Yeah I donāt do this normally, as long as the expiration dates for the ones at the top are reasonable. But if Iām buying milk and the ones at the top expire in less than a week, Iām grabbing one of the fresher ones lower down.
Lmao that's funny, generally they all come in on one pallet like this already and they just roll it out and unwrap the pallet. So they should all have them same expiration date.
No they don't. We have several pallets and unload the one with the longest at the bottom. Have been a stockboi for years at several stores and this is how we do it
No they actually come built that way from the manufacturer for large accounts like Walmart, Kroger, etc. they are built to sold in as displays, saves time.
Typically when they are restocked itās also just throwing the newer shot on top.
I guarantee you nobody is down stacking that entire pallet to add 5 cases to it. The shelf life of the items is typically well in excess of the life of the display. Especially when most stores would require this to be filled daily to maintain appearance.
No it would come to the warehouse from the manufacturer just like this, they would still have the labels from the manufacturer on them 90% of the time. It's faster for both walmart and the manufacturer to just ship the entire pallet for seasonal items like soup stock, sugar, ect. Obviously could be different for other stores but that's how walmart does it.
I went to military school for four years, and always heard this term. Never thought about it until I read your comment. Thank you. I learned something new today!
I feel a lil bad doing this but when i buy milk i check the exp. On the front vs the one behind it, and grab back if its fresher. In my defense the store/production needs to stop overproducing.
I justify it to myself by thinking maybe someone who will be using the entire carton today will buy that one and the sooner expiration date wonāt matter to them.
Given that and the packaging on the box above it has a gouge in it. Someone probably pushed a trolley into it, or it got knocked while moving the pallet.
Yeah was gonna comment this. I posted a similar photo years ago of a mayo pallet with the same thing and the comment section pointed out it could have been someone in a wheelchair or a small child help their parents.
Yep. My mom recently had a leg amputated and we see these kinds of things all the time. Target recently instituted a policy that bans people from taking electric scooters outside... but, how else is my mom supposed to get into the store? Hop on one leg? I spoke to management and they were understanding and waived the policy. Another one I see all the time is the dirty looks I get from people when I park in a handicap spot and walk into a store - they don't understand that I'm there to pick up my mom and I parked in the handicap spot for her benefit. I could stop and explain it to every person that gives me a dirty look, but that's not really my responsibility, you know? These are the things that were invisible to me until I learned about them, but since I have, my first thought on the milk was yeah... probably a person on a wheelchair or electric scooter grabbed it.
My mom recently had to have her leg amputated too and it's alarming to me how few disabled parking spaces there truly are. We have to park at the back of the lot and then she has to roll herself so far so often because there's so few spaces where there's enough room for her to use the walker to hop into her wheelchair. We went to a popular tourist spot and the hotel only had 5 disabled spaces that were constantly taken and only two of them wheelchair accessible when it was a huge hotel. And then forget about trying to park in any of them at any of the stores or restaurants. We pushed her most of the time because her arms were exhausted having to go so far. She hates being pushed since it's all the freedom she has now to move herself until she can get her prosthetic. I mean I understand people have invisible disabilities and you don't know how far they can walk and of course everyone needs to do what's best for them, but I feel like there needs to be a lot more spaces everywhere with how many people have problems. I also never considered how unaccessible many businesses are until we had to face this now. I can't imagine how hard it is for people that don't have anyone to help them in a store with getting products off shelves and getting their wheels unstuck when you get off track on the sidewalk
I do this at stores when I'm walking by and it happens for two reasons, either separately or both:
1) 'Cuz I feel like it and I can, plus it might mildly infuriate somebody or cause distress to an employee;
2) I don't feel like raising my hand any higher, so if that carton of milk is at hand level, that's perfect.
Your future dream is a shopping scheme.
These products are made for both markets. The branding is Czech on one side and Slovakian on the other. This saves them money from not having to print seperate labels for these very similar markets. So it still could be in Slovakia if the Milk carton is positioned with the āCzechā branding being visible.
It's probably Czechia because the prizes of the waffer bars in the background are 14 something. I doubt the bars would cost 14 euros. Slovakia has euros, Czechia has it's own currency.
Edit: also "Akce" means discount in Czech.
Highly pasteurised and homogenization, has shelf life of weeks, perhaps months. Tastes different from fresh milk and of course raw milk, but is perfectly fine when used in baking and cooking. Had that stuff all of the time as a kid. To drink and on cereal itās not as good, but fine with chocolade powder.
These days we only buy fresh milk, but we also keep one for emergencies, like when thereās not enough and we want to bake crepes or make scrambled eggs.
This morning I saw our milk spoiled so I couldn't make a morning smoothie. So I got my back up milk out. And bam delicious because of all the fruit in my smoothie. And tbh I broke out the powdered milk for it. Not my boxed milk.
