Naturaland Erasing Dates off of food

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I called them out on it today - their reply is that they don't do it.

anyway after unsuccessfully trying to make my own Kombucha* i've decided to stick with GT's.

A couple weeks ago I noticed there was a Botanical version of GT with honeysuckle in it - I decided to pass because they were "expiring" ("Use By" Actually) that day. But I took a mental note to go back and buy some next time because surely there would be inventory rotation. I go back today and the dates were erased on the top of the bottles. I always considered this a high end grocery store -- but no more.

I've bought expired food plenty of times from the Keyfood on Washington -- but that was because of my own lack of vigilance -- I have never seen Keyfood on Washington erase or alter dates. Don't see why I have to trek across town to a "ghetto gourmet grocery store in Park Slope" when I have one right around the corner.

More on Use By

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa102102b.htm

*I did make Kombucha but it was way too strong and not as tasty as the store bought kind.

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