I TRIED to get her to save the bacon...

[JoitheArtist]

And now my entire Twitterstream has begun discussing bacon. Who knew that bacon had the same properties as a black hole??

[JoitheArtist]

Bacon chocolate: http://www.zingermans.com/Product.as...FRBbagodjlPvZA

Bacon vodka: http://www.browniepointsblog.com/200...e-bacon-vodka/

Bacon pillow: http://bacontoday.com/the-bacon-shop/

FOR EQ: Bacon brownies! http://bacontoday.com/bacon-brownies/

Bacon brittle: http://www.gratefulpalate.com/?p=Mul...t=Category_123

Bacon bandaids: http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.as...OD&ProdID=1224



I love the internet....but sometimes it frightens me...

[Evil Queen]

Bacon Cinnamon Rolls for SmileyEagle. (He'll do anything for Cinnamon Rolls! ) http://bacontoday.com/bacon-cinnamon-rolls-o/

[dalesys]

Theme song: Bacon -- Mary Liz McNamara: on the CD "One Meat Ball"
(“I’ll kill the porker with my own bare hands”)

[RetailWorkhorse]

But maybe just the thought that bacon lollipops exist is a happy thing?

This is true.

SURELY you can find a way to make maple-bacon cookies...

*Gaaaaaaasp!*

Mmmmm..... Maple Bacon cookies.... *ponders*

DO IT EQ DO IT!

[NightWatch]

I hate to kill the bacon-based off-shoot of this thread.. but if grocery stores are really throwing away that much food daily... I'm dumpster diving to save money from now on...
and on the bacon-cake... My SO's bday is soon, and he hates sweets, so I told him I'd make him a meat cake. I had been joking cuz I didn't think it was possible, but alrighty then... Maybe I'll be making one after all.

[bainsidhe]

I hate to kill the bacon-based off-shoot of this thread.. but if grocery stores are really throwing away that much food daily... I'm dumpster diving to save money from now on...

I know we hear stories about people who make a living out of dumpster diving, but Just. Don't. Do It. At the customer service desk, all grocery claims are lumped into one shopping cart. This includes perfectly good reshops we have to throw away and some no-so-perfectly good (leaking/broken/expired/etc) groceries. Any food not returning to the shelf ends up in this cart...which sits there. And sits there. Until a grocery associate finally retrieves it. By this time, frozen items are dripping and you don't want to think what temperature that meat is. And egads the smell. It's then carted off into the back to be recorded and claimed out, then put into the compactor with other garbage. It is nasty, stinky, oozy, and downright disgusting.

So the moral of my story is....some stores are better for dumper diving than others. Avoid the big retail chains if your looking for dumpster groceries. Eww.

Oh, and while we're on the topic of wastefulness. Our store also dumps (throws away) pet food that idiot customers tear whole in. Since we can't resell them, they're dumped in the trash and thrown away. We have a LOT of damaged pet food each and every day. I weep.

[Evil Queen]

I'm sure Nightwatch just said that to be funny.

[Despina83]

Happened again today. I was there a mere 45 minutes before some lady handed me two frozen dinners and told me she didn't want them. So into the garbage they go. Nice.

[RootedPhoenix]

Bacon pillow: http://bacontoday.com/the-bacon-shop/

Hey RW...! You can eat bacon AND sleep on bacon!

I almost want one for myself....

I love the internet....but sometimes it frightens me...

Quoted for truth. It is both terrifying and hilarious.

And on-topic:
The waste from throwing out what could be saved is horrifyingly awful. On the other hand, people really like suing when things go wrong. I don't know that there's any answer to the problem, other than never having to put anything back, which isn't very realistic.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Cool! Dunno how I'd feel about waking up every morning hungry for bacon, though (I has none! CRAP!).

[Hyndis]

As I've mentioned several times before, my store once carried a small line of groceries--stuff like ketchup, mayonnaise and other condiments, spaghetti noodles and sauce, and cheese, hot dogs, TV dinners and such that had to be frozen or refrigerated.

These items were shipped to us in either this cooler-like container attached to a pallet, or on a shrink-wrapped pallet with a chunk of dry ice inside.

I'm guessing you work at Target? Sounds a lot like the place I worked at...so much so that I wonder if you were one of my coworkers.

We often times got pallets of cold or frozen food items. The day crew would also often times forget to actually put the pallets into the proper storage area. Leaving entire pallets of cold food items in the middle of receiving, next to the line and among the dozens of other pallets for 12 hours? Yeah...not good.

I'd notify the night exec on nearly a daily basis about perishable food items mishandled in such a manner by the day crew. It was everything from items not being handled after being received, items not being backstocked, or being backstocked in the wrong place.

While its better to put the ice cream in the fridge than on the steel on top of the paper pallets, we still gotta toss it. Similarly, put liquids such as milk and orange juice in the freezer? Water expands when it freezes! Yay for even more shrink.

[powerboy]

I still don't see why a clerk can't just be paged and given the item to take back, right then and there.

Exactly. Why couldn't an employee just rush it back there real fast, instead of letting it sit out for a while

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'm guessing you work at Target?

No, but if they ever open a store in my city, I'll jump ship so fast it'll make your head spin.

[Hyndis]

Exactly. Why couldn't an employee just rush it back there real fast, instead of letting it sit out for a while

Understaffed and overworked is the answer.

If employees are constantly running stuff customers leave on the checkstand such that it won't have to be counted as shrink, then the customers would scream bloody murder because of long lines and employees being busy with things other than customers.

Its a full time job to continually run things back from the checkstands, assuming its done on an ongoing basis.