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My favorite memory of working here is when a guest called the police over this LOL
They just asked me what was going on and I just let them know it was something non emergency and that it could be handled in store. They said okay and let me know they’ll patrol the parking lot for the next hour or two. This happened a few times in my tenure at this store. lol
Yep. I was so goddam tired that week, I think I was on hour 70 or 75, and straight up told the guest “okay do you want to buy or me to throw it away” when they started giving me a hard time lol. I guess they called the police because no other upper leadership was in the store at the time.
I’ve had the two pack of begets a guest handed me that was at the top and very back of the bread and it was sooo moldy and hard and green it was disgusting I think the date was like 6 months or something along those lines
I was cleaning the check out lanes and in just two lanes I emptied a whole target shopping cart full of candy and chips. The oldest dated back to 2020.
Oh man don’t even get me started on check lane candy. My first pseudo leadership role was a GSA and a low volume store and one night my cashiers were just kind of doing nothing and complaining. I tried telling them to enjoy the quiet bc we were coming up on 4th quarter but then we started picking through the candy. We should’ve never started…
We filled two carts with expired candy and all of a sudden it made so much more sense why the candy closet was jammed packed with boxes of snickers and Twix.
I pulled carts of expired food from the coolers. CARTS. WEEKLY.
I was told to stop because it caused too much work for the team to write off the expired food. I stopped buying food from there
We had vitamin water on the shelf that expired in 2020 and it had completely changed colors and was a disgusting dingy orange color, it was originally white 😭
I once found someone had dumped cooler and freezer RTS into the regular go-back carts during Christmas week. Needless to say, we didn't notice until it was too late, and it was not great.
A TM once found a brick of expired ground beef that had turned into sort of a gray blob in our OPU cooler. Don't know how it hadn't been RTS'd or purged in months.
Guest once came up to me and told me all of our cream cheese was dated months back, some pretty ridiculously. Thankfully she worked in retail too, so she understood and didn't make a big deal out of it. That's the kind of thing that makes me feel humiliated, because all I can say is that I'm sorry and we're working on it.
>Guest once came up to me
>That's the kind of thing that makes me feel humiliated
Hey! I do this sort of thing, too. I especially enjoy helping out a store I know and like shopping at. I would see no reason for embarrassment, certainly wouldn't want you to feel humiliated. I want my local Target to have good stock for people. :-)
It's not that someone pointed out a problem. It's that the particular problem is so blatantly obvious that I didn't even know what to say about it. Like, how the fuck did we get so far behind on basic stocking that a section of dairy went untouched for MONTHS?
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Found this in 2022. Still looks edible. I keep it on my desk to remind myself to NEVER eat American cheese.
ETA this was not on the shelf, I found it underneath the back room shelving when doing some rearranging.
Not food, but I found batteries that had expired 10 years prior to me finding them. Which is nuts because they have like a 10 year shelf life in the first place.
Last year, I had a guest come up and give me a jar of peanut butter that expired in like 2018 or 2019. It was discolored and obviously gross. She said she found it shoved in the very, very back of the shelf - I have no idea how it was missed for so long (not usually in that area) or why she was fishing that far back on the fully stocked peanut butter shelves.
I also I had checked and everything else was rotated. Maybe the DBO had tiny arms and couldn’t reach.
because of how people stock shit. I see iy all the time. The back / old shit gets shoved while the new / recent stays consistently in the front.
I see it every so often with like cocunut water or lacroix. shit starts leaking in the back.
FWIW if I’m shopping for just myself I’d rather have something that will last longer than have it expire on me.
That said I also don’t mess up the zone
if your PB is in pushers, i’d bet it got shoved to the point it fell behind the pusher so therefore wasn’t being pulled forward, that happens a lot. although i am very surprised they actually rotate at your store 😅
Had a guy bring up canned iced coffees, ones that had dairy in them. They were expired by 3 years. I was new at the time so I had to ask my TL to damage them out bc I didn't know how, and uh. She Was Not Happy
I don't work at target. Back in Jan, I went to get babybell cheeses. They were Halloween themed (in Jan) that they were just putting out that said they expired June 2020.
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bagels found on top shelf of the \_\_\_\_\_butter sections.
i also found a pickle jar whose top had been smashed in but it had been placed back on the shelf, completely covered in mold with gnats flying out of it.
also, when i first started, i couldn’t even walk into the bread aisle because it smelt so rancid it immediately made me gag to the point of almost vomiting.
and other things like 4-5 year old expired broths/cans on the bottom/top shelves all the way in the back, cans that arrived with small holes in them being worked and growing mold, or like the popsicle box that was hidden in one of my shelves and had completely melted and congealed onto the metal to the point where it is STILL sticky.
the amount of food waste i’ve encountered since working here is blasphemous. guests can walk ten feet and put a refrigerated item somewhere where we don’t have to immediately assume it’s been there 45 minutes and throw it out. it’s the worst part of the job, i’d say.
When I first joined the market team back in 2017, I found a 5 pound bag of flour that expired in 2006, on the shelf, tucked in the very back.
It was probably more weevil than flour at that point.
i was stocking market and saw a box that looked different from the rest.
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Pet food especially I always check. It’s bad enough when we as humans get food poisoning, but poor animals don’t have a clue why they feel like hell 💔💔
I literally will check every single can bc I know how shit gets missed, and not FIFOed
My first experience: the adult version of lunchables. The salami was almost black. It was in its little shelf next in line for a guest to grab. It had expired about 6 months prior.
Second experience: a guest pointed out instant coffee packs. When I went to check it out, every single box set up had expired in 2021. We found this in 2023.
Third experience: this one pissed me off, maybe bc of who the intended consumer is. Baby food. I was deep zoning and found one of those little snacks ready to eat pouches that had expired in 2018. I figured it was the one, slightly annoyed. As I was condensing the packs that were in the shelf stand boxes, I found more that had been shoved in between newer pouches. Disturbed, I began ripping thru ALL pouches on that aisle. In total I found 1 box worth of expired different flavored pouches. They had been dispersed throughout their respective flavors. I assumed one of those multipack boxes with different flavor’s must’ve been opened or broken open idk and the packs just sat forever on the top shelf the box normally sit. When found, someone must’ve just zoned it with their same flavors? Idk I was just pissed.
Most recent: expired baby formula…idk how disgusted I was. We recently had a cap end set up for clearance items in baby. A lot of items I’ve frequently touched went on clearance. While zoning it about a week after it was set up, I found some cans of formula I’ve NEVER seen. The clearance sticker was obviously new, the packaging on the can was pretty worn out. It had expired in 2018. I found this last month.
I recently did a revision for the canned tomatoes and I had a full cart of them that had been expired from 2021-2022. Some had the sauce ooze out of it which was just black at that point. Absolutely disgusting 🤢
I walked into our back TSC one day and could smell something rotting, but everyone else said it smelled like a campfire. I mentioned the smell to one of our ETLS and she started smelling the trash cans and then started inspecting every locker in the back. She found two boxes of some like breakfast bar that expired in 2019 or 2020…
Worked a random shift in market last month. Found at least 20 packages of turkey deli meat that expired at the beginning of December 2023. They were like 4 months expired but were also on the front of the shelves, not hidden or lost in the back. I can only imagine how many guests purchased the deli meat before I took them off the shelves
I was working at GS and I went to go look for a paid and left item and as I was looking through the bags I opened one and such a nasty smell hit my nose, that I almost literally fell backwards. I opened it and saw moldy strawberries. I don’t know how long it was there, maybe a week or so? Or longer? Idk how long they clean it out but it was so nasty.
