purplebee
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Post by purplebee on Nov 28, 2018 22:53:08 GMT
Last year at Thanksgiving I bought a good sized carton of low salt chicken broth for my dressing. When I grabbed it from my cupboard to use, I found that the seal under the plastic cap was pushed in. I was so ticked! Luckily I had a can of broth on hand. Yes, people are aholes. Is the boxed broth? This is a common misconception that the seal is broken... (I worked for a grocery store)..I had a lady that kept bringing back her broth.. she said every time she opened it it was broken. WELL the manufacturer made it to be that way, when you twist the cap that breaks the seal automatically. So she was breaking it open herself every time. It even says in small print by the cap. Not saying your box was the same way.. but it took me a few boxes of returned broth and the grocery store manager to figure it out. Nope it was a box with an inner seal that you pulled up by a tab to open after you lifted the hard plastic cover. No twisting involved.... I know just what you are referring to, and could see where it could be confusing! |
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Post by purplebee on Nov 28, 2018 22:55:59 GMT
First, eww. Second, mangoes and ice cream sound awesome. Last year at Thanksgiving I bought a good sized carton of low salt chicken broth for my dressing. When I grabbed it from my cupboard to use, I found that the seal under the plastic cap was pushed in. I was so ticked! Luckily I had a can of broth on hand. Yes, people are aholes. You know, I had that happen before- twice actually, before I realized that the underside of the plastic cap had a "cutter" in it to break the seal when you twisted it. Any chance your does that too? No, it had a tab you pulled to break the seal under a hard plastic cap, someone had poked the foil inner seal and opened it. I used the same broth carton again last week and it was definitely sealed. |
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Post by Alexxussss on Nov 29, 2018 0:38:19 GMT
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Post by pjaye on Nov 29, 2018 0:51:18 GMT
Would the shop replace it for you? I assume they would replace it but I'm working the next few days and won't be going near there so it's going to be more effort than it's worth, take me more in time and travel than the cost of the product. After that, I would check the seal before I bought it. I'll definitely be checking now too! |
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 29, 2018 0:56:57 GMT
Last year at Thanksgiving I bought a good sized carton of low salt chicken broth for my dressing. When I grabbed it from my cupboard to use, I found that the seal under the plastic cap was pushed in. I was so ticked! Luckily I had a can of broth on hand. Yes, people are aholes. If it was Trader Joe's, their box style changed a year or two ago. You used to have to break the seal yourself after twisting off the cap and with the new boxes, the seal is automatically broken. Our TJ's had signs in the aisles because many of us were reporting tampered packaging. Me included.  I would have lost my appetite too, pjaye.  |
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Post by PEAcan pie on Nov 29, 2018 0:59:23 GMT
First, eww. Second, mangoes and ice cream sound awesome. Last year at Thanksgiving I bought a good sized carton of low salt chicken broth for my dressing. When I grabbed it from my cupboard to use, I found that the seal under the plastic cap was pushed in. I was so ticked! Luckily I had a can of broth on hand. Yes, people are aholes. You know, I had that happen before- twice actually, before I realized that the underside of the plastic cap had a "cutter" in it to break the seal when you twisted it. Any chance your does that too?I w I was just thinking the same thing!! I threw out the broth and then realized the next time I bought it that it did have a cutter in it. |
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Post by jayfab on Nov 29, 2018 1:34:38 GMT
What the everloving hell! Some people are wack!
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Post by librarylady on Nov 29, 2018 1:36:40 GMT
Call the store manager and see if he/she will let you return it for a new tub.
I'm sorry you experienced this. (yuck)
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Post by ellen on Nov 29, 2018 1:44:04 GMT
 That is disgusting. I hope it was a kid who did it, but you imagine the parent put it in the back. I would be very sad that I didn't have my ice cream. When my then 3 year old refused to ride in the shopping cart, she opened a container of yogurt. I bought it. It never would have occurred to me to hide it in the back. The ice cream thing is really gross. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 4:19:07 GMT
Last year at Thanksgiving I bought a good sized carton of low salt chicken broth for my dressing. When I grabbed it from my cupboard to use, I found that the seal under the plastic cap was pushed in. I was so ticked! Luckily I had a can of broth on hand. Yes, people are aholes. I've gotten so I take the cap off IN THE STORE and look at the plastic seal under the cap to be sure it's not broken. Brought stuff home too many times w/broken seals under the cap and then I throw it away. Live it, learn it. |
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Post by inkedup on Nov 29, 2018 5:11:56 GMT
That is disgusting. I hope it was a kid who did it, but you imagine the parent put it in the back. I would be very sad that I didn't have my ice cream. When my then 3 year old refused to ride in the shopping cart, she opened a container of yogurt. I bought it. It never would have occurred to me to hide it in the back. The ice cream thing is really gross. I was at Trader Joe's a few days before Thanksgiving and there was an unsupervised child (he looked to be 5 or 6) running amok. I had to reach past the advent calendars he'd opened and/or destroyed (at least 5 or 6) to get my own. He said, "all these are mine." I said, "I hope so. It would be rude of your mommy and daddy to expect anyone else to pay for the calendars you've opened." Just then, his mother rushed up and loudly asked why I was talking to a child without his parent present. "Because he rudely spoke to me when I had to step over the calendars (that, by the way, I hope you're going to pay for) that he was destroying while you were not watching him. Happy Thanksgiving!" I later saw the same woman put an apple her kid had bitten back on the shelf with the other apples! |
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Nov 29, 2018 5:20:23 GMT
Back in the day when I was a checker and fewer ice cream brands had seals I inadvetenetly stuck my finger in several containers. Customers would shop for a while and the ice cream gets soft, you grab it by the lid...lid pops off and in goes your finger or knuckles as you’re grabbing for the container. Of course we didn’t sell those containers and got the customer a new container. But maybe that’s what happened to a customer and they put it back. Super gross.
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That is disgusting. I hope it was a kid who did it, but you imagine the parent put it in the back.
