Weights and Measures seen at my store

[shopshopshopnow]

He was auditing expireds with a cart of chosen stuff and going down a list.

[mpmama2re]

here's a news story from the Los Angeles area.
Expired Products

Good thing they are actually investigating!

[TexasMama3]

I found 2 boxes of Fiber One cereal week before last - expired 6/2007 and 4/2007...
I showed them to the manager and he saw the June one first and he asked what year it was! um, not 2007 LOL!

[foggierbard9]

I always check the dates before I buy anything. I actually have been known too look through the products to find the one with the farthest date out.

[cornedog]

WOW! My CVS has only been open for 6 months, so I am sure that their stock is fresh on most everything, but I know to be more careful now.

Because of this forum, I checked the exp date on some Centrum kids vitamins at Rite Aid yesterday, and found that the ones that I was about to buy expired next month. The Dora vitamins expired in 9/2008, and I actually found a $2 peelie on them so I told my kids no Spongebob today!! :0)

[XUfan]

I heard about this last week, when someone reported here about the stores in NY (I think). The next day, I was in our CVS (in Ohio), and saw that they had extra employees, and THREE managers on duty. Most of the extras, and 2 of the managers were sorting through the products in the food, vitamin and baby aisles, tossing lots of items in totes! I was amazed at how much space was empty on the shelves when they were done!!

I went back yesterday, and bought some of the Nabisco cookies and Sunmaid raisins that were on sale. The shelves were full again...and the dates were all good!

[TexasMama3]

Originally Posted by cornedog WOW! My CVS has only been open for 6 months, so I am sure that their stock is fresh on most everything, but I know to be more careful now.

Don't count on it. My CVS hasn't been open a year yet... but some items were over 1 yr expired!

[kdownie]

Originally Posted by shopshopshopnow He was auditing expireds with a cart of chosen stuff and going down a list.

Someone was doing that at my store too, but I didn't realize he was checking expiraton dates. Good!

[amys]

No matter how old or new your CVS is has nothing to do with the expired items. Instead it goes back to the warehouse, hours, and sales. The warehouse gets in a lot of stock on items, but each CVS store is sent only a basic amount of it, sometimes 2-4 pieces, unless they order more. So many times, the stock comes in already expired. The stores don't have enough hours for their employees to do everything required and take care of customers, so many times they will miss the date or forget to look. And since most of the sales which move the product are for non-perishables, the item can sit on the shelf a long time.
Now - - that said, it isn't always the warehouse's fault. If the product isn't moving, it will sit there until it expires. And if the employees aren't told to check for expireds, or they don't have enough hours to do it - it doesn't get done.

However; the warehouse should have some form of checking on their inventory to make sure they aren't shipping out expireds to the store. And I know they are, because I have been there on truck day and watch them pull the stock out and it be expired already - sometimes by months!

Perhaps, it is done intentionally so they can attempt to recoup the money on the item? I don't know. But I bet that it will get tightened down on them for a while.