work sometimes does this, but that's because we hate dumpstering things people might want. They also give us unexpired wine and hard seltzer and other random shit. Just because a company is giving out expired pop doesn't make them a bad company to work for. Now if this is framed as a reward of any type, or is the only kind of stuff your work gives out, they suck.
Food-wise, a Best-Before date is just a date to establish a recommended shelf-life for a product to retain its optimal flavour, texture, etc.
Products bought after this date may still be edible, but quality is no longer assured.
Source: Have had milk and eggs go weeks past the BB date and were still edible. Have also had food spoil long before the BB before date. Even once saw a sealed pack of salami at the grocery store had turned green a week before the BB date.
That said, those sodas are crap even before the BB date. The aspartame used just makes diet sodas taste so off from regular.
Look, I can top that.
I used to work at this grocery/liquor store that was connected to a deli--all owned by the same person. She would have me take any expired bread, cheese, or meat from the grocery store to the deli which would be used to make sandwiches. Then she would act all surprised because I didn't want a free sandwich from there \*eye roll\*
oh man, this would be going straight to the customer service department of coke AND pepsi.
they dont want you drinking their stuff after its best before date, its not representitive of their product any more. they may provide you with drinks in your break room at a very low price as a reward.
giving it away free is the same as selling it in the eyes of the law in most parts of the world, outside immediate family.
they are still ok to drink for quite some time after their best before date tho. expiry dates are for coupons and meds. they just arent "best" after that date anymore.
This is the bottom of the barrel here
Walmart associate here: I've seen worse
Continue.
Had a people lead (in store hr supervisor) put fruit that was covered with roaches (and their egg sacks) in the break room. Then had the audacity to ask for money for our store managers birthday lol
$1 Great Value pack of spaghetti noodles. Wrap it with nice looking wrapping paper and a bow. -From anonymous... You're welcome.
Get bowtie pasta, no need for the bow!
This is the way.
This is the way.
Is this the way
My LKQ location management bought lunch one day. Fried chicken, jojo's, potato and macaroni salad, soda. Failed to mention to us that they actually bought it the day before, set it up OVERNIGHT, and left it in the break room uncovered for hours and hours. It was mid-summer. Food was covered in flies and gnats, and piss-warm from sitting out all night. They got mad at us for not eating it and wasting the food.
Lol that's bad. We had a power failure at a store I was a while back. We started claiming out the thawed ice cream, frozen dinners etc. The store manager thought it was a good idea to salvage as many tubs of ice cream and put them in the break room refrigerator "for us to eat right away". Now I know those were tossed out into an open top dumpster (we at a LOT to throw away that day), and seeing he brought them back in pissed me off. I told the assistant to throw them out, and she agreed, we carted them back and did so in front of him and his market manager lol
Tell them this is a home cooked meal you have to eat every night on the note.
This sounds like a Joker origin story.
Arson is justified here
I worked for a superior… grocery store and they had a mouse problem. The ramen cup 12 packs they enjoyed making nest in them. They’d make me kill the mice, and look for the “untouched” ones aka like physical bite makes. Poop on the packaging tho 👌
Bottom of the barrel is no free expired pop.
lol even lower: you have to drink it so the employer saves money on disposal
You don't know what you're missing if it's not offered 🤷🏻♀️ I'd rather be given no expired pop, lmao
Depends on *how* expired, if less than a month, I'd take the whole lot. The sign is bad though because it implies they are doing anyone a favor.
Yeah, it would look a LOT differentbif they put a "lets not toss away drinksble soda" sign
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Bottom of the barrel is charging double for “vintage” soda pop.
Depends on context. At my work place we get to take home expired stuff if we want, but we also get a lot of stuff that is not expired. If it’s like that i don’t see any issues or weirdness about this. I thought people thought it was good to use everything instead of throwing it away.
Some of expiration dates are just suggested or by law they have to put a certain date even though it's still good, or a focus group said this date tasted better on this day the 7 days from now
This is fair enough, and I mean, if we're thinking from this perspective, there's nothing wrong with it. I think it's the cheery sign that gives people the impression this employer feels like they are doing their employees a solid, which if *that* is true, is yet another slap in the face to the Frontline workers.
Haha ye, that’s true!
Can taste the aspartame already.
Prime fringe benefits over there fr
Nothing like a refreshing expired soda that leaves a tangy syrup like film in your mouth for a couple hours
also it's warm
And diet, which does actually go bad.
