I"ve noticed over the past two weeks or so that several items I've purchased or seen in stores have been out of date. Pic related is a bag of chex I bought last night (mar22) Also noticed earlier today at food lion they had put out boxes of store brand 1/4lb burgers that expired Feb.17 Last week I bought a case of beer that was out of date and almost did the same last night but I've started checking dates. There were a couple more that I'll post as I remember them but this has never happened to me at the stores I usually go to. They're pretty busy stores in a nice area that are always clean and well stocked but are starting to look pretty barren. Is this evidence that most production has stopped and we will be/are in the boogaloo? Is this it, lads?
>TLDR all of the food be going out of date because none is being produced
More likely they're just clearing out old stock, knowing they'll get away with it because enough people will be in a panic and won't bother to look.
Christopher Ross
they are clearing out the warehouses most likely usually this stuff doesn't go to the shelves but gets destroyed
Wyatt Cooper
I could see that kind of kikery going on but with it being the only beef in the store other than $38 bottom round roast it seems like maybe their storage freezers are starting to run empty either because of massive demand or a halt in the supply chain
if you're this exacting and detail oriented why are you going to stores at all? you would have been stocked up months ago
Evan Collins
Heres the deal: for several decades people have become too lazy to cook and just get food elsewhere. Only maybe 1 out of 10 doesnt do this. Now everyone is trying to cook and the simple fact is the supply chain isnt built for it. Shit is going to FALL APART in April. Hope you prepped.
Ayden Young
I work at an upscale grocery store (important disclaimer because we use more of a just-in-time model than larger traditional stores, your bigger stores have much more backstock) and basically we won't be getting normal deliveries nationwide from our warehouse until at least august/september. Supply chains are working but they got totally tapped out from 3 weeks of sustained panic buying every day and it takes considerable time to produce and distribute new product. There just isn't that much in the way of reserve product past a certain point.
In grocery, the goal is "truck-to-shelf" to maximize revenue and minimize waste. Not a lot of incentive to have huge reserves of perishable products that you can't sell. That doesn't anticipate huge sustained surges in demand very well, and it's hard to adapt to that quickly (or even recover from it desu).
Blake Evans
Probably a nothingburgerfag lol
Lincoln Powell
cook your meat faggot
Christian Campbell
That's not an expiration date, that's a best buy date, and even if it is an expiration date, food does not turn poisonous because an arbitrary date has appeared.
also because everything is being bought up it's likely that stores are just selling everything including stuff they normally pull.
I just figured the first couple were coincidence but it's starting to seem more like cohencidence (profiteering) or perhaps something even worse (no supply) I'm not completely unprepared but i certainly didnt go buy 6 carts of groceries while the chinks were coofing on the other side of the planet
my own hubris i suppose
Benjamin Green
Dorritos is not food
Oliver Walker
>I"ve noticed over the past two weeks or so that several items I've purchased or seen in stores have been out of date Stores in the US are allowed to do that?
Joseph Roberts
>coofing it's spelled coughing.
Blake Allen
Remember, "expiration dates" on dry goods are really "best before" dates. Many are also to get people to throw it out of their pantry and buy a new one. The shit will be just fine.
Isaiah Ortiz
its "best by" e.g. guaranteed fresh until the printed date
Hudson Wilson
its a best if used by date >sorry for first pic thats a google image faggot
good point here, most food stays edible for weeks if not months after the sell-by date. the manufacturer sets them so early so they can't possibly get sued for someone getting sick
Blake Ramirez
I like you user, at least you’re honest :)
Parker Hill
You can't just magically make a full grown cow for slaughter. Shit takes time. There will be a beef shortage due to hoarding. Maybe learn to hunt?
Logan Anderson
I've eaten unopened yogurt that was 14 months past it's best by date. Meat that was frozen for 1.5 years. canned goods that were 10 to 15 years old.
dry foods like flour and macaroni and cheese that was way past it's "expiration" date. just check it for bugs before cooking it and you will be fine.
Lazy niggers who work night shift don't rotate product. If they do take the time they are yelled at for being slow.
Levi Roberts
okay coofer
Chase Cooper
No it isn't you retard
Brayden Turner
absolutely, Im not worried about the edibility of the food (I ate most of the chex mix) and Im sure even those frozen burgers would have been ok if they were frozen the entire time. Im just worried of what it implies.
David Collins
There probably won’t be. The hoarders won’t be buying more.
Angel Smith
That image is unironically completely cooked to perfection. I hate rare steak faggots, but a roast must have a hint on pink for flavor
Eli Perry
see
Christian Cook
>coofing the act of putting drugs in your vagina. do you have a vagina?
Jack Fisher
newfag
Austin White
Actually I noticed that too. I bought yogurt from wal mart like 2 days ago and I saw that it expired in Feb. 15th, and I saw some other yogurt I bought that literally said it expired like the day I bought it.
