As a former employee at Amazon, let me explain something to you, RATES: You _must_ scan a certain amount of barcodes (your "rate") per hour. This number increases every year, or if someone breaks the record. "If _they_ can do it that fast, _you_ should be able to, too." If you can't keep up, you're fired. As a receiver, it takes FOREVER to enter an expiration date in the computer. It's always in a different place, in different font, etc. You don't _know_ what to look for, nor do you have _time_ to look for it. So to save time, you just enter that it expires a year from today. That seems to keep the "guy with the clipboard" at bay, at least until the day after Christmas when they fire half of their temp staff (seriously, look how empty the parking lot becomes) or if your lucky, half-way into January, when they fire all the remaining temp staff. You _still_ won't keep your job, but it buys you time so you can look for a new one. If you want _my_ advice, buy food in person. You _have_ the luxury of looking for an expiration date, the Amazon employees do not.
Makes sense. When push comes to shove, the incentives are not aligned for front line employees to prioritise accuracy over productivity KPIs. Thanks for sharing.
It's a high demand job and u guys are running round the clock, this has become our daily routine coz of the consumer world that we live in. We want everything fast and clean at the same time. Its not easy. We r buying on the go...
I order hundreds of dollars of food a year from them and have not had any serious problems. One time a box was crushed and they immediately shipped me another. Stick with the "sold by amazon" labeled products and you won't have any problems.
Amen. I had a guy come find me cause I went 11 minutes between scanning items the day before. I told him I was waiting in line at the bathroom. There were like 5 people in front of me. They told us to stay hydrated so we don't fall out. What do they think happens when we drink a lot of water? It's gonna make us need to use the bathroom often, numbnut. I went off on the poor guy giving me my write up papers to sign stating that I received said write up for going 11 minutes between scanning items. Even after I told him I was waiting in line at the bathroom. Worst job I've ever had
As crappy as Walmart is as a corporation they don't have those personal quotas in their large item distribution centers. I'm sure it's not the same at the small item facilities, but not having that kind of direct pressure is nice. As long as we ship out the minimum number of units per day it's fine and that's usually not an issue. Many of the order fillers I work with left Amazon because the working conditions and pay were crap by comparison.
Lol, right! She's like "the brownies tasted like cardboard"... Ummm...how about you go buy eggs, floor and chocolate at the corner store and start baking ma'am.
@Nicolas looking disgusting doesn't mean anything. Something can look disgusting just from being squished, or not being mixed enough. Other examples include white stuff on chocolate as well as fermented foods. Much visually appealing food in the supermarket is full of artificial dyes, powders etc.
A lot of people are looking for package foods they can not buy where they live. For example, I live in a rural area and if I want Pinoy products I can look on Amazon for them.
Amazon has become so unreliable. I remember when it used to have great products shipped at fair times. Now 50% of what I buy is either broken/damaged, expired or fake product
@@angelgjr1999 it definitely wouldn't surprise me with what I hear on what they pay their employees and how they treat them. Absolutely disgusting for a company that makes as much as Amazon does.
@@angelgjr1999 Exactly... But on the bright side the fact that people are talking about it is a step in the right direction. Hopefully it will allow for change in the way they operate business the more that people know. One can hope
Dude the listings alone are so offensive. They just photoshop (badly!) the item they are selling into off-scale surroundings that don’t show you anything. I mean I can imagine this lamp image cut out and pasted bigger than a couch or on a fake nightstand where a fake lady is smiling all weird. I just don’t get why they have to make these terrible photoshops now, you can’t be bothered to take friggin pictures of the thing? Look at grow lights on Amazon. It’s infuriating.
Yep, I once bought the same hair gel I’ve been using for years on amazon. The bottle was so watered down, even tho it was “sealed,” I couldn’t even use it🙁
Fillory I don’t think it was, I’ve used the same product forever, sometimes even after the bottle was sitting in a hot car for days and it was never watery before. The bottle from amazon was so runny I couldn’t even put it into my hands to rub it in, I had to pour it directly on my head. I’ve also seen tons of reviews of Kenra conditioner from people who had used it before and said the product they got from amazon was definitely not the same product.
@@scienceannistyle7070 I mean it's certainly possible, I just figured since it was sealed it was more likely it just spent weeks or months sitting around at extremely high temps. I know my thick conditioner-like shaving cream turned to complete liquid after my step son let scalding hot water land on it for a min in the shower. 🤷♀️
@@weswest8666 There are some people with mobility problems and no family to shop for them.....or perhaps they live in a remote area and can't get certain items from their small local grocery store. It is not necessarily about laziness.
Theres a lot a bad reviews about hello fresh business practices. Bunch of testimony about expire/over price food and almost impossible to get out of subscription. Beware!! Crazy part is they are growing ridiculously fast.
I've left plenty of bad reviews though. And everytime i had issues, they'd either refund or replace for me. By far, best online retailer besides MrPorter for me.
Same. A legit, polite, 3 star, critical review of mine was censored although it broke no rules. They wouldn't explain why & I had no appeal course of action available. Horribly scary to think what that means for how faked the reviews on Amazon truly are!
They are known to block negative reviews for some sellers. You'll never get a response. I was banned from reviewing and asking questions of sellers, apparently permanently, could not get a reason. I really tried
They are in Germany. Taxi drivers need a licence too, so UBER is just convenient not chap. Obviously there are downsides but waiting for the kinks to be worked out isn't that bad.
@@zhenyucai8688 why not use twice the resources for a simple package. Should pump more into the atmosphere nicely. While further taxing efficiency. Face it, Amazon is less commonly the perfect consumption it wants you to think. It knows what it's doing, whatever that computer they have is. It doesn't seem human.
@@parkerxgps Nothing is perfect, the thing about amazon is that they're improving at a rapid pace. They're actually using less resources buy buying up large warehouses around the country where they ship to in bulks, rather than having to deliver individual packages cross country.
Amazon’s definitely big enough now to hold their sellers accountable & not worry about losing them. Sellers need amazon more then they need them. Simply if the seller gets over a threshold of bad reviews, then give them a warning and if it continues take their license to sell on their site away.
hay woods Amazon is extremely generous to customers and not so much towards sellers. They don’t sell “to” Amazon. They sell on Amazon. If an item doesn’t sell, sellers don’t get paid. Amazon also locks sellers funds until 7 days after the estimated delivery date so that buyers can make sure everything is good before sellers get to withdraw their money. If a customer gets an item one day late, they can get a full refund from Amazon’s generous policy, but that money comes out of the pockets of sellers, who had no control of the shipping process. Returns and refunds cost sellers money even if it’s not their fault. And if problems arise, Amazon customer support is excellent. Amazon seller support usually only offers a copy and paste response that doesn’t quite address the problem you are having. And sellers do get shut down and don’t “get away with it.” Just some insight for those who are curious.
@@Randomsae Yeah they make it so easy to return stuff and that means people get "new" products that are damaged cause they kept returning them. And if they shut down some China seller they have like 20 other accounts and you can tell cause they have bad english on most of the sites. Like "Product good very nice yes".
Crazyman1212 sure but it’s not so simple. If you have the choice then yeah. But not everyone has a car or lives in places with good public transport or has access to stores that sell what they want.
@@madhououinkyoma people always have options, yeah your limited sometimes in small towns to certain items you only find in big cities. Hell when I lived in a small town the nearest grocery store was 6km and there was no public transportation. I used to bike everywhere and in the winter I walked. As for people with disabilities there are always options. I could careless about people not have access to a "certain type of yogurt" they can only get on amazon.
Please, I know it's hard to think sometimes but the video literally mentioned it 2 times. These are 3rd party sellers selling on Amazon. What third party seller is going to sell prescription drugs? These are not allowed on Amazon. Obviously, Amazon will be the ones selling it. 🙄
Good point. I always thought it was weird that Amazon employees will put a barcode label over top of the warnings on otc medications. Seemed like an obvious liability. Still happens. I'm just waiting for the lawsuits.
Yeah they have no business selling drugs if they can't handle food! If they don't get a class action suit against them for bad food when someone does from bad meds like insulin Jeff Bezos will have a big problem on his hands!! Maybe they will finally get knocked down a few inches off the monopoly domination they have on the world.
I was security at Amazon, Amazon employees hate their jobs, being security at Amazon we had employees try to run over security with their cars just to go home
its hard not to get mad at them, but honestly they are trying their hardest. sellers are just taking advantage of them. its just a platform where you go to buy something, its the sellers fault 100%.
@@wramo8088 I agree. Comparing Target's site to Amazon in this video is like apples and oranges. Amazon has always been just an eCommerce platform. Amazon has a pretty robust seller verifying system but it's still an uphill battle against the thousands of new sellers that hit the site everyday. And it's like they said in the beginning of this video. Amazon's actual food products sold through AmazonFresh are their only actual guaranteed items. Sold, Fulfilled and distributed by Amazon. Everything else is third party and consumers are beholden to the same risks as any other item on the platform.
@@wramo8088 true I worked at Amazon call center and a lot of customers blame Amazon for bad items and the company looses a lot of money cause Jeff wants us to make customers happy. The first thing they tell you is do everything to make customers happy.
@@datazero7795 just think about it in terms of real life. if you go out and buy from a local producer and he gives you a bad product its his fault. amazon is actually doing more then what is needs to by giving requirements to sellers. business has and always will be like this.