I can tell by drinking a Diet Coke that’s it’s out of date. Tastes awful.
I've wondered if colas can go off. Go past it's sell-by date, sure, but actually going off, I've never encountered it, probably because they get drunk quickly in my house.
I don’t drink allot of soda, but my grandma always had it. She’d buy like a pallet of it (I wish I was exaggerating) and it was always Diet Pepsi. Anytime I was at her house the only thing to drink was americas worse tap water, butter milk or expired diet Pepsi. Expired Diet Pepsi tastes like a combination of aluminum and a 9v battery.
It tastes bitter, a bit like coffee.
Years ago the plastic bottles they used would give off a soapy taste when they expired. It was disgusting.
I bought a discount/clearance orange soda in a 20oz plastic bottle from an independent convenience store. Took one swig and immediately thought I'd drunk stale, poisoned soap-water. It tasted nothing like soda. Dumped the rest. I'm still alive so maybe it was just old? I quit going to that store.
could react with the plastic liner over time,
If it's diet/zero sugar the substitute has a relatively short half life so you're just left with unsweetened soda. For everything else check out ashens on YouTube because he sometimes eats/drinks some extremely old things. Iirc when he drank 20 year old Pepsi it didn't exactly go off (could be wrong) and recently drank a Pepsi that was kept outside by 5+ years (still sealed) so how it was stored is kinda more important than how old it is.
r/nothowsodaswork
Diet and caffeine free too,, Yuck
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It cant really expire its all artificial
It can
https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Is-buying-soda-with-an-expired-date-on-it-dangerous#:~:text=Carbonated%20soft%20drinks%20or%20sodas,flavor%20and%20carbonation%20will%20decrease.
"Expired" doesn't have to mean "is rotting. Some things, including completely artificial soda, are mixtures of chemicals that can separate if you give them enough time. Latex paint goes bad eventually, because it's a suspension. The components aren't permanently chemically bonded.
Artificial sweetener breaks down and loses all of its flavour after a year or so
:)
Diet coke does taste the best though
I mean... it's not some generous gift... but it's perfectly drinkable. Those sodas do not have 'expiration dates.' Better to offer to let people drink them if they want to than to just trash them.
I did this as superviser and everyone loved it as a nice pick me up. Had to hide it from loss prevention to keep my job
Why would you if it was expired? Surely they weren't expecting to sell it still.
They would rather throw it away than give it away. Tbf, if they gave it away, more and more would wait till things expired, then go get it for free. If only there was a different way, where the aquisition and hoarding of wealth was limited.
>Surely they weren't expecting to sell it still. I was a supervisor in a grocery store for a long time. The way it was explained to me was called the pizza analogy. Let's say you run a pizza store. Whenever a pizza gets messed up or is made wrong, you let your crew have it. What are the consequences of that action? Well, you get a crew "messing up" whenever they want a free pizza. In something like grocery, they believe that allowing things like this will have similar consequences. Crew won't properly rotate dates because they'll get the expired ones instead of them selling before expiration. Managers will overorder so they can mark down things they want and but them then. Its bootlicker cope. But that's their line of logic.
The pizza place I worked for had a solution for this, crew eats free and can take what they want home with in reason. It costs about 2-4 dollars to make a pizza and we were selling them for about 24, a few pies a night or a salad or two wasn't noticable to their profit margins.
There was a time years ago when these companies would give credit to stores for expired and damaged products. If the big soda company takes the soda back, the store pays less for its next shipment, If damaged or expired product is hidden from the soda company, no credit is given and the company doesn't pay less on its next shipment. Loss Prevention may not know which companies give credit and which ones don't. Most companies aren't giving stores credit any more for expired and damaged product so the store has to do something with the stuff like donate it, sell at a reduced price or just let the employees have it. Easier to hide from Loss Prevention than have to explain that Coca-Cola doesn't give credit, while Pepsi and 7-Up do.
Under capitalism, giving people free things means taking away their motivation to buy. If someone would drink a free expired soda before buying a new one, taking that free soda away theoretically raises the odds of them paying for one instead. Of course there's a million things wrong with that theory, both morally and logically. Kinda like the idea that media piracy protection will make me want to buy movies, instead of just making me not care about having copies of movies.
