I was in the middle of making dinner when this happened. I’m grateful I poured it into a measuring cup first. Thankfully I don’t live too far from another source.
I remember milk staying good almost a week past its expiration date when I was a kid. Boy have the times changed.
Having worked the fresh department at Walmart, sometimes the milk would be delivered to the store spoiled. You can’t usually tell without opening it, unless it’s really bad you can smell it through the unopened container (or it isnt white anymore).
I don’t know how much a problem this is with other grocers but nearly all the fresh products at Walmart are close to expiration by the time the store sells it to you. It’s one of the ways they keep the prices lower than competitors.
I would bet the trucks and store refrigerators at Walmart are kept as warm as legally possible, to save money on electricity.
Even without adjusting the thermostat, those cooler doors are being opened and closed thousands of times a day, there’s no way everything inside stays chilled. Not to mention the folks who grab dairy products then leave them next to the beer or electronics when decisions were made…that milk with an Oct 31 date may have sat under a heater vent for hours before someone put it back in the fridge.
Yeah, plus Walmart attracts trashy customer base so stuff like this is more likely to happen