TromboneAl
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It's got to be a mistake, but $.01 was what I paid. I asked the meat manager about it. He said, "Huh!" Petite sirloin.
Maybe Safeway is just death on having to log inventory as discarded and the store manager needs to game the statistics to keep his job.
For the curious, do a google search on Food Lion , about 20 years ago , a news org. sent in a mole as an employee to investigate " washing and re-packaging / re dating meat packaging. Big lawsuit by the retailer against the news org.
At Food Lion, the s.o.p. with chicken going bad, wash in bleach and water, cut off any bad looking spots, rinse, and re package with beef blood to make it look fresher. You couldn't make up this stuff
Al, how was it ?
I bought some marked down chicken and took it home to cook that night and it was bad. No more discount meat for me.
Thanks!I bought some marked down chicken and took it home to cook that night and it was bad. No more discount meat for me.
At Food Lion, the s.o.p. with chicken going bad, wash in bleach and water, cut off any bad looking spots, rinse, and re package with beef blood to make it look fresher. You couldn't make up this stuff
Food Lion arrived here a long time ago with all sorts of advertising about how great they were. With all the shenanigans they were pulling to avoid throwing stuff out that they should have, they crashed real fast. Quickest opening of a chain and closing I ever saw. They pulled out of the area real quick.
At the very end of the meat counter in my supermarket is where they put the marked down items. Locally, we call it "the green meat bin" and I often buy beef there. Never had a problem. I've noticed that it's always beef, never pork or chicken, which I think is a good practice.