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Article #18926Re: Milk at Shoppers
From: krost
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 21:29
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 21:29
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In article <705547509141994.1364844@his.com>, joe.chelena@his.com says: > >I know that this is somewhat out of scope in "Dining" but it is food >related and there is no DC Consumer Conference. > >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 >milk is still several days away (short off) the "Sell By Date". We have >talked to a few friends and they have had the same problem. Shoppers is >more than happy to take the milk back when this happens. Even so I am >beginning to wonder if someone, either Shoppers or the dairy, is up to >marking the wrong sell date??? > >Has anyone had this happen to them, or have any ideas? Before Shoppers >we shopped mostly at Giant, plus a few times at Safeway and *never* had >such a problem. > >Thanks! >--- > � CMPQwk 1.4 #1357 � Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo! > 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.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10fa94,53d4db6a4e1d0739 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fa94,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-16 14:22:04 PST Newsgroups: dc.dining Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!news.kei.com!world!uunet!worldbank.org!news From: krost@worldbank.org (krost) Subject: Re: Milk at Shoppers Message-ID: <1994Sep15.212958.8463@worldbank.org> Sender: news@worldbank.org Organization: The World Bank X-Newsreader: WinVN version 0.81 References: <705547509141994.1364844@his.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 21:29:58 GMT Lines: 28