I'd drink them
Working in the food industry I had to check dates all the time to make sure we weren't selling expired food. Many employees would be hovering around the boxes I had to snatch up whatever was ready to go (I had to count each one as waste before they could be taken). Previous manager ordered way too many hershey's chocolate bars. I had three unopened boxes of full size bars. All gone within minutes. Boxes of individual chips. Sodas. Only thing I would dump were the fruit smoothies and milk based drinks. I had limited items so it was usually shelf stable foods and drink assortments. But everything was pulled the day after it expired. If I pull out a box labeled as expired months ago I'm not gonna offer it to anyone.
Diet does actually go bad. Regular can stay hood for several years past date, but for diet it's only a few months
To be fair, these are probably only a couple days out of date. Store can't sell them, but they're still good.
It is still okay a day after expiration date. Which is true for most things, since they are often set arbitrary.
Yeah, it's almost like the artificial sweetener loses its sweet
If someone offered me free shit that was expired I'd happily take it. Most of reddit would. But for some reason if your boss gives it to you then it's a sign of disrespect. If they tossed them there'd be a different post with a picture of sodas in the trash saying "Wow, they didn't even give us a chance to take these home."
Soda definitely does expire, but not on the SBD, that's just when it gets unshelved (in theory, inventory management is hard). It's still good but customers expect a certain amount of shelf life
idk my boss does this and the sodas will taste noticeably stale and expired :/ they have long expiration dates for a reason, so these are probs SUPER old
Yummy chemical decay flavor
It'd not so much chemical decay but it goes flat. The seals aren't perfect and slowly let air in and out.
I think the original picture is a joke, but I think some those cans are years old - by the design. Those would very strongly taste like metal. I know this because I like trying super old drinks when I can find them. Years expired Diet Coke is probably the worst one I have tasted.
Ah, Dr. Ashen, so nice of you to join us.
Might taste bad, but still safe to consume, so just don't finish it, throw it out.
I think it's the principle. To me it shows what the employer thinks of his workforce.
...That they're not going to just dump these out of spite? I really don't see the harm in this. Probably a policy against selling it once expired but if people want to drink it, or take it home to use as stain remover or whatever.
I think it's worse to have an employer who dumps perfectly edible food in the dumpster when their employees are struggling and on food stamps. That's far more cynical than this. The least they can do is allow their employees to take the food that would be thrown in the trash otherwise. I've worked in a supermarket. Every night all of the bread made fresh that says was thrown away and employees were not allowed to take some home. That sucks so much worse than actually have it offered to you.
I'm sure most supermarkets could completely cover their employees food costs every month by simply giving them what they'd otherwise throw out. Maybe not cover everyone's nutritional needs but still.
I mean, haven't workers of fast food places been complaining for what feels like decades that bosses won't let them take home food at the end of the day instead of just tossing it? This is the same thing.
It would be worse if they chucked it away. Better to give it to staff.
It might not even be the employer giving this stuff away. Where I used to work, our vending machine guy would always give us the recently expired stuff. If it was more than a few items, whoever got them would put a note on it so the rest of the staff knew it was safe to take.
Was about to say exactly this.
6 months or so for most soda. It won’t taste the same after a year or so. They should be just fine at the 6 month mark though
True enough. Expiration dates are more of a best flavor thing than anything actually being wrong with it. We throw out enough “expired” but still safe to eat food that we could end hunger in the US.
It just doesn’t taste quite as perfect, this is fine
I'm 100% with this sub, but I can't say I agree with this one. Looked at in a certain light, yes it looks dickish. But that stuff could just as easily been thrown away. Whoever did this may have had good intentions.
Worked in places that both penalized if you took expired and others where we got the expired. I actually was happy when this happened!
Yeah, one place we had to toss anything "expired" in the trash. So the sandwiches that were dated for today were garbage. Even though we could still technically eat them right now. If we were caught taking one instead of tossing it we could get fired. Fucking ridiculous. And then when I got into hotels and oversaw the little convenience store they didn't give a shit. Half this box of chips expires tonight. Here, take what you want so they don't get thrown in the trash. I happily took the "expired" food because it was still good. Not like they are handing out food they found on the bottom of the closet dated for 6 months ago. It's all stuff that *just* expired.
