text: Expiration date Exmuration datepshawnnThe Market Outlet in the Strip is what I endearingly call Scratch and Dent and quite often you will find canned goods that fit that description to a Tand frankly who cares The only people who care would still be operating under the oldschool notion that a dented can means botulism When that was true cans had not been developed to their current statennNext up would be best if sold by dates How many packages of food do you have sitting on your shelves at home that are WAY past the best if sold by dates that you still open eat and do not even think aboutnnExactlynnWhat the Market Outlet specializes in with the possible exception of their produce is special buys of bulk products that some other store or company could not sell because they were dented crushed or past the sellby dates Maybe products that were discontinued But the bottom line is that there is a MUCH tinier bottom line so the products are actually priced to sell andat prices that they should have been sold for in the first placennAnd I LOVE itnnThere are plenty of staples to be stocked up on like pastas pasta sauces and other various fruit and veggie canned good And without the Giant Eagle price gouge You can actually still get two boxes of macncheese various brands two for a dollar A big bag of pasta that the twisted greed bird would sell for is also cents herennSnacks sauces breakfast good coffees sodas frozen goods I have actually seen big freezer bags of Wendys chicken and just today Mac Friesyesthe fries specially bioengineered for McDsnnSome of their special buys are awesome Like being on a nocarb diet again there was an entire shelf of canned squid and octopus in various oils and sauces No doubt either past date or discontinued cents each I stocked up Now I have an awesome nocarb snack in the pantrynnThey also get in some stocks of personal care items like crushed tubes of toothpaste So I will put my finger over the crack and use the tube of RiteAid priced toothpaste for a bucknnAbout the only thing I have found there that was a little unusable after its pastduedate were toilet tablets They would kind of lost their solidity which made them dissolve much more quickly in the tanknnSpices herbs extracts flours nonstick sprayswhy pay full retail for these staples when you can get them for what they are actually worth in perfectly fine condition The produce I would recommend eating up a little more quickly than you might something from the petrified produce section at the Market District Then there are cleaning supplies things like aluminum foil zip lock bags paper towels etc NONE of which come close to being priced at standard grocery store pricesnnIts an amazing placelike stepping back in time to where grocery shopping should have STAYED in regard to prices and profits nnAnd besideshow cool is it to buy cans of crushed tomatoes and crushed pineapple that look like exactly that Two cansslightly crushednnNow I am sure the Fox Chapel and Sewickley crowds would poopoo any notion of setting foot in the place However for the rest of us who have to live within realistic and ration meansthis is a mini dented gold mine maybe slightly long in the tooth but so well worth the weekly visit