Do you always check the date?

I try to, but sometimes forget. I've been ripped off by tesco too, and asda!

You know, that's been something that I've always taken for granted. I guess I think that the vendors are coming in and out regularly changing out the inventory like they're supposed to. I do look at the milk dates, though; that's about it. See, I try to get the milk with the newest date on it so that it SHOULD last longer. Back in the 1990's, I bought some ice cream mix from a country convenience store that was old as hellll, and I didn't know it until the strawberry ice cream didn't come out right and didn't taste fresh. When I looked at the date, it was some month of 1974!!!!!!! The ice cream mix was 26 YEARS OLD!!!

Yes, I have always been in the habit of checking the dates on food. Just last week, a product was over 8 mos old on the expiration date and I brought that to the attention of the manager. You have to be careful these days!

I don't shop there, their store layout is horrible and the shelves are too high. The only time i went in for fresh fish was last year after a cookery demo using Vietnamese river cobbler, it was only available there. The smell from that counter turned my stomach and the guy was spraying cold water over the product to 'freshen' it up! I think we had lamb chops that night!

Their fresh produces suck big time.

Three times I have brought fruit from Tesco's , to get it home and half is mushy, squashed mess.

Have also brought a cooked chicken from them, when we open the package the smell was awful.

Took the chicken back, created a merry stink and got a £20 gift card and the money refunded.

Always! Once you get food poisoning, you never want it again.

I'm just wondering if we really need freshness dating on things that never used to be freshness dated, such as:

1. Canned goods

2. Boxed dry goods

3. Cleaning supplies

Now I can understand dairy and farm products having expiration dates, but cake mix? Seems like a little marketing trick to me.

You know I always check the labels. I'm not a poor person. Nah seriously I always check the labels and sell by dates. I don't fancy having the squits.

couple of points

why, giving that unemployment levels are so high are they short staffed?

and

there is a bottled water for sale that boasts that it has been purified by soaking through volcanic rock for thousands of years-why then has it got a best before date on the bottle?

its always happening to me at shops

sometimes the product is in date but not kept in a fridge so it is off when you get it

watch the milk vans in summer driving in the heat with milk without a refrigerated van yuk

even I check use-by dates Ariana

and I'm a rubbish shopper