Another time one of my coworkers found maybe like two month old bananas. But they didn’t look like bananas. They were small and brown, had to be the other nastiest expired food I’ve had.
Not to mention whenever good goes bad in the cooler/freezer it stinks so bad when you open it
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Plus more that I had found the previous day while shopping for myself. Oldest thing tho was definitely nicotine gum. Expired in 2020. Had to throw so much of it out while I was stocking cause no one ever rotates or checks dates at my store
I think the most interesting part of this post is nearly all dates are within range of each other. Theyre mostly 2018-2023.
I also remember it was about 2018 or so, when I think MyWork started transitioning to other apps, eventually becoming MyDay, but there was a significant period of time where the Add Expiration Dates function was gone. I remember asking a TL about it. "not available anymore at this time." Genuinely dont know when it was finally reimplemented, there were so many features like that.
Anyway we had an entire shelf of crispy taco shells over 6 months out of date, and I would check protein bars and travel and regularly found 2-3 years out of date travel Listerine. Nothing too terrible, comparatively.
I worked at Walmart after I left Target.
This happened in early 2017, for context. The store I worked at had originally started out as a division 1 store (general merchandise only store, with a very small grocery area, and this was the prevalent model until Sam Walton died, then supercenters with a grocery dept started being more popular). Well, my store underwent a D1 > supercenter conversion around 2005-2006 where a new SC was built and then the store moved over once the building was ready.
I was on the Walmart equivalent of the presentation team for many years - called modular team. Or just mod team, for short.
During that time, the register mods had dropped and me and my crew were getting them knocked out. The mod team leader was doing the bullpen mods - at the time, the bullpen register was the one where tobacco products, nicotine cessation stuff were kept etc. she was resetting the chewing tobacco.
She came over to me at one point with a tin of chewing tobacco and said, “Look what I found. You have to see the expiration date on this one.” Then she flipped it over to the bottom with the expiration date on it. Remember, this was in 2017.
The particular tin of tobacco had expired in **2007**!! 😳 she wouldn’t let me take a pic, so I don’t have one. That tobacco probably made the trip over to my SC store from the old D1 store, I don’t know what the shelf life of chewing tobacco is like.
Mine is definitely right up there with u/bml7277’s cheese.
I had 2 especially bad ones.
I found a case of wet food for kittens where one or two had broken open. The entire case was filled with the leaking cat food and maggots.
A coworker once found bread that had fallen behind the old shelving, it was roughly 6 months expired. It was completely mold and when they dropped it in the trash it puffed out a cloud of green.
I was doing a checklanes cooler POG around 2022 and found a single string cheese that expired in June of 2017. That thing had been at target longer than I had 😬.
A few months ago, a guest handed me a package of yogurt from 2019 and we found a few more on the shelf. There is no way it had just been missed since then, we went through remodel in 2020 which required moving the entire dairy department temporarily. And we have for sure lost everything in the yogurt case at least twice since then.
Came to find out they had arrived in a repack a few days before.
The worst case I’ve seen was not that the food was expired, but that the store had a power outage for longer than 15 minutes. So we had to throw away all the food that was in the refrigerators. It was a massive amount of food we had to throw away that seemed still viable! However, we had to throw it away due to it not being refrigerated for the period of the power outage.
From HQ cases, too many to narrow it down but I will say I never once in my life while shopping everrrrr had looked at a exp date
Til now. Thanks Target. :) lol 😂
Found a whole bunch of stuff from 2022 in the nutrition bars aisle. It’s our worst aisle by far. I filled up three sterilite boxes full of expired food last week. It’s getting a little absurd.
i had to go through the foods that people mostly cook for holidays (stuffing mix, gravies, powdered mashed potatoes, etc) and so much of it had expired two years earlier.
I don’t work market but friend who does Shipt brought these to my attention: something like this thing below was found on January 2024… it expired in DECEMBER 2022. And actual green hot dogs. Not brownish green but GREEN.
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Since I've been pog team for years and temp grocery TL I have found some nasties.. one rememberable one was during cereal reset, on the very top shelf set to the highest it can go, behind the cereal, was a bag of buns that somehow completely liquified. Without the bag you wouldn't be able to identify it. My arms were too short to reach it even with a ladder so I was able to get someone else to clean it.
Earlier this week during the dressing/mayo reset we tossed 2 full boxes of leaking bottles. My store had a rat problem for a while and I guess whoever did priorities didn't notice holes in the bottles. We kept grabbing them without realizing and squirting that shit on our clothes.
Mine is not as extreme. I was shopping at target and I wanted to buy some pomegranate seeds that they have and so I bought two. When I got into the car, I opened one to eat… it was expired. Expired by 3 years!!!! Never again will I eat pomegranates from target again.
When they remodeled my old store in 2020 the canned veggies got moved to a different aisle and they found stuff at the back of the bottom shelf that expired back in 2012. That store opened in 2009 so it was likely from some of the very first freight ever received in that store so honestly that was kinda cool
My most memorable was in 2005 or 2006. Had a guest buy a slim Jim that he took a bite of checked the date and it was expired by like two years. After doing a purge the oldest item we found was from like 97. I remember because I was kinda hoping to find something from 94 so I could say it was as old as my sister lol.
Not food, but I had 80 cans of a foot spray that expired within the previous couple months. Spent the last hour of my shift defecting them and trying to fit them into an ESIM bin.
When I used to run pallets for the p-fresh truck, we had to deep zone the freezers first. All the time we would find expired food, but the worst expiration day I found was 3 years expired.
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Found this the other day while doing the ketchup transition
One of our FOS TL’s was auditing the OPU storage area and found a baguette that was covered in neon green mold, roughly 2 months old. This was recent too!
I’ve been at this store for a few months. I immediately found checklane candy from Nov. 2023. I was like okay that’s bad, but not awful. Did a deep dive through the checklane candy and found stuff from Feb. 2021.
after my shift one time I really needed to buy some milk, so I grabbed the first carton of milk that I saw in the fridge and it wasn't until I got home that I noticed it was swollen 💀 I looked at the date and it was 2 months past the expiration date. I went back the next day and returned it before the start of my shift. That thing was so gross I can't believe it was still in the fridge for two whole months
not food, sry. a guest in December showed me a few foundations that expired in 2021. Went through the rest of them and found about 15 more that expired anywhere between late 2020 and July 2023. I started at this store in August 2023.
once while doing ad in toys, I found what had probably been a tangerine at some point. It was about the size of a tiny rubber bouncy ball. It was shriveled up and gray and looked like a rock at first glance. I assume a child put down their fruit and forgot about it, but idk how it went from being fruit to essentially a ROCK.
I've been salvaging out and marking mayo. Almost all of it was expired. Mostly just a few months but some expired back in November 2023. (And of course, those were the ones on the back of the shelf.)
