Rainbow
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Post by Rainbow on May 2, 2016 13:17:15 GMT
It is very disturbing, to say the least. Several of the items I will not ever buy again!
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Post by mlynn on May 2, 2016 13:20:56 GMT
With eggs, they are allowed to pull them, mix them in with fresh eggs and relabel them.
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Rainbow
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Post by Rainbow on May 2, 2016 13:48:04 GMT
With eggs, they are allowed to pull them, mix them in with fresh eggs and relabel them. |
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Post by luckyexwife on May 2, 2016 13:48:37 GMT
This is not really new. I remember watching 20/20 special when I was in college in the late nineties, and an investigative reporter had gone in and secretly marked the Styrofoam trays that meat was on. He went back a week later to check them, and the ones that were still there with his secret marking had new sell-by dates on them, with the same meat in the tray. I remember they did the thing where the investigative reporter tried to talk to the meat manager and he put his hands in front of his face and ran away, and then the store issued a statement saying that the investigative reporter was lying and they did not do that with their meat.
It all comes down to making the most money, so stores push the limit in order to make the most profit.
(as an aside, I don't buy any meat at the grocery store. We get all of our beef once a year fresh from a butcher, so we know it all comes from the same animal, and it is all fresh. We get whole chickens from a friend who raises chickens free-range on her farm. I do by boneless skinless chicken breast, but I'm very picky about which brands, and which kinds I will buy)
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Post by freebird on May 2, 2016 14:00:34 GMT
This is not really new. I remember watching 20/20 special when I was in college in the late nineties, and an investigative reporter had gone in and secretly marked the Styrofoam trays that meat was on. He went back a week later to check them, and the ones that were still there with his secret marking had new sell-by dates on them, with the same meat in the tray. I remember they did the thing where the investigative reporter tried to talk to the meat manager and he put his hands in front of his face and ran away, and then the store issued a statement saying that the investigative reporter was lying and they did not do that with their meat. It all comes down to making the most money, so stores push the limit in order to make the most profit. (as an aside, I don't buy any meat at the grocery store. We get all of our beef once a year fresh from a butcher, so we know it all comes from the same animal, and it is all fresh. We get whole chickens from a friend who raises chickens free-range on her farm. I do by boneless skinless chicken breast, but I'm very picky about which brands, and which kinds I will buy) That was food lion, I think about that whenever I see meat with lots of spices and sauces on it. I never buy those. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on May 2, 2016 14:01:38 GMT
Yuck.
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Post by mikklynn on May 2, 2016 15:21:50 GMT
This is not really new. I remember watching 20/20 special when I was in college in the late nineties, and an investigative reporter had gone in and secretly marked the Styrofoam trays that meat was on. He went back a week later to check them, and the ones that were still there with his secret marking had new sell-by dates on them, with the same meat in the tray. I remember they did the thing where the investigative reporter tried to talk to the meat manager and he put his hands in front of his face and ran away, and then the store issued a statement saying that the investigative reporter was lying and they did not do that with their meat. It all comes down to making the most money, so stores push the limit in order to make the most profit. (as an aside, I don't buy any meat at the grocery store. We get all of our beef once a year fresh from a butcher, so we know it all comes from the same animal, and it is all fresh. We get whole chickens from a friend who raises chickens free-range on her farm. I do by boneless skinless chicken breast, but I'm very picky about which brands, and which kinds I will buy) That was food lion, I think about that whenever I see meat with lots of spices and sauces on it. I never buy those. OMG - I have NEVER forgotten how horrible that story was! They bleached fish that started smelling bad.
I'm with you, I never buy meat products that have sauce on them 
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Post by miominmio on May 2, 2016 15:56:01 GMT
Gross!
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Post by katlady on May 2, 2016 16:31:52 GMT
Another one who will not buy pre-marinated meat from the grocery store. I always heard it was older meat that did not sell.
