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Food Emporium Seafood Counter warning

Yesturday, I purchased a pound of cooked shrimp at Food Emporium. When I got home I opened the shrimp and it had such a rotten smell to it. When I called the store and told them the shrimp was rotten and that they need to remove the shrimp from the case and that I was on my way to return the shrimp, they didn't remove it even after I returned the shrimp. The person at the customer desk asked me what shrimp it was when I showed up even after I told her on the phone which shrimp it was and admitted she could smell it from the bag I brought in. After telling her on the phone to remove the shrimp so nobody else would buy it, they waited till I brought it back and still didn't remove it when I walked out of the store. So I am telling people do not buy their seafood unless you smell it. The seafood counter person obviously doesn't know about seafood and how to handle it. I have worked in 2 local fish markets and this shrimp if bought by a person who doesn't know about seafood and just rinsed the shrimp and then ate it would be in seriousness trouble. Hopefully the health department will intervene. This has happened before to me and will not happen again. I will go some place else. 

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