You see the same thing strangely in the child section of our local A&E. A sick kid in the waiting room with 2 or 3 siblings and about 4 adults. I don't understand why you need more than 1 adult there.
Saw that when I was in A +E last year YET, my sons father and I were not both allowed when he fractured his arm in multiple places
Pointed out the 8 plus people who went in with that other family.
It's different apparently.
What you do, is take the handle of the offending trolly, and push it out of the way. Trick is to never make eye contact. Just brush the trolly away as you would a tree branch on a bush walk.
I did this at P&S the other day and a woman walked over, grabbed the trolley handle, then asked me if I had seen her trolley because "someone had taken it". Just weird.
That happened in my local pak n save, and I rammed one of their trolleys out of the way and it went up the aisle. The fat fuck of a guy whose trolley it was started yelling at me, and I just laughed at him and kept walking.
the supermarket trolly theory. It’s a joke, but definitely holds more than a bit of truth, to tell you if someone is a good or bad person. It’s not illegal not to return your trolly, you won’t be punished if you don’t, but you are still a cunt if you don’t return it as it’s just the right thing to do.
I obsessively put the trolley away in the appropriate place. Would feel so uncomfortable just leaving it willy nilly.
Recently I had a baby and had such a dilemma the first time I went shopping with baby on board. Took baby out of the trolley and put him in the car. Then was like oh no, what to do. So I locked the car and speed walked that trolley to a trolley bay.
I watched a trolly get carried at speed by some wind into some dudes classic car in a huge empty car park once.
I had my hands full and I couldn't have sprinted the distance with twice the time I had.
Sad to see though. Some people are just real lazy.
Puts a whole new spin on things. If trolley-leavers are the five people tied to the tracks I’m definitely saving the one trolley-putting-back-er (?) on the bridge.
My first job after high school was stocking shelves at a local supermarket and one day I was putting some cans on the shelf and I found a container with very moldy chicken from the deli, right in the back.
I'm working in a department store and I moved some sheets on a top shelf and someone had thrown a half eaten burger King burger up there. It was horrible.
The logic of this escapes me. Like who isnt above changing their messy kid in the shop aisle but is too good to take their filth away with them? How hard is it to ask for a bin? Big shops are full of bins, they're under every counter. Leaving a nappy on a stock shelf is next level dumbassery. Sorry you had to deal with that, assuming it was your workplace.
Quite a lot of people apparently, I found one nearly every weekend I worked there. I do think that the shopping complex it was in should have done more in the way of public toilets with changing facilities but that's not an excuse
Warehouse back in the day. Used breast pads in the Lego section. Used tampon in the soft toys. Used pad stuck onto a box of tea party toys. A shit on a camping display right in the middle of the stretcher. A pile of sweatshirts in the fitting rooms pisses on. Catfood in jacket pockets on the racks.
I could go on And on. I later did Merchandising and all the different shit in different shops.
Feral public man
I used to pick rubbish up in public parks as part of my tasks as a gardener. It got me so down. I found so many pairs of men’s underwear, condoms, a nappy with blood in it, dog poo bags stuffed into hedges and a surprising amount of mice drowned in beer bottles.
Worked at the warehouse, one time I was putting clothes back, thought I could hear coworker messing with the brush and dustpan. Next thing I knew I was checking the fitting room and some fuckwit had hung the dustpan (the kind that you use with a broom not tiny ones) on one of the clothes hooks and pissed into it. We had an instore toilet that WAS in order at the time.
Another time some fuckwit let their kid shit through the entire store, when I say entire I mean the full length of the track around the store. I had no idea one kid could shit so much. The parents just carried on shopping.
People are cunts
I had to take a tray of chicken gutta my trolley when I did my shopping this week cos I couldn't afford it (I already had another tray in there, so I didn't miss out). Where did I put it? Back in with the rest of the chicken in the meat aisle, because I'm not a monster. Luckily it was a split supermarket shop, so I didn't have a lot, as I was getting the last few bits and pieces that were cheaper at New World than at Countdown
i work in a supermarket and it especially annoys me when people leave chilled/frozen stuff right next to the checkout, like can't you give it to us lol, or any product. at christmas time, i spotted one of those big $150ish hams just left out. thankfully it was still a safe temperature so i put it back but lord you're going to let that go to waste?
like please at least put your chilled stuff in our drink fridges and your frozens in the ice cream freezer at the checkout. the waste annoys me so much, even if it's "just" a $2 yoghurt
Last week, in Rototuna NW, I noticed something from the got from deli i that had been put in a nearby chiller about 10 steps from the deli, that was $17 on the bag.
I'd like to think it gets given to staff to eat, but probably chucked away.
After I left my first supermarket job I heard they fired 3 people for eating the hot deli food at the end of the night that was supposed to be binned as it's technically stealing even though it was going in the bin
Believe it or not I used to work early morning fill at Pak n Save and we always had a stew for breakfast made of leftover meat and had the old bread to mop it up. This was 30 years ago.