Matcha is technically perishable. Over time, the quality is reduced to the point that it's disgusting. To make matters more complicated, there are so many different grades of matcha and the quality of matcha from China is way lower than the quality of matcha from Japan. Ceremonial grade matcha from Japan is by far the best tasting usually. Once you have had it, you just can't settle for the lower grade junk coming out of China.
Matcha only stays good for 6 months after it has been picked and processed. Pretty much all of the matcha you see at grocery stores and being sold by Amazon is most likely too old to have any benefits. I only buy my matcha from a Japanese company and it's shipped straight from Japan.
I don’t think it’s wrong to expect edible food from a place that sells food. Times are changing and food WILL be bought online and companies will need to compensate for the errors they make.
yaya Bop Just one. Once I ordered some Reeboks. I got sent some dollar store sunglasses and a watch strap (no watch). They said I could keep it and get a refund if I gave a 5 star review.
Cheaper labor is what the market requires out of a need to supply items on a larger scale, which would make sense if and only if the market examines that need and provides a clear path forward for growth though, so we can agree that with growth we can expect prices to drop a bit, but demand to increase supply yields exponentially a growth only seen on scales with fly larvae in India, which is exactly why we find ourselves here writing about this disastrous issue. Lol. Am I missing anything?
I saw how visitors staying on Disney property in Orlando could order groceries from Amazon & have it delivered to their room when you arrive. Would never buy food via mail but I thought this was good idea for vacay. Not now. Been disappointed with dry goods via mail so rotten food would be worse experience.
I order food every week from Amazon and I've never had one item that was expired. This is a hit piece plain and simple. I'm surprised I didn't see a - *This video was sponsored by Competing Grocery Stores Inc.*
@@TH-uw9py You never got one thing that was shipped bad and broken open? They always mail new things with ripped boxes and put heavy and light things in the same box. Like they send liquid cleaner with other stuff then the cleaner breaks open and gets everything else covered in stuff.
@@greenlawnfarm5827 Perhaps I'm the exception, but I've been ordering nearly all of my groceries (Except for meat and eggs that I still buy from a regular grocery store) from Amazon for a while now and I haven't had a single problem. They always ship the cleaning supplies and toiletries that I order in a box that is separate from my food. I am a huge fan of Amazon.
@Antonio Giuseppe I live out of town about 20 miles away from the closest grocery store. Amazon is just much more convenient. I order online and two days later, my groceries are on my doorstep. It's fantastic.
@@jaymelee23 You definitely can find expired product in stores like Walmart but the difference is that at Walmart you can check expiration before you purchase. Amazon sends expired goods to your door and then you have complain and initiate a return.
@@ApplicoInc -- that's true but it's becoming very common in a lot of stores around here. It sucks because I feel like I need to look at each product before putting into the cart. This really slows down getting in and out of store. Last year, I probably bought at least a dozen products that were expired. Expired orange juice and the ranch dip were the worst. YUCK.
I actually work for amazon at a amazon fresh location and I can tell you that Walmart is also one of the suppliers they use. So You going to Walmart or shopping on amazon is no different really other than you being able to physically inspect the item yourself
Why don't they simply rename the normal food section "Amazon Rotten"? Then customers had a clear choice between Amazon Fresh and Amazon Rotten and no-one could complain.
I am so glad that finally the media is paying attention to this problem. It’s really unbelievable that a company with Amazon’s resources gets away with selling inedible food to the public. SMH!
TheSnowFoxParty Grocery stores can still sell expired food by accident too. It’s happened to me once when I bought chocolate milk & a couple times if you count fruit in a package you can’t open (ex: cherries, blueberries, etc).
Why are people buying food, food! from Amazon smh they are alot of things I buy from Amazon food has never been one of them, and I will never buy food from Amazon
Melanated Queen thank you, I feel like I’m the only that thinks buying food online is a terrible idea. Horribly inefficient (wasted food and transportation). You don’t even know what your food looks like until you get it.
The main problem is that they have 3 party sellers! They need to get rid of them because its messing up their ratings. These 3 party sellers want to get rid of these products.
19:05 that is the most impressive display of practical tetris skill I've seen. And the most wild abandon with which I've seen "this end up" arrows disregarded.
Amazon "taking responsibility" instead of the third party who _actually sold the thing_ would look exactly McD now taking larger cuts from their franchise owning families.
havenotchosenyet - If you watch the Frontline documentary that came out earlier this year about Amazon, than you’ll see why I said they never take responsibility and instead blame the sellers and customers. This video did a poor job explaining.
Traditional grocery stores definitely have the advantage of customers being able to pick up and examine the specific item they're considering purchasing, this is especially advantageous when it comes to perishables like fresh fruit🍉, meats🍖, and vegetables🥦. I think the key to Amazon fixing this is to create a more curated food delivery experience. There should be different procedure between warehouse packers working with standard goods and those packaging food deliveries📦. They need to find a way to implement a QA process into packing food items that is similar to how the average consumer would go about picking items at a brick and mortar grocery store. This would definitely create more loss via throwing out bad items but would greatly improve the customer experience w/ food delivery.
Applico I agree. To me the best option is that amazon should only deliver food from Whole Foods and ship it the same day. So if Whole Foods don’t sale it then amazon doesn’t ship it.
@@mr.precision5039 Great idea! This could automate most of the process. The fulfillment center could verify the expatriation when receiving new product and from there all you need to do is some moderation and QA to make sure sellers aren't abusing the system.
They do, plus when amazon night while food they must have fired who every ripens they banana cause they’re always green and you have to ripen them and that takes days
@@papito2222 It feels like we are yet to see the final form of Amazon and Whole Foods integration. What you're describing seems like something they could implement in the future. 🤔
This makes me mad as an Amazon seller. These unprofessional sellers just trying to take advantage of people make us all look bad. I run a professional business on Amazon and make my living off of it. I take this too seriously to do any of the things shown in the video.
*Food store expired items Dumpster divers resell on Amazon* . Dumpster dive for items discarded by food stores (for free) and sell via Amazon's platforms and Flea Markets. Beware. I love how they just breezed past this FACT in like 5 seconds in this video😒
@@joecasey8202 Your local shop sells the same groceries as everyone else's local shop. Amazon uses the shop closest to you. You can get Coke (1 product) at thousands of suppliers.
I buy a lot of drinks and food from Amazon. And I would never buy from a 3rd party seller. However Amazon needs to do a better job. They sometimes make a 3rd party seller the default option.
No because expiry dates is added manually by factories. Some batch of products can be used for two different brands and different expiry dates. I have personally worked in some factories.
@@db-wt8lb Some will, not all will. Amazon won't enforce because they don't have a policy to enforce. Also, you are poisoning the well; 'people' do not sell stuff they fished out of the dumpster. Again, some do, but without a percentage or stat, your language is implies all people. Which is just not true. And Amazon cares enough to make a profit; if they want to fix their system 'quickly' this puts a bandaid on it. So yeah the OP is probably correct. Labor cost is the only issue as efficiency is already amazon's game. So what they spend a few extra hours to make sure food is edible? They don't sell you broke IPhones usually, they want to sell working products. Edit: Also, your comment has no sources whatsoever. Please fix that. Otherwise, you are basically blowing hot air.
As a seller, I can explain the issue better. What CNBC doesn’t understand is that when sellers send more inventory in to Amazon, there’s no way for Amazons warehousing system to differentiate what is new/older inventory, so if a seller doesn’t want to run out of stock on amazon they have to send more inventory in before all of the previous inventory has sold out. This means that some items could even spend 5+ years in an amazon warehouse before it’s shipped to you, and the same goes for food. This issue is far more likely to be down to amazons inventory system pitfalls rather than sellers on amazon, as we sellers know our accounts could so easily be terminated permanently if we do anything wrong like sending in expired goods.
Having worked at Amazon I can definitely tell you do not buy any food from Amazon as their inventory system is not first in first out, there is no way to tell how long it sat on their shelves. I have seen items that were covered in dust.
It’s already huge outside the US, but I think the logistics inside the US and the way Amazon works, makes it difficult to do proper quality inspection on groceries.
Costco has this problem. It used to be worse, a year or so ago all the produce was always expired or expiring in a couple days. Now it's usually about a week out, which is fairly normal for produce. I always check though bc I still find expired food throughout the store. Dairy is another huge offender at Costco...
This reminds me of a similar problem Amazon has with third-party sellers, where individuals will go dumpster diving and searching through trash to send items to amazon through their fulfillment centers to sell.
I wish they would be honest about where it was made also, I don't want China to have my business anymore. Humm ? Would that even matter with food items ?
@@smhedge And now we sre paying for our greed and indifference. But really to be honest, who has the m8ney to be ideological ? Not many nowadays, thats for sure. The whole dang system, it's just broke.
If the third-party sellers of food on Amazon are anything like the guys shilling Amazon FBA courses, I know I wouldn’t put it past them to sell expired food. There’s a good chance they may not even see the inventory in person before it’s sold.
I've ordered chocolate from Amazon, didn't realize it was a 3rd party from China. Ended up with chocolate that was expired by Years! I got a refund pretty quick and left a terrible review with photos.
Just ask your local grocery store manager to cary the products you want. It's better for the environment to go to the grocery store and buy all your groceries in 1 trip.
jon devieon: Get real! The number of times you get expired stuff is very small compared to when you get perfectly good stuff. They always immediately ship you a fresh product or give a refund.
