When do you return rotten food to the grocery store? POLL

[teacups]

Do you return something that you bought and found it to be bad/rotten/spoiled?
I bought chicken breasts yesterday (with the use by date of 10-21) and they stunk like you-dont-even-want-to-know-what today.
The cost was $9.25.

 

[MIGrandma]

I voted no, not worth my trouble, but I know I shouldn't feel that way. I should take the item back, but I always wonder if they'll really believe me.

Like with the perch fillets I bought this week. On sale for $5.99 a pound so I grabbed a package (the sell by date was two days away) and put it in my cart. Paid for my groceries, got them in the car. On the way home I could smell "something" not pleasant, but I didn't know what it was. Unloading groceries and putting things away, I discovered it was the fish. Smelled terrible!!

I should have gotten right in the car and taken it back yet that night, but I didn't. I just threw it out.

 

[Starbrite]

I voted no.

Only because I know if I go back to the store, I'll end up spending another $50.

 

[RadioNate]

You know I never did until this past month. I've returned things twice. The 1st was a package of yogurt smoothies that my DD loves. I didn't look at the date when I bought them and they were already 3 days past their 'expiration' date when I purchased them.

I came in armed with the receipt showing that I purchased them after the date but they couldn't have cared less and just gave me new ones.

Then about a week later I bought the French's French Fired Onions for green bean casserole and when I went to use them that night they were 2/3 empty. Someone had opened them and eaten them (or something) and then put them back on the shelf. Disgusted, DH took them back and they exchanged them for new ones. They told him it happens all the time.

 

[anniemae]

Lately, I have been returning stuff a lot! It is so irritating, but I do it. I bought a loaf of bread the other day and the whole side-seam of the package was split open and the bread was stale. Another time, I bought jelly and the seal was already broken. The people at the store don't even bat an eye, they just look at your receipt, take the damaged item and tell you to get the replacement and be on your way.

 

[npmommie]

I always intend to return but usually don't just because the time passes, and if I don't have a chance to do it, too much time will go by.

But my intention is always to return, and I think you should return the stinky chicken.

I got a bag of organic potatoes once and opened them the next day to discover the entire bottom of most of the potatoes were rotten,
then last week i got american cheese at the deli, got home and the next day took it out and saw that one side of the cheese was covered with brown bits of something, like maybe the deli worker sliced the cheese on a machine they sliced meat on...........i was going to take it back, but time passed and I ended up just cutting off the end with the brown bits.........LOL

but it is annoying when something purchased turns out to be bad.

 

[C.Ann]

Anything $5 and up - unless I happened to be going out and right past the store anyhow..

 

[N.Bailey]

It's funny that you mention chicken breast, OP. We just returned about 5 pounds of it yesterday because it was rotten prior to the sell by date on the package. They were returned and the store replaced them instead of getting our money back (good sale price).

Hubby also has this thing for ribs. He bought a rack of them, the second I opened them, I had to jump back. No wonder they were at a bargain price, but still not beyond the expiration date. Back they went for a refund.

So, he took ribs out of the freezer (same company) because he was really in the mood for them. Turns out, they too were spoiled, but those of course couldn't be returned.

Mostly we don't return things, but lately, we have been.

 

[kilee]

I say take it back, the price is not an issue. I on the other hand, probably wouldn't take it back. Mostly cause the store is 20-25 minutes away and it's too far for the hassle. Thankfully it's very rare I get bad food.

 

[N.Bailey]

The last container of Aussie hairspray I purchased came without the nozzle, too. I didn't want to take the hairspray back, but I most definitely returned to the store for a nozzle. I know it's funny, but that hair spray nozzle always plugs up, so I'm sure someone took it so they could use the hairspray they already had at home. If you use this hairspray, you know exactly what I mean.