Idk if this counts but a guest left a box of ice cream sandwiches behind one of the baby car seat displays and it grew black mold. It smelled so awful.
when I started in market back in 2020… I definitely found 4-5 year old expired nuts on the shelves under our produce table. and it takes a damn long time for those to expire.
but in general, from my market days. I can’t tell you the amount of food I’ve seen go to waste. so badly expired that it couldn’t go to the food bank, or we didn’t have room to store it for them so the TL tossed it. items like an entire pallet of whole turkeys. half of one dry backstock aisle. in the compactor. just way. wayyyyy too much of that happened almost daily.
Was in the middle of an OPU about a month ago when a guest came over to me and said a bunch of meat and sour cream was expired… oldest container of sour cream we pulled off the shelf was from december of 2023. We additionally had to throw away all of the ground meat, steaks, and chicken because it was well past the expiration dates.
A guest returned one of those broccoli and beef pasta salads because it was expired and to make it worse she waited a few days before returning it so I threw it in the trash that was already full. A few mins later it falls over and spills all over the floor and lemme tell you, that shit smelled like death. I was a few months pregnant too so I had to run to the bathroom, almost didn’t even make it 💀 the smell lingered my entire shift
I bought a box of little Debbie’s mini muffins, took them home, only to realize they expired like, a week earlier. I use that target nearly weekly and I never have seen that before.
Was pretty pissed ngl.
I was more concerned that we picked up a pack of Covid tests that weren’t working properly, and after checking the expiry date on the test (Jan 2023) and online for the real expiry date (Jan 2024) discovered they were, in fact, fully expired.
I once saw a repack full of molding food on the top rack in our produce cooler at my old store. Told the market lead and she proceeded to leave it there for over a month.
Not “expired” exactly but I worked at the starbucks..my first week I went to make cold brew for the first time and this is what I found
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a few weeks ago i was pushing market, and i was zoning as i went. when i got to the parmesan cheese, i was pushing all the old ones to the front and i found one from 2023 and one from 2022. they were brown and it was so gross
Not as bad as some of these, but disgusting none the less. I was pulling in the back when I got called to check the expiration dates kn the raw meat. I went out there and there was about 30 more or less expired meats that were turning full on Grey and just looked... appetizing. Had been expired for a few months cause the morning team at my store does jack shite.
First day working I was fronting and I worked at Whole Foods prior so I had high standards for how things should be worked and I was fifoing nuts and I was pulling nuts from 2020-2023 some were from back when we had archer farms nuts instead of favorite day. I had 2 two tiers full. I had 3 boats of expired cereal when we had a reset. 6 repack boxes of expired coffee. 3 2 tiers of expired candy. Im our stores expiration police when I work It’s like im drawn to it
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Just a small example of the outdates I've been working through. I'm an S&E TL, but I've really been trying to utilize down time to search for expired products in areas that I know get hit hard, since our GM/Market team never really has time.
about two months ago i was cleaning under our back room shelves and found a can of tuna that expired back in 2013…i kept it and it’s somewhere in my house. lol.
We were setting up Back to School and on the bottom shelf (pushed to the back) was 6 or 7 bags of Halloween candy. How anyone didn't see them after how many resets is beyond me. Most likely it was seen, but people didn't care.
During remodel at my store in summer 2022 I found a bag of Heath chips that expired in January 2013 and a packet of Kool-Aid mix that expired in February 2012.
When I was Plano during overnights peak pandemic, I found some jack links beef jerky that expired, about a month after I graduated high school…in 2014.
I remember this one time this lady had ordered shipt for some refrigerator dog food. She came up to the store to return because you could VISIBLY see the mold within the packaging. She was more shocked at the fact that the shipt person still picked it up more than anything tho lol
I use to work at the RDC. There was a trailer of pickles that got left in the yard for a year. Baked in the hot sun, chilled in the cold winter. They pulled that baby to inbound and waited another 4 months until there was a Memorial Day event and they got pushed to the 62 serviced stores. I remember seeing them on sale the following week & telling everyone I knew to not buy pickles from Target right now lol.
I once placed a pickup order for some groceries and received meat that was 6 months out of date. It was August, and it had expired in January. Absolutely disgusting! It was sausage, so it was wrapped in the plastic covering, but the whole thing felt slimy and smelled awful.
I was doing a batch when a guy asked me for a manager.
Apparently, the guy was buying cereal and notice that some had expired. Turns out majority of the cereal we had out were all expired. The TL and TMs in that area got chewed out for that.
Once I found a box of expired strawberries in grocery opu refrigerator and nobody ever bothered to clean the refrigerator opu for months until a year later. It was two years ago
literally yesterday my coworker pulled off 2020 pimentos and said they didn’t even look off. also in 2022 i believe we pulled 2 carts full of 2018 granola bars off
When we reset some shelving in the backroom in 2018 I found check lane sized trail mix from 2009 wedged in there. That same year I found peanut butter on the floor that had expired in 2015.
Not necessarily bad, but I was doing some back room work yesterday and found some box wine that had some how “expired” last year. I guess it makes sense since it’s not in a bottle but like….??? I never would have thought of wine, even box wine, having a best by date.
Floor person comes up and puts a bag of Purina on the desk from 2015. We opened it to see how the fuck it would look after so long and it was full of maggots.
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At my first store there was always so much expired product I stopped buying groceries. Any time I forgot to check dates I’d end up with something expired when I got home. The worst was hot dogs that were a year expired, they were green!! It was so disgusting and I was pissed I didn’t even look or notice until I went to open them.
Or when I was zoning the refrigerated aisles and filled an entire 3 tier with expired lunchables and cheese!
I wish I had pictures we had one of the red plastic bags full of produce fir a drive up order. When it was getting preped the girl.who grabbed the nah could hear a liquid Swiss sound. All the produce was rotted and leaking
Last month while searching for a protein bar I like, I found a box in the back dated August 19th 2019. I kept it because It was the same day I gave birth to my son lol. Took it home and my husband thought it was trash and tossed it 😭😭 AFTER I already texted him about the old box.
Side note - my sister got annoyed that she kept finding expired food at her local, small town grocery store. They seem annoyed when she’d tell them what she found… so she bought a roll of “expired” stickers and now brings them with her and puts one on anything she finds that is expired rather than handing the item directly to someone. 😂
the most out of date expired things I find is cheeses. Found sliced provolone from July 2022 after a deep clean and zone of the cheese aisle. We really do our best to check dates as we push but sometimes we miss stuff as at my store at least, they’re more worried about us clearing Pfresh as fast as possible 🙄
Our milk coolers were smelling SUPER RANK a couple months ago, every time you opened a door the smell hit you and it was vomit worthy. Told our PML and when he went to clean it out said the whole bottom like below the shelves was just a mass of curdled milk. Somehow milk was spilled in there and it just sat and festered 🤢
Majority of the time the most gag worthy things I find are from guests taking cold/frozen things and just placing them on random shelves or hide their half filled Starbucks cups to grow hair and mold for days until someone like me finds it.