I work in a grocery store, and THIS is a problem present in the store I work at, I am the only one that looks for these expired foods in my entire department out of 3 different shifts. This means food constantly slips through the cracks. This isn't my only job as my job actually is to correct inventory on hand numbers, but because of how my store is completely mismanaged I absolutely never get to do that. I been yelled at for pulling expired goods regularly when commonly with certain products we get them in expired and I am able to check this because they print ship dates on the labels placed on the boxes we use to stock for locations. This isn't only at my grocery store but rather the whole company wide with how just mismanaged. The scope of this is so massive and how little is being done to protect consumers at grocery stores. Teavana stores are not the same as teavana items. You can buy them in your local grocery store, I stock them all the time and I see manufactured dates of well past 2018, the products you buy in the stores are actually manufactured by a seperate company.Kinda like how craft makes tacobell products, and pretty much any big name brand recognizable name of restaurant products.
That happened to us when we used one of those meals boxes. Sometimes the food and ingredients were good, some were clearly expired and rotted. We cancelled after two months.
I agree that most foods are still good after the best by date, however as a consumer I don't want to purchase food that I have no idea how old it is. Even pet foods can go stale or have issues if it is too old/been in the wrong conditions. The answer isn't as simple as don't buy food from amazon. They have stepped in the food selling industry and need to be held at the same standards as everyone else.
I've bought expired food from Amazon before... They were protein bars I've had before and when they came they didn't taste right. I read reviews and other ppl had same experiences. Amazon do better
Ive worked for amazon in a warehouse and most things have to be manually updated with an expiry date, even batteries. It is the third partys fault for not declaring that a date needed added. We were trained to keep an eye out for things that might need a date and to always check if we were unsure. It is literally someones job to check such items for us when we find them. Honestly every item has gone through the hands of multiple employees, some times these things slip through and some times they are caught, its just a numbers game. It happens in supermarkets too. The video blames pick and pack for it slipping through but that really isnt it. It would be the inbound receive department or stow to find it first because they are more involved with the pallets/boxes the product arrives on. 9:30 Tide flavoured oatmeal.. This is wrong because its classed as a HAZMAT and things like tide are stored in a different area from foods. Even petfood has its own location to prevent smells. They also store chocolate products on cooler levels to prevent them melting because there is a temperature gradient in the warehouse. Personally Ive stopped chocolate items from being stored in the hotter levels and sometimes they slip through because it isnt obvious chocolate. '' food items being returned and re sent out'' . All returns are sorted into yellow or red boxes and specifically put into returns/ non sell sections away from general items. This is a pretty weird video, almost trying to pin it on amazon. They have measures in place and always try do their best for customers, example, refunds and returns/replacement instantly. You can live without coffee creamer for one day while an in date one is being sent out... Don't blame amazon.
The problem never was then trying to do their best. The problem always was that their best isn't good enough and yet they insist to keep doing it. If my store allowed other people to sell their food, and it had same problem, I assure you: it would be closed very quickly. "Amazon couldn't get better than this at it" means Amazon should stop doing it. But it's too good to fail, isn't it? If there was 1000 little stores, and people got food poisoning on one of them, one case would be enough for government to start looking and close store/demand changes in their policy. You can't do it with monopoly. That's the problem. Until this monopoly is broken, Amazon don't have any incentive to get better: their already are the best, food poisoning or not, because they illuminated all competition.
Well, technically packaging could be infected with a contagion (contain a virus/ bacteria/etc on or in it). Whether they meant that or not is another story; but literally it is a thing.
We have a store called “it’s $5” it’s liquidation of amazon, target, other stores. They have a food area in it too. Ppl buy these items and resell them on Facebook, eBay, and amazon 😂. Amazon has never gotten one dollar from our family besides us using Whole Foods.
You have probably used Amazon web services AWS. Not directly , but whereby Amazon hosts a website you use, government, healthcare, authority and other online stores. Even computer systems and POS systems in store can use AWS to run the application, therefor Amazon probably has got at least one dollar from your family directly or indirectly. This company is too big to avoid. They also host a telephone line service for call centres too.
Weird! We can get 3d maps of the Martian deserts, yet Blue Origin has trouble tracking its past due expired products, even though most of them easy to scan bar codes and batch numbers. The manufacturers have information like content, expiration dates that can be connected to the batch codes and shared with sellers like Amazon Walmart etc.
we are a 3rd party seller, selling grocery products on amazon and for the past 6 years. for the past 3 years we only ship from our own warehouse and no longer use Amazon's warehouse. Before that we used to send to amazon warehouse for them to ship, but they would stick other sellers inventory in our inventory and label it with our sku numbers (so any problem with that product we would be blamed for it). Also they would lose your inventory for months and magically it would show back up a year later for sale to customers. This past december amazon stuck 15 units of some other sellers stuff in our FBA inventory from a shipment we sent in over 3 years ago that they lost. lucky we caught it and had it recalled, they would not reimburse us for it when it clearly wasn't our inventory they lost from 3 years ago.
You know... I'm honestly shocked that Amazon doesn't have a Groceries page. This is standard issue for ALL of the e-commerce sites in Asia. We even have access to a version of UberFood which will deliver us meals in under an hour. Even for a single order of Coca Cola. I'm not a fan of Amazon's interface. It feels circa Yahoo of the 1990s. And it's not user friendly too. I can see why they're not working in Asia.
I worked at an Amazon warehouse for a while and it was fairly common for dangerous chemicals and insecticide on top of food products. I once saw insecticide on top of a bag of dog food. and the bottle was leaking when I reported it like I was supposed to they did nothing but I was fired a week later for not meeting the stocking quota.
Being an former Amazon/Fedex picker/packer I can say, we where not trained effectively on how to spot expired food products or fake expired tags. Their concern and ours a low level employees was moving product and filling trucks as quick as possible so trucks leave on time, with little to no pull backs that would slow/delay trucks departure times. This does not surprise me, and all Amazon will do is point the finger and play the blame game.
Why not just require the sellers include the expiration date in their product description? There's already a section under the seller's name to explain the condition of their item, just require they enter the best by date!
Never would i buy food online. And i've been shopping online since 2000. I want the final check on the goods i put in my body before i swipe my card. That's pure common sense.
Maybe she didn't check the expiration date and bit into that brownie. Then she was hit by that cardboard taste and decided to check the expiration date. Or, she did see the expiration date and hoped they would be ok. But I've had cookies from a gas station that were a few days before the sell-by date and they were disgusting. Now I check to make sure there are months to go before the expiration or sell-by date.
You want a company that paid 0$ in federal taxes to give a damn about selling you expired food? LOL, just LOL, you clearly don't understand capitalism.
You don’t understand capitalism. They carried over their losses from the previous years in a perfectly legal way. Don’t forget numerous property taxes they pay, or the other tax they pay on acquiring the goods they sell, and let’s just completely ignore the tax paid from all the people they employ...
@@NYCMIAH You're just nitpicking to try and make yourself correct. It's pretty sad considering this comment is almost a year old. But no you are still wrong, he may've paid building code tax and yes HIS EMPLOYEES PAID INCOME TAX, HIS EMPLOYEES AS YOU SAID YOURSELF. The goods taxes are actually covered by the contracted sellers, who choose to incur those costs when they agree to sell on Amazon, just like Ebay used to. You showed up a year late to a comment to nitpick and just be more wrong. Jeff Bezos paid 0$ in Federal Income Taxes. Thats just a simple fact and your arguments otherwise are simple semantics. Get outta here bootlicker.
@@AP-bc7mg Do payroll taxes not exist... I commented on this video when I saw it, which was today. I’m not “nitpicking” and even if I was, my point that amazon pays taxes still stands. I’m not a “bootlicker” I just don’t like this “eat the rich” mentality that everybody has for no reason. You original comment didn’t say “federal income tax” it just said they don’t pay federal taxes.
Considering beef jerky is a dehydrated product and has a little packet to help absorb oxygen and what not, it is *extremely hard* to get mold. That jerky was super old
And just think, if an Amazon packer pulls and highlights to management expired product instead of shipping it as quickly as they can, are they going to be rewarded or penalized for slower production?
@Millenial King I legit believe that if you had your own farm and harvested your own food that society would be far more kinder and more sustainable, you will be far better than just 'going to the store' or 'shopping online'. I am not sure if you are serious with this, but also you are essentially doing the inverse of appeal to tradition fallacy; no one cares if this is the future or if stores are primitive. Food should be edible. Plain and simple. Edit: Also be accessible. We all need food. I can't help but wonder if we are moving forward at the cost of access.
This stuff that ends up in a store merely comes from a warehouse (or distribution center) somewhere else. It shouldnt matter if the product gets shipped to a store or direct to the customer. Much of the crappy products they featured looks like industrial made faux foods anyways, that have long shelf lives. But expired products can happen through e-commerce retailers and a brick & mortar store, from what I guess. Hmmm, buyer beware, from any retail source.
I found a hair product on Amazon called "Olaplex". It said on the site "Sold by Olaplex" so it looked legitimate, but I know that the company only sells to licensed beauticians. I contacted the company directly and they told me they do not sell on Amazon. Everyone who paid $100 for it on Amazon was getting a counterfeit product. I then started realizing nearly everything is counterfeit on Amazon. Even baby products and pet food. Be very careful what you buy there! I won't buy food, medicine, vitamins, pet food, or even cooking utensils there. Many items have been found to contain high levels of lead.
