Dollar Store: Hazardous To Your Health?

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Sep 21, 2009 3:00PM

Flesh-eating bacteria. Swine flu. The plague. We have enough to worry about these days, let alone what dangers are lurking for us when we stop by the Dollar Store. Thankfully, CBS 2 is there to alert us to the creeping hazards that await us in the aisles of the discount departments.

CBS 2 also found old medicine that you would not want to bring into your home. A Family Dollar children's painkiller expired in May 2009, but that medicine was bought on Aug. 26, three months after it expired...

When asked why children's vitamins were sold on Aug. 29 that expired in March, an employee said he had to look into it. He had no idea.

Not to sound like jerks, 'cause we know times are tough are all over, but if you're reduced to buying medicine at the Dollar Store and you don't even bother to check the expiration date, well, you get what you pay for. Personal responsibility, folks.