The price cutter on national across my steak shake was selling children’s cold medicine that expired in 2019. I went in last month to buy some for my kids that were running a fever and had to dig all the way back to find one that wasn’t expired in 2019. Took all the expired ones to front desk and gave it to the lady.

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That's good to hear. My dad worked for Hiland and then Foremost back in the day and I'm pretty sure it was union work then, maybe Teamsters

Brown Derby has had it on occasion. You can sometimes make a request or a cheese suggestion, and sometimes they follow through if they can get it through their distributor. Mama Jeans also makes a point of having some some interesting/exotic world cheeses, there's probably no harm in asking them, as well. If you can find a state or regional business that makes it from them to order from, even better.

I'm not a huge fan of pork but over the last month or two they have had an absolute ton of good frozen pork products for dirt cheap. I'll be doing a grocery run there tonight actually and definitely recommend it

I agree, Hy-Vee is one of the pricier stores in my opinion. So is pricecutter. So going in and spending MORE money to get expired products is just simply not worth it. About the only thing I shop there for anymore is their produce because I will give them that their produce selection is unmatched (Editing for spelling)

Production workers at DFA and Hiland are union. My wife works at DFA. The union benefits are great and they really look after their members.

The Google QA section said the Joplin and Springfield stores are owned by Arkansas chain Harps, which would explain the "employee owned" notion. Food 4 Less was always a weird franchise, and skimming that wiki page I kind of understand why

Yeah it’s not a huge deal overall but it is frustrating at that location it is more common. I still go there because they are the only grocery store that sells full fat lost moisture mozzarella at the deli and everyone there is very nice to me.

As someone that’s is looking for a specific cheese, other than natural grocers off Glenstone do you know of any place that sells buffalo mozz?

My dad was a UFCW meat man at Price Cutter until 2015 or so. It seems like in the end the situation wasn’t great and the Union wasn’t that supportive of him, maybe because their power had declined somehow… or maybe he was just an asshole… I don’t know what the landscape is looking like nowadays but I do know that within the last decade it was a Union operation.

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Stop giving your money to Erick Taylor. He's a crook.

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Sunshine Eye Clinic. Definitely not cheap, but your visions worth the money. Check out getting a Care Credit Card, you can use it for any medical expenses and can make payments for 6 months without interest. Usually can apply and use it before even getting the card in the mail!

Kroger has stores called Food 4 Less, but the ones in Springfield and Joplin are not the same as the Kroger stores.

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Was that expiration or packaged-on date, though? They stamp their cheese with Packaged On dates, which might be totally fine for a lot of kinds of cheese.

I went into the Hy-Vee on sunshine to grab some steaks and just for curiosity sake checked to see if they removed an item I let them know was expired by about 10 months. Nope. But they stocked more that was now 13 months off lol They literally stocked new items that had been expired by at least a year at that point. I get that don’t check every single item, I’m sure, but ugh. It was disheartening after the sheer number of items I had been finding leading up to not going anymore. it’s not a cheap store to start with to get food that’s so out of date so frequently.

Postal workers are union workers with each craft having their own unions.. im a clerk in the apwu..for the most part I favor being a union member for a variety of different reasons.. others may feel differently than me.

My husband got his done at the Ferrell-Duncan Clinic at cox. He only went in one time before just as a consultant, no push back about his decision.

I had this issue at the Hy-Vee on Battlefield. I was buying yogurt and an entire shelf of yogurt was bad. I pulled all the bad ones off to the side and flagged down an employee to tell them. I hardly shop at Hy-Vee anymore either though. I almost always use grocery pick up now and Target has the superior grocery pick up in my opinion.

Find me a grocery store that doesn't have some expired/bad cheese, and I'll pay you a million dollars. Price Cutter, Brown Derby, Mama Jeans, are all offenders, and the list goes on.

HyVee is probably the best place to go to get cheese that's not sketchy (at least I don't recall ever seeing dried-out cheese or stuff that has bad mold growing on it.)

That said, at the Brown Derby Wine Center, you can sometimes find 50%-off discounted cheese because it's close to expiration -- it's a roll-of-the-dice gamble sometimes, but it is usually worth the risk.

Source: Me, I love fancy cheese and eat a lot of it.

I had a job offer for Pepsi, about a year ago... The union bit actually seemed to be a slight deterrence. No PTO to start with then having to schedule it at the beginning of the year and hope I don't get bumped off.

Not completely sure about which manufacturers are leaving the area. GE maybe, but others are coming here and some are expanding.

https://www.kroger.com/i/kroger-family-of-companies

They're listed on Kroger's website,as they are