The US Department of Agriculture is advising Americans to consider eating foods up to 18 months past the expiration date. Yesterday, the USDA announced that the average American wastes 36 pounds of food per month..!
Dominick’s dénouement: A manager speaks
I’m sure my regular audience is ready to get back to the usual fare on my blog – lively discussion of the best grocery sales and coupon deals in Chicagoland. I am too. However, I received a lengthy, richly detailed email from a former Safeway manager in another state explaining what it’s like to run […]
Expired food at Dominick’s: First in a series
Not long ago, one of my blog readers wrote to tell me about some frozen meatballs she purchased at Dominick’s. She made them for her family, but when they sat down and began eating, everyone commented on how terrible they tasted — “like plastic.” They didn’t finish their dinner, and she scoured the bag for […]
Expired food at Dominick’s: Second in a series
(If you haven’t already, please read Part One of this story, in which we found 425 expired food products at one Dominick’s location.) After finding 425 expired products on the shelves at the Carpentersville Dominick’s location on February 10th, I wanted to see if we would find a similar situation at a different Dominick’s store. […]
Expired food at Dominick’s: Third in a series
What a difference a day makes. (If you haven’t already, please read Part One of this story, in which we found 425 expired food products at one Dominick’s location and Part Two of this story, in which we found 336 at another.) After Chicago’s CBS News, WGN Radio, WGN News and the Chicago Tribune all […]
Expired food at Dominick’s: Fourth and final chapter.
There are probably a few skeptics who will think I planned this, but I assure you that I did not. It is, however, perhaps the most fitting end to my Dominick’s expired food saga. On Tuesday evening, when we visited the Lake in the Hills Dominicks and found another 336 expired products on the shelves, […]
Chicago Tribune: Outdated items at Dominick’s upsets customers
The Chicago Tribune just posted a story about the Dominick’s expired food situation on their site. Look for it in tomorrow’s paper: Dominick’s has upset a contingent of consumers over selling packaged food with expired dates. The supermarket chain’s fan page on social networking site Facebook has been riddled with comments from posters who identify […]
Dominick’s expired food story breaks on CBS 2 Chicago, WGN News, WGN Radio, more
CBS’s Dorothy Tucker has been investigating the expired food issue at Dominick’s today, and CBS 2 Chicago aired a segment on this today at 5:00pm. I met with her at a local Dominick’s this morning to discuss, and Dorothy did some hidden-camera work to find her own expired foods on the shelves: You can also […]