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If there is one thing that a grocery store will avoid having to do at all costs, it is the idea that they would have to throw out a large amount of product for any reason.
If you’ve gone past the clearance aisle in a grocery store, you have probably seen products for sale that are about as close to the sell-by date on the box as they legally allow.
A product that has to be thrown away, especially in mass amounts, is something that a grocery store wants on its books. It’s one thing if it’s an accident where a car plows into a grocery store and knocks over all of the donuts that were on sale.
Another instance is in the case of power outages. I recall in 2003, when they had that massive blackout that hit New York and several other states, I had a relative who worked at a grocery store that was affected by the blackout.
They said that the amount of food that they had to throw out was in the millions.
That kind of thing is bad enough. When you have a food item get recalled, that just means that someone was asleep at the switch when they were making something that you feed your family.
Which brings us to Trader Joe’s. I was in a Trader Joe’s one time for about three minutes when I had to use the bathroom when traveling once, and I just couldn’t get over the haughtiness.
Put it to you this way, you can buy things at other grocery store chains that are of the same quality at lower prices. It’s almost as if they charge more because you are paying for the right to shop at Trader Joe’s.
But the chain is not perfect. Recently they have had to recall around sixty thousand pounds of chicken dumplings. The reason is insane because inspectors found that there were bits of plastic in the dumplings.
The nearly sixty-one thousand pounds of frozen chicken dumplings were apparently contaminated by plastic from a marker.
This begs the question, what in the world was a bunch of markers doing that close to chicken dumplings in the first place?
The fact that this kind of thing happened with frozen food just goes to show that you should make your food from scratch as much as possible.
I’m not saying we have to start practicing the ways of the Amish or anything, but maybe if we took a little more care in what we put into our bodies instead of entrusting it to some corporation like Trader Joe’s; we wouldn’t have so many product recalls involving food.