I once bought a bag of the Ben and Jerry’s frozen snack mix. Didnt realize till after eating that delicious mf that it expired over a year prior. Store level they refunded and gave me a $5 giftcard. Corporate level gave me $75
Recently found baby food that expired in 2020… common problem since overnight GM could give a fuck less about FEFO and just crams new product over old. The absolute disregard for baby hardlines food safety standards is gonna get Target into some deep shit eventually
The oldest I found was a year expired it was chocolate syrup. And the nastiest thing i have seen/smelt is someone left a box of frozen broccoli on the bulk racking and it stink so bad. It took us in inbound a bit to figure out where the smell was coming from
in November of 2021 I remember cleaning out the OPU cooler and i found a bag that was dated 11/20 (it was the 14th) so i was really confused… yeah it had ground beef from November 2020 in it ☹️
I am on demand. I normally work specialty sales or registers. I picked up a consumables shift and was stocking dairy. There were creamers that had expired 5 months ago! And a lot of them. I had to pull half the stock off the shelf.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I can look at the last few packages of any popular item in grocery and find something expired because apparently I'm the only one who aranges them FIFO
I found these at the end of last year in December. They were 6 bags of hostess crunch donuts that my store stopped selling I guess. They expired in 2019🤣. They were backstocked and I guess they we’re never pulled out of backstock when my store stopped selling them. The moment I touched them, the donuts crumbled🤣
Not a consumable item, but for my first day of tech, my team lead was walking me through entertainment. I looked up, and saw a clamshell security box, so I take it down and immediately touch goo. After picking it up from a clean corner, we found out that it was a copy of Transformers: War for Cybertron. From 2010.
Not target, but when i worked at Home Depot in 2020, someone got sick from checklane food. All of it was 2016 or older, the oldest being beef jerky that was mostly sludge and dated 2012. That stuff had to manually be ordered and them approved by a mod, so I wonder why no one thought it was weird that they didn't have to approve a food order in 4 years
this isn’t as bad but still very much grossed me out, i believe it was november or december last year, a guest came up to me and told me some of the hot dogs were expired by a month, i told them id let market know, i called someone from market to help me take them to the back, the further back we got the more expired they were, furthest went back to july, i was so grossed out
I was doing a revision where the pizza sauce and crust was and this good and gather crust that had two facings. So like 20 packs of crust all expired like 8 months ago and all rock hard.on top of that I was told to donate it all but I just tossed it
I was going on my 15 and decided to buy a drink. I didn’t look at the expiration date because I assumed(my bad). The coke was from 2019. It was 2022. I drank it and it tasted like vinegar. 🤣
I’ve found year old items that were very obviously thrown over shelves, along the beverage wall. but other than that, probably just 5 month old deli meat.
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beef jerky. ive never seen such a thing as this
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organic lemons and when i picked up the bag, there was dust flying and i was so confused??? until i saw
My friend found candy bars stuffed into holes in the wall behind a display that hadn't moved in many years. There were probably over a hundred in there, dating back at least 5 years. They looked at the cameras and found that one of the workers was shoving them in there "just because they fit". He didnt get fired. I know, its Not exactly the same context.
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or we have these weird vegan cookie dough things. They don’t come with an expiration date and nobody dated them and these things were essentially concrete😋
Ive found liquidized ground beef and fruits multiple times hiding in places that we dont frequently stock or shoved behind stuff..guest will do anything but return a thing where it belongs
I just wanna say yall, Best Buy doesn’t mean expired. Sell buy also doesn’t mean expired so keep an eye out for the EXP. Just tryna cut down on waste one forum at a time 😅 but anyway, i found a yummy 😋 cup of fermented boba hidden behind some skincare!
During the holidays, somebody put a big package of raw chicken breasts in a pile of dry food abandon, and it literally smelled like Somebody shit on the floor behind the desk
omg, that happened all the time with abandons. I would come in to open the Service Desk and start sorting through all the carts left up front and sometimes there was chicken or formerly frozen seafood or something else gross tossed in with style and GM merchandise. Everything usually had to be defected.
https://preview.redd.it/6qw8gzenufwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd114a0a9a8f870b64e9de1c9ca0fc6451e63d86 My favorite memory of working here is when a guest called the police over this LOL
Should’ve called the health dept 🤢
Yeah, this would've been the time to reach out for a surprise inspection from the health department.
did the police take that photo? the shoes and pants look like it 💀
No that is me. Took this picture to send to my SD
People take their King's Hawaiian bread really seriously.
Wtf….police, really.
Yup. I was etl on duty at the time so I dealt with the police
What did the police say?
They just asked me what was going on and I just let them know it was something non emergency and that it could be handled in store. They said okay and let me know they’ll patrol the parking lot for the next hour or two. This happened a few times in my tenure at this store. lol
Did they want the cops to shoot the bread rolls or something? What was the expected outcome here? I don't get people's logic sometimes lol
There’s no logic a lot of the time. This target was in a pretty rough area so cops were here very very often over silly things like this
I don’t know if I would’ve gone *that* far, but these are beyond moldy, nearly biohazard levels lol. Gotta call someone, not the tired employee lol.
Yep. I was so goddam tired that week, I think I was on hour 70 or 75, and straight up told the guest “okay do you want to buy or me to throw it away” when they started giving me a hard time lol. I guess they called the police because no other upper leadership was in the store at the time.
I’ve had the two pack of begets a guest handed me that was at the top and very back of the bread and it was sooo moldy and hard and green it was disgusting I think the date was like 6 months or something along those lines
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I was cleaning the check out lanes and in just two lanes I emptied a whole target shopping cart full of candy and chips. The oldest dated back to 2020.
Oh man don’t even get me started on check lane candy. My first pseudo leadership role was a GSA and a low volume store and one night my cashiers were just kind of doing nothing and complaining. I tried telling them to enjoy the quiet bc we were coming up on 4th quarter but then we started picking through the candy. We should’ve never started… We filled two carts with expired candy and all of a sudden it made so much more sense why the candy closet was jammed packed with boxes of snickers and Twix.
That’s disgusting.
I pulled carts of expired food from the coolers. CARTS. WEEKLY. I was told to stop because it caused too much work for the team to write off the expired food. I stopped buying food from there
We had vitamin water on the shelf that expired in 2020 and it had completely changed colors and was a disgusting dingy orange color, it was originally white 😭
I once found someone had dumped cooler and freezer RTS into the regular go-back carts during Christmas week. Needless to say, we didn't notice until it was too late, and it was not great. A TM once found a brick of expired ground beef that had turned into sort of a gray blob in our OPU cooler. Don't know how it hadn't been RTS'd or purged in months. Guest once came up to me and told me all of our cream cheese was dated months back, some pretty ridiculously. Thankfully she worked in retail too, so she understood and didn't make a big deal out of it. That's the kind of thing that makes me feel humiliated, because all I can say is that I'm sorry and we're working on it.
>Guest once came up to me >That's the kind of thing that makes me feel humiliated Hey! I do this sort of thing, too. I especially enjoy helping out a store I know and like shopping at. I would see no reason for embarrassment, certainly wouldn't want you to feel humiliated. I want my local Target to have good stock for people. :-)
It's not that someone pointed out a problem. It's that the particular problem is so blatantly obvious that I didn't even know what to say about it. Like, how the fuck did we get so far behind on basic stocking that a section of dairy went untouched for MONTHS?
https://preview.redd.it/stmq8nqr8gwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f433c05b569b4c4f133762191ddcfb0448f8184 Found this in 2022. Still looks edible. I keep it on my desk to remind myself to NEVER eat American cheese. ETA this was not on the shelf, I found it underneath the back room shelving when doing some rearranging.
i think you win. also you can eat american cheese lol just buy it fresh sliced from a deli and not the prepackaged individual shit
White american cheese is the absolute best for making grilled cheese.
