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DangerMouth

@Donathius: My thought exactly.

Um, shouldn't they be actively NOT selling *everything* in the store past it's expiration date? I mean, considering that most Targets also sell food...

And Don't most supermarkets seem to manage this remarkable feat without a Compliance Czar?

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subtlefrog

@DangerMouth: No, they don't. I've seen expired merchandise in virtually every store I've ever been in at one point or another. Not that I am trying to say it's ok. Just saying it's prett prevalent.

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subtlefrog

@subtlefrog: gah. pretty prevalent. No coffee yet.

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TCama

@Donathius: Yeah, isn't it great.

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GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn

Wouldn't it make more sense to hire a crew of people, and have them roam from store to store rather than one high priced idiot who doesn't actually physically do anything?

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jivesukka

@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn:
You would think that they could just have the regular employees do this. It is easy as looking at the label on the box literally. One high priced idiot is one too many.

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torgonius

@jivesukka: If only this ruling had come 2 weeks ago, the outgoing governor could have claimed (and not be lying) that he actually succeeded in creating a job!

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Skankingmike

@torgonius: to be fair he created lots of jobs for union workers :P

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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking

@torgonius: His loss restored my faith in NJ again. Otherwise I was going to have to blow up the Driscoll(s) to separate those Northerners from the sane part of NJ. Just remember all the \"Real\" Housewives of New Jersey were from North Jersey.

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hypochondriac

@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn:

How dare you expect common sense to prevail

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Skankingmike

@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn: ironically there is a company who does just this for Babys'r'Us It's called NMS

why hire and train when people already do it?

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hobbes84k

Ooh. I hope this doesn't mean that we're going to stop seeing funny Target prices and deals that aren't deals. That's one of my favorite things about Target.

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Zeratul010

So, despite earlier agreements with the state, Target was still selling expired products and charging wrong prices. State sues, and Target - agrees not to do it again.

Well done, New Jersey.

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Skankingmike

I wonder if that's why Drug Fair went under?

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Looseneck

@Skankingmike: No, they were in trouble way before then. I worked in the corporate office until soon before the company closed down.

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Skankingmike

@Looseneck: well it felt pretty over night. Not that i used them often. They always seemed dirty to me.

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Looseneck

@Skankingmike: They were a private company so the problems were hidden from the public until the end.

The stores were suffering from 60's decor-making them look and feel dirty. Many stores were in the process of make-overs, but the bankruptcy took care of that, no need to clean up the empty building left behind!

I didn't like shopping there myself since they stocked the same cheap, made-in-China crap everybody else seems to be selling. I don't blame you for staying away.

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SaraFimm

Obviously, these companies don't pay their employees to get the smartest or most industrious. Usually, it's the employees (stocking) that pull expired merchandise and change the prices on the shelves to reflect what the store's registers have been programmed to collect. So . . . maybe these companies should either higher more employees (doubt they will) or try to find good employees (good luck!), but I bet they'll just let the poop roll downhill on some poor shmucks who are overworked and underpaid.

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Deranged_Kitsune

@SaraFimm: It was likely management telling those workers not to pull the expired merchandise from the shelves in the first place to make their bottom line look better by not having to write it off.

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morlo

@SaraFimm: All stocking should be done by robots anyway. Absent that, RFID tags should make it easy to find expired items. Absent that, bar codes should contain expiration dates. Absent that, we are a society of stupid stupid monkeys.

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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking

@morlo: Yes, because we can all decode bar codes. With our minds!

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XTC46

@GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking: there's an app for that.

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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking

@xtc46 - thinksmarter on twitter: Not on the iTouch!

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smiling1809

Hopefully, they will stop selling lunch meat, spinach, meat, eggs, cheese, and yogurt that are expired as well. I HATE having to muddle through things just to find something that wither hasn't expired or doesn't expire tomorrow.

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Eldritch

And yet, Target is still better than Walmart somehow... even this news won't stop me from shopping Target. And I'm in NJ.

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LJKelley

@Eldritch: Well it isn't like NJ didn't also sue Walmart for the same practices.

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ShruggingGalt

I heard that they settled for 375k, but when the state rang it up, it came out as 400k.

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drrictus

@ShruggingGalt: Zing!

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TWinter

The separate crew thing is really a good idea. Store managers are under lots of pressure to keep weekly hours worked under a certain number and checking expiration dates on vitamins and aspirin is always going to be a low-priority activity. A crew that sweeps in to do this every few months gets the job done and doesn't use work hours charged directly to the store.

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AllanG54

So, the state gets $375K and the consumers who bought this outdated crap get nothing. Typical.

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foodfeed

i almost bought nicotine patches for my roommate on clearance at target last month until i noticed the expiration date from 2008. i asked the pharmacist and was informed that they were probably less effective and the adhesive might not hold. i told the pharmacist i would be getting the full price product and she asked if i could put the expired one back on the shelf.

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channelx99

Target does this all the time. When I go shopping I always buy only a few things on each trip but go more often. On 2/3's of my visits they overcharged me for one or several items I purchased and I have to point out what the advertised and displayed price was to get it.

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TheMonkeyKing

I guess I never thought expired items at a store are considered fraud. I thought it was lazy staffing or uninspired inventory management.

After all, I do read the labels and expiration dates. (And should everyone else, too.) You've probably seen me in the grocery store: I'm the one reaching into the back of the cooler to get the milk with the most distant expiration date. And when I've seen an item with an expired date, I'd give it to one of the stock people. I guess I should have sued them instead...

But then again, I don't think I've ever shopped at a Target for any consumables (food, medicine). And lately, Target's advertised prices aren't that attractive anyway.

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MamaBug

@TheMonkeyKing: I'm a milk maid myself.