I am a 3rd party seller and I purchase directly from the manufacturer. I would never send any thing to anyone that I wouldn't want to receive. Make sure you check the seller that you're buying from...like in any store. Read their reviews. You don't always have to buy from the seller that is shown you can always go down and look in the other sellers. Check the reviews and make sure you get PRIME. Also make sure that the product that you're about to buy is listed in the food and grocery section and not in miscellaneous or something else . Sometimes bad sellers will trick Amazon by listing something that they're not allowed to in a different category. Most sellers are hardworking business owners and sending you expired food goes against everything we stand for.
I've found/bought expired food at Walmart, Giant Eagle, Dollar General etc. One time, I bought orange juice that was very expired. NASTY. It all boils down to the hired help and if they're spot checking/rotating products to the front, etc. Lazy stockers probably just stick the fresher stuff in the front instead of rotating them to the back. I now check each product before putting into the cart because it wasn't a fluke thing... it was becoming common. Last time I bought Lays Ranch dip at Walmart it was 1 year expired.
@@aig5429 -- GF yourself troll. What a dumb comment. I guess you expect that everyone should do the jobs of every employee. Stupid F. I bet you don't even have a job and sponge off your parents. Typical.
You can check the exp. date yourself rather than getting angry at a likely minimum wage employee that puts out minimum effort. I mean what incentive do they have as expendable slaves? Anyways, you are shopping at the lowest end retailers. They are ruthless at cost efficiency. Dont expect much if you are paying so little. They could care less. They may altogether get rid of the human to utilize a robot that stocks shelves. Anyways these retailers are supposed to have inventory databases moving unsold goods along. You can let managers know of expired products.
@Alonso wang John wolfe Joe Shinold , Sheep is listening to the shepherd’s pipe. But if the Shepherd does not have a wolfhound guard, a wolf will come and eat a sheep ...
Just like buying sushi at a gas station and steaks at a dollar store, I wouldn't risk buying food off of Amazon because it can come from anywhere and will get abused. It also takes a lot longer to get your food whereas sacrificing a few hours at a store is more convenient and quicker. The best part about it, you can eat the food the moment you walk out. If I'm buying some cookies, I want to crack open the package in the car, eat it, and be happy. Not wait until tomorrow and delay my excitement.
This could also be contributing to the massive recalls we have been experiencing lately. The last time we had a large number of imported food items sitting in containers and on ships off of the west coast, there were an unusual number of recalls. There are ships sitting there now that have been waiting months to unload food items and probably should be disposed of.
Seems like companies how no idea what quality control is anymore. Can’t buy anything anymore without worrying about dissatisfaction in this day and age.
No, there is no excuse for shipping expired food. The picker did not look at the expiration date because they did not care. They should be fired immediately. All on Amazon.
@@JosueRodriguez-kk6wn What do you mean by "anything"? Even that rare game cartridge that was discontinued 30 years ago and could well worth thousands of dollars should not be bought or sold as well?
As a former employee at Amazon, let me explain something to you, RATES:
You _must_ scan a certain amount of barcodes (your "rate") per hour. This number increases every year, or if someone breaks the record. "If _they_ can do it that fast, _you_ should be able to, too." If you can't keep up, you're fired.
As a receiver, it takes FOREVER to enter an expiration date in the computer. It's always in a different place, in different font, etc. You don't _know_ what to look for, nor do you have _time_ to look for it. So to save time, you just enter that it expires a year from today. That seems to keep the "guy with the clipboard" at bay, at least until the day after Christmas when they fire half of their temp staff (seriously, look how empty the parking lot becomes) or if your lucky, half-way into January, when they fire all the remaining temp staff. You _still_ won't keep your job, but it buys you time so you can look for a new one.
If you want _my_ advice, buy food in person. You _have_ the luxury of looking for an expiration date, the Amazon employees do not.
Makes sense. When push comes to shove, the incentives are not aligned for front line employees to prioritise accuracy over productivity KPIs. Thanks for sharing.
If they want to scan fast - put robots, not humans.
That adds up.
It's a high demand job and u guys are running round the clock, this has become our daily routine coz of the consumer world that we live in. We want everything fast and clean at the same time. Its not easy. We r buying on the go...
If Usain Bolt can run 100m in less than 10s, so can you.
-Amazon
Just don’t buy food from amazon
But oNE dAy sHiPpING
apalmer12 but 15 min shipping from your local grocery store!!
JUST SHUT UP!!
Even their other stuff isn’t authentic. What can you even get from amazon without being duped?
How else can I get those 1997 christmas candy in 2020? I have to get it from Amazon
I just think it’s weird ordering food on amazon
Not if ur disabled & homebound, duh.
It's a godsend!
Joan Bowden ...Agreed. Also if said items are not found in your community. But thats hard for people of privilege to comprehend.
Joan Bowden I feel like that more for Amazon fresh or instacart
Dearyvette TN no there is there a very real risk about it expired or contaminated
What tf do we do if we are in lockdown lmao
The more I learn about Amazon the less I want to have anything to do with them.
Any non food item I've gotten from Amazon are still working. I even have good snacks from Amazon.
I order hundreds of dollars of food a year from them and have not had any serious problems. One time a box was crushed and they immediately shipped me another. Stick with the "sold by amazon" labeled products and you won't have any problems.
Same
I only buy from Amazon if I definitely can't find the item in another place at a reasonable price.
Amazon is every where.. from online retail to cloud bussiness.. its hard to ignore..
Amazon only care about how fast the picker picks the order
Yes😤
Amen. I had a guy come find me cause I went 11 minutes between scanning items the day before. I told him I was waiting in line at the bathroom. There were like 5 people in front of me. They told us to stay hydrated so we don't fall out. What do they think happens when we drink a lot of water? It's gonna make us need to use the bathroom often, numbnut. I went off on the poor guy giving me my write up papers to sign stating that I received said write up for going 11 minutes between scanning items. Even after I told him I was waiting in line at the bathroom. Worst job I've ever had
@@katherinesproat1081 And it's worse if you have to do number 2. I've had to skip lunch a few times.
True 😂
As crappy as Walmart is as a corporation they don't have those personal quotas in their large item distribution centers. I'm sure it's not the same at the small item facilities, but not having that kind of direct pressure is nice. As long as we ship out the minimum number of units per day it's fine and that's usually not an issue. Many of the order fillers I work with left Amazon because the working conditions and pay were crap by comparison.
I like that people say "it looked disgusting", and then they tell you how it tasted :D
I've said that about many past dates.
Lol, right! She's like "the brownies tasted like cardboard"... Ummm...how about you go buy eggs, floor and chocolate at the corner store and start baking ma'am.
Joseph Svennson yummy floor, can’t make brownies without it
@@josephsvennson5694 And if the corner store flour is bad she should grow her own wheat.
@Nicolas looking disgusting doesn't mean anything. Something can look disgusting just from being squished, or not being mixed enough.
Other examples include white stuff on chocolate as well as fermented foods.
Much visually appealing food in the supermarket is full of artificial dyes, powders etc.
I sometimes feel that when a company becomes gigantic, service quality plumits.
Yeah, Comcast.
yep. too big to control so people take advantage of them. sucks but thats how it works.
Yyyyup capitalism its about how little you can spend while making the most
You are on point
Plummets*
I bought a 72 oz package of Swiss Miss hot cocoa powder in January 2019 and it came in a Sam’s Club box and has been expired since 2015.
Noah OMG!!!!
What is Swiss miss? If you got 74oz of it it must be good stuff?
@@yoyoyodavo that's a lot of chocolate milk, I mean a serious amount. Have you considered buying shares in a dairy farm? May be a wise move.
@@nickdubbin2636 sams club is just bulk items
@@nickdubbin2636 Hot cocoa is different from chocolate milk.
Yall, please buy your groceries from a store where YOU can look, smell and feel the item!!!
Csnt feel them in a sealed box
Some things arent available in stores
You write during a pandemic, lol. Also, there are disabled people who either cannot drive or it's a very difficult chore for them to do so.
A lot of people are looking for package foods they can not buy where they live. For example, I live in a rural area and if I want Pinoy products I can look on Amazon for them.
@@gizmonovack you can opean it if u want to, they like when you taste the food
Amazon has become so unreliable. I remember when it used to have great products shipped at fair times. Now 50% of what I buy is either broken/damaged, expired or fake product
It’s how badly amazon treats employees.
@@angelgjr1999 it definitely wouldn't surprise me with what I hear on what they pay their employees and how they treat them. Absolutely disgusting for a company that makes as much as Amazon does.
Davis 888 yes I have to drive 10 hours a day and deliver and I get zero breaks. I’ve almost passed out while driving before.
@@angelgjr1999 Exactly... But on the bright side the fact that people are talking about it is a step in the right direction. Hopefully it will allow for change in the way they operate business the more that people know. One can hope
Dude the listings alone are so offensive. They just photoshop (badly!) the item they are selling into off-scale surroundings that don’t show you anything. I mean I can imagine this lamp image cut out and pasted bigger than a couch or on a fake nightstand where a fake lady is smiling all weird. I just don’t get why they have to make these terrible photoshops now, you can’t be bothered to take friggin pictures of the thing? Look at grow lights on Amazon. It’s infuriating.
It’s not just food. It’s cosmetics, skin care, anything that expires I’ve had issues with on amazon
Yep, I once bought the same hair gel I’ve been using for years on amazon. The bottle was so watered down, even tho it was “sealed,” I couldn’t even use it🙁
@@scienceannistyle7070 might not have been watered down. Might've been melted. You heard how their warehouse gets to 120°F.