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Post by flanz on May 2, 2016 16:37:50 GMT
This is not really new. I remember watching 20/20 special when I was in college in the late nineties, and an investigative reporter had gone in and secretly marked the Styrofoam trays that meat was on. He went back a week later to check them, and the ones that were still there with his secret marking had new sell-by dates on them, with the same meat in the tray. I remember they did the thing where the investigative reporter tried to talk to the meat manager and he put his hands in front of his face and ran away, and then the store issued a statement saying that the investigative reporter was lying and they did not do that with their meat. It all comes down to making the most money, so stores push the limit in order to make the most profit. (as an aside, I don't buy any meat at the grocery store. We get all of our beef once a year fresh from a butcher, so we know it all comes from the same animal, and it is all fresh. We get whole chickens from a friend who raises chickens free-range on her farm. I do by boneless skinless chicken breast, but I'm very picky about which brands, and which kinds I will buy) You are soooo lucky! I wish buying meat straight from the farmer/butcher/rancher was possible for me. That's what my parents always did when I was a kid growing up in Canada... awesome! |
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Post by Grom Pea on May 2, 2016 18:04:36 GMT
Wow I guess I'm lucky I buy marinated meat in vacuum sealed packaging from a store without a butcher. That cake and fruit thing was gross. I think my store must be on the up and up because they have a huge clearance section for stuff that's a day from the sell by date. It's a tiny store and they're always clearing out stuff, so I imagine they don't have the space to rewrap stuff, they just sell it cheap.
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Post by Lexica on May 2, 2016 18:11:07 GMT
That was disgusting! I have purchased packages of sliced meats in the past. I have a habit of always doing the sniff thing before using it. The "use by date" was a week or more away on a package from Costco, and it just didn't smell right. I tossed the whole package. Now I know I wasn't just imagining it. I thought it would be ok coming from a high volume store like that. I have been in a Costco late at night and the meats and produce sections were just about bare, so I figured they don't have much product going bad.
Well, I can always go vegetarian, right? I don't eat much meat as it is anyway.
Thank you for sharing that piece.
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Post by purplebee on May 2, 2016 19:02:34 GMT
This makes me so happy that I have not had to buy meat in over 40 years. We raise and butcher our own, and know exactly where the beef came from, what it was fed, and how it was cut up and packaged.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 19:32:34 GMT
Just because some stores were caught doing this doesn't mean all stores do this. I've worked for two different grocery stores where we had to deal with sell-by dates on a daily basis.
One store pulled all of its bakery items and donated it to a local shelter as long as it was not moldy. We had to check everything daily. Nothing trimmed or re-used. A lady came by three times a week to pick up our day-old stuff. Sure the bread wasn't baked that morning, but it was still good.
Produce was weighed and tossed.
Eggs were not repackaged. Milk was dumped.
If you're coming across something that is off in anyway, it's because of poor management, not the company itself. I remember a deli manager dumping out cold pasta salads into a big bowl, adding some fresh salad and re-packaging it. When she was caught, she was fired on the spot. Don't assume it's company policy. Managers are given a budget and if they order more food than they are selling, they end up getting their budget cut some where or fired. Attempts to make food last longer than they should is poor management.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 19:38:38 GMT
Not all stores do this.
Altho I think, and this is just me, that cost-co grinds all their near outdated meat into hamburger. I never bought ground beef there.
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Post by papersilly on May 2, 2016 20:05:15 GMT
ok, I didn't click the video but I know supermarkets can mix new ground beef with old so they look as rosy as possible. I also knew about the marinating thing. that's why I never buy marinated meat at the market, not even Costco (and that place can just about do no wrong with me)
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Post by mzza111 on May 2, 2016 20:17:18 GMT
I'm not watching the video. I've been eating store bought meat, dairy and produce for 40+ years and I'm still alive.  |
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Post by threegirls on May 2, 2016 20:24:34 GMT
This doesn't really surprise me all that much. When I was in college a friend of mine worked at our small IGA and he told me to never, never buy meat (including chicken and deli items) from that IGA. He was regularly told to replace the date stickers or repackage meat. He needed the job so he never blew the whistle on them except he did warn his friends. Also, we were only 20 years old and he probably didn't know to call the health dept. I think the store purposely hired young, inexperienced people who really needed a job so they wouldn't call the Health Dept. The store didn't pay state taxes and went out of business.
I'm not too concerned about large chain stores that have a large volume of business. The chain store I go to is so very busy (all the time) that I don't worry about them pulling any shenanigans.
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