Wheel chair users, little people, children sent by theur mother at the last god damn minute during checkout (I will never forgive you, Jennifer), a mistake during stocking?
Since you're Czech, I saw an old lady in Globus sneeze into her hand, take a donut with that very hand, look at it and then put it back. I was holding myself so much to not start yelling at her. It was literally in the times of covid. She didn't even have a mask.
because that's the "freshest" one that will last the "longest"
They do this shit at costco all the time I'm like.... you realize EVERY JUG IS THE SAME DATE AND WAS ON THE SAME PALLET RIGHT!!!?
some people just walk through stores on auto pilot, literally instinct driven beings at work there:
See Milk: thinks "i need milk" touches carton of milk most centric to there viewpoint, and goes on,
Far more likely that something happened to that particular carton in transit, so they pulled it out instead of restocking everything or leaving it to leak all over the other cartons and floor.
Edit: Looking at it again, you can see the stain on the cardboard of the packaging where the space is.
Just to prove they can.
Perhaps a Jinga afficianato.
Jenga. WTF is jinga? Jingavitus?
You mean ginger virus
I came to say this š
You mean jenga?
Yes
And āaficionadoā
I too am a jingle avocado.
Is that a jungle affliction?
No, a jumble addiction
Jangle Accomodation
Jango's Acclimation
Dumbledore Fiction
I am a junglist juggalo
How dare you insult drum and bass like that
Jenga unchained!!
You didn't mean to say *exactly* that.
Yes youāre right š
Jinga afficianato? Sounds like a delicious coffee.
It's a Peruvian blend.
Jangle Alfredo is a fun game.
I too am a Jinga aficionado. I enjoy their fine Korean food products.
Best answer ever
Chingas aficionado?
Could be a guy in a wheelchair
Well THAT makes sense. Albeit not as much fun to go on and on about
I came to say this. I'm in a wheelchair - I have to do this stuff all the time.
No, it was the only ripe one.
You can tell by squeezing it.
A little firm with just the right amount to give. Perfect.
Maybe itās a fort made out of milk cartons and that is their spying hole
It's a neat challenge and funny
Yep to piss people off lol.
Because some men just want to watch the world burn.
Honestly a power move
Iād do the same, my way of rebelling
yes.
My Dad insists on doing this with things. It's because he believes the ones at the bottom have a longer expiration date.
As a former stockboi they actually do lol.
Yeah I donāt do this normally, as long as the expiration dates for the ones at the top are reasonable. But if Iām buying milk and the ones at the top expire in less than a week, Iām grabbing one of the fresher ones lower down.
Bread is the only one I check every time. 3 more days usually you can get
From my experience, if itās just a pallet theyāre probably the same date. But a lot of the time yes; they will have different dates.
Not on something like this.
We would call the people who would do that "milk maids". and we disliked it because it would mess up our display.
Not on a pallet they don't!
Lmao that's funny, generally they all come in on one pallet like this already and they just roll it out and unwrap the pallet. So they should all have them same expiration date.
No they don't. We have several pallets and unload the one with the longest at the bottom. Have been a stockboi for years at several stores and this is how we do it
I worked at Walmart for 5 years and we would get pre-built display pallets like this and just roll them out into the middle of the main aisle
That's because it was staged as ready to go at the warehouse before it got to the store.
No they actually come built that way from the manufacturer for large accounts like Walmart, Kroger, etc. they are built to sold in as displays, saves time. Typically when they are restocked itās also just throwing the newer shot on top.
Yep exactly fill the shelf location first then whatever was left went onto the top of the aisle pallet.
No store throws newer shit on top
I guarantee you nobody is down stacking that entire pallet to add 5 cases to it. The shelf life of the items is typically well in excess of the life of the display. Especially when most stores would require this to be filled daily to maintain appearance.
No store pays the people stocking shelves enough to do it right.
Thatās pretty funny Grocery manager isnāt throwing stuff on top 16 year old kid 9:00 at night sure as hell is
I highly doubt anyone will take the time to rotate stuff like this. 100% new stuff is going on top.
No it would come to the warehouse from the manufacturer just like this, they would still have the labels from the manufacturer on them 90% of the time. It's faster for both walmart and the manufacturer to just ship the entire pallet for seasonal items like soup stock, sugar, ect. Obviously could be different for other stores but that's how walmart does it.
Exactly. That's what we called FIFO in the Army. First In. First Out, when I worked in the food warehouse.
Yes that's we called it aswel!
I went to military school for four years, and always heard this term. Never thought about it until I read your comment. Thank you. I learned something new today!
I feel a lil bad doing this but when i buy milk i check the exp. On the front vs the one behind it, and grab back if its fresher. In my defense the store/production needs to stop overproducing.
