When it all comes down to it, do you actually return food you find yucky?

So there was this one time where I bought a $6 bag of chicken breasts... 2 of them actually.
I cooked a few up and they were NASTY. Thinking it was just a chance thing, I cooked some more another night. My sister was here, so we used the rest from the 1st bag and started in on the 2nd. More grossness.
That is the first time I ever toted a half empty bag of anything back to the customer service desk at a grocery store and asked for a refund. They thought it was a little weird... but it was honestly sick tasting chicken and $12 is a lot in the way of food!

Funny thing is, once the 1st bag was gone, I was willing to let that $6 go. But the 2nd bag and that it was $12 pushed me over the edge. There was no way I was going to suffer through eating another bag of gross chicken.


I've also experienced an old bag of Nestle Caramel Treasures. I had every intention to call up their customer service and tell them about it. But I never did and the bag got thrown away (I still ate all of the Treasures... they just weren't as good as they should have been).


Last week at Target I picked up some of their Archer Farms Organic fruit strips (in apricot of course).
The first bite was good. And then things went all bitter tasting. And there is a weird bit of oil mixed in there too. Add to the fact that it's more jelly than fruit leather like I was expecting and when I looked at the box, the top ingredient is actually apple juice. Which made perfect sense because they didn't really taste as apricoty as I had expected.
So now I have to decide- do I take the time to return the $3 box of fruit strips that I hate back to the store for a refund? Is it really worth the effort of remembering to take the strips out of my pantry, put them in my car, remember to bring them in to the store (and if it weren't Target, hunt down my receipt), and then take the extra time at customer service to return them?

$3 is a whole bag of caramel Treasures after all...