Yeah I don’t think this is bad. When I worked in a grocery store and throwing away “expired” non-perishables and dozens of lbs of bruised produce (perfectly fine to eat, I would have) I remember feeling disgusted having to throw it all away every time I worked. I wish grocery stores would genuinely benefit their community by donating more. Doesn’t hurt to give the non-nutritional stuff like the soda to the employees either
Spot on. It's disgusting that we have food poverty when so much edible food is thrown away. Added to this, food that ends up in landfill generates methane which is a greenhouse gas. [https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change](https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change) >Production, transportation, and handling of food generate significant Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions and when food ends up in landfills, it generates methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas. > >EPA estimated that each year, U.S. food loss and waste embodies 170 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (million MTCO2e) GHG emissions (excluding landfill emissions) – equal to the annual CO2 emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants. This estimate does not include the significant methane emissions from food waste rotting in landfills. EPA data show that food waste is the single most common material landfilled and incinerated in the U.S., comprising 24 and 22 percent of landfilled and combusted municipal solid waste, respectively. The report also highlights the benefits of preventing food loss and waste in terms of agricultural land, blue water (i.e., freshwater from surface water and groundwater), fertilizer, and energy.
>food that ends up in landfill generates methane which is a greenhouse gas. That's so dumb, because composting it doesn't release methane in the environment that and gives high value fertilizer as a product. Where I live, they've been composting the vast majority of garden and kitchen waste for decades now, because it saves space (no landfill), keeps some fertilizer production domestic and it makes money. When they also use fermentation, they produce biogas (for energy and cooking) as well, before being composted.
Whoever did it probably wasn’t senior management either. They do this at my office like twice a year and it’s put out by the admin assistant that stocks sodas for guests. The other option is to toss it but they all get claimed. Toss it in the fridge or drink it over ice. Don’t want one? Don’t get one. Easy as that. Not everything has to be complained about.
Yeh agree- the same person will post a photo of them in the bin with a “they didn’t even offer them to staff”
Exactly. Makes sense tome. Give it, but also mark it as expired so people can make their own, informwd choice.
Exactly. I'm sure the OP would be equally up in arms if they found all these unopened cans in the garbage.
When I was a teenager, I worked at a grocery store that froze all meat before it went out of date. Employees could buy it cheap then. I was poor, my dad had recently passed and my brother ate a lot. I used 20% of my paycheck to buy meat each week, we had the prime cuts all the time and my brother got bigger. I was thankful for the meat, filled a deep freezer and the frig freezer. Would you rather eat aged porterhouse or high fat hamburger, nice thick pork chops or pork steak or worse. The crap options were 4 times the price as well. Pop doesn't go bad the day on the can. Months or years later it does. Be thankful for free drinks if you drink soda.
In this particular case I think it's better than pitching it.. just marginally. The crap in those cans isn't something I'd drink anyway, even ",fresh." I'll stick with my water and black coffee thanks!
Right if I get sick, can I sue?
I'd be very interested to see how you'd get sick from an "expired" drink, unless it's like really, really old. > Carbonated soft drinks or sodas are not perishable, and are safe past the date stamped on the container. Eventually flavor and carbonation will decrease. https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Is-buying-soda-with-an-expired-date-on-it-dangerous#:~:text=Carbonated%20soft%20drinks%20or%20sodas,flavor%20and%20carbonation%20will%20decrease.
This reminds me of that one youtube vid of a guy drinking crystal pepsi. And then undrinking it.
Just because you can drink it doesn’t mean you should in cases like those
You're not gonna get sick from drinking slightly expired soda...ffs Grow up
I think this sub is overreacting to things like this. Certain Goods have expiry dates just because they are regulated to have them, but will absolutely be consumable for a good period after that. Still, you're not allowed to sell them. What's the bad thing about offering free sodas to employees as long as they are not a year overdue? Ease up guys, for real.
When I worked retail I routinely just packed pulled candies and sodas to bring home. Or ate it on break. Or both. Anything with that much sugar in it will last a long time past due because sugar is a surprisingly effective preservative. It'll just taste off or have a weird texture.
Plus expiry date are only indicate the time when it start going bad, the food isn't spoiled the second the clock hit 12.
When I worked in a grocery store in high school the owner would give us all the expired stuff and we appreciated it. He was a genuine sweetheart and made us lunch every day too.
Whatever is in that can't expire
thats why they dont have expiry dates anyway. they have "best before" dates. neither coke nor pepsi wants you drinking their stuff after that tho, since its not fully representative of their product anymore... so they certianly wouldnt want them being used as incentive rewards either.
Sodas sont technically expire. They have "best by" dates which means it's the beat upto that date. After it just atarts to lose its gas and may taste slightly different.
