Calling health dept on frum kosher store

I noticed today that there was an item on sale at the kosher store by us that was expired by a week and a half...all the items were expired and no where on the sale tag did it say expired. The item was tiger sauce which is prob ok but do u think I sould call? I did say something to the manager. Maybe I will have someone check and see if they are still out tomm and if not call

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I would call the va'ad ha kashrus first.
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I'd take a look around to see if it's a common problem. And yes, if I saw more than the occasional violation in a store or restaurant, I'd call, frum owner or otherwise.
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Posted: Wed, Nov 16 2011, 11:43 pm Post subject:

What is tiger sauce?

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the health department is not coming out for food expired by a week. cockroaches, mice, rats, employees not washing hands (no soap in bathrooms) those are reasons to call. just mention it to a manager.

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Posted: Wed, Nov 16 2011, 11:54 pm Post subject:

I'd check around and see if it was a common occurence or a one-off. Either way, I'd point it out to the manager and see how he reacts before going to the Health Dept.

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This was not a one item thing it was about 60 bottles clearly labeled with a 12 day past experation date on "sale" regardless for the fact it could cause someone to get sick

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This happens at Stop and Shop quite often. One time they had teas on sale, and my husband bought over 20 bottles. (He LOVES that brand!) When he got home, I noticed that they didn't look "right." They were all the same flavor, but more than half were a different color than the others. I checked the dates, and sure enough, they were well passed their expiration. We brought it back to the store, and they put it back on the shelf. Good thing I took pictures of the bottles before returning them, because it helped when I called the company to complain.

Posted: Thu, Nov 17 2011, 1:35 am Post subject:

I don't understand why your first instinct is to report them.

Look, it's one thing if you went to the manager and showed them the problem and two days later it was still on the shelves, you complained to the manager again and it still wasn't rectified two days later... Then I could see complaining to The Man.

But give them the opportunity to fix the problem first.

And as DrMom clarified, one-off means one product... do they have shelves full of expired foods?
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I find in the biggest kosher supermarket here they have stuff out of date for months. I bought frozen vegetable sushi, ate it and got sick. It was out of date nine months. I noticed some desert I bought was also put of date by months. I told DH and he said to let it go. I can't shop there because.I wonder about their prepared foods. Who knows how old the ingredients are that they use?

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The store that I tend to do my shopping at has lots of products expired or almost expiring. I don't go shopping there when I'm in a rush as I need to check every label.