As we've all observed, these dates are often way in the future. For this product, Shop Rite also had Haagen-Dazs pints dated March 2021. That's NEXT year.
After avoiding the Haagen-Dazs dated LAST year, I bought these three pints:
The two on the right are dated March, 2021. The pint on the left is dated March 2020. That's ONE YEAR apart. Oh, and the expiration date on the older pint is two months ago.
Now I'm a dope for not noticing, but I guess I was mostly just avoiding the 2019 Haagen-Dazs pints.
I've written about this date problem with this particular Shop Rite store previously, dating back to Friday, February 9, 2018.
ShopRite downtown up to its old tricks. Tuesday, October 15, 2019
I wrote to Shop Rite about its problems again today. Apparently Shop Rite stores are independently owned and operated, so that the parent company blows off responsibility. This is the closest I've come to direct communication with someone in authority:
ShopRiteCustomerCare@wakefern.com
wakefern.com is the domain name. shoprite.com has this at the bottom of its home page:
©2020 Wakefern Food Corp, Inc. All Rights Reserved
There are two Stop & Shop supermarkets in White Plains and a Whole Foods. None of them have anything like the problems that Shop Rite on Main Street has.
So how does this happen? My guess is that a Shop Rite buyer gets a bargain price on product that's past due or close to it. If a product is dated more than a year ahead, a product with a date only a couple of month from when you buy, is old product. Where does a buyer even find product that old? And where has the product been all this time?
So the November 2019 ice cream was probably produced in June 2018. If it had a creation date almost two years old, would you buy it? And what kind of company would put it on its shelves?
If these dates were properly regulated, they would have such a creation date, which would be much more instructive than a meaningless "best by" date.
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