Fillory I don’t think it was, I’ve used the same product forever, sometimes even after the bottle was sitting in a hot car for days and it was never watery before. The bottle from amazon was so runny I couldn’t even put it into my hands to rub it in, I had to pour it directly on my head.
I’ve also seen tons of reviews of Kenra conditioner from people who had used it before and said the product they got from amazon was definitely not the same product.
@@scienceannistyle7070 I mean it's certainly possible, I just figured since it was sealed it was more likely it just spent weeks or months sitting around at extremely high temps. I know my thick conditioner-like shaving cream turned to complete liquid after my step son let scalding hot water land on it for a min in the shower. 🤷♀️
"This knife has expired"
Omg people
Don’t buy food online
Just go to your local store
S Bains never underestimate the lazy consumer
Well I mean coronavirus lol
@@weswest8666 There are some people with mobility problems and no family to shop for them.....or perhaps they live in a remote area and can't get certain items from their small local grocery store. It is not necessarily about laziness.
@@BurgundyandBlue1111 There are delivery services now
@@BurgundyandBlue1111 That's a strawman example. The absolute bulk that buy food online are lazy people .
'hello fresh' sent me 'hello rotten meat' last week.
I just received some sunscreen that expired 6 years ago.
Wtf
really?? thanks for the information. i was thinking about trying them
@@lt3074 I bought some coke and it was expired 2 years ago
Theres a lot a bad reviews about hello fresh business practices. Bunch of testimony about expire/over price food and almost impossible to get out of subscription. Beware!! Crazy part is they are growing ridiculously fast.
I’ve left a bad review on a item before and amazon refused to post it. I didn’t cuss or anything so I don’t know why.
I've left plenty of bad reviews though. And everytime i had issues, they'd either refund or replace for me. By far, best online retailer besides MrPorter for me.
Me too. Amazon is known for publishing fake reviews.
Same. A legit, polite, 3 star, critical review of mine was censored although it broke no rules. They wouldn't explain why & I had no appeal course of action available. Horribly scary to think what that means for how faked the reviews on Amazon truly are!
I think there are places where you can leave a review about Amazon or other companies.
They are known to block negative reviews for some sellers. You'll never get a response. I was banned from reviewing and asking questions of sellers, apparently permanently, could not get a reason. I really tried
"amazon needs to be liable" boi, they shud b liable for a lot of things
They are in Germany.
Taxi drivers need a licence too, so UBER is just convenient not chap.
Obviously there are downsides but waiting for the kinks to be worked out isn't that bad.
It's not really a problem it's so easy to get a refund from Amazon.
If amazon actually were liable for everything and did something they'd be bankrupt 😂
@@zhenyucai8688 why not use twice the resources for a simple package. Should pump more into the atmosphere nicely. While further taxing efficiency.
Face it, Amazon is less commonly the perfect consumption it wants you to think. It knows what it's doing, whatever that computer they have is. It doesn't seem human.
@@parkerxgps Nothing is perfect, the thing about amazon is that they're improving at a rapid pace. They're actually using less resources buy buying up large warehouses around the country where they ship to in bulks, rather than having to deliver individual packages cross country.
You got to remember Amazon is the same type of platform as eBay it just set up differently.
Yeah but ebay sellers are better. They have to take back the items if people dont like them but if they sell them to Amazon they get away with it.
Amazon’s definitely big enough now to hold their sellers accountable & not worry about losing them. Sellers need amazon more then they need them. Simply if the seller gets over a threshold of bad reviews, then give them a warning and if it continues take their license to sell on their site away.
hay woods Amazon is extremely generous to customers and not so much towards sellers. They don’t sell “to” Amazon. They sell on Amazon. If an item doesn’t sell, sellers don’t get paid. Amazon also locks sellers funds until 7 days after the estimated delivery date so that buyers can make sure everything is good before sellers get to withdraw their money. If a customer gets an item one day late, they can get a full refund from Amazon’s generous policy, but that money comes out of the pockets of sellers, who had no control of the shipping process. Returns and refunds cost sellers money even if it’s not their fault. And if problems arise, Amazon customer support is excellent. Amazon seller support usually only offers a copy and paste response that doesn’t quite address the problem you are having. And sellers do get shut down and don’t “get away with it.”
Just some insight for those who are curious.
@@Randomsae Yeah they make it so easy to return stuff and that means people get "new" products that are damaged cause they kept returning them. And if they shut down some China seller they have like 20 other accounts and you can tell cause they have bad english on most of the sites. Like "Product good very nice yes".
And Sears..com and Wal-Mart.com
Stop buying food from amazon, simple solution.
Crazyman1212 sure but it’s not so simple. If you have the choice then yeah. But not everyone has a car or lives in places with good public transport or has access to stores that sell what they want.
Or go with first party products if you don't want to do seller comparisons.
@@madhououinkyoma
Living in America without a car is awful.
@@madhououinkyoma people always have options, yeah your limited sometimes in small towns to certain items you only find in big cities. Hell when I lived in a small town the nearest grocery store was 6km and there was no public transportation. I used to bike everywhere and in the winter I walked. As for people with disabilities there are always options. I could careless about people not have access to a "certain type of yogurt" they can only get on amazon.
Well coronavirus sooo
If they can’t manage expired food, imagine how selling prescription drugs is going to go.
Please, I know it's hard to think sometimes but the video literally mentioned it 2 times. These are 3rd party sellers selling on Amazon. What third party seller is going to sell prescription drugs? These are not allowed on Amazon. Obviously, Amazon will be the ones selling it. 🙄
Just fine because they own PillPack and won't be selling third party scripts.
TatTvamAsi They said MANAGE not sell
Good point. I always thought it was weird that Amazon employees will put a barcode label over top of the warnings on otc medications. Seemed like an obvious liability. Still happens. I'm just waiting for the lawsuits.
Yeah they have no business selling drugs if they can't handle food! If they don't get a class action suit against them for bad food when someone does from bad meds like insulin Jeff Bezos will have a big problem on his hands!! Maybe they will finally get knocked down a few inches off the monopoly domination they have on the world.
When it comes to food and medicine, online is definitively a no-no.
I want a physical store that can be held responsible if something is tainted.
I was security at Amazon, Amazon employees hate their jobs, being security at Amazon we had employees try to run over security with their cars just to go home
Haha I love it
There's an episode of modern Doctor Who, "Kablam" ( or Kaboom) that's a sci-fi satire of Amazon. It's scary, I recommend it.
Amazon is equally responsible.
its hard not to get mad at them, but honestly they are trying their hardest. sellers are just taking advantage of them. its just a platform where you go to buy something, its the sellers fault 100%.
@@wramo8088 I agree. Comparing Target's site to Amazon in this video is like apples and oranges. Amazon has always been just an eCommerce platform. Amazon has a pretty robust seller verifying system but it's still an uphill battle against the thousands of new sellers that hit the site everyday.
And it's like they said in the beginning of this video. Amazon's actual food products sold through AmazonFresh are their only actual guaranteed items. Sold, Fulfilled and distributed by Amazon. Everything else is third party and consumers are beholden to the same risks as any other item on the platform.
@@wramo8088 true I worked at Amazon call center and a lot of customers blame Amazon for bad items and the company looses a lot of money cause Jeff wants us to make customers happy. The first thing they tell you is do everything to make customers happy.
Jesse Ventura negative, they are enabling it by giving them the platform. They are responsible for the credibility of their platform 100%.
@@datazero7795 just think about it in terms of real life. if you go out and buy from a local producer and he gives you a bad product its his fault. amazon is actually doing more then what is needs to by giving requirements to sellers. business has and always will be like this.
I've only bought non-perishable foods on amazon. Like collagen, cacao and matcha powder. I never had any issues. I would never buy perishable foods.
Matcha is technically perishable. Over time, the quality is reduced to the point that it's disgusting. To make matters more complicated, there are so many different grades of matcha and the quality of matcha from China is way lower than the quality of matcha from Japan. Ceremonial grade matcha from Japan is by far the best tasting usually. Once you have had it, you just can't settle for the lower grade junk coming out of China.
Matcha only stays good for 6 months after it has been picked and processed. Pretty much all of the matcha you see at grocery stores and being sold by Amazon is most likely too old to have any benefits. I only buy my matcha from a Japanese company and it's shipped straight from Japan.
There’s a lot of things that just shouldn’t be purchased online, and food is one of them.
*Bad Word* you know how stupid you sound?
If the store isn't local and delivers i think it might be a bad idea to buy food online
Rando Weeb No, no, do you know how stupid YOU sound??
I don’t think it’s wrong to expect edible food from a place that sells food. Times are changing and food WILL be bought online and companies will need to compensate for the errors they make.
Amazon is becoming EBAY and that ain’t good. Third party sellers are disrespectful sometimes, especially the Chinese source listers.
I don't like either one!
Just can't trust them!
PERIOD 👍
Disrespectful how? You mean like these UA-cam comments? I hope it ain’t that bad! LoL 😂
L E agreed
Maurice Andrews can you tell us your experience?
yaya Bop Just one. Once I ordered some Reeboks. I got sent some dollar store sunglasses and a watch strap (no watch). They said I could keep it and get a refund if I gave a 5 star review.
Third party contractors are never good. They aren’t regulated or held accountable by the company they work for.
They exist out of need though
Sam Yoder they exist out of cheaper labor.
