Update: For those unaware, Jill Cataldo aka MOM BLOGGER will be on CBS (channel 2) today, the 17th on the 5 o’clock news – I’m assuming it’s the Dorothy Tucker consumer reporter segment.

OK, show is over.  Does channel 2 go out of their way to deliberately make disparaging comments like that?  Jill Cataldo is no more a mom blogger than George W. Bush is a Rhodes Scholar.  sheesh!  However, now I’ve got an idea:  Hows about coming up with fictional books for Dominicks to promote?  I’ll throw out the first ones in the Safeway’s in the Kitchen  series:  Green Eggs and Ham for breakfast or Salmonella and rice pilaf for supper.

One comment made by the co-anchor was a response to Safeway’s comment: “A high level and highest priority team has been assembled to immediately address these issues.”  He wondered that selling expired food wouldn’t have always been a high priority for them (and I paraphrase here).

I’m a little late jumping on the bandwagon here, but if I can reach anyone who hasn’t yet read this series of posts by Jill Cataldo, please click.  One of her readers purchased frozen meatballs a few weeks ago and served them to her family for dinner.  Everyone commented on the “plastic” taste and how terrible they were:  obviously they didn’t eat them.  The reader checked the package for expiration dates but only found a code, which, when she called the manufacturer, showed the product had expired in 2007.  Disgusted yet?  Jill then, with the same two people, visited the LITH store to see if this was problem extending to every store (we know that it is) or an isolated instance.  Here’s her post from the February 15th shopping trip.

Read and take action?  How?  Apparently IL has no laws governing the sale of expired food items (with the exception of baby products), unlike New York State, which nailed CVS a few years ago for selling expired food products.  and maybe this is why CVS is looking for a greater presence in IL…

by the way, the pictured cheese is a professional and has no ties to Dominicks.