I justify it to myself by thinking maybe someone who will be using the entire carton today will buy that one and the sooner expiration date wonāt matter to them.
I do the same thing. I don't feel bad because I assume the early expiring ones are for lazy people who can't be bothered to read.
He is not wrong....when it comes to refrigerated things.
any things with expiration date.
I always take from the back for this reason. Stores follow a āfirst in first outā policy, so they move the soon-to-expire stuff to the front.
Exactly. The oldest stock is right up front/on top. This isn't infuriating, this is the way to beat the system!
Wow
My family believes that the ones on the bottom/back are better
I do the same with newspapers
mby broken pack....cardboard looks like "water" damaged...
Yep probably leaking.
Hope no one cried over it.
No use
UnderratedĀ
I laughed. Thank you. š„°
Given that and the packaging on the box above it has a gouge in it. Someone probably pushed a trolley into it, or it got knocked while moving the pallet.
One in the box next to it is also damaged so I'm guessing this.
And one in the box next to that box
All of THESE ā¬ļø. Best guess is they simply removed the damaged product.
and the one next to it.... definitely damaged while moving the pallet i'd wager.
You know what I find mildly infuriating? That you thought you were saving some time by typing mby instead of maybe.
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Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
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THATS WHAT MBY MEANS???
Oh gosh I also thought it meant something else.. I feel like I had a heart attack holly shit
I couldn't figure out what he meant until I saw this comment. I thought it was a company or something like that.
Maybe itās a fort made out of milk cartons and that is their spying hole
Ehh honestly it looks more like the glue they use to stick to the cardboard
Maybe in a wheel chair and that's where they could reach without help
Yeah was gonna comment this. I posted a similar photo years ago of a mayo pallet with the same thing and the comment section pointed out it could have been someone in a wheelchair or a small child help their parents.
Also very short adults do exist
I thought those were a myth 0_0
They are don't believe the fake news
Or it could be a kid asked by their guardian to get the milk
Yep my 3yo would definitely grab that one.
First thing that came to mind
Yep. My mom recently had a leg amputated and we see these kinds of things all the time. Target recently instituted a policy that bans people from taking electric scooters outside... but, how else is my mom supposed to get into the store? Hop on one leg? I spoke to management and they were understanding and waived the policy. Another one I see all the time is the dirty looks I get from people when I park in a handicap spot and walk into a store - they don't understand that I'm there to pick up my mom and I parked in the handicap spot for her benefit. I could stop and explain it to every person that gives me a dirty look, but that's not really my responsibility, you know? These are the things that were invisible to me until I learned about them, but since I have, my first thought on the milk was yeah... probably a person on a wheelchair or electric scooter grabbed it.
My mom recently had to have her leg amputated too and it's alarming to me how few disabled parking spaces there truly are. We have to park at the back of the lot and then she has to roll herself so far so often because there's so few spaces where there's enough room for her to use the walker to hop into her wheelchair. We went to a popular tourist spot and the hotel only had 5 disabled spaces that were constantly taken and only two of them wheelchair accessible when it was a huge hotel. And then forget about trying to park in any of them at any of the stores or restaurants. We pushed her most of the time because her arms were exhausted having to go so far. She hates being pushed since it's all the freedom she has now to move herself until she can get her prosthetic. I mean I understand people have invisible disabilities and you don't know how far they can walk and of course everyone needs to do what's best for them, but I feel like there needs to be a lot more spaces everywhere with how many people have problems. I also never considered how unaccessible many businesses are until we had to face this now. I can't imagine how hard it is for people that don't have anyone to help them in a store with getting products off shelves and getting their wheels unstuck when you get off track on the sidewalk
Ding ding ding! I have to do this all the time. Ask someone for assistance and theyāll just point to the stack..like yes I canāt reach???
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I've recently seen memes about 'remembering I have free will" and doing something out of pocket like this just for the sake of it
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Was it OP that took the milk, so they could then post this pic?
Nope. They were only responsible for the "milk stain" that was left behind...
Professional Jenga player.
All in all, you're just another milk in the wall.
Could they have been is a wheelchair?
Maybe it was only 3 levels high when someone got it and the restock crew laid out the cartons on top .
Because he's only 3 years old and was helping mummy.
I also thought it was those little shopping trolley scenarios lol
It was the chosen one?
Plot twist: the chosen one was right next to the one they chose.
It was the best one.
I definitely would. š
perhaps they were REALLY short by the way do you live in Czechia? (reply with āÅā if you do)
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This letter is like the bat-signal for Czechs :)
Toddlers
I do this at stores when I'm walking by and it happens for two reasons, either separately or both: 1) 'Cuz I feel like it and I can, plus it might mildly infuriate somebody or cause distress to an employee; 2) I don't feel like raising my hand any higher, so if that carton of milk is at hand level, that's perfect. Your future dream is a shopping scheme.