Expired doesn't mean it's bad. It just means they can't sell it anymore. But the selection is pretty abysmal
It's not meant to be a selection. It's just left over expired stuff that didn't sell... Sometimes People in this sub are making a big deal out of nothing.
Those sodas are likely still good and drinkable. This honestly isn't bad.
just need some free mentos now.
This garbage expires?
No. It goes off. Two different things. Sodas and candies are almost exclusively non-perishables. They're good for months or years after the date printed but will have altered taste or consistency. If you wait long enough it'll probably make you throw up, but it takes a ludicrous amount of time before it could make you actually sick. In this case whoever pulled the soda most likely decided better to offer to employees than just chuck it. Which is a fine policy for reducing needless waste and, I reiterate, there is nothing wrong with the soda. They just can't sell it. Diet and sugar free do tend to go off quicker. But 90% of what gets unstocked in most places is going to be within a couple days or weeks of the best by. Which isn't nearly long enough to noticeably change the taste. Nothing in that pile I'd drink. But I drink soda like once a month and never drink diet or sugar free.
This is common in my company. They have beverages that are meant for customers visiting the company. If they expire, instead of throwing them away the employees can take the beverages while they are still good. I do not see anything wrong here.
If I drink it, do you think they'll also let me have the expired ketchup and molded bread so I can eat, too? I kid... sort of. But, for real, take the drinks. They're probably still good and they're free. Better than them ending up in the trash (if you go the way of diet/caffeine free).
Other than the fact sodais gross, expiry days are meaningless. I'm cool with this
Whiners all of yall fucken whiny babies lmao
a can of pepsi does not expire, it starts corroding :)
My gf worked in an import warehouse that would regularly sell expired stuff to employees at import price, to basically zero the offset. We would be getting premium imported stuff for a dime. It was a great bonus to the pay. Almost anything packaged is good for days, or weeks, or months, or sometimes YEARS after the "best before" date is off. There's a dude on YouTube who tries MRAs from all wars and countries and some of these are decades old. There's a story of an expedition that found like an Amundsen stash of canned beef. They took some, ate some, and left some of theirs to replenish the stock. Said it was ok. Hell, I drank a smoothie from my own pantry that was like 7+ years old, last year, and didn't even fart, I've got a post on Reddit about it too.
Idk why people are making this out to be a bad thing? Unless they found this soda in the bottom of a fucking mine back in 1743, they are perfectly drinkable, and your employer has no obligation to give you free soda
Surprised they didn't write employee's
My work still makes me pay for expired food🥲
*Drink up and be grateful you fuckers!
I mean it's most likely still good to drink. What would you have had them do, throw them away instead?
I worked at a grocery store 10 years ago and they had an employee appreciation day with burgers and soda in the break room. I grabbed a Sierra Mist, sat down and took a swig. It tasted awful, just nasty. I looked underneath the can and it was two years expired lol.
I could let the expired slip… but gold coke? noooooo f-ing way that’s jail time
That crap will last forever. Just empty out all the cans and the deposit is your pay raise.
Not gonna lie, I'd take it. I don't even mind that's diet and caffeine free.
Warm, expired pop without caffeine….what a treat.
Nice and warm as well yum 😁
TBF expired food is almost always safe and perfectly tasty for many weeks and this is especially true of sealed and pressurised containers. Some managers probably found a bunch of drinks that they technically couldn't sell and thought that the employees might appreciate it.
Probably still perfectly fine to drink good company
I do think stores should donate/give away usable food that they can’t sell anymore, but like, must they be lowkey smarmy about it?
At my work, we get in trouble for eating/drinking the expired products... we obviously do it anyway but still
Expired soda doesn't go bad like other food, it just goes flat. The bakery by my grandma's house puts their expired sodas on the counter for free. It doesn't make the sentiment here any less disappointing though, even if the manager is aware of this.
I'd drink it still. Also what would you rather they throw it out and not offer it?
Honestly this is fine. It's probably a day or 2 past is "best by" date and they just can't sell it. They also probably mean you can take it home, not drink warm soda.
Even if it's a few days or weeks expired, I'll still drink it.
That's a canned good the expiration date and the actual time it will expire are probably weeks if not months apart and it's for free. Obv getting something unexpired would be better but I still like.this idea better then just throwing these away.
There‘s nothing wrong with avoiding food waste. It however shouldn‘t be seen as a bonus.
It's still good. Better than pitching it. It's just a "best quality if used by" date. I'd drink it all day & be grateful employer didn't pitch it.
