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Originally Posted by Velvet
I agree. Thanks for posting this information. Shop lifting is serious. But I had no idea before reading about Florida rules that changing a broken egg in a carton can also be called shop lifting. What about when they sell you rotten tomatoes. Is that called Buyer lifting?
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"Changing a broken egg" requires that you get its replacement from somewhere. If you're getting it from another carton on the shelf, then you are depriving the next customer of a whole dozen eggs.
There are a couple of things you can do if you see a broken egg in a carton.
You can: let an employee nearby know, and let them deal with it (or not).
Get the carton you want, that has 12 whole intact eggs, and leave the one with the broken egg(s) on the shelf.
Take a carton with no broken eggs for yourself, and take the carton with the broken eggs to customer service or the dairy department manager.
What Publix does, is they'll replace eggs from "broken cartons" with good eggs from other "broken cartons," so the end result is a dozen broken eggs all together, and a few dozen good eggs that can then be sold. They keep them within the same batches so none of them are older than the others.
Then they damage out the cartons that have all broken eggs in them.
I only buy the free-range eggs from "Happy" and "Handsome" eggs. I expect that within the carton of "large" eggs, I'll find one or two that are "jumbo" or "extra large." They're also not uniform in color; some will be darker than others, some will be speckled. Once in a blue moon I'll find a medium in there but it balances out with the extra-larges that end up in the carton. I'll wait til I have a recipe that calls for 2 large eggs and use that lone medium with one of the extra-larges, and problem solved.
Baking is not an "exact" science, but it's damned near close