Cheaper labor is what the market requires out of a need to supply items on a larger scale, which would make sense if and only if the market examines that need and provides a clear path forward for growth though, so we can agree that with growth we can expect prices to drop a bit, but demand to increase supply yields exponentially a growth only seen on scales with fly larvae in India, which is exactly why we find ourselves here writing about this disastrous issue. Lol. Am I missing anything?
Quality suffers as a lack of profitability decreases, or can we say we shouldn’t expect diamonds from dung beetles?
"Expired food problem"? Ha!! Ain't no way I'm buying food from Amazon. EVER.
I saw how visitors staying on Disney property in Orlando could order groceries from Amazon & have it delivered to their room when you arrive. Would never buy food via mail but I thought this was good idea for vacay. Not now. Been disappointed with dry goods via mail so rotten food would be worse experience.
I order food every week from Amazon and I've never had one item that was expired. This is a hit piece plain and simple. I'm surprised I didn't see a - *This video was sponsored by Competing Grocery Stores Inc.*
@@TH-uw9py You never got one thing that was shipped bad and broken open? They always mail new things with ripped boxes and put heavy and light things in the same box. Like they send liquid cleaner with other stuff then the cleaner breaks open and gets everything else covered in stuff.
@@greenlawnfarm5827 Perhaps I'm the exception, but I've been ordering nearly all of my groceries (Except for meat and eggs that I still buy from a regular grocery store) from Amazon for a while now and I haven't had a single problem. They always ship the cleaning supplies and toiletries that I order in a box that is separate from my food. I am a huge fan of Amazon.
@Antonio Giuseppe I live out of town about 20 miles away from the closest grocery store. Amazon is just much more convenient. I order online and two days later, my groceries are on my doorstep. It's fantastic.
who's ordering food on amazon????
Literally like 🙃 WTH?
College students are one. Some colleges arent close enough to grocery stores so you get what you can get
Idiots... LMAO
I know some people who order specialty food items on-line , not certain if it's from amazon or not, but at least a small percentage seem to
People that cannot find a specific favorite product/brand that was once carried locally so they go online, people that are disabled, etc.
That’s why I go to Walmart, HEB, Aldi, Kroger and Brookshire Brothers.
Yes, Walmart definitely has an advantage over Amazon when it comes to grocery!
Well, I bought some Lays Ranch dip from Walmart and it was 1 year expired. The kind in glass jars.
@@jaymelee23 You definitely can find expired product in stores like Walmart but the difference is that at Walmart you can check expiration before you purchase. Amazon sends expired goods to your door and then you have complain and initiate a return.
@@ApplicoInc -- that's true but it's becoming very common in a lot of stores around here. It sucks because I feel like I need to look at each product before putting into the cart. This really slows down getting in and out of store. Last year, I probably bought at least a dozen products that were expired. Expired orange juice and the ranch dip were the worst. YUCK.
I actually work for amazon at a amazon fresh location and I can tell you that Walmart is also one of the suppliers they use. So
You going to Walmart or shopping on amazon is no different really other than you being able to physically inspect the item yourself
Why don't they simply rename the normal food section "Amazon Rotten"? Then customers had a clear choice between Amazon Fresh and Amazon Rotten and no-one could complain.
I wouldn't even call that "food".
I am so glad that finally the media is paying attention to this problem. It’s really unbelievable that a company with Amazon’s resources gets away with selling inedible food to the public. SMH!
Why grocery stores still exist lol. Amazon has the money to be wasteful stupidly
because people are hungry same day not 1-2 days later. Just like how AutoParts stores are still thriving.
TheSnowFoxParty Grocery stores can still sell expired food by accident too. It’s happened to me once when I bought chocolate milk & a couple times if you count fruit in a package you can’t open (ex: cherries, blueberries, etc).
Been saying this for awhile: Amazon will crumble if they don't improve their overall product quality control aka a better seller review process
Absolutely! I bought vitamins from them only to find they were all recalled!
@@rnshi lol Amazon IS NOT! crumbling!
@@tehgees I didn't say it was...learn how to tag people.
Nah, the majority of people care about convenience over quality. They might say otherwise, but when you follow the money things are pretty clear.
No they wont they control the future..... im not saying i like it but do your research and you'll see what i mean
Why are people buying food, food! from Amazon smh they are alot of things I buy from Amazon food has never been one of them, and I will never buy food from Amazon
Cause they have chocolate and candy and tons of good stuff like that.
@Saffron Sinclair Amazon has a much wider selection than your grocery stores
If you're housebound it's one of your few options.
Melanated Queen
thank you, I feel like I’m the only that thinks buying food online is a terrible idea. Horribly inefficient (wasted food and transportation).
You don’t even know what your food looks like until you get it.
@Saffron Sinclair And nothing with liquid. And nothing that can get crushed.
These people working at fulfillment centers are making minimum wage and are not checking dates on food products
It's not their job. Their job is to push as much amazon products as they can
No shot we checking that lol, your lucky if I put bubble rap in the box
They definitely don’t make minimum wage , I’m making almost $19 an hour . There just isn’t much in place to make sure anyone is checking these items
The main problem is that they have 3 party sellers! They need to get rid of them because its messing up their ratings. These 3 party sellers want to get rid of these products.
@T where YOU live is irrelevant
19:05 that is the most impressive display of practical tetris skill I've seen. And the most wild abandon with which I've seen "this end up" arrows disregarded.
Amazon never takes responsibility and always blames the seller and not itself.
Amazon "taking responsibility" instead of the third party who _actually sold the thing_ would look exactly McD now taking larger cuts from their franchise owning families.
havenotchosenyet - If you watch the Frontline documentary that came out earlier this year about Amazon, than you’ll see why I said they never take responsibility and instead blame the sellers and customers. This video did a poor job explaining.
Traditional grocery stores definitely have the advantage of customers being able to pick up and examine the specific item they're considering purchasing, this is especially advantageous when it comes to perishables like fresh fruit🍉, meats🍖, and vegetables🥦. I think the key to Amazon fixing this is to create a more curated food delivery experience. There should be different procedure between warehouse packers working with standard goods and those packaging food deliveries📦. They need to find a way to implement a QA process into packing food items that is similar to how the average consumer would go about picking items at a brick and mortar grocery store. This would definitely create more loss via throwing out bad items but would greatly improve the customer experience w/ food delivery.
Applico I agree. To me the best option is that amazon should only deliver food from Whole Foods and ship it the same day. So if Whole Foods don’t sale it then amazon doesn’t ship it.
They should require sellers to add the expiration date of their produce and automatically remove it from the fulfillment center once it has expired.
@@mr.precision5039 Great idea! This could automate most of the process. The fulfillment center could verify the expatriation when receiving new product and from there all you need to do is some moderation and QA to make sure sellers aren't abusing the system.
They do, plus when amazon night while food they must have fired who every ripens they banana cause they’re always green and you have to ripen them and that takes days
@@papito2222 It feels like we are yet to see the final form of Amazon and Whole Foods integration. What you're describing seems like something they could implement in the future. 🤔
This makes me mad as an Amazon seller. These unprofessional sellers just trying to take advantage of people make us all look bad. I run a professional business on Amazon and make my living off of it. I take this too seriously to do any of the things shown in the video.
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*Food store expired items Dumpster divers resell on Amazon* . Dumpster dive for items discarded by food stores (for free) and sell via Amazon's platforms and Flea Markets. Beware. I love how they just breezed past this FACT in like 5 seconds in this video😒
“Hundreds of thousands of items sold by millions of sellers” 🤔
Eve School 100 sellers could be selling the same item.
rachel bernal Yes, that’s exactly what happens.
CNBC logic XD
@@YourFriendlyBarista
You are the person in the ten item or less lane with 40 cans and say it's one item
@@joecasey8202 Your local shop sells the same groceries as everyone else's local shop.
Amazon uses the shop closest to you.
You can get Coke (1 product) at thousands of suppliers.
I buy a lot of drinks and food from Amazon. And I would never buy from a 3rd party seller. However Amazon needs to do a better job. They sometimes make a 3rd party seller the default option.
Amazon is nothing BUT third party when it comes to food items so.. you fail.
Why not just scan expiry dates into their system... seems like an easy technological fix
labor cost? efficiency? just guessing
@@kentaowoo7392 they bought it for 1billion? Pretty sure they could afford it
3rd party vendors will lie and Amazon won't enforce. People are selling stuff they fished out of a dumpster, Amazon don't care.
No because expiry dates is added manually by factories. Some batch of products can be used for two different brands and different expiry dates. I have personally worked in some factories.
@@db-wt8lb Some will, not all will. Amazon won't enforce because they don't have a policy to enforce.
Also, you are poisoning the well; 'people' do not sell stuff they fished out of the dumpster. Again, some do, but without a percentage or stat, your language is implies all people. Which is just not true.
And Amazon cares enough to make a profit; if they want to fix their system 'quickly' this puts a bandaid on it.
So yeah the OP is probably correct. Labor cost is the only issue as efficiency is already amazon's game. So what they spend a few extra hours to make sure food is edible? They don't sell you broke IPhones usually, they want to sell working products.
Edit: Also, your comment has no sources whatsoever. Please fix that. Otherwise, you are basically blowing hot air.
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I’m sure glad I’m not a Prime member to support any of this. I cancelled Prime 1 month ago.
