Thanks for raising food prices

[wolfie]

Was shopping at Real Canadian Superstore today, and stopped by the frozen aisle to get some ice cream bars (hey, it's hot out). In the freezer with the ice cream were a number of items that someone had ditched:

- A pack of burgers (sort of OK, since they're a frozen item)
- A cantaloupe
- A head of lettuce
- A bag of red grapes
- A bag of green grapes

From the condensation in the bags, I could tell they hadn't been in the freezer long, and there was an employee nearby who I told about the problem. Still, produce items don't take long to freeze, and once frozen they're ruined. If you're going to ditch merchandise you don't want, at least ditch it in a section with the same temperature environment you found it in.

[Monterey Jack]

Sadly, too many people just think, "Hey, cold is cold!"

[RealUnimportant]

At least they put the burgers back in a cold environment; I'm sadly accustomed to finding defrosted produce on the regular shelves in my local markets!

[Smapti]

At my store, we refer to stuff customers abandon on the shelf as "plunder". I guess making it sound like you're hunting for treasure helps sooth the anger you feel when you find perfectly good product that's gone bad because someone ditched it in an inappropriate area.

[Lovecats]

I still remember one night zoning in frozen and finding a Halloween Barbie that someone had stashed in a freezer.

[wolfie]

WTF? I could understand an Anna or (especially) an Ilsa doll (after all, Frozen stuff does belong in the freezer), but not a Halloween Barbie.

[Argabarga]

It's her, after Mike Myers kills her and hides her corpse, doesn't get more Halloween than that my friend.

[Gerrinson]

At the old grocery store, we had someone who got several pounds of salmon ditch it by throwing it up onto the top shelf dog food storage.

It took a full week before anyone found the source of the smell. And they had to damage out the entire section due to the leakage that had dripped down.

[MoonCat]

I hate this, and I don't even work in a grocery store! It's so stupid - if you didn't get it FROM a freezer, why the hell would you leave it IN a freezer?? Gahhhhh I hate stupidity!!!

[laborcat]

At the old grocery store, we had someone who got several pounds of salmon ditch it by throwing it up onto the top shelf dog food storage.

It took a full week before anyone found the source of the smell. And they had to damage out the entire section due to the leakage that had dripped down.

Someone did this at the old store by burying a couple packages of hot dogs in the extension cord bin. That stench lasted for weeks until my brave coworker searched section by section to find the source. He said they had liquefied in the plastic. I could have kissed him for finding them; I was pregnant and having to work in that aisle sent me to the bathroom fairly often.

[Aria]

Something like this might explain that time at the Superstore, there was an unexplained stench... and I sniffed the Durian up close. They weren't the problem.

[Lovecats]

WTF? I could understand an Anna or (especially) an Ilsa doll (after all, Frozen stuff does belong in the freezer), but not a Halloween Barbie.

This one is from a few years before Anna or Ilsa. I joked at the time that she had little icicles hanging from her nose.

[siskaren]

It's so stupid - if you didn't get it FROM a freezer, why the hell would you leave it IN a freezer??

Because that's where they were when they decided they no longer wanted it, of course. You can't expect them to hike all the way back to where they actually got it from, do you?

[notalwaysright]

I've found coffee cups stashed behind merchandise before. So far none have smelled, but CWs say that they've found various rotting food left hidden inside displays, like yarn. We don't sell any of these things! If people pick up items and dump them, it could take a while for us to find them. In the meantime, the computer says we have the product, and someone wants to buy it but can't find it.

I would say since we don't have perishables like a grocery store, that a lot of waste is caused by customers opening products. Why do people think this is okay? The other day a lady was looking at a bias tape maker. She had already asked my help once to ask where to find it while I was helping someone else. Now she asks what width strips she needed to use with the bias tape maker. I was again helping someone, so she nonchalantly rips the package open to see. I really wanted to snap at her "you just bought that!" Because now nobody will want it.

[eltf177]

I really wanted to snap at her "you just bought that!" Because now nobody will want it.

You should have!