Grocery Warehouses

Here they are not called warehouse stores. Warehouse stores as re places like Costco and Sams Club; places where restaurants shop. What you are talking about is food salvage stores. They are discount stores that buy old product from food storage warehouses. Most of it is expired or very close to being expired or has sat in frozen storage for much longer than it should. I would never buy food from a place like that as it is border line safe. FYI don't eat food from dented cans because they could contain the early stages of botulism. NEVER eat from a bulging can.

That would be great considering how high prices are getting. We have a bulk store here and a salvage place (dented cans and surplus) and you can save alot going there. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

One store my mother used to shop at had a section dedicated to these items. I jokingly called it the "scratch and dent" section. The section had a sign stating the package were inspected and the products inside were still deemed to be safe. As another poster said, though, never eat anything from a bulging can because it is spoiled. (I learned that from a question on the game show "All-Star Blitz" with Peter Marshall.) I don't know if any of these stores still exist where I live. We just got our first Costco last year, and there's a Save-A-Lot which promises customers can save up to 40% because it's a basic, no-frills store.

No, we don't have any stores like that around here, that I know of. Some of the supermarkets do have sections where they will sell items like this at a discount, though. One of them likes to call these items "manager's special".