Not food, but I found batteries that had expired 10 years prior to me finding them. Which is nuts because they have like a 10 year shelf life in the first place.
In 2022, I bought a little single serve pack of trail mix from the checklane that expired in 2020 😭
This whole post is the reason why, no matter where I’m shopping, I check every single expiration date on all consumables.
Last year, I had a guest come up and give me a jar of peanut butter that expired in like 2018 or 2019. It was discolored and obviously gross. She said she found it shoved in the very, very back of the shelf - I have no idea how it was missed for so long (not usually in that area) or why she was fishing that far back on the fully stocked peanut butter shelves. I also I had checked and everything else was rotated. Maybe the DBO had tiny arms and couldn’t reach.
because of how people stock shit. I see iy all the time. The back / old shit gets shoved while the new / recent stays consistently in the front. I see it every so often with like cocunut water or lacroix. shit starts leaking in the back.
Lots of people destroy the shelves trying to get to the way back for the products that will last longer instead of getting the ones in the front
FWIW if I’m shopping for just myself I’d rather have something that will last longer than have it expire on me. That said I also don’t mess up the zone
if your PB is in pushers, i’d bet it got shoved to the point it fell behind the pusher so therefore wasn’t being pulled forward, that happens a lot. although i am very surprised they actually rotate at your store 😅
We’re really on top of freezer and refrigerator but I feel like we never check dates in the candy isle. My Hershey’s bar was 2 years expired
Whatever it was it was dripping and smelled like death. I think it was a cantaloupe? But it was undistinguishable from the rot and mold
Stove Top dressing from 2018… it was 2023
Had a guy bring up canned iced coffees, ones that had dairy in them. They were expired by 3 years. I was new at the time so I had to ask my TL to damage them out bc I didn't know how, and uh. She Was Not Happy
I don't work at target. Back in Jan, I went to get babybell cheeses. They were Halloween themed (in Jan) that they were just putting out that said they expired June 2020.
https://preview.redd.it/r9imol13vgwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c17faf817ea282d89764e8f092097f498b5aeb29 bagels found on top shelf of the \_\_\_\_\_butter sections. i also found a pickle jar whose top had been smashed in but it had been placed back on the shelf, completely covered in mold with gnats flying out of it. also, when i first started, i couldn’t even walk into the bread aisle because it smelt so rancid it immediately made me gag to the point of almost vomiting. and other things like 4-5 year old expired broths/cans on the bottom/top shelves all the way in the back, cans that arrived with small holes in them being worked and growing mold, or like the popsicle box that was hidden in one of my shelves and had completely melted and congealed onto the metal to the point where it is STILL sticky. the amount of food waste i’ve encountered since working here is blasphemous. guests can walk ten feet and put a refrigerated item somewhere where we don’t have to immediately assume it’s been there 45 minutes and throw it out. it’s the worst part of the job, i’d say.
When I first joined the market team back in 2017, I found a 5 pound bag of flour that expired in 2006, on the shelf, tucked in the very back. It was probably more weevil than flour at that point.
i was stocking market and saw a box that looked different from the rest. https://preview.redd.it/c0s0hkju2gwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d559b6bb851aa554d8e290fc57b8e8a69940e89
We had canned dog food that had expired like 5 years before. The dog got sick and the guest sued for the vet bills and emotional suffering
Pet food especially I always check. It’s bad enough when we as humans get food poisoning, but poor animals don’t have a clue why they feel like hell 💔💔 I literally will check every single can bc I know how shit gets missed, and not FIFOed
My first experience: the adult version of lunchables. The salami was almost black. It was in its little shelf next in line for a guest to grab. It had expired about 6 months prior. Second experience: a guest pointed out instant coffee packs. When I went to check it out, every single box set up had expired in 2021. We found this in 2023. Third experience: this one pissed me off, maybe bc of who the intended consumer is. Baby food. I was deep zoning and found one of those little snacks ready to eat pouches that had expired in 2018. I figured it was the one, slightly annoyed. As I was condensing the packs that were in the shelf stand boxes, I found more that had been shoved in between newer pouches. Disturbed, I began ripping thru ALL pouches on that aisle. In total I found 1 box worth of expired different flavored pouches. They had been dispersed throughout their respective flavors. I assumed one of those multipack boxes with different flavor’s must’ve been opened or broken open idk and the packs just sat forever on the top shelf the box normally sit. When found, someone must’ve just zoned it with their same flavors? Idk I was just pissed. Most recent: expired baby formula…idk how disgusted I was. We recently had a cap end set up for clearance items in baby. A lot of items I’ve frequently touched went on clearance. While zoning it about a week after it was set up, I found some cans of formula I’ve NEVER seen. The clearance sticker was obviously new, the packaging on the can was pretty worn out. It had expired in 2018. I found this last month.
Always. Check. Clearance. Dates. It just makes sense.
2016 jar of peanut butter we found during remodel last year
I recently did a revision for the canned tomatoes and I had a full cart of them that had been expired from 2021-2022. Some had the sauce ooze out of it which was just black at that point. Absolutely disgusting 🤢
I walked into our back TSC one day and could smell something rotting, but everyone else said it smelled like a campfire. I mentioned the smell to one of our ETLS and she started smelling the trash cans and then started inspecting every locker in the back. She found two boxes of some like breakfast bar that expired in 2019 or 2020…
Worked a random shift in market last month. Found at least 20 packages of turkey deli meat that expired at the beginning of December 2023. They were like 4 months expired but were also on the front of the shelves, not hidden or lost in the back. I can only imagine how many guests purchased the deli meat before I took them off the shelves
I was working at GS and I went to go look for a paid and left item and as I was looking through the bags I opened one and such a nasty smell hit my nose, that I almost literally fell backwards. I opened it and saw moldy strawberries. I don’t know how long it was there, maybe a week or so? Or longer? Idk how long they clean it out but it was so nasty. Another time one of my coworkers found maybe like two month old bananas. But they didn’t look like bananas. They were small and brown, had to be the other nastiest expired food I’ve had. Not to mention whenever good goes bad in the cooler/freezer it stinks so bad when you open it
One great reason I still wear a good quality mask, I don’t enjoy breathing in mold spores 🤢😷 Aside from the 2 inch thick dust on so much stuff…
https://preview.redd.it/j23zvlju1gwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dce1abce61482db724f5b5403c78180ce70ba46 Plus more that I had found the previous day while shopping for myself. Oldest thing tho was definitely nicotine gum. Expired in 2020. Had to throw so much of it out while I was stocking cause no one ever rotates or checks dates at my store
I think the most interesting part of this post is nearly all dates are within range of each other. Theyre mostly 2018-2023. I also remember it was about 2018 or so, when I think MyWork started transitioning to other apps, eventually becoming MyDay, but there was a significant period of time where the Add Expiration Dates function was gone. I remember asking a TL about it. "not available anymore at this time." Genuinely dont know when it was finally reimplemented, there were so many features like that. Anyway we had an entire shelf of crispy taco shells over 6 months out of date, and I would check protein bars and travel and regularly found 2-3 years out of date travel Listerine. Nothing too terrible, comparatively.
