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Posted on 02/21/2022 11:54:32 AM PST by Hojczyk
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — More than 1,000 dead rodents and birds were discovered at a Family Dollar Distribution center.
FDA inspectors said they made that discovery at the store’s West Memphis distribution center, and because of that, more than 400 Family Dollar stores are temporarily closed.
WREG was first made aware of the rodent problems at the same warehouse in January by former employees. One former employee shared a video with WREG of someone offering food to a rat. Weeks later, regulators have stepped in to address the issue.
“It’s 61 aisles in the warehouse, you’re going to see them from aisles one to 61,” former employee Robert Bradford said. “They be running around, they be on the floor inside the boxes.”
After conducting an inspection, the FDA says it found live and dead rodents in various states of decay along with dead birds, which inspectors believe contaminated products kept at the facility. As a result, the agency advises consumers to not use certain products shipped from the warehouse.
A 2019 health inspection detailed rodent droppings on store shelves at a Hickory Hill Family Dollar store, causing the store to close. See the story below.
Family Dollar is initiating a voluntary recall on certain products from the distribution facility. They claim all affected stores have been notified and are asking employees to quarantine. For now, customers will be greeted by temporary closure signs, leading to mixed feelings.
“I’m a cowgirl,” customer Lori Fory said. “Let me come in on my horse and wrangle them all up because a rat ain’t gone hurt nobody. We got to do something about it.”
In 2014, a downtown Memphis Family Dollar store was also closed for a deep cleaning after nearby businesses said the store “smelled like dead rats.”
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Yep, I remember when there were “5 and dime stores”, such as Kresge or Woolworth’s or JJ Newberry. Whatever happened to those places?
Send them to Southeast Asia. A tasty treat.
They all voted for Biden
Family Dollar and Dollar Tree are all one corporation, now. Some Family Dollar stores have a good selection of Dollar Tree stuff. The Family Dollar in our town is almost always understocked.
Kresge became K-Mart.
At least they’re dead...
I remember K-Mart. I ever remember Kresge!
That’s a lot of Democrats
Did you ever see Kinison in Back to School? Or Kinison as a piano-playing crooner on a Rodney Dangerfield show episode? Hysterical.
What makes it even worse, they aren’t even selling them for a dollar anymore, due to Bidenflation.
You people and the press are misreading this story. US food inspection standards have a maximum parts per million for rodent feces in food products. If the dollar store food inspectors find their products are BELOW SPEC, they use the output of these rodents to bring the products up to spec.
Surprised that the UN has not come out with a demand and recipes for eating them with a few bugs and worms thrown in.
Family Dollar and Dollar General aren’t like the Dollar Tree where everything’s is a dollar (well now it’s 1.00-1.25) Dollar Trees around here are usually pretty clean but the other two usually look rather dirty.
Nothing a few cats couldn’t have taken care of.
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