A quick little sniff

Remember not so long ago when some of us had what we thought was a little known secret.

Back when Price-Less Foods on Fairchild first opened. And most people just thought it was a little neighborhood grocery.
The place where you could quickly grab forgotten items from the bigger chain grocery stores.

Those of us the knew the secret would either keep it to ourselves, or shout it from the mountain tops.

The secret.......... Their meat department.

You could always go there and know you were buying freshly cut meat that was safely rotated out of the coolers as soon as the expiration date hit..

High end cuts that were an unexpected surprise from a small convenience type store..

I'm not sure how many owners and a recession later, the secret is dead.

Last week a sad turn of events now has me shouting from the mountain tops.
DO NOT BUY MEAT AT PRICE-LESS FOODS..

Employees were witnessed, not so discretely unwrapping chicken, SMELLING IT, and if it passed their olfactory glands - THEY WERE RE-WRAPPING WITH NEW DATES.. Did you hear me??? They were using only their noses to determine whether or not the raw chicken was still safe to eat..

You really have to hope they didn't have a summer cold.. Or maybe they are smokers (smoking can change the way your sense of smell functions). Or like Andrew, maybe a head trauma has changed their ability to smell things effectively.
Or lets even take a different approach.. Maybe they went home at lunch and got puppy kisses on their nose.. Or snorted some recreational drug that they have now left on your chicken..

I don't expect overly friendly meat cutters/wrappers.. So I'm not sure you can call it poor customer service..
Put I can call it poor business practice..

Dear new Price-Less owners.. If you are going to teach your employees unethical and dangerous work ethic, at least teach them to do it out of customer visibility..