At WalMart, food safety is their #1 priority. Ha ha ha ha ha! GOT you, sucker. Enjoy your beef.

[Shampoobra]

2. I take it you've never worked in a corporate grocery store

(For the record, I hate Walmart. This is not meant to sound like "everyone does it," like I'm defending Walmart. I'm not.)

When a freezer breaks in a grocery store, the contents melt. When the freezer is fixed, the contents re-freeze. If the freezer needs to be replaced, all that food can sit at room temperature for two days or more. Eventually, the problem gets fixed, and the inventory is re-frozen, and the customer has no reason to suspect anything. (After all, the "sell by" date is the only information at the customer's disposal.)

A call to the county health department is pointless. Since it's not a restaurant, the caller is told to contact corporate and explain his concerns to them.

Food is often (meaning, almost daily) purchased from anonymous sellers at the back loading dock, at prices far below wholesale. No one wants to know where it was stolen from, or how it has been handled in the time since it was stolen to the day it was purchased by the store.

Shoplifters are sometimes dragged behind the store's trash compactor and given a choice: take a severe beating from four or five shelf stockers, then be allowed to go free; or skip the beating, and let the police get involved. The shoplifter will usually choose the beating.

Working at a corporate grocery store is like working for criminals. On second thought, they're not like criminals, they're literally criminals.

A lot of people seem to think that because food is involved, the grocery industry is clean. The reality is, the industry attracts sociopaths because no sane person can continue working in such a place for very long.