Freedom
01-17-2008, 05:36 PM
I went to my local supermarket this evening, needed turkey at the deli counter. Not only for us, but both Sugar and Marlin are on pills 3 times per day just now and you know what they take the pills with, right? :rolleyes:
So the Sara Lee turkey is $6.99 per pound in the display case, where they have all the precut meat. No, I want the lower priced store brand which is USUALLY the one in that case. With the worker's help, we track it down and it is $4.99. Yup, fine, I'll take 3/4 pound.
So he opens one up, plops it on the slicer and cuts some. Brings it over to the scale, and it is .94 pounds, so he takes some off. Scale drops to .71 pounds and I tell him that is OK.
Before I realized what he was doing, he put the 3 freshlycut slices he over cut down the disposer!!!
WAIT! He said they only keep the excess slices for which ever one is in the display case, the presliced one. As this wasn't in that case, there is no way to "KEEP" the over cut, so it gets thrown. He said it happens all the time, all day long, turkey, ham, all the items in the deli.
I was horrified, I said I wished he had at least informed me and asked if I wanted any extra! And this happens in hundreds of thousands of delis all over the country????!!!!!
The rest of my shopping trip I was a bit dazed, thinking of all the food being thrown while our Food Bank goes begging.
I had NO idea; can't remember the last time I bought something which was not in the display.
So the Sara Lee turkey is $6.99 per pound in the display case, where they have all the precut meat. No, I want the lower priced store brand which is USUALLY the one in that case. With the worker's help, we track it down and it is $4.99. Yup, fine, I'll take 3/4 pound.
So he opens one up, plops it on the slicer and cuts some. Brings it over to the scale, and it is .94 pounds, so he takes some off. Scale drops to .71 pounds and I tell him that is OK.
Before I realized what he was doing, he put the 3 freshlycut slices he over cut down the disposer!!!
WAIT! He said they only keep the excess slices for which ever one is in the display case, the presliced one. As this wasn't in that case, there is no way to "KEEP" the over cut, so it gets thrown. He said it happens all the time, all day long, turkey, ham, all the items in the deli.
I was horrified, I said I wished he had at least informed me and asked if I wanted any extra! And this happens in hundreds of thousands of delis all over the country????!!!!!
The rest of my shopping trip I was a bit dazed, thinking of all the food being thrown while our Food Bank goes begging.
I had NO idea; can't remember the last time I bought something which was not in the display.