Too many just in time packages
I’ve been given an ultimatum by the rest of the family: check the date. In one particular domain, my trust of the system has sold me short. The foods I purchase seem to be landing on or after that “best before” limitation.
The rack of bagels, in their wide range of flavours, had already proved that the time elapsing between landing in the shopping cart and then my kitchen was just long enough to start my own mould farm. Might be medically beneficial; might not be.
i started “checking” the production dates while feigning an interest in chocolate chips vs raisin-cinnamon. Turns out that a lot of product should actually be dumpster bound.
Now, my family finds that “croutons maison” (don’t ask and I won’t explain) should come home with more than one night’s grace. Hard to find. The supermarket is living day to day… the “just in time” model.
Now, if I wanted to live on canned goods, I’d probably be safe. However, we want foods that haven’t been designed for life after the apocalypse.
I’d accept (sort of) that the fresh stock was gone if we shopped at a market with huge turnover. Not the case here. I think there’s a manager with little conscience (who shops elsewhere).
From now on, I’m going to slow down when it’s my turn to comb the aisles. Check for dates on packages, and then complain when I’ve arrived too late for freshness. I might be a “voice crying in the wilderness”, but it could be amusing.
