Supermarket foul

[Undertoad]

I was at the supermarket yesterday (Giant) getting salad at a salad bar, and this guy in front of me -- not a salad bar customer but headed down the aisle -- brazenly reached over and grabbed a bunch of ham chunks, and continued to walk along, casually eating them.

With the tongs, thankfully. He didn't reach his bare paw into the ham bin. But he used the tongs to put the ham into his other, bare paw, and proceeded down the aisle, munching on them as he pushed his cart along.

Before he did it, he made a little glance around, looking for anyone who'd object. I think he did not see me 10 feet behind him, or figured it was a quick enough move that I wouldn't notice.

As I was trying to put together a salad at that point, it was pretty foul. I mean, I continued to get my salad and then eat it...

At the peak of my loser white-guy-ism I would never stoop so low. But I think I see what goes on. This particular Giant is falling in quality. You can tell by how the meat section is handled, by expired dairy items on the shelf. By the low light levels at the salad bar!

I've been in the supermarket industry, I've seen systems working and what happens when people can't get it done. Now the feeling transfers, from the store managers to the store workers to the customers. The customers say to themselves, if you don't give a shit, I'm not going to give a shit.

It's a failure of low expectations.

It's a little further out of my way, but I'm going to the Wegman's permanently from now on. That's how it works, Giant. This wasn't a failure of your customer. He's a foul example of a human being, but he wouldn't pull that at Wegman's. It's super well-lit and everyone gives a shit.

[Happy Monkey]

There is a brand spanking new Giant in my neighborhood, and from day one the hot bar was disgusting looking. Their cook doesn't know how to make recipes that hold up on a hot bar, and/or they leave things out there FAR too long.

Plus, their fruit usually spoils quickly.

I go to Whole Foods for anything that's not prepackaged going in to the store.

[glatt]

This applies to so many other things as well.

I have the Arlington County phone app that lets you report minor infrastructure problems. I freaking love the power it gives me to come across some punk's graffiti tag sprayed on a sound barrier wall. I take a picture, open the app, enter the street address, upload the picture, and in two or three days the graffiti is gone. This is a neighborhood with high expectations, punk, and you don't own it. I do.

They are way more responsive to photos than to words in that app.

I've repaired potholes, installed a missing one way street sign, cut back a bunch of undergrowth that was eating a sidewalk I use regularly, and removed lots of graffiti, all by taking pictures and tapping on my phone screen a bit.

High expectations.

[xoxoxoBruce]

So you revel in crushing the hopes and dreams of the next banksy.

[footfootfoot]

The broken window theory in action; if your store is all up front and touching, then people will follow suit.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I was at the supermarket yesterday (Giant) getting salad at a salad bar, and this guy in front of me -- not a salad bar customer but headed down the aisle -- brazenly reached over and grabbed a bunch of ham chunks, and continued to walk along, casually eating them.

I do hope he paid for it!!!!!

Im sorry you had to see this rudeness..........

[Clodfobble]

When I was a toddler, my father would always let me have three grapes at the grocery store--"one for each hand, and one for your mouth." I don't remember when he stopped doing it, but I remember being maybe 10 or 12 and suddenly remembering our little ritual, and realizing for the first time that we'd been stealing. I was horrified.


We have an online form where you can report small road issues, but I reported something over a month ago (lane markers that are not painted at all, clearly the truck missed this section of the street somehow when they came through the first time) and it still hasn't been fixed.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Before he did it, he made a little glance around, looking for anyone who'd object. I think he did not see me 10 feet behind him, or figured it was a quick enough move that I wouldn't notice.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

When I was a toddler, my father would always let me have three grapes at the grocery store--"one for each hand, and one for your mouth." I don't remember when he stopped doing it, but I remember being maybe 10 or 12 and suddenly remembering our little ritual, and realizing for the first time that we'd been stealing. I was horrified.

Clodfobble is Lisa Simpson...