Why are they just going after K-Mart? What about all the Shop Rites that get away with selling their expired foods?

Someone needs to go to Walmart in Lacey!! Expired items all over the store!!

What is the specific law regarding this? I thought that expired food was "buyer beware", and if there is (lets say) expired bread and milk for sale, it's not actually illegal. Is it different when it comes to infant formula and non-perscription medication?

Stores are always going to have misses unfortunately, so shoppers have to be educated and check what they're buying.

I can see where the folks up there in Bricktucky need someone to read the expiration dates for them but the fancy folks of Toms River can't read either?

Bricktucky where do you live?

Walmart is good for that. They had yogurt 2 days ago with sell by Dec. 17, 2012

This is not just about expired food, but expired baby formula! I know what that what is required by law and what is actually practiced are two different things, but pharmaceuticals (not just over the counter) and baby formula are tracked much more closely by state regulators. If you are aware of items of this type being sold after expiration, report it to the state Division of Consumer Affairs. Don't call them because you found an old bag of chips on the shelf.

You may wind up spending a little more, but Babies "R" Us has to check a few times a week for dates on infant formula; if it's thirty days or less before the expiration date it gets pulled off of the shelves.

I won't step foot in the Brick store after I went into the store and went towards the back where they have the outside area. The doors were chained shut and there was a working exit sign pointing right towards it. Heaven forbid there was a fire there and people went that way.

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I also had issues with Lacey Walmart. My yogurts didn't have any expiration date stamps on them.

Read the labels STUUPPPIIIIDDDDDD!!!! It's that simple. Has the human race become that pampered and spoiled? I never buy, eat or give anything without reading the label. Boo hoo hold my hand through life. Get over it

This is a major pet peeve of mine. I constantly check expiry dates on everything, everywhere. What I shkeeve is buying pre-cooked food from the deli, etc. and how do we know what they use didn't die three months ago?

COMMON SENSE READ THE DATE CODES...

that's an employees job to check date codes and rotate stock..They should be fired with the manager in charge of that area ..

That's some ones job to check dates and rotate stock and there's a manager that looks over that department ..Both should be fired...that's what you get for 15$ per hour managers...and 10$ employees ..no one cares..

ITS CALLED LAZY PEOPLE. GO TO THE BRICK KMART AND YOU WILL SEE OVERWEIGHT,UNHEALTHY, UNKEPT, SLOPPY PEOPLE WORKING THERE. THEY WALK PAST THINGS ON THE FLOOR THERE EATING FOOD AT THE SERVICE DESK AND THE REGISTERS. THE BATHROOMS ARE SO DIRTY THAT YOU COULD CATCH HEP C IN THERE .. ITS JUST AN ALL OVER DIRTY PLACE..

this happens all the time...had it at shoprite not long ago....people need to do their jobs better and i guess me as a consumer should always double check too...lol if i can read the print or even find the expiration date

Shoprite in brick is a MAJOR culprit!!

Well it's about time. As a former employee of the Brick store, I would get in trouble for pulling these items from the shelves and required to put them back on the shelves by management. And by the way if you call making minimiun wage $10.00 an hour than your as looney as those managers. How about the heaqt doesn't work, the a/c doesn't work, all the emergency exits are changed shut, and the ceiling laks in the back room. Working there you know not to shop there for food or non prescription medications!

I would be shocked if these stores are even open a year from now. They seem to always be empty.

Thers slums for the white trash to shop at

I always read the labels for the experation dates as most people do...That's why i know stop and shop in Point is a big offender...

Yeah, go on over to Shop Rite and see package goods that are expired a YEAR. Imagine buying LIttle Debbies and see what the page dates are before you buy them. Most time you can't even find a date on cans, packages, jars etc. And if you can it was "stamped over" or too small to find without a magnifier. It begins with the stores and I blame the managers for not spot checking. Don't stop at food...check out the toothpaste and mouthwash too. And they wonder why everyone shops at the dollar store.

SANDRA YOU WILL NEVER SEE OUTSIDE VENDOR SUPPLIED ITEMS OUTDATED SUCH AS LITTLE DEBBIES.THEY ARE VERY STRICT WITH THAT. BACK TO KMART THERE SO LAZY AND CHEAP THERE THAT THE FRONT DOOR ALARM HASNT WORKED FOREVER THEY CANT DEACTIVATE ANY MERCHANDISE ALARMS SO THEY JUST ALLOW PEOPLE TO WALK OUT THE FRONT DOOR WHEN THE ALARM IS ACTIVATED, THE CASHIERS ARE SO USED TO IT THAT THEY DONT EVEN LOOK AT THE PEOPLE GOING THROUGH.... I MEAN COME ON IF YOU WANT TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS THATS HOW YOU DO IT..

