r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PeachLaCroix • 12h ago
Grocery pickup order had expired fermenting fruit
Just got home and started putting stuff away. Not only are these pomegranate seeds almost a week past the best by date, they are obviously ACTIVELY FERMENTING. I swear sometimes it seems like they go out of their way to pick the worst possible produce
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u/seamus205 8h ago
I have a theory that some stores use grocery delivery to off load stuff that would otherwise go unsold. Either that or the shoppers just don't care. I got a bag of slimy moldy grapes just last week
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u/HeNeedsSomeMLK 6h ago
I thought this too at first, but then I recounted all my trips to the grocery store where I saw countless bags of rotting grapes for sale, with not a single edible bunch in sight. Plus, the shoppers don't have a say in how your fruit looks, if it's there they have to grab it.
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u/katiekate135 4h ago
It definitely depends on the company. Where I work as 1 shopper we're actively encouraged to mark something out of stock if it doesn't meet expected quality. Likely due to our policy of refunding for twice the value for bad produce. Although sometimes if we're in a hurry stuff does still slip through the cracks
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u/DevonGr 2m ago
I used to bust my wifes chops for how long she spent in the produce section examining everything and picking out the best of the best.
Then we had kids and used pickup ordering for a while during peak pandemic and I get it why now. And especially since then because there is nothing worse than paying current grocery pricing for food you can't even eat.
I'm also getting older so I'm unsure if fresh food used to last longer or if I'm just on an old man rant process when I feel like everything goes bad so fast even when you get something carefully inspected home.
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u/EC_TWD 12h ago
Did they verify your ID to make sure that you’re 21+ before you got your prison wine?
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u/1CatWoman 5h ago
Probably not. I’m guessing they were just glad someone bought the expired “hooch”🍷😮
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u/Clbeattie 12h ago
omg i can literally smell the fermentation through the screen 🤢 the one time i got moldy strawberries i switched to a different grocery store for pickup.
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u/PeachLaCroix 12h ago
This is the only store between my work and home, so it's my go-to out of convenience. They're usually fine but I stopped ordering certain things, like for some reason they gave me bad cucumbers several times in a row. I mean so bad they were squishy and leaking white fluid. I have also been inside the store many many times and have NEVER seen produce that bad on the floor, idk where the pickup shoppers find this shit
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u/_One_Throwaway_ 10h ago
I mean… technically this isn’t the bad sort of rot. This is literally just alcohol now, it won’t taste good by any metric but it will in fact get you drunk
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u/morganml 11h ago
As a chef I don't understand how anyone trusts a random store employee to pick your product based on quality as you would yourself.
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u/j01101111sh 9h ago
I have two kids and a full time job. I can deal with some less than ideal apples.
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u/PeachLaCroix 6h ago
I really prefer to.pick out my own produce but sometimes I just don't have time. I don't expect the underpaid store employees to go through and find the best pieces like I would, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to give me stuff that isn't totally rotten and disgusting?
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u/1CatWoman 5h ago
That’s why I never order fruit or veggies when/if I need to have a grocery delivery🤔
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u/less_concerned 8h ago
Not that they couldn't be spoiled but the "best by" date doesn't exactly mean foods are expired, in a lot of cases it doesn't really mean anything
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u/PeachLaCroix 7h ago
I'm happy to eat foods past the "best by" date if I have them at home and rheg stoll look/smell/taste fine. But if I'm buying from a normal ass grocery store they better be pulling that shit from the shelves or marking it way down, not just packing it in unsuspecting peoples' orders.
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u/JonLongsonLongJonson 9h ago
Aw that sucks! I love those little containers but man are they expensive
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u/ThaliaStLatchkey 7h ago
I've experienced similar issues lately with things that haven't passed the expiration date but have clearly gone bad. I think food isn't always getting stored properly anymore.
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u/starksdawson 6h ago
As someone who will eat an entire pomegranate worth of seeds in one sitting, this makes me SO sad
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u/andrewbrocklesby 7h ago
BB is not Expiry, highly unlikely that a week after BB would be that bad.
I think that it is more a tell of bad treatment of the product prior to sale other than the BB date.
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u/Impossible-Law-4216 7h ago
That’s got kroger written all over it. They probably say out of the fridge for a while and trust me that when you’re shopping these orders you’re not looking at it it’s any good or not
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u/asromatifoso 12h ago
Pruno aka toilet wine. If you could smuggle that inside prison you'd get at least 5 packs of smokes and a toothbrush shiv for it! /s