Posted on 01/27/2014 8:17:08 AM PST by traderrob6
The former president of grocery store chain Trader Joe's is hoping to make healthy food more accessible to the working poor by opening a store and restaurant that sells expired food, according to Fox News.
Doug Rauch's endeavor is called The Daily Table and will open in Dorchester, Mass. come May.
The food sold and prepared at the store will only be items that are deemed unsellable by other grocery stores. That includes items that are past their sell by date and items in damaged packaging, the TV station reports.
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Cheap,expired food......Revolutionary! Our troubles are over.
there’s a store in Wisconsin that’s been selling scratch-and-dent canned goods and stuff for years.
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Yes, I believe so.
“Turnip greens and collards are unusual?”
I sure don’t find ‘em at Whole Foods....same for Safeway. They may have fresh, but not canned.
Expiration dates are simply a suggestion and sometimes can be ignored all together when it comes to boxed items. We have a store in town that sells damaged goods that stores won’t sell. If a box is torn but the sealed plastic is fine, I couldn’t care less; especially when it’s 50-80% off the normal price.
I welcome Trader Joe’s offering this option. Their only problems will be if the state takes up an issue.
“Would be interesting to see the same done with meds, which I suppose may already go overseas to developing markets.”
I have an albuterol inhaler that is 14 years past the expiration date and I have used it and it still works as medicine.
Frankly I prefer that my meats be expired. I don’t have the room to house or feed them if they’re still living.
Ha ha.
“Hey —guess he didn’t get the memo. The poor all get EBT cards now and eat better than the rest of us.”
It is beneath the poor to use anything that is less than the best. The people shopping at these stores will the middle and upper class.
And Yes, I did say UPPER CLASS.
A lot of immigrants worked like dogs and scrimped and saved their entire lives to get to the upper class, have a hard time changing decades old habbits.
And that would include my parents and myself.
Back in late 1980s, I had a friend who worked in a canning and bottling plant for various vegetables and things like ketchup, mustard, etc. He had one specific job...removing the “sell by” date off the cans and bottles and re-stamping it with a future date.
it makes me wonder how old those expired items actually are and why I generally avoid items that are expired.
LOL
I understand that. I don’t really have to price check for groceries, etc., any more, but I still do.
In fact, there are many ‘cheapo’ brands that I prefer over the ‘big name’ brands.
That's why we got a deep freeze. Put it in there, and it's good any time. Trouble is, my wife fills it with other stuff...
“Canned veggies for 49 to 69 cents. Usually just days past the sell-by date.”
Canned goods are ok to eat for upwords of 25 years. Frozen items keep forever. Survival food is a SCAM.
Canned food over a hundred years old was found in a shipwreck and was without bacteria.
Same here, bread crumbs, sage dressing for stuffing chicken and turkey, bread pudding, French toast, English pudding.
JS “(taking a bite) What is that?”
K “Day old Bagels”
GK “(grimace)They are terrible!!”
Kramer: “(chuckle), I know. Even the homeless won’t eat them, we tried mixing a couple fresh ones in the bag and they pick through and leave the old ones”.
Sounds like that Frugal Hoosier store on ABC’s “The Middle”.
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