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Expired Food Store (the Daily Table) Set to Open Next Year
Time ^ | 9/23/13 | Samantha Grossman

Posted on 09/29/2013 7:44:38 AM PDT by Libloather

More than 90% — ninety percent! — of Americans throw out food prematurely, as TIME reported last week. Basically, consumers are confused by phrasing like “use by” and “sell by” and so, to be safe, they end up tossing perfectly good produce, snacks and more. In reality, food dating really just indicates when an item is at its peak freshness, not when it becomes inedible.

All of this got Doug Rauch, the former president of the Trader Joe’s supermarket chain, thinking about a potential solution. And now, it seems he might have found one: a market that specializes in preparing and repackaging expired food and selling it at deeply discounted prices. He plans to launch this project, called the Daily Table, next year in Boston’s working-class Dorchester neighborhood, NPR reports.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014; expired; food; store
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To: dsrtsage

“Awseome ..massive law suit fraud cometh...ka ching!!!!!!”

WHY?


41 posted on 09/29/2013 11:18:42 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Dallas59

Great resource. Thank you for posting.


42 posted on 09/29/2013 11:19:34 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: GeronL

Are those parts of town safe?


43 posted on 09/29/2013 11:20:53 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Libloather
There is a place here in Cincinnati operating every other Sunday that sells deeply discounted meat, dairy, frozen, canned and other foods.

I am sure they are operating illegally. Payment is strictly cash and there are no receipts. There is no sign outside, and you have to know which door to enter. You have to read expiration dates carefully, and exercise common sense, but there is money to be saved.

Look for more of this third world kind of operation to spring up.
44 posted on 09/29/2013 11:48:46 AM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Don W

Just tell her that she isn’t being logical, that makes women snap right out of it.


45 posted on 09/29/2013 11:48:48 AM PDT by ansel12 ( 'I'm on That New Obama Diet... Every Day I Let Vladimir Putin Eat My Lunch' .)
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To: Mastador1
What’s also interesting is all the people who throw out perfectly good medicine because it has reached it’s use by date, the fact is that most medicine is still effective for 7 years after that date if I recall the study correctly. It is to expensive for pharma companies to keep samples and retest for extended studies.

Be careful with that. While some medications are fine, Tetracycline, for example, breaks down into toxic byproducts after the use by date.

Do your homework.

46 posted on 09/29/2013 12:22:19 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Absolutely, which is I used terms like most and if I recall correctly. Types of medicine and storage all have an effect on shelf life. As you say do your homework, mileage may vary.


47 posted on 09/29/2013 2:27:40 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Libloather

This is the cause of the week. I’ve heard some annoying PSAs on the radio.

Let the little people eat rancid food and enjoy Cuban healthcare.

Happy days are here again.


48 posted on 09/29/2013 2:34:03 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Don W
Meat being the exception. I feed week overdue meat to the dogs, but eat everything else up to that point.

Well, there you go.

I give meat a much longer expiration time than dairy. I love finding "specials" in the meat department. Cook it to 155 and I'll take my chances.

49 posted on 09/29/2013 4:17:44 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Workers and consumers are, of course, identical.)
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To: Libloather

My brother-in-law pastored a church years ago that ran a food bank. He got all kinds of goods from local grocers - expired or nearly so - to give away at the food bank. You gotta be careful though - he gave me some expired granola bars that when unwrapped had bugs in them.


50 posted on 09/29/2013 7:08:42 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Don W
My GF tosses anything dairy out 3 days BEFORE the BB date.

Not a good sign.

51 posted on 09/29/2013 7:18:26 PM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
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