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Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals

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Re: Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals

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Post by gaadd33 »

ap22213 wrote: post #55
_lex wrote: post #15

I HATE this. I previously shopped at Trader Joe's with confidence - I knew I wasn't being gouged on price, so I generally ignored prices. I knew the food was good, so I could turn my brain off and just buy whatever I fancied. However, maybe 7 months ago, I started to notice that I was buying expired or nearly expired things from Trader Joes - bread that would go bad the next day (got mouldy), cheese with mold, etc. I…

Maybe I'm crazy, but I always thought that Trader Joes just bought their food from low cost countries and cheap manufacturers and then sold it for much higher prices, but with cool labels and within a fun atmosphere. I would never trust Trader Joes food, personally.

Trader Joe's is the American version of Aldi. Almost all the products are store brand so that they can offer lower prices. Plus the stores don't have nearly the same number of SKUs as other competitors.

Why wouldn't you trust it? Do you not trust grocery stores in general?

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Post by jlgreco »

venomsnake wrote: post #47
jlgreco wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't the benefits of ultra-pasteurization go out the window once you open the package, thereby contaminating the milk?

There was this Mythbusters episode (pyramids preserving foods) where they sliced an apple in half. The one half rotted fairly quickly at room temperature the other was fine. Brief investigation showed that there was difference in the initial contamination of the two halves and the results observed. Modern kitchen and fridge are fairly clean places unless you are a movie bachelor. So opening a milk bottle and pouring…

Regular milk spoils much faster after you open it though. Everything that I can find on the web suggests that UHT milk expires just as fast as regular milk after opening.

Re: Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals

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Post by jlgreco »

gaadd33 wrote: post #61
ap22213 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I always thought that Trader Joes just bought their food from low cost countries and cheap manufacturers and then sold it for much higher prices, but with cool labels and within a fun atmosphere. I would never trust Trader Joes food, personally.

Trader Joe's is the American version of Aldi. Almost all the products are store brand so that they can offer lower prices. Plus the stores don't have nearly the same number of SKUs as other competitors. Why wouldn't you trust it? Do you not trust grocery stores in general?

There are Aldi in America too, and I don't trust them either. Their produce, at least at the locations I have been to, is really sketchy.

Re: Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals

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pedalpete wrote: post #19

I think what most of the comments here seem to be missing is that (what I think is being said) he is takin on the fast food market in under-privileged areas where finding healthy food is a challenge. I think this is the case because the interview says they will cook the food for the patrons, and that he'll be serving the inner city areas not currently served. Many of the people living in the area dine on fast food be…

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