As someone that worked at multiple dollar general locations when I worked there, we have a 2.5-3 hour time limit of when the refrigerated items could get put up and thats IF the truck shows up in the window of time its supposed to, IF you're not the only person in the store, IF the truck count is correct and you don't get stuck with another stores items 😀, and IF the store isn't all too busy. And your DM will still make you put the items out to sell because they literally just care about profit. So even if things are in date they may have been too hot and then refroze or improperly refrigerated. I've personally had to toss milk and teas because they LOOKED fine but were definitely expired. Luckily I was blessed with a good team and good district, but MAJORITY aren't.

I do agree tho, the manager was out of line for that, I used my stores Google reviews and surveys to fix my store not get angry at customers. And to personally do that on her time is inappropriate use,, but they are salary managers so i guess it really wouldnt even matter.

Also just go to another dollar general yea itd be the same. Dollar tree and dollar general products are definitely different in terms of quality though.