@AV and what happened to the school your ignorant ass was supposed to be "at" which would have enabled you to spell and express yourself with a modicum of intelligence.

White trash is just a label for poor caucasian people who are not as quick and proud to receive government hand-outs as K-Mart and individuals who invoke the Civil Rights Amendment to receive various forms of Financial Aid.

The Brick Walmart and Kmart are disasters, not only with out of date merchandise, but with price labeling, stocking and cleanliness. Walmart offers big surprises at the cash register, the labels at the shelves say one price, when you get to the scanner BOOM your hit with a higher price. Sometimes in works in the customers favor, most of the time not. This past Christmas I decided to buy a WiFi system from Walmart, I picked a system that the price tag underneath all of the boxes said $69.98 and had the features I wanted. When I got to the check out, it scanned at $99.98. So I got pissed and they sent a floor runner to check out my story about them all being in a space that said they were $69 and he came back and told the manager that I was right and they gave me the system for $69. That's not the first time, the last couple of times that the prices were higher than marked I left them right at the check out and told them to put it back on the shelves on their own. The Walmart in Brick is one of the worst managed I've seen. Should I give them a pass because they are under construction, HELL NO!

if u don't like it don't shop there.(period)stop your bitching.. If you could do better open your own place. There's much more worse things in the world . I could only hope you will expire

@colleen looks like a hit a nerve guess you one of the in your purple stretchy pants. You sure are clever picking up on a typo. What time you heading to Kmart ?

Kmart has a free buffet tonight Colleen oh yeah

what losers. you people leave your comments then consistently come back to check them. people sitting on their asses all day going back and forth on this retarded message board.

@AV No ignoramus, wrong again. That horrendous frothing foam of self loathing pooling in the corners of your mouth has now spilled out and all over the internet. Your version of white trash is really quite interesting. Going forward you may want to wipe that up before someone like me can locate your IP address in the HTML code on this website so I can let your neighbors know how unbelievably stupid you are and how often you shop in KMART for Tucks Roid Pads and mouth wash. Get a life before you make blanket generalizations, turdbag. And stay the hell out of KMART if you take issue with the employees and customers.

Pay attention to where you shop. Why buy food at K-mart? The Shop Rites mentioned in the comments are Saker owned. Try a Perlmutter store.

"Give us your tired, your hungry and your poor, that yearn to breath free air." And let em loose in K-Mart! Is that for real?, "Kmart will donate $25,000 worth of infant formula to charity," Can't wait to stuff my kid full of 3 year old baby formula.

must be the mayors fault

so now we have a whole new beauracracy of government reading the labels for people who can't read... isn't socialism great ??!!

Let them sell the expired food, but please ban them from selling spandex leotards to their morbidly obese female customers.

who goes there anymore it smells like feet

The comments on this are hilarious!

Singer your right I don't do the cooking. I have a bitch at home to do it just like your husband does.

Who got Kmart in their sights. Try any food store and the fines should be the same! Over a year ago I went to a local big chain food store and they had applesauce on sale. It was green for the Shrek movie. Cool. Just before checkout I just happened to notice that this stuff was 6 MONTHS expired date. I went back to the aisle and they had 1/2 a shelf full of expired applesauce. I complained to Customer service and got the run around. Sorry sir, we will pull that off the shelf.

36mike-....and convenience stores who don`t label price their goods on shelves and even in dairy and at times milk which hasn`t met it`s sell by date still can smell bad...just a waste of money. Speak up and complain. And another...some delis out there still do not require employees to wear latex gloves when preparing sandwiches...gross! Where are the state laws and inspectors to catch all this?

Aldi's!!!!

I always read the labels and have noticed expired foods but Wal-Mart has burned me twice with returned items being put back on the shelf. I even check the tape or staples on the box and they always look factory so Wal-Mart is going out of its way to put damaged goods back on the shelf. The reason I know these items were returned once already is because one of the items still had someone’s screwdriver in the box that they used to put batteries in the toy. lol

@Ex Employee I said managers at $15 per hour and Employees at $10...read slowly ...and I agree store is a mess water leaks on sales floor...

@Cammi they don't have a deli that sells cold cuts by the slice only packaged cold cuts with sell dates.Again read the labels and date codes...

K-Mart isn't going to be around long anyway, plus their parent store Sears..both be history within two years.

While the stores are ultimately responsible, the mistake they make is counting on outside sales/service organization often referred to as 'brokers' to rotate and pull products that are close too or out of date. The reliance is so great that the store personnel know they aren't responsible and don't check themselves. With Obamacare coming on board, expect the stores and the service companies to cut back hours and make the situation even worse.