Grocery Store Food Vent Intro

Have you ever gone to the grocery store, bought your favorite item and when you got home and ready to eat it, found out that it was expired? Well, this has unfortunately happened to me on more than one occasion. Actually, this has happened to me quite a bit, and I’m sick of it. I’m normally pretty good about checking dates, but sometimes I’m in a hurry or am distracted by my son doing his various activities to fight the boredom of grocery shopping that I forget to check a date, and wouldn’t you know it, I get it home and it’s rotten.

Well, I’m sick and tired of going to the store and spending my money on food, only to have to throw it away. I have gone to the store and returned bad food before, but after a while, this becomes old, not to mention the fact that the people behind the counter look at you like you are trying to poison other people or just “getting over” by returning some food that YOU let go bad.

I’ve created this blog as a way to fight back by documenting each time, place and food item that I have bought or even seen that is expired. I guess you can call me a random “mystery shopper” for every place I buy food and yes, that includes gas stations too. Let me tell you, I buy food a lot. I’m going to mention up front that I frequent Wal-Mart SuperCenters, Target and Sam’s Club most often, so you will probably see more posting for them than any other place. This is not because I am picking on them, but because it is where I shop most often. I would say that most of my paychecks are spent in those three stores, with Wal-Mart getting most of my money. I frequent WaWa gas stations quite often as well, so you may see more posting about them than other gas stations, but I’ll try to get around to other stores and stations just to be fair.