Do I have to get my money back

[Tabitha1]

Is what I think crazy. On March 5th according to a receipt I have I bought a package something like twenty individually wrapped servings of mixed nuts a Sam’s Club that are now being recalled because of possible Salmonella contamination.

I have eaten most of them. I have one package left that I am feeling hungry enough to eat. It has the number of one of the batches being recalled. No one has gotten sick from them according to the folks ordering the recall.

If I went to the store with the receipt I could get my $9.76 back.

I feel that money is ones god if one feels one has to do go get the refund. I do not think it is wrong to go get it but my reasons might be put down if I shared about them. For example do not such recalls increase the cost of groceries for everybody. Am I supposed to think only of myself. Is caring about the economic health of the business who have to bear the cost of such recalls crazy.

I tend to thing the danger is mainly with how they are used and not with eating them by themselves. For example, if they are used in a salad that is not eaten right away that might breed enough Salmonella to make somebody sick.

A few years back Salmonella infections were traced to a batch of eggs. This lead to the discovery that most eggs sold in the grocery store have a small amount of Salmonella bacteria in them. We stopped hearing about it after that.

It is not a good idea to keep at room temperature foods with raw eggs. Cooking kills bacteria. Etc. It does not breed rapidly in nuts but if you add the nuts to something that will spoil if contaminated it is another matter.

 

[daeve]

Is what I think crazy. On March 5th according to a receipt I have I bought a package something like twenty individually wrapped servings of mixed nuts a Sam’s Club that are now being recalled because of possible Salmonella contamination.

I have eaten most of them. I have one package left that I am feeling hungry enough to eat. It has the number of one of the batches being recalled. No one has gotten sick from them according to the folks ordering the recall.

If I went to the store with the receipt I could get my $9.76 back.

I feel that money is ones god if one feels one has to do go get the refund. I do not think it is wrong to go get it but my reasons might be put down if I shared about them. For example do not such recalls increase the cost of groceries for everybody. Am I supposed to think only of myself. Is caring about the economic health of the business who have to bear the cost of such recalls crazy.

I tend to thing the danger is mainly with how they are used and not with eating them by themselves. For example, if they are used in a salad that is not eaten right away that might breed enough Salmonella to make somebody sick.

A few years back Salmonella infections were traced to a batch of eggs. This lead to the discovery that most eggs sold in the grocery store have a small amount of Salmonella bacteria in them. We stopped hearing about it after that.

It is not a good idea to keep at room temperature foods with raw eggs. Cooking kills bacteria. Etc. It does not breed rapidly in nuts but if you add the nuts to something that will spoil if contaminated it is another matter.

You are not obliged to get your money back. Since you ate 19 out of 20 packages, I think you shouldn’t ask for it back. Why don’t you just forget about it?

If you bought something though, and got it home to find out it was spoiled, there’s no reason not to return it to the store for a refund. If you bought a box of wine glasses and they were broken when you got them home, you’d take them back to get unbroken ones. That’s part of the nature of commerce. Someone makes a product, someone buys it to use. If what you bought can’t be used – and it’s not your fault – the seller should make good on it. If you dropped that box of glasses and tried to return them, well, that’s a different story. Just as you have to take responsibility for your actions and ommisions, so does the maker of those nuts.

I don’t really see an issue here. If you want to take your one uneaten bag of nuts back to Sam’s do it. It sounds like too much trouble to me since you already ate most of them and didn’t get sick.

 

[stbruno]

Just my opinion of course. Since you have eaten 90% of the product without a problem…I don’t think you would be entitled to receive a refund. Now if you have 90% to return or even 50% to return, you would be entitled. So instead, enjoy your mixed nuts. Be grateful to God that you didn’t suffer an untoward effects and that’s it. Case closed. But that’s what I would do.

 

[LilyM]

I wouldn’t eat the remaining product - there have been no problems thus far, which is a blessing, but it’s no guarantee that the remainder aren’t tainted. If you feel like getting a refund, for the uneaten portion only, I’d say you’re entitled to it.

 

[Catholic90]

I had the box of peanut butter crackers that were recalled several months ago (indivually wrapped servings). My kids would usually take those in their school lunches. They had some, but then stopped taking them (don’t know why, exactly). A few weeks later, I got a letter about the recall, so I returned them. About 1/3 of the box was left. For me, it was not worth the risk they might get sick.

 

[Tabitha1]

This recall they say is about pistachio nuts and does not involve the people responsible for the contaminated peanuts that have been in the news.

It is probably caused by all the testing of nuts and the factory or producers of the pistachios may not have been neglectful for all we know like the peanut factories were. Also even if they were the cost of refunding money and all that is spread to others who are innocent. And there are people who work in those factories who need their jobs.

Because of all this I think the FDA avoids recalls when they can. I used to work there.

But the news coverage of the peanut scandal is causing them to have to take into account public criticism and pressure. Chances are they are being questioned by senate committee and/or congressional committees about how did they let the peanut problem happen and such as that.

Factories that produce nuts will in the future have stricter rules to follow. My not taking my little bag of Planters Heart Healthy mix back and getting my money back is my vote against making too much of it all.

 

[Squeakmew]

Salmonella is a VERY unpleasant thing to have. My sister was violently sick for 3 weeks with it. If I were you, I would throw out that last bag of nuts.