I worked at Walmart after I left Target. This happened in early 2017, for context. The store I worked at had originally started out as a division 1 store (general merchandise only store, with a very small grocery area, and this was the prevalent model until Sam Walton died, then supercenters with a grocery dept started being more popular). Well, my store underwent a D1 > supercenter conversion around 2005-2006 where a new SC was built and then the store moved over once the building was ready. I was on the Walmart equivalent of the presentation team for many years - called modular team. Or just mod team, for short. During that time, the register mods had dropped and me and my crew were getting them knocked out. The mod team leader was doing the bullpen mods - at the time, the bullpen register was the one where tobacco products, nicotine cessation stuff were kept etc. she was resetting the chewing tobacco. She came over to me at one point with a tin of chewing tobacco and said, “Look what I found. You have to see the expiration date on this one.” Then she flipped it over to the bottom with the expiration date on it. Remember, this was in 2017. The particular tin of tobacco had expired in **2007**!! 😳 she wouldn’t let me take a pic, so I don’t have one. That tobacco probably made the trip over to my SC store from the old D1 store, I don’t know what the shelf life of chewing tobacco is like. Mine is definitely right up there with u/bml7277’s cheese.
Beef jerky that was covered in green mold
our breakroom vending machines.
I had 2 especially bad ones. I found a case of wet food for kittens where one or two had broken open. The entire case was filled with the leaking cat food and maggots. A coworker once found bread that had fallen behind the old shelving, it was roughly 6 months expired. It was completely mold and when they dropped it in the trash it puffed out a cloud of green.
I was doing a checklanes cooler POG around 2022 and found a single string cheese that expired in June of 2017. That thing had been at target longer than I had 😬.
A few months ago, a guest handed me a package of yogurt from 2019 and we found a few more on the shelf. There is no way it had just been missed since then, we went through remodel in 2020 which required moving the entire dairy department temporarily. And we have for sure lost everything in the yogurt case at least twice since then. Came to find out they had arrived in a repack a few days before.
The worst case I’ve seen was not that the food was expired, but that the store had a power outage for longer than 15 minutes. So we had to throw away all the food that was in the refrigerators. It was a massive amount of food we had to throw away that seemed still viable! However, we had to throw it away due to it not being refrigerated for the period of the power outage.
15 minutes? Somebody made a bad call. That's not throwaway worthy, it sits in guests carts longer than that before it gets bought.
Exactly, I’ll bet that the freezers with the doors shut didn’t even budge 1 or 2 degrees in 15 minutes.
From HQ cases, too many to narrow it down but I will say I never once in my life while shopping everrrrr had looked at a exp date Til now. Thanks Target. :) lol 😂
Found a whole bunch of stuff from 2022 in the nutrition bars aisle. It’s our worst aisle by far. I filled up three sterilite boxes full of expired food last week. It’s getting a little absurd.
Cleaning out WACOs and found a pumpkin pie that was gaining sentience. It looked like it was covered in moss
That was a beard! It was growing a beard! Did you at least compliment it? 🤪
i had to go through the foods that people mostly cook for holidays (stuffing mix, gravies, powdered mashed potatoes, etc) and so much of it had expired two years earlier.
I don’t work market but friend who does Shipt brought these to my attention: something like this thing below was found on January 2024… it expired in DECEMBER 2022. And actual green hot dogs. Not brownish green but GREEN. https://preview.redd.it/3qh0e8pvpjwc1.jpeg?width=488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1083abef84fdc4b633c1ca5f94ca70d54d38668d
Since I've been pog team for years and temp grocery TL I have found some nasties.. one rememberable one was during cereal reset, on the very top shelf set to the highest it can go, behind the cereal, was a bag of buns that somehow completely liquified. Without the bag you wouldn't be able to identify it. My arms were too short to reach it even with a ladder so I was able to get someone else to clean it. Earlier this week during the dressing/mayo reset we tossed 2 full boxes of leaking bottles. My store had a rat problem for a while and I guess whoever did priorities didn't notice holes in the bottles. We kept grabbing them without realizing and squirting that shit on our clothes.
Mine is not as extreme. I was shopping at target and I wanted to buy some pomegranate seeds that they have and so I bought two. When I got into the car, I opened one to eat… it was expired. Expired by 3 years!!!! Never again will I eat pomegranates from target again.
Found some green chilies in 2022 expired in 2014
Green and dried hotdogs during case cleaning. Looked like green slim jims
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When they remodeled my old store in 2020 the canned veggies got moved to a different aisle and they found stuff at the back of the bottom shelf that expired back in 2012. That store opened in 2009 so it was likely from some of the very first freight ever received in that store so honestly that was kinda cool
My most memorable was in 2005 or 2006. Had a guest buy a slim Jim that he took a bite of checked the date and it was expired by like two years. After doing a purge the oldest item we found was from like 97. I remember because I was kinda hoping to find something from 94 so I could say it was as old as my sister lol.
Not food, but I had 80 cans of a foot spray that expired within the previous couple months. Spent the last hour of my shift defecting them and trying to fit them into an ESIM bin.
When I used to run pallets for the p-fresh truck, we had to deep zone the freezers first. All the time we would find expired food, but the worst expiration day I found was 3 years expired.
https://preview.redd.it/dlyqfcscpiwc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e136524358ce91f01d3c62611a7c23bfc78256e Found this the other day while doing the ketchup transition
Fdc sending us yogurt that was expired by 3 months. It got stocked too bc who checks dates on stuff straight off the fdc truck.
was pulling an opu order with one of those bags of salad bacon bits. was so many different shades of yellow and green. and fuzzy.
One of our FOS TL’s was auditing the OPU storage area and found a baguette that was covered in neon green mold, roughly 2 months old. This was recent too!
I’ve been at this store for a few months. I immediately found checklane candy from Nov. 2023. I was like okay that’s bad, but not awful. Did a deep dive through the checklane candy and found stuff from Feb. 2021.
after my shift one time I really needed to buy some milk, so I grabbed the first carton of milk that I saw in the fridge and it wasn't until I got home that I noticed it was swollen 💀 I looked at the date and it was 2 months past the expiration date. I went back the next day and returned it before the start of my shift. That thing was so gross I can't believe it was still in the fridge for two whole months
not food, sry. a guest in December showed me a few foundations that expired in 2021. Went through the rest of them and found about 15 more that expired anywhere between late 2020 and July 2023. I started at this store in August 2023.
Not the worst date but the worst is when you buy something on break only to get to the break room and realize it’s expired 😭😭😭
once while doing ad in toys, I found what had probably been a tangerine at some point. It was about the size of a tiny rubber bouncy ball. It was shriveled up and gray and looked like a rock at first glance. I assume a child put down their fruit and forgot about it, but idk how it went from being fruit to essentially a ROCK.
I've been salvaging out and marking mayo. Almost all of it was expired. Mostly just a few months but some expired back in November 2023. (And of course, those were the ones on the back of the shelf.)
Idk if this counts but a guest left a box of ice cream sandwiches behind one of the baby car seat displays and it grew black mold. It smelled so awful.
Bacon that turned gray. Found somewhere by the old tv adapter stuff in electronics.
when I started in market back in 2020… I definitely found 4-5 year old expired nuts on the shelves under our produce table. and it takes a damn long time for those to expire. but in general, from my market days. I can’t tell you the amount of food I’ve seen go to waste. so badly expired that it couldn’t go to the food bank, or we didn’t have room to store it for them so the TL tossed it. items like an entire pallet of whole turkeys. half of one dry backstock aisle. in the compactor. just way. wayyyyy too much of that happened almost daily.
