ShopRite: food dates not the most recent.

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ShopRite of White Plains
13 City Place
White Plains, New York 10601

(914) 539 - 4500

through the ShopRite online form at http://www.shoprite.com/contact-us-form-email/

Needs adult supervision. Lots of checkout stations but never even half with an employee, half of whom are always standing around.

Persistent problem: food dates not the most recent. No, it's not simply that product has not been rotated. It's an obvious corporate policy to buy food with a borderline date, probably because it's less expensive. Since food companies are increasingly dating their stuff WAY in advance, the problem is not always obvious. Most recent example:

Last night I bought nasoya ORGANIC extra firm tofu with a "use by" March 30 date. I had bought the exact same a couple of days before and was pretty sure it had an April date. So I checked many other packages in ShopRite and all had March 30, so I figured that I was mistaken. Nope. April 3 at home. You had put out OLDER stuff, lot's of it.
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This is NOT an isolated case. For many months I've noticed this with other foods, including milk and breakfast cereal. How do you like buying milk and when you get home it's older than what you had already bought there? Yes, the same brand and type.

So, check the dates and use your common sense. Write to corporate entities about specific examples. The super high rent shell games in White Plains are bad enough but that type of stuff shouldn't be tolerated in supermarkets, especially the one that is downtown and most accessible to people without cars ... and more choices.