That's Not Safe Around Food

[purplecat41877]

Yesterday, I had just cleaned the belt and a customer came up wanting to be rung up but she didn't want to put her items on the belt so she handed them to me. She asked to see what I used to clean the belt so I showed her. She told me that spray wasn't safe around food. She even mentioned some stuff that would be safe and I ended up removing each bottle from the register and put them behind the service desk.

I told one of the service desk employees what the customer had said. She told me that the company had approved the stuff that was used to clean the belt and luckily she didn't make me put all the bottles back.

[Bright_Star]

So you assumed the customer was telling the truth? Should have nodded your head & said.."yeah, yeah' & kept those bottles where they were. Nothing like a know-it-all customer to tell staff what to do.
You could have gone to management & asked them if you weren't sure. But to assume a customer is on the up & up? That's a good one...lol.

[Hanzoku]

Out of curiosity, what was in the spray that concerned you?

[bainsidhe]

Let's use bleach as an example. Poisonous and you certainly don't want it in your food. Yet this is a perfect agent to clean and sanitize.

Besides, aren't most groceries in some kind of packaging to begin with? And produce should really be washed before consuming anyway...

[XCashier]

And produce should really be washed before consuming anyway...

Anybody with an ounce of sense would put their produce in the plastic bags provided in that section before bringing them to the register and putting them on the belt. But I see so many other customers putting tomatoes, apples and other edible-skinned produce on the belt, with no thought to what else goes on the belt (bleeding packages of meat, leaking milk or detergent bottles, etc.). I just don't understand it.

[Food Lady]

I do just that, to save bags from the landfill. Produce is gonna get washed before I eat it. I'm still alive.