Eating Bulk Items Before Paying

[LillFilly]

http://www.etiquettehell.com/?p=2569

Another site about not only customers, but family, friends, children, etc.

I would have called-out the piggy family big time!

[mikoyan29]

In what world is this okay? But then again, there are people that eat produce before getting it weighed as well. I guess that's why many stores are going to pre-packaged produce.

[Eisa]

Wow. You know, in some cases I can excuse a lil grazing [as long as the store is ok with it].

But NOT when the final price depends on how much it weighs and you just ate that much! What the fuck?!

[PepperElf]

i think the mother did that on purpose - hoping to get the price down on what she wanted.

and someone on the page suggested "what can the clerk do?" ... the clerk can call the police that's for sure. they may also be allowed to lock the doors to bar the escape since... it's citizen's arrest at that point, not "kidnapping"

[tropicsgoddess]

Not cool..at all.

[Kanalah]

Ugh.

And my grandmother picks a bag of grapes and grazes while she shops. She's gotten sick twice from eating unwashed produce.

[Caveat Emptor]

My mom has told me that she has chided people for eating from the bulk bins and more often than not is either given an eye roll or told to mind her own business.

When I was very young my mom would give me a cookie from the bakery to eat while we were shopping, but she always paid for it at checkout.

People should be required to weigh their items in the bulk food section. IIRC that's the way it works at Wegmans.

[BookstoreEscapee]

People should be required to weigh their items in the bulk food section. IIRC that's the way it works at Wegmans.

I've never bought from the bulk section at Wegmans, but they do have scales in the produce section where you can weight your stuff and print out a label with a bar code for the cashier. I suppose if you weighed your grapes or whatever first and printed a label, you could then munch them while you shop and still pay for the correct amount. You don't have to do it, but having the barcode for them to scan makes checking out that much quicker. (And you know exactly how much you're spending, which is nice. When I think to do it.)

Personally, I would never eat unwashed produce while shopping. Everyone and their brother has probably touched half of it.

[PepperElf]

You also weight your produce at wegmans too... you put it in a baggie, put it on the scale, type in the code, hit print and then the cashier just scans the number.

The problem is... some people cheat by holding on to the bag to lift it slightly and make it weigh less.

i never saw it but dad said he saw a woman doing that.

[Carsomyr]

Down here it's common practice to get a pre-priced bag of bread rolls and give one to your kid to keep their hands busy. I wouldn't mind if it didn't seem to encourage worse behaviour. >.<

None of that behaviour seems to have our stores turning to pre-packaged produce and sweets. The rest of us just get to pay increasing prices instead.

[LillFilly]

It reminded me of the bulk candy at my old movie theater. It was priced about 4.95 per 1/4 lb, but people just saw 4.95 and assumed if was by the lb or by the bag (a quarter lb is about how much most would get; who needs more for a movie?), so they'd end-up with a 3-lb bag of mixed candy, complain it was too much, and try to redistribute the candy back into the bins. Uh, no. Your gummy bears have been in contact with the peanut m&ms and the malted milk balls have been touching the recess pieces. BIG contamination there. It was not unusual to spoil-out a couple lbs of candy a night.

Good news, we employees got to split it amongst ourselves

[cindybubbles]

I wouldn't go as far as that woman. She should pay first, pig out later!