Christian Bell
>OMG it's out of date! Throw it out! I'll starve before I eat food after its "Best if used by" date
Isaac Green
When I used to work grocery night shift I would tell dudes this would be a problem. That if something happened people would be buying the whole shelf and getting cans of tuna from the before time. A buddy of mine bought a bunch of soup and noticed one of the cans expired in 2018.
Evan Thomas
how do you know this?
Kevin Cooper
man, lots of faggots in this thread are missing the point. Yes, you're right in that there's been a serious supply chain disruption. But I don't know if it's production or transportation that's responsible. It's possible that there's plenty of product available, just that it isn't getting where it's needed because transport hasn't had to deal with this much demand since... ever. There's only so much you can fit onto a truck. It'll work itself out, or it won't, and we'll all die. In the meantime, take advantage of the past-their-date products and ask for discounts.
Isaac Howard
T. someone who missed the entire fucking point
Angel Moore
Any kind of proof would be nice. What store? Not like they're checking Yas Forums.
Dominic King
This. You'd be surprised how resilient our bodies are(if you are aryan, [you would already know this if you were aryan]).
I can eat a rotting carcass, molding fruit and bread, grass and bark and easily survive.
Jeremiah Parker
just googled it.
Daniel Ramirez
99% of the time you buy some dry snack that's not Frito lay, utz, or Snyder's, it will probably be out of code (expired) and probably crushed to 2000 pieces because it was crammed into the shelf by someone making hourly wage, not a merchandiser
Zachary Collins
just to add I've noticed it at Food Lion (a nice one), Circle K (gas station so maybe not special), and Publix which is the one I find most shocking I'm just trying to remember what it was from publix...
Josiah Flores
Probably they're waiting for a next batch of shipments and just selling off their backstock in the meantime. Highly doubt a food shortage would happen this early, those companies have big stock piles.
Isaiah Foster
how often did you people look at expiration dates before all this? I only looked that the dates on milk, I never looked at them on any other products because I never worried about it.
I bet you've been buying stuff all along with old dates on it, and never noticed.
it implies nothing.
Nicholas Collins
i bought a carton of eggs over a week ago Exp. April 14. bought a carton of eggs today Exp. April 1. Like WTF??
Nolan Kelly
People who normally have a couple frozen pizzas in the freezer now have it full. Food is still growing and being processed and shipped. Once everyone feels comfortable with the amount they have stored, there will be a glut in the stores and you'll get stuff cheap.
Robert Gray
I might not check everything when I buy (most things though just because i take my time and try to get the better meats/produce etc.) but I always check stuff at home before i use it (bad habit, I know, but im switching it around) because growing up with my grandparents they would often have out of date milk and stuff. This many things is certainly new.
James Butler
Only for things that tend to go bad really fast like bread and milk.
Elijah Martin
>Once everyone feels comfortable with the amount they have stored
>expecting the brainlets who are hoarding shit to ever stop
Nolan Adams
I usually only check dairy product dates as well. Dates on meat are useless as you can just observe the meat. Jerkey will last years if the bag is filled with nitrogen or vacuum sealed.
Christian Anderson
I bought two 18ct cartons of food lion eggs today, both expire in april but the eggs werent nearly as cleared out as other fresh produce (for obvious reasons)
Eli Reed
The dumb fucks hoarding stuff with a short shelf life, like fruits and bread, is what really gets me.
Colton Lewis
I was going through my freezer recently to get a better idea of how much food I have, and found a whole duck that I bought more than 2 years ago (possibly 4).
I was going to cook it but when I defrosted it, it smelled rancid. I still could have eaten it, it just would have tasted bad. I threw it out because I have tried eating rancid meat before and it's quite vile and I am not starving....yet.
Juan Powell
t. zoomer
Tyler Taylor
oh make up your mind. I'm a zoomer in this thread? and a boomer in another? a jew in another and a nazi in another.
grocery user here. its because the people stocking the shelf are idiots. they probably have months old product pushed into the back of the shelf, or buried in the store room/freezer.
Thomas Johnson
you sound like a nigger tbqh
Daniel Rogers
lmao proof of my elite grocery employment? Why would I larp as something so menial?
I can't verify my statements for you but I heard the august/September statement straight from my general manager and anybody in this industry will probably tell you the same. To clarify: I'm just saying that grocery shopping won't be normal and fully stocked for some time, not that we're gonna be out of food.
I prepped very early on in this partly because I've known how fragile just-in-time logistics are from this job. Bad weather knocks out one delivery after a busy day and the shelves are sparse for 48 hours. I never expected to starve but I did expect to be quarantined and have to line up for my rations from a national guardsman or some shit and I wanted to avoid that as much as possible. Frankly I just wanted to stay out of stores at all while this is bad. So I started stocking up in Feb. Feels comfy.
Isaac Russell
>food lion theyre literally known for doing shit like that thu
