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A lot of our jarred products have "quality seal" stickers around the lid. Nothing fancy, just sticker paper with an extension of the logo sometimes; some are just paper with glue on one side. These things are stupidly easy to tear by accident while unpacking...doing so does not physically affect the product in any way as the lid seal is still intact. I don't even know if people really pay attention to the state of the paper seals, or even notice they exist. These things should be plasticized if they're seen as that important to the producer...
We've suddenly been finding a lot of jars of one specific product (sweet and spicy pickled peppers, actually quite good) with broken seals. Probably one full case worth yesterday. N realized that they're on a low shelf about 'kid height' and the biggest rash of these happened over the last day or two when there have been a ton of kids in (don't get me started about the heelies, scooters and other craziness that should not even be in the space) and said shelf borders the pizza restaurant where parents take the kids. Lots of shiny stuff for bored kids to fiddle with, shredding the paper seals is just a natural progression. While the lack of the paper 'seal' affects the product in exactly no way whatsoever--a lot of our items don't have this--technically we can no longer sell it (unsure of the exact specifics; this city has some weird laws)
J asked the general manager about this, and was told--as we thought--that if the product is unaffected it's fine to sell. Too much of a loss for the store otherwise.
In other news, I scored a couple gourmet chocolate bunnies that broke cleanly enough (looks like they just fell over or were dropped from a very short height) that I can probably just glue them back together with the chocolate from a few really pulverized ones. Experiments to commence on my day off. I was going to suggest doing this to fix them in the store and reshelve (plus I'd get to hide for a few minutes but still do something useful when the floor gets super-crazy), but I don't think the packaging is resealable without a heat-sealing machine. Again, the Bunny Homicide spikes coincide with large numbers of kids in the store. We must have damaged out two cases' worth in the last week alone...they are selling, but I'd be curious about the numbers of sales vs. writeoffs.
We've suddenly been finding a lot of jars of one specific product (sweet and spicy pickled peppers, actually quite good) with broken seals. Probably one full case worth yesterday. N realized that they're on a low shelf about 'kid height' and the biggest rash of these happened over the last day or two when there have been a ton of kids in (don't get me started about the heelies, scooters and other craziness that should not even be in the space) and said shelf borders the pizza restaurant where parents take the kids. Lots of shiny stuff for bored kids to fiddle with, shredding the paper seals is just a natural progression. While the lack of the paper 'seal' affects the product in exactly no way whatsoever--a lot of our items don't have this--technically we can no longer sell it (unsure of the exact specifics; this city has some weird laws)
J asked the general manager about this, and was told--as we thought--that if the product is unaffected it's fine to sell. Too much of a loss for the store otherwise.In other news, I scored a couple gourmet chocolate bunnies that broke cleanly enough (looks like they just fell over or were dropped from a very short height) that I can probably just glue them back together with the chocolate from a few really pulverized ones. Experiments to commence on my day off. I was going to suggest doing this to fix them in the store and reshelve (plus I'd get to hide for a few minutes but still do something useful when the floor gets super-crazy), but I don't think the packaging is resealable without a heat-sealing machine. Again, the Bunny Homicide spikes coincide with large numbers of kids in the store. We must have damaged out two cases' worth in the last week alone...they are selling, but I'd be curious about the numbers of sales vs. writeoffs.
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