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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was there yesterday. Bought romaine, cucumber, banana , bell peppers , potatoes, chicken breast, ricotta, mozzarella, pasta, bone broth, cinnamon sticks, naan, frozen organic fruit for smoothies, popcorn kernels, dog treats, peanut butter, and their less salty version of Chex Mix. All the produce except bananas was organic. I can’t get this quality at such a low price anywhere else. [/quote]

I used to do that, because I'm a divorced mom who is very, very price sensitive.

But I had to quit, because over a period of a year or so, the following items on your list were moldy when I arrived home or went bad / moldy / rank vinegar / liquidy within 3 days of arriving home:

romaine
Bell pepper
potatoes (sprouted)
chicken breast ([b]vinegar feces smell[/b] upon opening package)
ricotta
mozarella
naan (fresh version, not the frozen)
dog treats (salmon, they were recalled)

Now i'm going to add items that have ALSO molded or decomposed within 0-48 hours upon arriving home:
blackberries
apples
that cinnamon monkey pull apart bread
strawberries
blueberries
greek yogurt
taziki 
walnut pieces

That is a huge list, isn't it? And I do not have the time to be traipsing back and forth to TJ's and standing in the customer service line to get my $3.75 back for every &%$# moldy / rancid item.  And I'm too price sensitive to be like, huh, bummer, guess I'll toss all 5 of these yogurts every week rather than spend time getting my $7 back.

Yes, I'm sure the frozen pizza or can of black beans is unlikely to have mold and, if it wasn't recalled for botulism, is probably fine to consume.  But TJ's is such a limited, limited shop if one wants to avoid likely-to-spoil food and I don't have time to go to multiple stores just to save 75 cents on a can of black beans that hopefully isn't botulistic
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You lost me with this.[/quote]

Why? Because you enjoy that feces scent that mass production poultry suppliers attempt to cover up with bleach?  Or is it just that I'm being  accurate and therefore am being gross?

Here's whose package chicken breasts do NOT ever smell like that: MoM's Organic Market. [/quote]

To be sure, I'm detecting some feces right now, pp.[/quote]

You are aware that chickens eat their own feces, yes? Now imagine tens of thousands of them packed into a factory farm. What do you think they are doing in there? Abstaining?

Yes, the cutlets get the bleach bath before being wrapped but one way to keep production costs low (for discount retailers like, for example, trader joes) is to cut corners on the production line.

None of this is in dispute [/quote]

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