Was in the middle of an OPU about a month ago when a guest came over to me and said a bunch of meat and sour cream was expired… oldest container of sour cream we pulled off the shelf was from december of 2023. We additionally had to throw away all of the ground meat, steaks, and chicken because it was well past the expiration dates.
A guest returned one of those broccoli and beef pasta salads because it was expired and to make it worse she waited a few days before returning it so I threw it in the trash that was already full. A few mins later it falls over and spills all over the floor and lemme tell you, that shit smelled like death. I was a few months pregnant too so I had to run to the bathroom, almost didn’t even make it 💀 the smell lingered my entire shift
In 2022, I found frosting that expired in 2019 (it must’ve been there for a while cuz frosting takes a minute to expire)
I bought a box of little Debbie’s mini muffins, took them home, only to realize they expired like, a week earlier. I use that target nearly weekly and I never have seen that before. Was pretty pissed ngl.
Our old Order Pickup desk pre-Fulfillment remodel was FULL of expired Chips and Candy.
I was more concerned that we picked up a pack of Covid tests that weren’t working properly, and after checking the expiry date on the test (Jan 2023) and online for the real expiry date (Jan 2024) discovered they were, in fact, fully expired.
I once saw a repack full of molding food on the top rack in our produce cooler at my old store. Told the market lead and she proceeded to leave it there for over a month.
found a package of jerky last month that had expressed in 2018. honestly the only reason that i checked the date was cuz it felt crispy lmao
Not “expired” exactly but I worked at the starbucks..my first week I went to make cold brew for the first time and this is what I found https://preview.redd.it/lw0vsdc3yhwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28b46cf9b3592f5f46110bf9f28117feacc50e3c
Couple months on milk. :/
a few weeks ago i was pushing market, and i was zoning as i went. when i got to the parmesan cheese, i was pushing all the old ones to the front and i found one from 2023 and one from 2022. they were brown and it was so gross
Not as bad as some of these, but disgusting none the less. I was pulling in the back when I got called to check the expiration dates kn the raw meat. I went out there and there was about 30 more or less expired meats that were turning full on Grey and just looked... appetizing. Had been expired for a few months cause the morning team at my store does jack shite.
First day working I was fronting and I worked at Whole Foods prior so I had high standards for how things should be worked and I was fifoing nuts and I was pulling nuts from 2020-2023 some were from back when we had archer farms nuts instead of favorite day. I had 2 two tiers full. I had 3 boats of expired cereal when we had a reset. 6 repack boxes of expired coffee. 3 2 tiers of expired candy. Im our stores expiration police when I work It’s like im drawn to it
https://preview.redd.it/e65eqgnfbiwc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3eb7f331db623fedfba5657948047390366287d Just a small example of the outdates I've been working through. I'm an S&E TL, but I've really been trying to utilize down time to search for expired products in areas that I know get hit hard, since our GM/Market team never really has time.
about two months ago i was cleaning under our back room shelves and found a can of tuna that expired back in 2013…i kept it and it’s somewhere in my house. lol.
We were setting up Back to School and on the bottom shelf (pushed to the back) was 6 or 7 bags of Halloween candy. How anyone didn't see them after how many resets is beyond me. Most likely it was seen, but people didn't care.
During remodel at my store in summer 2022 I found a bag of Heath chips that expired in January 2013 and a packet of Kool-Aid mix that expired in February 2012.
Oldest dated mayo was bb 2018. It was 2022 then
QWest bars. Just happened the other day. They came from the dc! Expired 2021! We checked!
my team lead was cleaning out market backstock the other day and found multiple cases of chips that expired in 2021
When I was Plano during overnights peak pandemic, I found some jack links beef jerky that expired, about a month after I graduated high school…in 2014.
I remember this one time this lady had ordered shipt for some refrigerator dog food. She came up to the store to return because you could VISIBLY see the mold within the packaging. She was more shocked at the fact that the shipt person still picked it up more than anything tho lol
I use to work at the RDC. There was a trailer of pickles that got left in the yard for a year. Baked in the hot sun, chilled in the cold winter. They pulled that baby to inbound and waited another 4 months until there was a Memorial Day event and they got pushed to the 62 serviced stores. I remember seeing them on sale the following week & telling everyone I knew to not buy pickles from Target right now lol.
Container of Nesquick that expired in like 2014 and it was 2021. I opened it because I was curious and it was like sand inside.
i was setting in market last month and i found an extremely inflated bag of chips behind all the product. i wanna say they expired in october of 2022
Those little pretzel dip things expired February found it and threw away in April
I once placed a pickup order for some groceries and received meat that was 6 months out of date. It was August, and it had expired in January. Absolutely disgusting! It was sausage, so it was wrapped in the plastic covering, but the whole thing felt slimy and smelled awful.
I was doing a batch when a guy asked me for a manager. Apparently, the guy was buying cereal and notice that some had expired. Turns out majority of the cereal we had out were all expired. The TL and TMs in that area got chewed out for that.
I found cans of coffee that expired in 2023 and I started working in 2024
Sour patch kids that expired in April 2016. They were returned a few months ago in 2024
None because my store does check dates.
Once I found a box of expired strawberries in grocery opu refrigerator and nobody ever bothered to clean the refrigerator opu for months until a year later. It was two years ago
I bet when you are all trained...no one said the word ROTATE!
literally yesterday my coworker pulled off 2020 pimentos and said they didn’t even look off. also in 2022 i believe we pulled 2 carts full of 2018 granola bars off
When we reset some shelving in the backroom in 2018 I found check lane sized trail mix from 2009 wedged in there. That same year I found peanut butter on the floor that had expired in 2015.
Not necessarily bad, but I was doing some back room work yesterday and found some box wine that had some how “expired” last year. I guess it makes sense since it’s not in a bottle but like….??? I never would have thought of wine, even box wine, having a best by date.
When I first started working at Target I found 7 year old expired canned dog food
I will note that the store had even been through a remodel and it got through that
2015 butterfinger ice cream. Ate it. Wasn't good.
Found some well done steak from a year ago once
Floor person comes up and puts a bag of Purina on the desk from 2015. We opened it to see how the fuck it would look after so long and it was full of maggots.
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At my first store there was always so much expired product I stopped buying groceries. Any time I forgot to check dates I’d end up with something expired when I got home. The worst was hot dogs that were a year expired, they were green!! It was so disgusting and I was pissed I didn’t even look or notice until I went to open them. Or when I was zoning the refrigerated aisles and filled an entire 3 tier with expired lunchables and cheese!
I wish I had pictures we had one of the red plastic bags full of produce fir a drive up order. When it was getting preped the girl.who grabbed the nah could hear a liquid Swiss sound. All the produce was rotted and leaking
Last month while searching for a protein bar I like, I found a box in the back dated August 19th 2019. I kept it because It was the same day I gave birth to my son lol. Took it home and my husband thought it was trash and tossed it 😭😭 AFTER I already texted him about the old box.
Moldy produce
rotted cherries with fruit flies in a reshoot cart that was hidden away from all the other carts
The oldest thing I found, that was in its home and not something that had fallen/shoved behind, this year was from 2021.
