I bought some chocolate stuff and when I went home I discoreved that some of these items (two packages of small Ritter Sport bars) were expired so I went back to the shop to ask if they could change them with new ones.\r
I was attacked with bad words by a man at the cashier (Arnie). He said that he doesnt' have any control on the expiration date of imported items and that the expiration date is just a European fixation. Americans don't have it and so at first he said he could not give me the money back (I was fine with that, I just wanted to change the items). He told me to look at the shelf on the left of the shop to see if I could find the same bars not yet expired. I couldn't, all the items were expired (can he sell them????). Consider that it was not pure chocolate but it contained yogurt, milk etc...all things that expire.\r
I asked him if there is any american law that allows to sell expired items. Of course he become more and more insulting and explained that he had been living in the US for 56 years and if I wanted to live here as well I had to accept that the expiration date doesn't mean anything for americans. All this exchange happened in front of other customers and employers of the shop who thought that this scene was very funny, but I just felt very v frustrated. I insisted that I wanted the money back, he finally took my receipt and give me the cash back (without taxes) and yelled at me to leave the shop and never can back anymore!!!
Pros: imported food
Cons: some of the items are old
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