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pangaea1972 t1_je1zx9t wrote

Many snack foods, sodas, etc in grocery stores are stocked by outside vendors. I'm not sure if Snyders is stocked by a Snyders vendor or the store's grocery dept but either way it is highly unusual to see a popular product that far out of date. Someone made a mistake at some point and if the store were aware the grocery team leader would catch shit from the store leader guaranteed. They get surprise 3rd party audits a few times a year and one out of date product would fail that department and have an effect on the department and store leaders' bonuses. They take out of date products very seriously. It's probably fine to eat though; there is no science to those dates at all.

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XavierRex83 t1_je2dprh wrote

Snyder is an outside vendor. All the vendors should be rotating their stock and giving credits for out of date items. Either the store is doing something shady, or Snyder messed something up, and that date might be fine. Also, while 4 months would not be ideal, if that is accurate, it would still be edible as long as it is sealed.

It's been a while, so I don't remember, but some vendors will leave out of dates at the store when issuing credit to dispose of or throw them away themselves. Sometime of vendors left out of dates, and we would let people take them or whatever. Of course, they were out of date by a few days, not months.

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giantcucumbergrower t1_je5uvkq wrote

Given what you said I’d think the blame would fall on Snyder then, GE has union employees and non-union department managers. No one is doing some shady shit cause their manager said so, it’d be easier to get your manager fired

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Racer187 t1_je69blm wrote

Also, there are food banks that pick up out-of-date products like bread, cakes etc. Don’t know if pretzels would be one of those things. Either way the fault falls wholly on the vendor for not catching it. Even if it was only serviced once a week, that vendor has left it there more than a dozen times and said ‘fuck it’.

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atree496 t1_je3re9n wrote

Not only are they stocked by outside vendors, they will get pissed if employees move them around at all.

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