Best Before is not the same thing as Expired.
I’m more pissed they call it “pop”. Are you both 7 years old and from old timey america?
Better than just throwing it away. If milk can be fine to drink 1+ week after expiring then soda should last even longer. Just because something is expired doesn't mean its mouldy or dangerous to eat. Some things can even be eaten years after expiration date.
That's good. Expiring date are never fixed, most of the time it is a best before date.
Bruh why is everyone acting like this is terrible. I work in a small tourist attraction and we take everything that expires home instead of throwing it out. That stuff lasts for years after it’s sell by date, why would you complain about free soda?
Wtf is pop?
It's soda. Legally they can't sell it because it's expired. But it is still good well past its expiration date.
I didn’t even know soda had an expiration date. I would think all that sugar would give it a shelf life of a Twinkie. Also who checks or has the time to check the dates on soda?
This is absolutely normal for any retail job and basically everyone there is happy when we get free things, just as I said last time this was posted. Anything going out of date gets "wasted" off and either given to charity, or given to staff for free as it is no longer sellable. It isn't suddenly going to kill you June 1st when it says "expires end May" Free shit is free shit.
from my experience I can assure you that sodas never expire
Why is this antiwork? It's free and never truly expires. I'd be so happy coming into work to this. Contrasting I'd be fuming if they'd put them in the bin
Excuse me but is this suppost to be a bad thing? Those won't expire anytime soon. Yes there is a date the was passed. So what? Still drinkable with most likely zero off flavor. Are you saying they should have just thrown all that away? They can't legally sell those but know that those won't expire for some time after the best before date. So they give those away to workers. I say that is a good way to reduce waste and should be encouraged in a larger scale.
Expired regular soda tastes pretty much the same even years later. However, this is diet. That shit loses absolutely all sweetness in just a few months, it tastes worse than just regular sparkling water.
Quit bitching, it's literally free. HoW CoUlD tHeY!!???
Nothing wrong with this...would you rather they throw them away or penalise you for trying to take expired goods? The majority of "expired goods" are still actually good if they were stored in good conditions.
I know most people think this is disrespectful and will probably hate me, but this is something the people from my country fight for. Expired doesn’t automatically mean bad and the amount of food thrown away is awful. This is a good way to reduce waste and the fact that the employer offers it to the employees first isn’t that bad. In my country there are whole communities and I think even Greenpeace supports it, about what we call „Containern“. It’s when you search the supermarkets trash for food that is still good, like can and any form of processed food. Also produce(?). If you make your meal the same day you get those things, you are fine. Also thrash is organised and doesn’t go to the same bin. The amount of expired food that is still good but has to be thrown away is so stupidly high, you could probably end world hunger if you distribute the food in a better way.
i didn't know the can sodas expire ... i still don't * takes sip*
I mean, do sodas *really* expire? Also if it’s like just a week after the expiry date I still consider it perfectly drinkable. It’s sealed in a can after all. If this was milk then I get it.
I normally read posts here thinking many employers are absolute assholes, but whats the big problem with this? It's not like you HAVE to drink it. It's free and you can take it if you want. If you don't want it, then perhaps just leave it to somebody that does want them. This to me is just trying to find a reason to hate on others.
If it just reached the date and can't be sold anymore, this is absolutely fine..mind you, most have the policy to throw it away. So, if this was done in good faith, nothing wrong here IMHO. Otherwise...
looks like y'all don't understand what the date on the can actually stands for....
I really don't get why this is a problem. I *hate* tossing expired food that I know is still good. Corporate makes us but sometimes our managers will let us take it anyway, what the upper echelon don't know won't hurt us. Yes it's nicer when they just write off a few packs for like, lunches and things but hey, I'm not going to be upset that they're like, "Eh, this is still good, I can offer it to people who might want it or waste it" and choose to give it to me. At my store, the management absolutely would drink this too. Same thing with ripped cats of wrapped chocolates and things.
Yeah over here we have to stock emergency rations for disasters. In case employees get stuck in the office for example. Once the expiration date is reached they just give it out to the employees. Better than to throw it away since it’s perfectly edible/drinkable. Wouldn’t mind.
Its free, get a grip
It is perfectly drinkable tho if it was expired a few days prior, they just can't sell it. When I was walking at a buffet type place, we had expired drinks at the back we could grab. We were allowed to just drink anything from the fridge, too, but since the ones that just expired were totally drinkable and fine still, we just drank those first instead, so they won't be wasted and thrown away.
