I was training this new team member, giving some pointers on checking expiry dates. I was telling them this - that it's absolutely mandatory to check expiry dates for bakery (3), produce (22, 29), fridge (21, 25), whereas it's ok to occasionally check them for grocery (1) and freezer (31); that's when my coworkers stepped in and told me that we need to check for grocery and freezer too. I was of the notion that dry goods generally have a long shelf-life anyways, and frozen items are literally in the freezer so naturally their expiry date would be far in the future.

So online pickers, do you check expiry dates for every single grocery item that you pick off the shelves, including for multiple items (e.g., 30 cans of tuna, 20 packets of UHT milk)? How do you keep up your pick rate while checking for these?

I apologise in advance if I'm in the wrong, and I'm really open to changing my ways.