Month-old chocolate? Gimme a dozen!
So far, you’ve learned that pastry and cookie stores are crooked in terms of how they deal with charities and how they present their “fresh” goods. You can add chocolate stores onto your list of places to never visit again. The display items they leave in the cases can be several months old. This also includes taste testers. Ew.
But if you do have a craving for chocolate truffles, just as the employee to get you something from the back. It’s almost always guaranteed fresher than the stuff on display, even if it’s not made in-house. Or you can get a Snickers bar from a convenience store.