Can you buy 8 bags of 5lb and rebag them into 5 8lb bags, then return them?
Probably not as you’d need the 8 lb bags.
Also for something like that I don’t think they’re allowed to resell it, so it would also be a jerk move as the potatoes would have to be discarded.
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Ever wonder how stores get their “deli potato salad” materials?
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No, I haven’t.
I’ve heard the same about chicken salad (leftover rotisserie chicken) but I reckon that can only supplement the required amount of chicken needed on a daily basis.
(iPhone suggested I write “on a sailboat basis” 
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In the summer between HS and college, I worked at a factory that made (amongst other things) potato salad. Much of it was shipped to grocery stores and is what you’d get at the deli counter, and they also packaged it under various labels for retail sales. And they made side dishes for KFC.
The potatoes were fresh, and not re-purposed. Many of them were huge, 2-3x the size of what you’d find in a store, because they just don’t care. And if you ever wondered how you might unload a truck containing appx 35,000lb of potatoes, they had the potato ramp.
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At first I thought that was a potato catapult
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They weren’t quite that high tech!
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This was 1996. I was a 17yo summer temp, and they let me have a PC because nobody else wanted it. I could run Windows and knew sort of what Excel was, and they basically thought I was the IT guy.
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Kind of like Tom Hank’s character in the movie Big, no?
No. That’s not what happened in that movie. He was hired to play with toys and tell them which ones were good.
That’s still true in many respects today.
He was promoted to that position after a (brief) stint in data processing . . . along side none other than Jon Lovitz!
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Oh, right.
Carry on.
Most grocery stores won’t take back perishables, except in limited instances.
A few months ago, I bought a package of soup greens. When I got home, I opened them up and they were all slimy and gross; the tiny ‘sell by’ date was for a week before.
Fortunately, I still had the receipt, and they let me exchange it. Especially after they went to the shelf and found two more packages with lapsed ‘sell by’ dates.
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I think this is very store-dependent. Admittedly, I rarely return perishables, and certainly not to scam innumerate pricing. But I’ve never had a problem when I have returned perishables.
Fruit is a gamble. I know that going in.
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Most stores I’ve seen will take back “damaged” goods (perishable or otherwise). It’s just that they can’t “resell” the item.