I Work In Retail
Expired food. Not just best before last month, but tasting bad to the customers.
You'd think the kitchen lady would be glad when we point out that cheese and deli items are long ago expired, but she's not. We, the cashiers, can save the store management a bit of embarrassment and probably a few lawsuits, just by weeding it out, but we have to put it in the fridge for the kitchen lady to deal with.
Instead of throwing it away if it's spoiling, she repackages it and puts it in sandwiches for customers to buy from the deli fridge. This is why cashiers have to do so many refunds and exchanges. Another concern is that some of them could get sick after eating expired products.
I'm not mentioning the company. It's probably a common trick in the food industry. But today after someone said her repackaged reduced cheese tasted bad, I not only let her switch it for some less expired cheese (having checked the dates myself 2 weeks ago), but I threw out the remaining few little repackaged ones from the same lot.
One of my coworkers said I should have let the kitchen lady deal with it instead, but she probably would have put the bad tasting cheese in sandwiches instead. So I could not ethically leave it to her again.
After throwing them out I informed a supervisor, who said it was OK. We know that the kitchen lady has superior rank and doesn't listen to anyone who's been here for less than 40 years, not even the manager.
You'd think the kitchen lady would be glad when we point out that cheese and deli items are long ago expired, but she's not. We, the cashiers, can save the store management a bit of embarrassment and probably a few lawsuits, just by weeding it out, but we have to put it in the fridge for the kitchen lady to deal with.
Instead of throwing it away if it's spoiling, she repackages it and puts it in sandwiches for customers to buy from the deli fridge. This is why cashiers have to do so many refunds and exchanges. Another concern is that some of them could get sick after eating expired products.
I'm not mentioning the company. It's probably a common trick in the food industry. But today after someone said her repackaged reduced cheese tasted bad, I not only let her switch it for some less expired cheese (having checked the dates myself 2 weeks ago), but I threw out the remaining few little repackaged ones from the same lot.
One of my coworkers said I should have let the kitchen lady deal with it instead, but she probably would have put the bad tasting cheese in sandwiches instead. So I could not ethically leave it to her again.
After throwing them out I informed a supervisor, who said it was OK. We know that the kitchen lady has superior rank and doesn't listen to anyone who's been here for less than 40 years, not even the manager.