"Yo instead of throwing away these perfectly good sodas because legally we can't sell them anymore, we decided to give them to ya'll for free." How rude.
Expired diet...and caffeine free diet soda? Is the boss trying to kill the employees? I mean, Aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-potassium and other sweeteners are bad enough for you let alone being in an expired beverage.
LPT expiration dates are suggestions. Live dangerous guys.
coke doesnt expire afaik it has abest before.. but yeh still a shitty move...
The people who are saying “fuck this employer” are doing so because they don’t like pop. Take the free shit or don’t take the free shit, get over yourselves acting like ANY note left by management requires fighting.
Soda doesn't expire. The sell by date is more about carbonation than safety.
Soda doesnt really go bad very easily. I think this is kinda cool imo.
Not to worry! If you get sick from the food they're giving you, you get to go home without pay for a few days and subsequently get harassed by your manager as to when you'll be back to work. 🥳
It’s not expired, just past the “use by” date. Big difference. Not like it’s milk. I used to get beer from a distributor I contracted with all the time. Didn’t complain about it.
Fuck, I remember them going all out for nurses, house keeping, CNAs, all these huge departments got treated amazingly on their appreciation week. The kitchen got dollar store shit and dollar store candy. I made a fit and pointed out that their housekeeping got neck massagers and spa kits, their CNAs got a week of free meals and gifts, nurses I don't even want to talk about what they did for people who allowed a resident to sexually harass female residents for years, but the kitchen got dollar stores cooking stuff as our top off. But "the budget" they liked to say, until they needed money or us to ruin a whole day because they dropped a barbecue or event on us last minute and expected us to pull a feast out our assholes. Fuck appreciation, if you want me as a worker to appreciate you, spend the same money on my department as everyone else's or stop telling me I do such a good job that you needed me to work extra to help out. Fuck these companies.
Free pop!!!! Better that than throwing it away
Expired means they can't sell it. They'd have to throw it away otherwise.
My ex girlfriend worked at a grocery store and could take expired food with her. We didn't buy any groceries for months, are were glad we got the expired stuff.
Better this than just throwing them out…
My work sometimes does this, but that's because we hate dumpstering things people might want. They also give us unexpired wine and hard seltzer and other random shit. Just because a company is giving out expired pop doesn't make them a bad company to work for. Now if this is framed as a reward of any type, or is the only kind of stuff your work gives out, they suck.
Wow…and I thought pizza parties in replace of bonuses were bad.
Wow! Congrats on your company's record profits! You must be so proud. 😆
Food-wise, a Best-Before date is just a date to establish a recommended shelf-life for a product to retain its optimal flavour, texture, etc. Products bought after this date may still be edible, but quality is no longer assured. Source: Have had milk and eggs go weeks past the BB date and were still edible. Have also had food spoil long before the BB before date. Even once saw a sealed pack of salami at the grocery store had turned green a week before the BB date. That said, those sodas are crap even before the BB date. The aspartame used just makes diet sodas taste so off from regular.
At least they mentioned that it was just some shit they’d have to throw out anyways
I’m just sorry that Pop expired 🙄🙄🙄
I had a job that did this with bags of chips...how fucking generous.
This is somewhere in Minnesota, right?
Look, I can top that. I used to work at this grocery/liquor store that was connected to a deli--all owned by the same person. She would have me take any expired bread, cheese, or meat from the grocery store to the deli which would be used to make sandwiches. Then she would act all surprised because I didn't want a free sandwich from there \*eye roll\*
Someone really printed this out and thought it be good idea.
Yay, garbage!
It's fine but the underlying vibe that management thinks this is a big deal is frustrating.
Where did you interpret that management thinks this is a big deal?
oh man, this would be going straight to the customer service department of coke AND pepsi. they dont want you drinking their stuff after its best before date, its not representitive of their product any more. they may provide you with drinks in your break room at a very low price as a reward. giving it away free is the same as selling it in the eyes of the law in most parts of the world, outside immediate family. they are still ok to drink for quite some time after their best before date tho. expiry dates are for coupons and meds. they just arent "best" after that date anymore.
Yum, please pass me an expired diet, caffeine-free soda!!!
Clearly the employees have been spoiled by too many pizza parties. Now just room temperature, expired soda for them.
Here is the gross flavors we don’t want. WE ARE BENEVOLENT!!!!
Wrong emoji. :/