My Life In Brooklyn

I can’t resist mention of this.  It isn’t that I am negatively obsessed with Associated Market on Flatbush, after all there have been plenty of intermittent incidents of a bad product here and there in my many years of grocery shopping.  However, never so many within a relatively short span of time and at the same location.

Yesterday, I went to buy a salad mix for a last minute dinner, and there were lots of them available — a couple dozen at least.  However most of them had expired two days prior and everything else (maybe 25% of the total number available) had an expiration day of yesterday.

I found the manager and alerted him to the fact his entire stock of packaged salads were in fact outdated, or would be upon the closing of the store for the day.

“Ok, I told them,” was the response I received as he got away from me as quickly as possible. 

I bet if I walked over there this morning, these products would still be on the shelf.

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