Corner store milk (today is the 16th)

I don’t think this needs to be broadcasted for everyone to see and judge the corner stores. Yea the shelf life of the milk is expired but this happens at Food Lion and Kroger too. As a community we need to support and encourage our store owners. These are hard working people who are serving the community. Most of you would not want to work the hours the work and put up with the things the do! I love my corner store and go there often. When something does not seem up to par simply let the clerk know as I would any other establishment. He appeticates me and I appeticate him. There are a lot of ways to look at this post and expired milk is expired milk. Please don’t allow yourselfs to miss the point that we are all human and people make mistakes. We don’t know the day, week, or month they may have had that made him miss the date. Would you post this if it found something expired at Elwood Thompson??? Please be kind give them a chance.

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There is only one way to look at this post, Mr. Parks. John is correct. This is not a mistake. This is a store that doesn’t care.

I have no interest in supporting and encouraging store owners who don’t want to run a quality operation, Mr. Parks. To the contrary we should give them a very cold shoulder. I don’t want to encourage the people who run Ocean Grocery or some of the other dumps in Church Hill that exist primarily to sell cheap malt liquor and junk food. While I am glad that your corner store is dreamy, most of these are dumps who have had plenty of chances to get rid of the trash, the loiter and the vermin.

I am hopeful that Jim’s Market, when built will reduce the traffic for those people who depend on these stores for something other than beer and candy. Perhaps the reduced sales will close a few of them.

I’m not defending blatantly expired food but the store owner has every right to stock what makes money for him; obviously his customers want beer & not milk. If milk had been a top seller, no doubt it would have flown off the shelves when it was fresh & he’d have replenished accordingly.

It’s milk. It’s 10+days expired. A store owner has absolutely no right to sell that. Kids drink milk. Adults drink milk. It’s supposed to do a body good. Rotten milk can really make you sick. I’m so against anyone rationalizing that. None of you (except the store owner) know why that milk was on the shelf. I’ve known store owners who got expired milk thrown out by larger stores and sold it as a matter of course. Regardless, because this is likely poisonous, and for sale for kids – among others- to drink, I’m thinking this is basically criminal.

And this has very little to do with the right-to-sell-40s vs close-the-corner-stores debate; I reiterate, no one has a right to sell expired milk, and that those who frequent their corner stores DO have a right to expect the milk sold to be still good. Or at least close to it.