I accidentally read your comment as "I'm sure glad I'm not a Prime Minister..."
ivmqap lol
As a seller, I can explain the issue better. What CNBC doesn’t understand is that when sellers send more inventory in to Amazon, there’s no way for Amazons warehousing system to differentiate what is new/older inventory, so if a seller doesn’t want to run out of stock on amazon they have to send more inventory in before all of the previous inventory has sold out. This means that some items could even spend 5+ years in an amazon warehouse before it’s shipped to you, and the same goes for food. This issue is far more likely to be down to amazons inventory system pitfalls rather than sellers on amazon, as we sellers know our accounts could so easily be terminated permanently if we do anything wrong like sending in expired goods.
I didn’t even know you could buy food on Amazon. I’m both surprised and unsurprised.
Having worked at Amazon I can definitely tell you do not buy any food from Amazon as their inventory system is not first in first out, there is no way to tell how long it sat on their shelves. I have seen items that were covered in dust.
Online grocery shopping won't become the norm anytime soon. Costco has more competitive prices and better food quality than Amazon foods.
It’s already huge outside the US, but I think the logistics inside the US and the way Amazon works, makes it difficult to do proper quality inspection on groceries.
This is why I only buy groceries in person.. even during the pandemic.
does not like a smart solution though. Why do you care about buying an expired product when you can freely return with almost effortless? ???
@@mompopinvestor6010 pain the ass maybe I dont know, like if you wanna cook sommin on the spot why wait?
You mean scamdemic.
Costco has this problem. It used to be worse, a year or so ago all the produce was always expired or expiring in a couple days. Now it's usually about a week out, which is fairly normal for produce. I always check though bc I still find expired food throughout the store. Dairy is another huge offender at Costco...
This reminds me of a similar problem Amazon has with third-party sellers, where individuals will go dumpster diving and searching through trash to send items to amazon through their fulfillment centers to sell.
There's a video on UA-cam about that
> Tide-flavoured oatmeal
I’ll take your entire stock
Part of a new challenge? Instead of tide pods now it's how much tide oatmeal can you down? Kids these days..
Funny😂
Sounds like a good idea actually. It's a real challenge and the worst that can happen is a little bit of vomiting.
If it's not "shipped and sold by Amazon", then I'm not buying.
@@vrm86gt "shipped and sold by Amazon" has free returns.
I wish they would be honest about where it was made also, I don't want China to have my business anymore.
Humm ? Would that even matter with food items ?
@@Curas1 While a majority of Americans (myself included) agree with you, unfortunately that ship sailed a long time ago.
@@smhedge
And now we sre paying for our greed and indifference.
But really to be honest, who has the m8ney to be ideological ?
Not many nowadays, thats for sure.
The whole dang system, it's just broke.
Why?
Simple Rule: if it needs to be approved by the FDA....... DON'T BUY IT FROM AMAZON!
"Best-by" dates aren't required by federal law? WHAT?
If the third-party sellers of food on Amazon are anything like the guys shilling Amazon FBA courses, I know I wouldn’t put it past them to sell expired food. There’s a good chance they may not even see the inventory in person before it’s sold.
I’m more than capable of grocery shopping for myself. Amazon isn’t the go to place for everything
I've ordered chocolate from Amazon, didn't realize it was a 3rd party from China. Ended up with chocolate that was expired by Years! I got a refund pretty quick and left a terrible review with photos.
I have to buy certain items from Amazon since I live in a small town without an Asian market, but hotdogs? No way would I buy something like that.
You don't have to by 'asian market' crap you know. Switch to local stuff and support your local shops.
"Oh no I can't get dragon fruit!" So?
Just ask your local grocery store manager to cary the products you want. It's better for the environment to go to the grocery store and buy all your groceries in 1 trip.
that's not how it works. There has to be demand for it. Also, not everyone has a car for "1 trip".
Amazon is like a dollar general, a bunch of expired food and nick nacks.
jon devieon: Get real! The number of times you get expired stuff is very small compared to when you get perfectly good stuff. They always immediately ship you a fresh product or give a refund.
glasslinger shouldn’t happen at all pleb.
I work in a grocery store, and THIS is a problem present in the store I work at, I am the only one that looks for these expired foods in my entire department out of 3 different shifts. This means food constantly slips through the cracks. This isn't my only job as my job actually is to correct inventory on hand numbers, but because of how my store is completely mismanaged I absolutely never get to do that. I been yelled at for pulling expired goods regularly when commonly with certain products we get them in expired and I am able to check this because they print ship dates on the labels placed on the boxes we use to stock for locations. This isn't only at my grocery store but rather the whole company wide with how just mismanaged. The scope of this is so massive and how little is being done to protect consumers at grocery stores.
Teavana stores are not the same as teavana items. You can buy them in your local grocery store, I stock them all the time and I see manufactured dates of well past 2018, the products you buy in the stores are actually manufactured by a seperate company.Kinda like how craft makes tacobell products, and pretty much any big name brand recognizable name of restaurant products.
That happened to us when we used one of those meals boxes. Sometimes the food and ingredients were good, some were clearly expired and rotted. We cancelled after two months.
I agree that most foods are still good after the best by date, however as a consumer I don't want to purchase food that I have no idea how old it is. Even pet foods can go stale or have issues if it is too old/been in the wrong conditions. The answer isn't as simple as don't buy food from amazon. They have stepped in the food selling industry and need to be held at the same standards as everyone else.
I've bought expired food from Amazon before... They were protein bars I've had before and when they came they didn't taste right. I read reviews and other ppl had same experiences. Amazon do better
Protein bars are mostly cardboard and sawdust.. look it up xD
Ive worked for amazon in a warehouse and most things have to be manually updated with an expiry date, even batteries. It is the third partys fault for not declaring that a date needed added. We were trained to keep an eye out for things that might need a date and to always check if we were unsure. It is literally someones job to check such items for us when we find them. Honestly every item has gone through the hands of multiple employees, some times these things slip through and some times they are caught, its just a numbers game. It happens in supermarkets too.
The video blames pick and pack for it slipping through but that really isnt it. It would be the inbound receive department or stow to find it first because they are more involved with the pallets/boxes the product arrives on.
9:30 Tide flavoured oatmeal.. This is wrong because its classed as a HAZMAT and things like tide are stored in a different area from foods. Even petfood has its own location to prevent smells.
They also store chocolate products on cooler levels to prevent them melting because there is a temperature gradient in the warehouse. Personally Ive stopped chocolate items from being stored in the hotter levels and sometimes they slip through because it isnt obvious chocolate.
'' food items being returned and re sent out'' . All returns are sorted into yellow or red boxes and specifically put into returns/ non sell sections away from general items.
This is a pretty weird video, almost trying to pin it on amazon. They have measures in place and always try do their best for customers, example, refunds and returns/replacement instantly. You can live without coffee creamer for one day while an in date one is being sent out... Don't blame amazon.
Ian Manners Amazon is responsible and should review the terms and conditions to their 3rd party seller.
@@MsLouie76 Elaborate please
The problem never was then trying to do their best.
The problem always was that their best isn't good enough and yet they insist to keep doing it.
If my store allowed other people to sell their food, and it had same problem, I assure you: it would be closed very quickly.
"Amazon couldn't get better than this at it" means Amazon should stop doing it.
But it's too good to fail, isn't it? If there was 1000 little stores, and people got food poisoning on one of them, one case would be enough for government to start looking and close store/demand changes in their policy.
You can't do it with monopoly.
That's the problem. Until this monopoly is broken, Amazon don't have any incentive to get better: their already are the best, food poisoning or not, because they illuminated all competition.
16:44: “Septic Packaging” isn’t a thing. The word septic literally means “infected”. Lol
Lol, yeah they meant aseptic!
Well, technically packaging could be infected with a contagion (contain a virus/ bacteria/etc on or in it). Whether they meant that or not is another story; but literally it is a thing.
Aseptic is the correct term. ,thank u
We have a store called “it’s $5” it’s liquidation of amazon, target, other stores. They have a food area in it too. Ppl buy these items and resell them on Facebook, eBay, and amazon 😂. Amazon has never gotten one dollar from our family besides us using Whole Foods.
You have probably used Amazon web services AWS. Not directly , but whereby Amazon hosts a website you use, government, healthcare, authority and other online stores. Even computer systems and POS systems in store can use AWS to run the application,
therefor Amazon probably has got at least one dollar from your family directly or indirectly. This company is too big to avoid. They also host a telephone line service for call centres too.
Look at you so proud... dude.. you're supporting the company by buying from Whole Foods.
This reminds me of pudding I bought for $2 so I could get free shipping for something I bought. I bought it in January and it's coming next week lol.
Have you received it yet? 😂
Did you get it yet?
No I cancelled it
Lmfao
@@Brian-kr7bw Have yo7 gotten it yet?
Weird! We can get 3d maps of the Martian deserts, yet Blue Origin has trouble tracking its past due expired products, even though most of them easy to scan bar codes and batch numbers. The manufacturers have information like content, expiration dates that can be connected to the batch codes and shared with sellers like Amazon Walmart etc.
Thank you amazon for this video and how you conveniently throw the blame on third party sellers , you guys are perfect in every way.
we are a 3rd party seller, selling grocery products on amazon and for the past 6 years. for the past 3 years we only ship from our own warehouse and no longer use Amazon's warehouse. Before that we used to send to amazon warehouse for them to ship, but they would stick other sellers inventory in our inventory and label it with our sku numbers (so any problem with that product we would be blamed for it). Also they would lose your inventory for months and magically it would show back up a year later for sale to customers. This past december amazon stuck 15 units of some other sellers stuff in our FBA inventory from a shipment we sent in over 3 years ago that they lost. lucky we caught it and had it recalled, they would not reimburse us for it when it clearly wasn't our inventory they lost from 3 years ago.
