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POLL: Should Grocery Stores Alert You to Recalls?

With a slew of food recalls recently, several Patch readers have applauded the response from grocery stores.

Food gets recalled on a fairly regular basis, but when the threat reaches a critical level some grocery stores have taken steps to get the word out to their customers.

After yesterday’s recall of Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats one commenter mentioned a phone call received from the grocery chain Wegmans.

“I was really impressed when I received an automated call from Wegmans yesterday telling me that I had bought a box of the recalled cereal recently at their store,” Paula Hogan said.

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Price Chopper stores have a similar protocol for shoppers who use their Price Chopper AdvantEdge card and get a primarily positive response.

“Once in a while someone will say they’d rather not have their privacy invaded,” Mona Golub, vice president at Price Chopper said. “But, we’ve had hundreds of people respond and say ‘thank you, if I didn’t get that call I wouldn’t have known I bought the product.’”

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What do you think? Should grocery stores tell you if you bought a recalled product, or would you rather find out through news reports? Vote in the poll and tell us your thoughts in the comments.


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