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>>>My wife shops once a week, on Wednesday, at Shoppers Food Warehouse in 
>>>the Burke, Va store.  She buys a weeks worth of groceries, which 
>>>includes 2 gallons of 1% milk.  More times then we would like to count, 
>>>the second gallon turns before the next Wednesday.  When it turns the 

>>I've had that happen with milk bought at Safeway and Giant.  I don't 
>>know how to avoid that from happening.  The only suggestion I can
>>make is perhaps to make your refrigerator colder, if possible, and 
>>store the second gallon on the bottom shelf of the 'frige, where it
>>is the coldest.

>Same thing happened to me. We then started to buy in Safeway. 
>Again samething with Safeway's Lucerne brand. 
>We started to buy in small quantities to avoid it.

The advice in the second quote is the sound approach to take. Most of the 
newer "energy-saver" refrigerators do elevate the temperature somewhat, 
compared to comparable settings on the older models. I had the same 
problem with dairy products going bad long before the "sell by" date. One 
I followed sound advice and turned down the temperature of the box, the 
problem went away. Just remember that the "coldest" setting on the newer 
models [c. 36oF] is about the same as the 3/4 to coldest setting on the 
older models. I now have mine set to "coldest" and the problem has 
disappeared, even with quite sensitive products, like half-and-half.

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