Viability of milk of course depends on how it is cared for throughout the process. I was in a large grocery store in a city one hot summer day and saw milk stacked up in the aisle waiting to be put away, no employee was nearby- so surely not putting it in the cooler ASAP. I have never bought milk there again, that milk might not make it even to it’s expiration date. I have never seen milk good for 2 weeks past the date no matter how it is handled, it is a matter of two or three days most of the time.
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You are right about milk. I took deliveries of milk when I worked at the grocery store. We never let it sit out. As soon as the pallet was off the truck I was using the pallet jack or whatever it was called to wheel them into the cooler (which we had just cleaned when empty). We had very little room to spare in there.