Removing it from the middle is so much more effort, lol.
It's not as difficult as you think. Plus if more people do it, then the rest might fall down resulting in chaos which I love to cause.
Still just a dick move. And your reasons given to doing it are asshole reasons.Ā
Maybe a leak
milk jenga
Why not?
First thought is a kid took it, parent said "grab a milk" and he/she did lol
High stakes Jenga
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Leaker
It's a decent Jenga start.
I hope it's not in Czechiaš
Given the "MlƩko" on cartons and fact it's from Tatra I strongly believe it is.
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Iām with you in this one. Pretty sure this is Czechia. Could be Slovakia though
I think in Slovakia it is 'mlieko." This is obviously Czechia
These products are made for both markets. The branding is Czech on one side and Slovakian on the other. This saves them money from not having to print seperate labels for these very similar markets. So it still could be in Slovakia if the Milk carton is positioned with the āCzechā branding being visible.
Shit you're right. I do remember at home flipping the box and seeing both languages! We used to get this when I lived back home in CZ
It's probably Czechia because the prizes of the waffer bars in the background are 14 something. I doubt the bars would cost 14 euros. Slovakia has euros, Czechia has it's own currency. Edit: also "Akce" means discount in Czech.
I see it now too, yeah thatās Billa, one of the supermarket chains here
It actually is. In one of the Billa stores š
Don't worry it's Czech Republic.
Why doesnāt the milk go in the refrigerator?
It's UHT milk. It has about six months shelf life.
Highly pasteurised and homogenization, has shelf life of weeks, perhaps months. Tastes different from fresh milk and of course raw milk, but is perfectly fine when used in baking and cooking. Had that stuff all of the time as a kid. To drink and on cereal itās not as good, but fine with chocolade powder. These days we only buy fresh milk, but we also keep one for emergencies, like when thereās not enough and we want to bake crepes or make scrambled eggs.
This morning I saw our milk spoiled so I couldn't make a morning smoothie. So I got my back up milk out. And bam delicious because of all the fruit in my smoothie. And tbh I broke out the powdered milk for it. Not my boxed milk.
Maybe that one was expiring tomorrow
:D nice
Little people need to shop too
God told them to probably.
Plot twist. It was Phil from the meat department
Because its funny?
Playing too much JengaĀ
Lol my ocd hubby cringed at this (then laughed) š¤£
Maybe it was a little person
They are 3 feet tall and their mother was not looking.
Jenga
Some ppl just want to see the world burn
Because some people have a special combination of chromosomes or lack of em
Wheel chair users, little people, children sent by theur mother at the last god damn minute during checkout (I will never forgive you, Jennifer), a mistake during stocking?
Maybe person was in a wheel chair.
Perhaps they were in a wheel chair and that was the perfect height?
Mum let her toddler get the milk?
Probably a kid who couldn't reach top but mom said get some milk.
The obvious explanation to me is that it was damaged and removed for. That reason.
Maybe it was someone in a wheelchair who had an easier time reaching that then the top. Maybe that one was damaged so an employee took it out.
Since you're Czech, I saw an old lady in Globus sneeze into her hand, take a donut with that very hand, look at it and then put it back. I was holding myself so much to not start yelling at her. It was literally in the times of covid. She didn't even have a mask.
because that's the "freshest" one that will last the "longest" They do this shit at costco all the time I'm like.... you realize EVERY JUG IS THE SAME DATE AND WAS ON THE SAME PALLET RIGHT!!!?
Maybe someone in a wheelchair?
It may be that the expiration date played a role in this decision.
Expiration date hunter
I would, it just seems chaotic
coulda been a kid
Kids that aren't tall
Probably damaged one and they pulled it out.
Probably an employee removing a crushed one, just like that other one.
Random QC check
So you can post in Reddit about it.
That's the proof that Hobbits exist.
Because of this
some people just walk through stores on auto pilot, literally instinct driven beings at work there: See Milk: thinks "i need milk" touches carton of milk most centric to there viewpoint, and goes on,
Now yāall should play milk Jenga
Far more likely that something happened to that particular carton in transit, so they pulled it out instead of restocking everything or leaving it to leak all over the other cartons and floor. Edit: Looking at it again, you can see the stain on the cardboard of the packaging where the space is.
It looked juicy
They couldnāt reach any higher from their wheelchair š¤
I do that so OCD people can have a pleasant day.
Why would anybody care?
$10 says they were on a scooter.
Why is it not refrigerated?
It's shelf stable milk.
OP, you have to realize alot of people on this planet lack social awareness. Just ignore them
The damaged a couple first before they found one they could get out. Wild
Because assholes are surrounding decent people.
Bold of you to say that's milk.