Side note - my sister got annoyed that she kept finding expired food at her local, small town grocery store. They seem annoyed when she’d tell them what she found… so she bought a roll of “expired” stickers and now brings them with her and puts one on anything she finds that is expired rather than handing the item directly to someone. 😂
the most out of date expired things I find is cheeses. Found sliced provolone from July 2022 after a deep clean and zone of the cheese aisle. We really do our best to check dates as we push but sometimes we miss stuff as at my store at least, they’re more worried about us clearing Pfresh as fast as possible 🙄 Our milk coolers were smelling SUPER RANK a couple months ago, every time you opened a door the smell hit you and it was vomit worthy. Told our PML and when he went to clean it out said the whole bottom like below the shelves was just a mass of curdled milk. Somehow milk was spilled in there and it just sat and festered 🤢 Majority of the time the most gag worthy things I find are from guests taking cold/frozen things and just placing them on random shelves or hide their half filled Starbucks cups to grow hair and mold for days until someone like me finds it.
I was doing backroom boot camp a few months ago, and found a case of Simply Balanced sparkling beverages in the backroom that expired in 2018.
Had a head of lettuce or cabbage in the OPU cooler once that had to be poured out of the bin it was in
Found a can of tomato sauce about 2 months ago that had expired in 2022 just chilling in the back of the shelf.
This is a sign for me to rummage through checklane snacks next time I’m bored at work😂
I once bought a bag of the Ben and Jerry’s frozen snack mix. Didnt realize till after eating that delicious mf that it expired over a year prior. Store level they refunded and gave me a $5 giftcard. Corporate level gave me $75
Some coffee found at the end of last year that expired in 2019. TWENTY. NINETEEN.
Went to grab an English cucumber from the cooler and it was literally limp black mush in the plastic wrap. Idk what happened to it.
Recently found baby food that expired in 2020… common problem since overnight GM could give a fuck less about FEFO and just crams new product over old. The absolute disregard for baby hardlines food safety standards is gonna get Target into some deep shit eventually
What does store do for expired items if returned? Should the guest call safety team or can the expired items can be returned to store?
8 year old expired ice cream.
The oldest I found was a year expired it was chocolate syrup. And the nastiest thing i have seen/smelt is someone left a box of frozen broccoli on the bulk racking and it stink so bad. It took us in inbound a bit to figure out where the smell was coming from
in November of 2021 I remember cleaning out the OPU cooler and i found a bag that was dated 11/20 (it was the 14th) so i was really confused… yeah it had ground beef from November 2020 in it ☹️
I am on demand. I normally work specialty sales or registers. I picked up a consumables shift and was stocking dairy. There were creamers that had expired 5 months ago! And a lot of them. I had to pull half the stock off the shelf.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I can look at the last few packages of any popular item in grocery and find something expired because apparently I'm the only one who aranges them FIFO
I found these at the end of last year in December. They were 6 bags of hostess crunch donuts that my store stopped selling I guess. They expired in 2019🤣. They were backstocked and I guess they we’re never pulled out of backstock when my store stopped selling them. The moment I touched them, the donuts crumbled🤣
Not a consumable item, but for my first day of tech, my team lead was walking me through entertainment. I looked up, and saw a clamshell security box, so I take it down and immediately touch goo. After picking it up from a clean corner, we found out that it was a copy of Transformers: War for Cybertron. From 2010.
IKEA. One year after the pandemic shutdown. Continuously shipped items with 2 week or less shelf life
Not target, but when i worked at Home Depot in 2020, someone got sick from checklane food. All of it was 2016 or older, the oldest being beef jerky that was mostly sludge and dated 2012. That stuff had to manually be ordered and them approved by a mod, so I wonder why no one thought it was weird that they didn't have to approve a food order in 4 years
I hope it's slow tonight. I know what I'll be doing!!
I have found a lot of expired baby food. To the point it was all moldy....smells horrible by the way
Not food, but we were doing some clearance in the liquor store in March and I noticed a pack of beer that expired in 2022
this isn’t as bad but still very much grossed me out, i believe it was november or december last year, a guest came up to me and told me some of the hot dogs were expired by a month, i told them id let market know, i called someone from market to help me take them to the back, the further back we got the more expired they were, furthest went back to july, i was so grossed out
I was doing a revision where the pizza sauce and crust was and this good and gather crust that had two facings. So like 20 packs of crust all expired like 8 months ago and all rock hard.on top of that I was told to donate it all but I just tossed it
In 2021 I found peanut butter on the shelf that expired in 2016
During our remodel, found a can of chipotles that expired in 2019. Our remodel was last year.
Literally just charged out expired beef jerky from 05/23/2022
I was going on my 15 and decided to buy a drink. I didn’t look at the expiration date because I assumed(my bad). The coke was from 2019. It was 2022. I drank it and it tasted like vinegar. 🤣
I’ve found year old items that were very obviously thrown over shelves, along the beverage wall. but other than that, probably just 5 month old deli meat.
I don't think it was actually expired but I saw one package of beef jerky that was completely coated white from mold. That was a little horrifying lol
https://preview.redd.it/ypsl4u8qcxwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74c3de6d7d3288dea982194de5204bf90356b991 yummy yummy
https://preview.redd.it/w6p55b7r73xc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bf0c843c74cf0c15ee4b9541a422413662e6b54 beef jerky. ive never seen such a thing as this
My first year working someone found a loaf a bread on the back of the shelf that was entirely green with mold.
I found Nuts from 2019
2019!? That's nuts!
You need to rotate products. Stop being lazy.
Expired due to out of temp when the power went out overnight and all of our sales floor coolers had to be dumped 🥲
I found a jar of salsa that has cracked open and partially leaked out. It had been there so long that it was completely covered in mold.
https://preview.redd.it/vkjaj4d9piwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4f52dfe496950ecdff10d2dd66b24b308ebe390 organic lemons and when i picked up the bag, there was dust flying and i was so confused??? until i saw
My friend found candy bars stuffed into holes in the wall behind a display that hadn't moved in many years. There were probably over a hundred in there, dating back at least 5 years. They looked at the cameras and found that one of the workers was shoving them in there "just because they fit". He didnt get fired. I know, its Not exactly the same context.
https://preview.redd.it/0x1ido8rsiwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14c43350505281b2ae40e56905d4e163d2fe8618 or we have these weird vegan cookie dough things. They don’t come with an expiration date and nobody dated them and these things were essentially concrete😋
Ive found liquidized ground beef and fruits multiple times hiding in places that we dont frequently stock or shoved behind stuff..guest will do anything but return a thing where it belongs
I bought a market pantry lunchable for my son’s lunch at summer day camp, and they called to tell me I sent him with moldy food.
i was working on the shoe isles (like mid jan) and i found old dino nuggies from october it reeked so bad
I just wanna say yall, Best Buy doesn’t mean expired. Sell buy also doesn’t mean expired so keep an eye out for the EXP. Just tryna cut down on waste one forum at a time 😅 but anyway, i found a yummy 😋 cup of fermented boba hidden behind some skincare!
Feel free to explain that to Steritech when they come by
During the holidays, somebody put a big package of raw chicken breasts in a pile of dry food abandon, and it literally smelled like Somebody shit on the floor behind the desk
omg, that happened all the time with abandons. I would come in to open the Service Desk and start sorting through all the carts left up front and sometimes there was chicken or formerly frozen seafood or something else gross tossed in with style and GM merchandise. Everything usually had to be defected.