I recently bought some chicken thigh fillets at our local Woollies that were on “special” at $11/kg without asking what the use by date was, for a recipe my wife wanted to try.
I then went to Coles and bought a 500gm pack of Lilydale free range chicken breast slices which were marked down from $10.90 to a mere $1.50 as they were Best Before that day.
We cooked the Lilydale chichen the next day instead of the Woollies chicken and it was still perfectly fresh.
The following day, I used the Woollies thigh fillets to cook a curry and they seemed to be not quite fresh after a mere 2 days.
It was obviously just another Woollies scam of promoting short dated stock as specials instead of markdowns.
Yesterday, I bought some barramundi fillets at Woollies as I had seen them in the catalogue on special and I asked the employee what the use by date was.
Unlike the previous time, they were actually fresh.
