Nice Try, Lazy Customers

[HawaiianShirts]

We all know that some customers abandon products they no longer want. This is always a problem, but it is even more of a problem when it comes to perishables.

A few of these customers, I've found, will take one small step toward redeeming themselves by abandoning their unwanted perishable groceries in the coolers. It's still cold; it's just in the wrong place.

However, that ceases to be a noble act when temperature isn't fully taken into account.

While grocery shopping yesterday, I saw two blocks of cheese, a pre-packaged sandwich from the deli case, and a bag of baby carrots abandoned in the ice cream freezer.

I did notify an employee, but I'm afraid it was already too late.

[LillFilly]

I once found a couple of dripping t-bones behind the cereal!

The manager I told was pretty pissed.

[HYHYBT]

The cheese should be OK, at least.

[Erin]

I used to find (dripping) ice cream containers in our yarn bins when I worked in WalMart's fabric department.

The floral aisle of the fabric department seemed to also be the dumping grounds for the shoplifters. I found packaging for all sorts of stuff in that aisle along with a lot of stuff people dumped because they didnt want to walk back to where they got it from.

[Midnight12]

and people wonder why costs are so high at some stores because it costs ALOT in shrinkage to lose things like baby carrots every day and t-bones in the cereal aisle.

alot of it is in vegetables because of what has to be thrown away.

[Dave1982]

During my grocery store days, the two most memorable incidents like this were

-A 2 liter bottle of soda frozen solid (yet somehow not blown up) in the ice cream case

-a live lobster in the bread aisle.

[Kogarashi]

On a recent shopping trip last week, I encountered packaged meat on a shelf amidst all the bags of sugar. I made sure to tell an associate as soon as I spotted it. She didn't look happy.

My most memorable "find," aside from all the random frozen and meat products tucked into the candy/magazine racks at the checkouts, was a full gallon of milk hidden behind the beach towels in the summer seasonal aisle. That is deliberate.

[ralerin]

-a live lobster in the bread aisle.

What the? How did that poor lobster survive? Unless it didn't and had to be thrown out.

[elsporko]

During my grocery store days, the two most memorable incidents like this were

-A 2 liter bottle of soda frozen solid (yet somehow not blown up) in the ice cream case

-a live lobster in the bread aisle.

That lobster was just trying to escape.

[Seshat]

Ice cream in with deli products.

And I think all of us regulars have taken to telling employees when we spot the nasty ones. I've reported meat just about everywhere, now.

[Flying Grype]

I... okay... when someone buys a live lobster from the seafood section, how is it packaged? Is it just loose, sitting there in the baby seat? Is it in a bag of water like a goldfish?

I'm a vegetarian and before that we didn't have money for lobster so I have no idea how this works. It seems like someone pulled an expensive prank.

[SongsOfDragons]

I... okay... when someone buys a live lobster from the seafood section, how is it packaged? Is it just loose, sitting there in the baby seat? Is it in a bag of water like a goldfish?

I'm a vegetarian and before that we didn't have money for lobster so I have no idea how this works. It seems like someone pulled an expensive prank.

Live lobster is generally sold with rubber bands on 'is claws, to stop him from snapping.

[Dragonfly369]

lobsters get put into a bag sometimes with a little ice... before they make it to the bag you fish them out of the lobster tank and make sure the bands are on tight. I used to work deli..im female i was 19 at the time and didnt care for the way they looked at me..but the guys i worked with wouldnt touch the things except to drop them in a bag so people tended to ask me to check the bands. I just hate opening a fridge and seeing the poor things stareing at me with the claws and antenne waving at me like white flags.