Produce Eaters

[JustShootMe]

OK, we've all snitched a grape or 2 from a bag we're buying. Even feeding a cranky kid a banana to shut them up, I can understand, as long as you fess up & let us weigh another in it's place. But eating cherries and leaving a trail of stems & pits all over the store?!?! What part of YOU ARE STEALING do you not comprehend? What if some lawsuit-happy "victim" slips on a pit? I don't have time to follow your trail of trash down each aisle. GAH!!

[Sulhythal]

What if some lawsuit-happy "victim" slips on a pit? I don't have time to follow your trail of trash down each aisle. GAH!!

Oh they understand it perfectly. if some lawsuit-happy "victim" slips, they'll be targeting the store, not the person chewing!

I don't like it either, especially when they just tuck the peels behind a shelf, or just try to hand the peel to a cashier and beam at them for being honest. Not bringing up another banana to weigh, mind you, just expecting us to charge them the price of the peel I suppose. I especially dislike the ones that open toys FOR their kid to play with, those are often more expensive and mean that if by some chance you CAN'T pay for it, you've ruined it!

[Skeen]

There was a guy eating an apple in the store yesterday. Aside from it being theft, I wanted to yell, "HOLY CRAP do you know how many people have probably touched that apple?!"

[BrenDAnn]

Not only that, but there is currently an outbreak of cyclosporiasis going on, at least around here. That is a food-born illness that, from what I understand, people are getting from unwashed fruits & veggies. Is that snack in the store really worth that? I think not.

[manybellsdown]

When my daughter was little, broccoli was like ... her favorite thing. You could offer her a chocolate chip cookie in one hand and broccoli in the other and it was a 50-50 chance which one she'd pick.

So one day we're at the store, and I'm bagging some peppers, and I notice she's munching broccoli right out of the produce bin. "(Name)!" I yelp, "Stop eating that broccoli!"

Several nearby parents' heads whipped around and I was surrounded by the deadliest glares I have ever seen. One lady huffed "If MY child ate broccoli, I would NEVER tell her to stop!" But ... but ... she's stealing the broccoli, technically. She can eat all she likes after I pay for it. Not that I think the store begrudges me a few bites of broccoli, but obviously I don't want her to think it's okay to just nom out of the bins.

[bainsidhe]

I had a customer once that handed me a bag of mostly stems, and then they told me they'd "changed their mind" and didn't want the grapes.

And sadly the following happened a few times. Some lady (it was always a woman) would ask me to throw away her deli container of eaten chicken wings, without volunteering to pay for it! Then she'd act all huffy and claim she "lost the receipt" the second I asked if she'd like me to ring it up with the rest of her purchase.

I mean really. That sort of obvious theft takes balls. And *big box retail* promotes it because we can't call customers on their crap and managers are nowhere to be seen.

[mikoyan29]

Am I abnormal? I would never think of eating produce in the store. oR for that matter the candy bar before checking out or whatever...sheesh.

[MoonCat]

Me neither, Mikoyan29. I guess we were just raised right or something

[dalesys]

Me neither, Mikoyan29. I guess we were just raised right or something

And if the right hand of wrath didn't wake us up, the left hand of doom would put us out of our misery.

"Mothers hit for effect. Fathers hit for distance. 'Where did our child go?'..."
[/Cos]

[computeraide]

That's ridiculous. Not to mention cherries are way more expensive than bananas and grapes most of the time. They usually run a couple of dollars per pound more expensive than grapes here, minimum. And that's when they're "in season".

[PandaHat]

My mum once caught me eating a grape in a super market and told me that everyone was weighed secretly going in and out of the shop. If you weighed more on the way out then they knew you were stealing and they'd arrest you.

I have never eaten another grape before paying in my life.

[Ben_Who]

The local supermarket used to sell individually-wrapped soft-centered chocolates by the pound from big pick 'n mix containers.

They don't do that anymore.

Part of me suspects that it had less to do with the inconsolable five-year-olds ringing the welkins with their tantrums - there was usually at least one in progress whenever I went shopping - and more to do with the supermarket finding the wrappers concealed all over the store, probably in places where five-year-olds couldn't reach. There is arguably nothing more shameless than a grown man or woman with an entitlement complex and a firm belief that no one's watching.

[M'oh Less]

There is arguably nothing more shameless than a grown man or woman with an entitlement complex and a firm belief that no one's watching.

Quoted for the sheer weight of the truthiness of this statement.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Am I abnormal? I would never think of eating produce in the store. oR for that matter the candy bar before checking out or whatever...sheesh.

Me neither. What the hell is my problem?

[Aethian]

I've had to crack open juice before while shopping. It was one if those trips that dragged cause everyone was out in full force and my meal time got pushed back too far.