I understand that somebody has to put bruises and cuts on the fresh fruits and vegetables. That even though the economy is bad, the position of the guy sitting on the end of the truck giving a whack with a ball-peen hammer to each fruit or vegetable as it passes by is critical. Somebody has to do it.
But still, my grocery costs could be dramatically lowered by the elimination of that skilled position and the transfer of their role to the lower-paid baggers. The baggers already have a natural talent for diligently placing my carefully picked out pears and green peppers gently in the bottom of the bag, and then dropping a 28 oz can of diced tomatoes right on the top.
I humbly suggest that your bottom line would be vastly improved by consolidating the role of produce damager into one person, and, even better, a person who can damage produce so that I don’t spot it until you’ve already got my money and I’ve taken it home. My bottom line is improved in that I no longer have to support the purchase of replacement ball-peen hammers as they wear out.
It’s a win-win situation, I think. You save payroll; I can be certain that when I walk out of your store, my purchases will be damaged. Who can ask for more?
I love it. I thought I was the only one who considered the fruits and veggies at St. Louis supermarkets extremely sub-par. Even the little independent market in my town sucks in the produce dept. The only good stuff is at Straub’s but you have to get a payday loan on your car to buy it.:mad:
There’s a “Super Target” that opened near me a couple years back, and I swear they must have hired that same dude to go down the isles and dent every goddamn can in the store.
I guess he moved, the last couple times I was there I didn’t notice any dented cans.
I ordered online a dozen cans of marrowfat peas- I enjoyed them overseas. When they arrived every can was dented. Now, I doubt it was possible for even Australia Post to do this so they came from the seller in that condition. I couldn’t send them back as it was far too expensive. But why unload them on a customer and ensure you will never get repeat business?
I would recommend that they simply repurpose the ball-peen hammer guy, and instead have him smash up their Point-Of-Sale system. Since they never use it anyway.
Both of their stores are always sold out of popular items, or items they’ve put on sale. And complaints to the management elicit the response that, “Oh, guess we couldn’t predict what the demand would be.”
Which tells me they’re not using their POS system, since that’s what it’s for.
And I always go through self-checkout with produce. Or with bread. Anything squishable, really.
Well, the OP’s got a problem then, because demarcation issues mean that only certain people are allowed to use the ball-peen hammer. You can’t just fire the ball-peen hammer guy and give his job to the baggers, because those baggers might not have received the appropriate training on the use of the ball-peen hammer. Baggers are only allowed to destroy fruit and vegetables using 26-oz cans, because that’s what they’ve been trained for.
And if you try to push things, the staff might go on strike, or begin a work-to-rule demonstration, where the ball-peen hammer guy refuses to bash more than three pieces of fruit every five minutes and the baggers insist on placing only one item in each bag, and then double-bagging it.
Obviously your only recourse is to shop and Shop 'N Save. Although they can’t deputize to the baggers, since they don’t have any. I bet they’re experts at bruising the produce, though.
I thought I was the only one who considered the fruits and veggies at St. Louis supermarkets extremely sub-par. Even the little independent market in my town sucks in the produce dept. The only good stuff is at Straub’s but you have to get a payday loan on your car to buy it.:mad:
