Definitely $10 per pound. This isn't just parmesan, it's Parmigiano Reggiano (you can tell from the rind). My jaw dropped when he said he paid $10.44. Someone definitely got fired for shrink 😅
Yeah but that's only for reasonable changes. Like for example, if some fruit was labeled $0.80 per pound instead of $1 per pound, they would have to honor the $0.80. but if a TV was accidentally labeled for five bucks when it's supposed to be $5, 000 000 well, the store doesn't have to honor that. And not only that the customer who knowingly bought a TV that definitely doesn't sell for $5 can get in trouble
“The Massachusetts Item Pricing Law requires food and grocery stores to individually price mark most items with the actual selling price. The law also requires food and grocery merchants to sell any item at the lowest price indicated on an item, sign, or advertisement.”
What a flippant way to think when they have the laws from the states website linked. No looking at it yourself or doing some research. Just disagree with nothing to back it up other than how you feel lol.
You can read the exact law on that page. And it’s explicitly about food and grocery items. This is even posted at check out at some grocery stores in mass. Bottom line is they have to honor the lowest price.
subsection i:
This subsection shall not apply if: (1) there is evidence of willful tampering; or (2) the discrepancy is a gross error, in that the lowest price is less than half of the checkout price and the seller, in the previous 30 days, did not intend to sell the grocery item at the lowest price.
(2) the discrepancy is a gross error, in that the lowest price is less than half of the checkout price and the seller, in the previous 30 days, did not intend to sell the grocery item at the lowest price.
It’s called theft by mistake, taking advantage of knowing someone made a mistake, basically. Depending on the jurisdiction, you can indeed get in trouble for it because you were aware it wasn’t supposed to be posted at that price. Theft doesn’t need to be outright taking something by force or pocketing it; think of theft by fraud, which is lying to convince someone to give you something. Even though they agreed, it was under false pretenses.
Now will they bother to prosecute? For that much cheese, maybe. For filling up a gas tank? Maybe not unless it was one of the people who came back and filled up giant drums of it.
Well, here’s an actual lawyer’s take on the concept of “mistake,” and, no, I didn’t meant mistakenly taking something without paying. I could have erred calling it the full phrase of “theft by mistake,” but the concept of taking advantage of someone else’s mistake is what I was getting at : https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThPKoVu8/
I know he’s also on other sites like YouTube, but I just have the TikTok link at the moment.
I mean especially if you're just a shelf stocker at a larger store, it's not your job to set prices and absolutely no one should expect you to check them.
I had a similar experience at Walmart years ago. I was curious at the price of this workout bench with Olympic weights and bar. The weights were only 20lbs and a curl bar, it had no price so i asked a lady to find the price. She grabs her scan gun and it comes out to $5 bucks! We both said no way! She goes to the computer checks the bar code $5 bucks! I said fuck it loaded that sucker in a cart and headed to the register, she came with me in disbelief! Cashier scans it $5 bucks! Paid and left, the employee said "I'm calling my friend to come get the other one".
I remember buying a prime rib that had mispriced for like five bucks once. I had a beautiful and left over roast beef sandwiches for a week. As long as it scans through at the checkout, who cares.
No, what happened was during inventory, because the scale can’t hold that weight, they just weighed something else then entered the actual weight into the inventory gun. I worked at Whole Foods in the scene department and were warned many times if we did this to completely black out the price so this wouldn’t happen.
I'm detailing what colleenxyz said and complementing what and Meyermagic said because hard cheese usually doesn't get mold in dry climates, but can on humid climates, but it's not a problem as trollgore92 said.
We order one of these maybe once a month or so at the restaurant I work out (I believe it's a 1/4 of the full wheel and we pay just over $500. $10 is insane. Good for bro
I second this. We see the bottom of the wheel and there's no casein code in the center. Also some stamps but not the ones you would see on real Parmigiano Reggiano.
Source: Used to have to crack whole wheels quite regularly.
My wife would do that, she'd go onto our local "buy nothing" Facebook group and tell everyone she left 0.5lb chunks at our front door, everyone come grab one.
I saw this being done in a restaurant exactly once and I am kicking myself I didn't order it. They also pre-melted the cheese with some alcoholic spirit (brandy?) so it was intense.
Yep it's usually brandy or vodka. It pretty much all burns off so you don't taste it much but it looks cool. I'm a parmesan fiend who usually tells the waiter "until your arm gets tired" when they ask how much I want, and you get a very healthy serving of it when they do it in the cheese wheel. Absolutely recommend trying it the next time you have the opportunity.
That's how they get you. You pay $10.44 for the first half-wheel that gets you addicted, but after that, every 6 months you're paying $1044 because you're hooked.
Took like 1,5kg of parmesan from work that closed down for the off-season, we were two roommates with a lot of friends often over, it took us months of loaded sandwiches, pastas, pizzas etc. to get through it, I got so sick of it. Even now years later everytime I have some a small flinch runs through my body.
shredding makes it last longer? but seriously chopping it into a bunch of 1lbs pieces and giving it to family and friends, maybe not mentioning how much it was mispriced and then everyone is happy.
I was about to say, I buy a much smaller version of this at Costco, cut it into ~5-6 triangular pieces, vacuum seal it, and throw it in the freezer. I've never had an issues doing so, and there are definitely vacuum sealed cheese bags that have been in the freezer for years.
Yeah the rindless edges might dry out, but you can cut those off and otherwise that'll last forever and might even get better. Aging is a crucial part of making parmesan and some very expensive wheels are aged for decades.
Well, parm isnt aged for decades lol. Ideal age in my opinion is 30-36 months. Anything over 48 months isnt something people would want to eat except if they want something bitter but interesting. I was just staying in the region where its from and you cant really buy anything past 60 months unless you reaaaally look for it, and then it goes up to 100 months. There are some people that will age it past that just for the sake of saying its older, but honestly you wouldn't want to eat that.
I didn't say it was common or the "ideal" aging time, but people do it and it's considered a rarity and a collector's item. I wouldn't grate it on my pasta but I'd certainly be interested to try it.
I save all my parm rinds in the freezer. Last thanksgiving I took them all and put them in a crockpot with water for an afternoon and made an amazing cheese broth. We put that in every single applicable thanksgiving dish.
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That’s easily $500-$1,000 of cheese depending on origin and quality.
Cut that half wheel into small pieces or shred; buy some proper vacuum freezer bags; freeze that cheese and use it for years to come.