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What do you think the percentage is of Americans who throws out good food (even junk food) based on the expiration date? I mean - they do so not because the food might be stale but because they believe it suddenly became possibly toxic to eat.
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What's the percentage for non-food stuff like soap? The other day I noticed my liquid hand soap has an expiration date for whatever reason. I better hurry up - I only have two years left of it being safe.
I started thinking about it after I read this...
"Good thing I read the labels and dates before I opened or ate anything. I avoided potential food poisoning and/or a trip to urgent care by paying attention."
It's from an Amazon review. After they checked the label - they learned the package was delivered with an expiration date two weeks past. They are talking about a Ruffles potato chip variety pack.
I never looked at one star reviews until yesterday because I assumed most of them were incoherent ranting. And there is a lot of that. "These jeans not good jeans quality low do not like" But I learned some reviews are by people who are not only very annoyed and angry - they are knowledgeable too. What they have to say is definitely worth reading.
Yeah those can be pretty useful. Frustratingly, it looks like an Amazon listing can be 100% replaced with a different product but keep the old reviews. Or maybe something else is going on, but I'll often check the reviews and find that all the older ones are for something totally unrelated to the listing
At this point the only way I've found to get good results is to treat it like eBay and choose a seller carefully
That's a good tip. I should have learned that years ago.