{"id":679207,"date":"2010-03-01T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002683"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:48:55","slug":"walmart-just-take-this-chicken-for-free-we-dont-actually-sell-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679207","title":{"rendered":"Walmart: Just Take This Chicken For Free, We Don&#8217;t Actually Sell It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3-1-2010%201-41-39%20PM-thumb-199x91-37601.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3-1-2010%201-40-05%20PM-thumb-250x186-37600.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Reader DW sent us a gross picture of some nasty gray ham from Walmart (see below) and also let us know that there is mysterious non-Walmart chicken showing up in the store. The people who work at Walmart don&#8217;t know where the chicken is from, but they will give it to you for free. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We picked up a bagged whole chicken from the poultry section.  When we went to the register to ring it up, the cashier said, &#8220;That&#8217;s odd, this isn&#8217;t ours&#8230;.it doesn&#8217;t show up on the system.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>She called a floor manager over who looked at it and said, &#8220;Huh&#8230;well do you want it?  It&#8217;s not something we sell.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>At which point we asked why it would be in their chicken section and they both shrugged and the manager said, &#8220;Sometimes people return stuff that isn&#8217;t ours&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>We refused the &#8220;free&#8221; chicken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> We think you did the right thing. By the way, this is<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/12\/chris-loves-shaved-meats.html\"> the second time a picture of this brand of shaved meat has been on Consumerist.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3-1-2010 1-40-05 PM.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/3-1-2010%201-40-05%20PM.jpg?resize=250%2C186\" width=\"250\" height=\"186\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader DW sent us a gross picture of some nasty gray ham from Walmart (see below) and also let us know that there is mysterious non-Walmart chicken showing up in the store. The people who work at Walmart don&#8217;t know where the chicken is from, but they will give it to you for free. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QGX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}