So one of my tasks for tonight was to go through some aisles in the grocery department, check all the date codes on the products, and remove all the outdated product.
The most outdated product we found was a pack of Jello snack-packs that expired in July--of 2005.
This task was easy for the most part, because most items have an expiration date printed in black ink on a light colored spot of the packaging so it's easy to read. Others were tougher to decipher because the expiration date was:
1. Printed in black ink on a dark-colored part of the package:
2. Stamped on the box very lightly, or
3. The expiration date was given in a code featuring an inscrutible array of letters, numbers and symbols, such as:
where jgig=the plant the product was made at
4h234=the ID of the employee who packaged the item
#877=the weather at the plant the day the product was manufactured
y=the species of rodent that met its untimely demise in the plant machinery that day
and so on...
Oh well, at least it beat slaving away in the walk-in freezer we call a backroom...
The most outdated product we found was a pack of Jello snack-packs that expired in July--of 2005.
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This task was easy for the most part, because most items have an expiration date printed in black ink on a light colored spot of the packaging so it's easy to read. Others were tougher to decipher because the expiration date was:
1. Printed in black ink on a dark-colored part of the package:
2. Stamped on the box very lightly, or
3. The expiration date was given in a code featuring an inscrutible array of letters, numbers and symbols, such as:
jgig4h234#877y^&*(^hfupi34hoiGH!xgh&^%$54rf~jaed33 2
where jgig=the plant the product was made at
4h234=the ID of the employee who packaged the item
#877=the weather at the plant the day the product was manufactured
y=the species of rodent that met its untimely demise in the plant machinery that day
and so on...
Oh well, at least it beat slaving away in the walk-in freezer we call a backroom...
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