Posted on 10/21/2019 9:46:18 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Sell by date and speed limits are only a suggestion!
Dairy products are the only ones you really have to worry about, the others are mostly just marketing gimmicks!
Old beef jerky? Like from the 80s?
The few times I’ve done any business with or through Amazon, it’s been frustrating, if not downright maddening. And I won’t put one more dime into the pocket of Jeff Bezos.
‘Old beef Jerky’ — How long has that stuff been sitting in a warehouse that it spoiled?
[[Amazon is shipping expired food,]]
Awesome0- I’m so sick of fresh off the vine vegetables, and fresh meats, and fresh candies- it’s about time someone began selling outdated food stuffs
I’m not surprised. Amazon allows 3rd party sellers to ignore patent and copyright laws, why should health and safety be any different?
Valid question but Im wondering what kind of idiot thinks rock sugar expires.
Sell by date and speed limits are only a suggestion!
Dairy products are the only ones you really have to worry about, the others are mostly just marketing gimmicks!
That is very true.. sometimes it says best used by certain date.. Which still means it is still good..
Best if used by (or before)” date. This refers strictly to quality, not safety. This date is recommended for best flavor or quality. It is not a purchase or safety date. Sour cream, for instance, is already sour, but can have a zippier, fresh taste when freshly sour
I never purchase 3rd party. Not even with non food items.
Hope you don’t practice that same view with baby formula.
Amazon will shut down the people doing this if they keep doing it.
They violate Amazoms express policy of selling certain things past expiration dates.
Ebay has the same policy and I believe on both sites it basically guarantees the buyer a refund and multiple times of violations can cause at least the small sellers to be shut down. bigger sellers usually don’t try to pull crap like,this.
Also, you can’t return food...even if it’s the wrong product.
One of these days, Walmart will realize they COULD drive Amazon out of business ... or ... at least get them to clean up their act through competition. (What the customers of Amazon need)
This is not always the fault of the third-party sellers. Amazon does not support FIFO (first in first out) inventory management.
Nor does Amazon prevent the sale of broken junk.
Lots of people aren’t comfortable putting their credit numbers in a few hundred places with third party sellers who are little more than folks with a table at a flea market...
Amazon should ‘rent space’ to places like COSTCO. You prove you’re COSTCO member and you can shop in the COSTCO section of Amazon. Stuff is fresh and handled by professionals all along the chain... Amazon has the best warehouse system - rent it.
I no longer use Amazon.
JoMa
I buy a lot from Amazon, including food products. Every problem or issue I have ever had has been fixed to my satisfaction or exceeded my expectation. I can find expired food at my local grocery store, where I am sometimes overcharged for a product.
Sending back a defective product can be a PITA, but the convenience of shopping online is marvelous. The only thing I hate is trying to ship back a product that includes a battery (HAZARD WARNING). They treat a FitBit tracker like it’s an explosive.
No one in their right mind still uses Amazon. No one with two brain cells should ever buy food online and especially from some unknown third party. Good grief, you’re begging to be poisoned. The same as buying baby formula out of a crack house.
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