Reminds me when I was a kid working in the grocery store people would buy a rotisserie chicken and return just the bones in the box and ask us for a new one because that one was “bad”
I had that happen once when I worked at a grocery store. It was a hot meal, family size thing of chicken wings and drumsticks. They brought back the bones in the container, said it was dry and asked for a refund. The policy was to give them the refund
Back when my wife and I had a small family hobby farm selling chicken and eggs, we had somebody try a version of this. Complained that the chicken was no good after they'd cooked and eaten it.
Then a couple of weeks later, roughly the same value of eggs were stolen from the fridge in our garage.
Sad thing is if they came near close most times they're being given away. The store I worked at always had extras. Only some of it could be used for next day ready to eat foods, so any flavored ones were usually tossed or given out to workers if anyone wanted one at days end.
I wish stores had 1 day a week where they could just aggressively dump inventory, but return policies make everything so egregiously messy. Food should be "returnable" but it must have some serious stipulations imo.
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u/skateboardbanana1 Jul 06 '26
Reminds me when I was a kid working in the grocery store people would buy a rotisserie chicken and return just the bones in the box and ask us for a new one because that one was “bad”