{"id":866,"date":"2010-03-07T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2010-03-07T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:54:31","slug":"another-bargain-that-wasnt-almost-expired-peanut-butter-grocery-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2010\/03\/another-bargain-that-wasnt-almost-expired-peanut-butter-grocery-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Another bargain that wasn&#8217;t &#8211; almost-expired peanut butter @ Grocery Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from Grocery Outlet very excited at what I thought was a \/great\/ bargain. A twin pack of 26oz jars of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0036BINKE?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=marga-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0036BINKE\">Smuckers Natural Creamy Peanut Butter <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=marga-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0036BINKE\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\nfor $4.  This stuff is just peanuts and salt, so the price was really unbelievable.  Too good to be true, indeed.<br \/>\nAnd it was.  The plastic wrap around the twin jars blocked the expiration date, which, as I discovered when I got home, is only 3 days from today.  Three whole days to consume over 3lbs of peanut butter.  I don&#8217;t think I could even if I tried \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nSo I returned it, which is not \/too\/ big a deal as Grocery Outlet is just across the street from me &#8211; but it could be a bigger hassle for other people.  As I&#8217;ve said before, I love Grocery Outlet and the people who run it, and I do realize that they play the expiration-date game, but really, they shouldn&#8217;t sell things unless 1) the expiration dates are clearly shown outside the packages and 2) these expiration dates are more than a couple of days away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from Grocery Outlet very excited at what I thought was a \/great\/ bargain. A twin pack of 26oz jars of Smuckers Natural Creamy Peanut Butter for $4. This stuff is just peanuts and salt, so the price was really unbelievable. Too good to be true, indeed. And it was. The plastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grocery-outlet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}