No, walmart gets them in frozen then thaw's them out and dates them. Most stores without an instore bakery do this. Heck, even stores with a bakery do this for some high volume, low margin items.
Could be just an employee's mistake on the stamp gun. And they had to restamp those items with the wrong date.wysiwyg wrote: ↑ This week, I purchased some croissants at a Walmart location. When I got home and noticed they weren’t fresh, I realized the original date stamped was covered with another sticker. (See picture below). This is not just unethical but also a completely illegal practice. Is there a consumer group I can reach out to to make them aware of this?
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Could be this.stack21 wrote: ↑
Could be just an employee's mistake on the stamp gun. And they had to restamp those items with the wrong date.
Doubt Walmart would direct it's bakery department to extend the life of expired items. Walmart even sells its rotisserie chicken at a 50% discount when the chicken has been on the warmer for more than 3 hours.
My local Walmart has a rack for near expiry bakery items that are sold at a discount.
Date tampering is EXTREMELY COMMON in the Bakery Dept
Quite possibly it is tampering. No one knows for sure for now at OP's store. If the stamps being placed on top of older stamps is a regular occurrence, then it is likely tampering since employees' mistake on the stamp gun should not be a regular occurrence.PointsHubby wrote: ↑ Could be this.
But more likely as CBC Marketplace reported years ago … it’s more likely this :
Date tampering is EXTREMELY COMMON in the Bakery Dept
Best bet to combat this … go to a Grocery Store that’s extremely busy with a higher chance of stuff being SOLD OUT vs being held over / discounted
As if that isn’t also possible ?stack21 wrote: ↑ Quite possibly it is tampering. No one knows for sure for now at OP's store. If the stamps being placed on top of older stamps is a regular occurrence, then it is likely tampering since employees' mistake on the stamp gun should not be a regular occurrence.
Apart from buying high turn over bakery, another option is to buy those bakery items with expiry date printed over the plastic bag.
Also, majority of loafs of bread are tied up with a bread clip, that might be a better option than the sticky labels since the store would need an inventory of those bread clips with various dates to extend the expiry dates.
Stores that baked in-store and use bread clips don't have dates printed on their bread clip. They used a large label to show expiry date as follows. Superstore, Save-On-Foods, Safeway, IGA , etc all used this large label for in-store baked bread.PointsHubby wrote: ↑ As if that isn’t also possible ?
I have seen those bread clips on baked in store / prepared in store items too.
@wysiwyg the answer to your suspicions as above.CanadianConsumerYEG wrote: ↑ I am 100% confident that there is no tampering and it was a case of the employee putting on the wrong date, and just being too lazy to peel it off and just sticking the right date on top
If there really was tampering, wouldn't the employee rip off the old sticker first instead of leaving evidence? And why would it be tampered with for 2 extra days? Not even worth it.
Source: Worked at Wal Mart for over 4 years during high school and college
All expired products are thrown out, some well in advance (IIRC frozen one month before expiry, cheese a week before expiry, milk+yogurt 3-4 days before). Not exactly sure what margin Wal Mart made on their baked goods, but trust me, we threw out INSANE amounts of food. There was no need to tamper with anything, no way any manager would risk the fallout, because a store made hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.
When I was moved to the dairy department, I would try to "save" egg cartons by replacing 1-2 broken eggs in one carton with good ones from another with the same expiry date. I was told this was unnecessary and not wanted; and to throw out the entire carton. There were times I threw out at least 40-50 carton of eggs (12 or even 18 pack) because one egg was broken.
Expired meat is collected in the back and another company gets them. Not sure what is done, but no way we recolour meat or grind up meat and resell. Probably they end up being used as livestock feed or something.
Most employees were lazy and didn't properly FIFO the shelves. Slow days I would go over the shelves and get 2 full carts of expired yogurt, cheese, juice, etc, in the very back of the shelf. All right into the garbage.
Some times produce guys would forget a skid of fruit or veggies in the back of the cooler. All right into the garbage. You were not even allowed to eat the fruit being thrown out. Entire boxes (Think what costco gives you at the checkout) of berries, apples, etc, right into the dumpster.
There is no way walmart will tamper with some croissants to save a few cents (Because that's all they really cost to WM) when they throw out way higher value items.
Not about expiry dates. When a customer returns grocery items (canned food, cereal, chocolate, etc: not expired and not bulk food, factory manufactured packaging), does Walmart throw these return items out or do they put it back to shelf?CanadianConsumerYEG wrote: ↑ I am 100% confident that there is no tampering and it was a case of the employee putting on the wrong date, and just being too lazy to peel it off and just sticking the right date on top
If there really was tampering, wouldn't the employee rip off the old sticker first instead of leaving evidence? And why would it be tampered with for 2 extra days? Not even worth it.
Source: Worked at Wal Mart for over 4 years during high school and college
All expired products are thrown out, some well in advance (IIRC frozen one month before expiry, cheese a week before expiry, milk+yogurt 3-4 days before). Not exactly sure what margin Wal Mart made on their baked goods, but trust me, we threw out INSANE amounts of food. There was no need to tamper with anything, no way any manager would risk the fallout, because a store made hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.
When I was moved to the dairy department, I would try to "save" egg cartons by replacing 1-2 broken eggs in one carton with good ones from another with the same expiry date. I was told this was unnecessary and not wanted; and to throw out the entire carton. There were times I threw out at least 40-50 carton of eggs (12 or even 18 pack) because one egg was broken.
Expired meat is collected in the back and another company gets them. Not sure what is done, but no way we recolour meat or grind up meat and resell. Probably they end up being used as livestock feed or something.
Most employees were lazy and didn't properly FIFO the shelves. Slow days I would go over the shelves and get 2 full carts of expired yogurt, cheese, juice, etc, in the very back of the shelf. All right into the garbage.
Some times produce guys would forget a skid of fruit or veggies in the back of the cooler. All right into the garbage. You were not even allowed to eat the fruit being thrown out. Entire boxes (Think what costco gives you at the checkout) of berries, apples, etc, right into the dumpster.
There is no way walmart will tamper with some croissants to save a few cents (Because that's all they really cost to WM) when they throw out way higher value items.
Cannot speak to Walmart directly … what they do or don’t do
All food returns are garbage instantly.
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