Grocery Store Nightmares

[Janice]

Ever buy something at a grocery store and when you got it home, it was a piece of crap?

I bought something once in the frozen section and the food inside the box was moldy.

I have bought cans and when I try to open the pull tab on top, it just breaks off and I have to use a can opener to open the can.

[coriolis]

I bought some "fresh" imitation crab meat from the deli that was probably fresh two weeks ago. I took it back and insisted that they get it straight from the freezer.

[angelwing]

My parents went to the store one time, came home, opened the bag up and a bunch of roaches came out...ekkkkkkkkk!

[feederband]

I use to run one....As labor issue continue to get worse and unrealistic profit projections for department managers continue..It will get worse...I have fired people for things you would not imagine...But actually they were fired for the company's faliure's and they were in the end just trying to save their own butt...Glad I'm done with that stuff...

[alicia-w]

mostly bad produce.... you check through the plastic case to see if fruit is fresh, but somehow all the moldy ones are in the middle.... yuck.

and the idiot produce guy who throws ripe avocados away! the ones at our supermarket could be used as a lethal weapon. they're so hard, you could cave in someone's skull! (not my husband's though, his skull is still harder than an avocado...)


also have a problem with getting small eggs in a jumbo eggs carton. seems that at the end of the week, they go through and discard the broken eggs but use whatever to fill up the spaces.... (not a nightmare, though)

[george_r_1961]

I bought lettuce one that had worms in it.

[CajunMama]

George, I thought you were going to say you went on a ETPR and they were out!

[bvigal]

Yes, many times: weevils, mold, rice all gooey with bug residue (ahem, that's the nice name) And can't get money back either.

And, ever get fond of something then the store won't carry it any more? It's hard to figure how, when something is really popular, it can disappear off the shelf and never come back. Modern inventory systems should preclude that. I've learned about "promoters" or exclusive distributors for food labels. They throw a big conference every year and invite store employees and pay all their expenses and show them a really good time. That's fine, that's business.

However, after the conference is over, there are "incentive" prizes for various dollar levels of orders, and they go directly to the employee privately, not to the store. I figure someone I know can get about $1000 of prizes and the trip with lots of take-home loot, every year, maybe more.

No wonder it doesn't matter any more what the customer wants! That is just too much temptation for most employees, and in many other industries, would be considered unethical, at the very least. If the outfit giving the best prizes has a brand that's not as good, it's still going to replace your favorite on the shelf.

Anybody know more about this?

[LSU_Weatherguy]

Was cooking eggs and cracked one open and it was was bad it had a green color to it......Talk about green eggs and ham

[O Town]

I can't really recall purchasing any bad food, but some of those stories you guys are telling are just gross.

A pet peeve I have though are those "resealable" bags of frozen foods, cheese, ect. It always seems like the zipper either breaks or tears when you intially open the bag or if you are lucky enough to still have it and seal it, the next time you go to pull it open and have a second serving the zipper sticks together so well that you pull and pull and then it rips off the one side of the bag and now you have a bag that you have to seal shut the old fashion way anyways.