I generally don’t place a lot of authority on expiry dates as they are guessed much of the time. However, in the case of this cereal, I think the expiry dates held true as they were definitely stale (the older one more so of course). American Grocer was great as far as communication and super fast shipping, so excellent job with that, though the packaging was a bit informal. But I learned a lesson and I won't buy off date cereal again.