re: Would you return meat to a grocery store if it expired before the "sell by" date

I did this at Publix before. Wife bought a picnic roast, and it smelled a little funny when she put it in the crock pot. The smell got much, much worse when it was cooking, and she ended up dumping the whole thing in like 2-3 trash bags after only cooking for a couple hours. She had the package still in the top of the kitchen trash can, and the sell by date was almost a week out. She called them and told them about the smell, and they said to bring in either the receipt or the package, and they would swap it out or refund it. She got some managers name she talked to, and I asked for him when I got there. Showed him the package, and he got me another one. In and out in less than 5 minutes.