Chicken smell

Stop buying terrible, tray-packaged chicken. The smell is usually stronger in previously frozen chicken that sits defrosting in the supermarket case. The absorbent pad beneath the chicken soaks up the drippings; solution-added chickens leak way more fluid than non-enhanced birds.

Go to a store with a butcher case, buy non-tray/non-shrinkwrapped poultry. Voila, no smell. Pay more per pound, but none will be wasted.

I understand that there are better ways to buy chicken but the packaged chicken such as Sanderson's farms is not terrible.

Funny how chicken to me is firs even over fish when it comes to finding it's bad. It doesn't matter what the date on the package says. Chicken can go bad simply by NOT being stored properly.
I once picked up a two pack of whole chickens at Sam's and the date was fine. It wasn't until I got to the checkout and caught a whiff of something really bad. I realized after the cashier had rung up the chicken that it got worse. Here I am sniffing food items and find the chicken really funky bad. I had her take it out, off the bill and went off to wash my hands.
Be careful when buying chicken and get the package that doen't smell. The date could be good but if it wasn't stored properly or it sits on top of those open air coolers it has a better chance of being bad.

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but the packaged chicken such as Sanderson's farms is not terrible.

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Yes it is. Those bloated two pound chicken breasts are not something that occurs in nature.

Go to Maxwell's Market or Whole Foods and get your never-frozen chicken from the display case where it's sitting on a bed of ice. If you're a demanding shopper, ask to sniff it first, especially at MM.