Amazon is shipping expired baby formula and other out-of-date foods

[SarahMars]

Is Amazon too big and losing control over what's sold on their platform or they just don't care? #eCommerce #Amazon

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Amazon is shipping expired baby formula and other out-of-date foods An increasing number of consumers are finding that, just as the broader Amazon Marketplace has a major issue with counterfeits and unsafe products, the grocery section is littered with similarly problematic items in the form of expired foods. Read full story

[MsRainesSewingRoom]

Unfortunately amazon isn't the only grocer selling bad food, one of the grocer's where I live constantly has old food on it's shelves.
However , they are financially in dire straights, Although that is no excuse, I got lunch meat one day that had an expiration date of 2 weeks prior
to the day I purchased it, and that was only one of the times it happened. Absolutely started checking dates before buying now.

[SarahMars]

That happened to me too recently, at Whole Foods of all places, though Amazon is not suffering financially. I don't understand how successful companies get away with this.

[MsRainesSewingRoom]

A lot of the safe guards protecting consumers have been reversed the past couple of years in many industries,
which is a shame, and will continue. Leaving consumers at risk, and businesses able to get away with this kind of
risky behavior. We are now back to a buyer beware system.