It’s coming from people dumpster diving and selling it on amazon 🤷🏻♂️
You know... I'm honestly shocked that Amazon doesn't have a Groceries page. This is standard issue for ALL of the e-commerce sites in Asia. We even have access to a version of UberFood which will deliver us meals in under an hour. Even for a single order of Coca Cola.
I'm not a fan of Amazon's interface. It feels circa Yahoo of the 1990s. And it's not user friendly too. I can see why they're not working in Asia.
I worked at an Amazon warehouse for a while and it was fairly common for dangerous chemicals and insecticide on top of food products. I once saw insecticide on top of a bag of dog food. and the bottle was leaking when I reported it like I was supposed to they did nothing but I was fired a week later for not meeting the stocking quota.
Being an former Amazon/Fedex picker/packer I can say, we where not trained effectively on how to spot expired food products or fake expired tags. Their concern and ours a low level employees was moving product and filling trucks as quick as possible so trucks leave on time, with little to no pull backs that would slow/delay trucks departure times.
This does not surprise me, and all Amazon will do is point the finger and play the blame game.
Why not just require the sellers include the expiration date in their product description? There's already a section under the seller's name to explain the condition of their item, just require they enter the best by date!
They don’t have mass amounts of stock with 1 date. As new stock comes in they’d have to check and update that.
This is why I still enjoy grocery shopping in person 🤷🏽♂️
that ambulance chaser pretends to care about food safety but what he really wants is a million dollar pay check
Never would i buy food online. And i've been shopping online since 2000. I want the final check on the goods i put in my body before i swipe my card. That's pure common sense.
Or how about don't buy from Amazon at all. They're an evil company.
If you knew the Brownies were out of date by a year, why would you want to still try it 🤔
@Brainjock hungry for what cardboard brownies 🤣
Maybe she didn't check the expiration date and bit into that brownie. Then she was hit by that cardboard taste and decided to check the expiration date.
Or, she did see the expiration date and hoped they would be ok.
But I've had cookies from a gas station that were a few days before the sell-by date and they were disgusting. Now I check to make sure there are months to go before the expiration or sell-by date.
She bit into it before checking the expiration date.
Brainjock hungry bishes😂
RavB40 mmm. Cardboard😏😂
i almost completely stopped using amazon when they wouldn't let me write reviews. my reviews were always honest.
You want a company that paid 0$ in federal taxes to give a damn about selling you expired food?
LOL, just LOL, you clearly don't understand capitalism.
You needn't collect taxes if you collet Fines, the USA don't do either.
You clearly don't understand how they got this big in the first place. And it wasn't by being bad to consumers
You don’t understand capitalism. They carried over their losses from the previous years in a perfectly legal way. Don’t forget numerous property taxes they pay, or the other tax they pay on acquiring the goods they sell, and let’s just completely ignore the tax paid from all the people they employ...
@@NYCMIAH You're just nitpicking to try and make yourself correct. It's pretty sad considering this comment is almost a year old. But no you are still wrong, he may've paid building code tax and yes HIS EMPLOYEES PAID INCOME TAX, HIS EMPLOYEES AS YOU SAID YOURSELF.
The goods taxes are actually covered by the contracted sellers, who choose to incur those costs when they agree to sell on Amazon, just like Ebay used to.
You showed up a year late to a comment to nitpick and just be more wrong. Jeff Bezos paid 0$ in Federal Income Taxes. Thats just a simple fact and your arguments otherwise are simple semantics.
Get outta here bootlicker.
@@AP-bc7mg Do payroll taxes not exist... I commented on this video when I saw it, which was today. I’m not “nitpicking” and even if I was, my point that amazon pays taxes still stands. I’m not a “bootlicker” I just don’t like this “eat the rich” mentality that everybody has for no reason. You original comment didn’t say “federal income tax” it just said they don’t pay federal taxes.
Considering beef jerky is a dehydrated product and has a little packet to help absorb oxygen and what not, it is *extremely hard* to get mold. That jerky was super old
And just think, if an Amazon packer pulls and highlights to management expired product instead of shipping it as quickly as they can, are they going to be rewarded or penalized for slower production?
I work in the warehouses and I see so many damaged food items. I do my best to mark them as damaged too but I'm sure I miss some
Anyone else yelling, "JUST GO TO THE STORE!" at the screen?
@Millenial King I legit believe that if you had your own farm and harvested your own food that society would be far more kinder and more sustainable, you will be far better than just 'going to the store' or 'shopping online'.
I am not sure if you are serious with this, but also you are essentially doing the inverse of appeal to tradition fallacy; no one cares if this is the future or if stores are primitive.
Food should be edible. Plain and simple.
Edit: Also be accessible. We all need food. I can't help but wonder if we are moving forward at the cost of access.
Millenial King 😂😂
@Millenial King Absolutely lol'd at this comment reply.
This stuff that ends up in a store merely comes from a warehouse (or distribution center) somewhere else. It shouldnt matter if the product gets shipped to a store or direct to the customer. Much of the crappy products they featured looks like industrial made faux foods anyways, that have long shelf lives. But expired products can happen through e-commerce retailers and a brick & mortar store, from what I guess. Hmmm, buyer beware, from any retail source.
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I found a hair product on Amazon called "Olaplex". It said on the site "Sold by Olaplex" so it looked legitimate, but I know that the company only sells to licensed beauticians. I contacted the company directly and they told me they do not sell on Amazon. Everyone who paid $100 for it on Amazon was getting a counterfeit product. I then started realizing nearly everything is counterfeit on Amazon. Even baby products and pet food. Be very careful what you buy there! I won't buy food, medicine, vitamins, pet food, or even cooking utensils there. Many items have been found to contain high levels of lead.
I am a 3rd party seller and I purchase directly from the manufacturer. I would never send any thing to anyone that I wouldn't want to receive. Make sure you check the seller that you're buying from...like in any store. Read their reviews. You don't always have to buy from the seller that is shown you can always go down and look in the other sellers. Check the reviews and make sure you get PRIME. Also make sure that the product that you're about to buy is listed in the food and grocery section and not in miscellaneous or something else . Sometimes bad sellers will trick Amazon by listing something that they're not allowed to in a different category. Most sellers are hardworking business owners and sending you expired food goes against everything we stand for.
I've found/bought expired food at Walmart, Giant Eagle, Dollar General etc. One time, I bought orange juice that was very expired. NASTY. It all boils down to the hired help and if they're spot checking/rotating products to the front, etc. Lazy stockers probably just stick the fresher stuff in the front instead of rotating them to the back. I now check each product before putting into the cart because it wasn't a fluke thing... it was becoming common. Last time I bought Lays Ranch dip at Walmart it was 1 year expired.
I thought this would be a problem.
jayme lee corner stores and bodegas are notorious for having expired products.
Check the item themselves you have eyes right?
@@aig5429 -- GF yourself troll. What a dumb comment. I guess you expect that everyone should do the jobs of every employee. Stupid F. I bet you don't even have a job and sponge off your parents. Typical.
You can check the exp. date yourself rather than getting angry at a likely minimum wage employee that puts out minimum effort. I mean what incentive do they have as expendable slaves? Anyways, you are shopping at the lowest end retailers. They are ruthless at cost efficiency. Dont expect much if you are paying so little. They could care less. They may altogether get rid of the human to utilize a robot that stocks shelves. Anyways these retailers are supposed to have inventory databases moving unsold goods along. You can let managers know of expired products.
I like how they refer to her as “amazon customer” almost everyone is an amazon customer lmao
I laughed too, it might as well say “person who breathes air”
Not me... I don't buy Amazon anything 👍
The wolf said to the lamb: "You are to blame for what I want to eat."
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@Alonso wang John wolfe Joe Shinold , Sheep is listening to the shepherd’s pipe. But if the Shepherd does not have a wolfhound guard, a wolf will come and eat a sheep ...
Just like buying sushi at a gas station and steaks at a dollar store, I wouldn't risk buying food off of Amazon because it can come from anywhere and will get abused. It also takes a lot longer to get your food whereas sacrificing a few hours at a store is more convenient and quicker. The best part about it, you can eat the food the moment you walk out. If I'm buying some cookies, I want to crack open the package in the car, eat it, and be happy. Not wait until tomorrow and delay my excitement.
This could also be contributing to the massive recalls we have been experiencing lately. The last time we had a large number of imported food items sitting in containers and on ships off of the west coast, there were an unusual number of recalls. There are ships sitting there now that have been waiting months to unload food items and probably should be disposed of.
Seems like companies how no idea what quality control is anymore. Can’t buy anything anymore without worrying about dissatisfaction in this day and age.
No, there is no excuse for shipping expired food. The picker did not look at the expiration date because they did not care. They should be fired immediately. All on Amazon.
I never ever considered to buy food on Amazon because of third party sellers, and that was before I watched this.
Tide flavored oatmeal? "I like my food clean, but not like that." - Past Amazon Me
7:13 Wow. Didn't know that some people are addicted to Oreos.
Anything that's discountinued should not be bought or sold.
@@JosueRodriguez-kk6wn What do you mean by "anything"? Even that rare game cartridge that was discontinued 30 years ago and could well worth thousands of dollars should not be bought or sold as well?
@@nqh4393 in terms of food.
I cannot eat chocolate Oreos. They make me nauseated. I can eat the vanilla ones.
@@cashed-out2192 Then they aren't Oreos.. they are Vannila-ohs..