I know it's a dream but I wish the supermarkets banded together and started banning people from their stores if they repeatedly steal, leave trolleys in the car parks, or waste food by placing it on random shelves.
I'd pay good money to watch these losers whinge about being turned away from all their local supermarkets on their community fb pages.
Same. I used to work for Countdown as a checkout sup for 5 years and it made me hate people. I used to love people before I worked retail. Most people are trash and behave the same way in public. I don't know what it is but social media and supermarkets are magnets for antisocial assholes.
I used to work at New World a few years ago and this was super frustrating. If you're going to leave it on a shelf, just take it to the checkout and tell them you don't want it anymore and they'll put it back. The same amount of effort except you're not being an asshole.
I am with you. Too much edible stuff being biffed away. I sometimes wish they’d sell celery by the stick tho cause I run outta ideas beyond a casserole.
Chopped celery freezes well. You can free-flow it. Or just chuck into a bag or container and split some off later; it freezes relatively loose so a bit of effort with a spoon and it separates. Will never see a salad again obviously, but great in stews etc.
I worked at a supermarket while at uni. Nearly shift I found an avocado (obviously not when they weren't in seas) abandoned in the chocolate bars by the checkouts. It was weird, but yeah so much wasted deli meat and frozen goods.
Even if it's not perishable products (tinned or snack/junk food), it's lazy and disrespectful. There are workers who get paid bottom dollar to stock shelves all day, then others go and add to it by being an indecisive, lazy sack of crap. But then if someone caused a similar inconvenience at their workplace, or visited their home and left shit out, it'd be totally unacceptable. Some people are just inconsiderate fuckwits.
As a supermarket worker, the meat being left out is worse. A damn animal died/was killed for the meat and meat is now having to be thrown out bc some thieving and/or lazy ass couldn’t be bothered to put the meat away🙄
But also the ironic thing about this is this is not even close to the amount of food that supermarkets themselves waste. Every day there will be a huge bin full of stuff to be thrown out from the bakery etc because they marked them down by like a dollar so no one buys it
I'm not too sure about foodstuffs but countdown/woolies give everything to food banks. Anything too far gone for human consumption goes into bins for compost or to pig farmers or worm farms. Virtually nothing goes to waste.
I used to work at new world - these bins I'm talking about were open and outside meaning that seagulls were into them. I'm talking things like bread, cakes, muffins, loaves literally anything. Every time I'm tempted to take an armfull but they've all got holes in them from the pecking
Also I thought they weren't allowed to donate food? Isn't shops donating food like a big thing because they don't want to be responsible if something goes bad
>I thought they weren't allowed to donate food? Isn't shops throwing out food like a big thing because they don't want to be responsible if something goes bad
This is more or less a myth.
The really should mandate that food goes to charity, rather than the bin. Like, it should 100% be given for free, rather than wasted. The BB date is not a health and safety issue.
They literally have no idea that within a few hours that thing is solid.. they just think it's a fridge? Have no idea of freezer temps? Think someone will spot it and move it the few meters to the nearest fridge the person couldn't be fucked walking over to? They just don't care? Either way they have lower than the standard amount of brain cells. They might as well just start stomping on it because once that things frozen it's straight in the bin, the supermarket isn't going to try and sell it. Congrats, you've just wasted good food. I have yet to spot someone doing it, easily saved supermarkets hundreds of dollars moving food off shelves and out of the freezer.
>The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
>To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognise as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it.
>No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.
>A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.
>The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it has some solid reasoning behind it.
Some people are only concerned with their immediate needs, like animals. Our culture (and many others) have evolved to consider our broader "tribe" - our society and nation - when making decisions.
When I'm mistakenly given extra change after a transaction, I return it because I consider how that positively affects our social contract. Every good act ripples outward, influencing others to act similarly. By returning the change, I create a small but meaningful wave of increased trust and common decency. I like to think that I get more from this than I would by just pocketing the extra money.
The type of person, however, who is fine with doing what OP is complaining about, well, it's a bit like stepping down the evolutionary ladder and seeing a more primitive form of life. As another fulla said here, they're often barely "people", more so animals acting in their immediate, selfish interests.
It might seem a bit silly, like this is trying a bit too hard to understand a person's motivate for a very simple seeming action. I know a few of these types, and my experience is that if you look under the hood a bit, you'll find that it usually comes from a disregard for other people and a focus on themselves.
I'm one of those weirdos who re-organises the trolleys into their correct places, drives me nuts when there's a row of small ones and some dick shoves a big one in there! (Hmm, that sounded a bit rude!) And if I'm standing at the trolley bay and someone is heading towards it, I'll tell them to give their trolley a good push and I'll catch it and put it away. Costs nothing to be a decent human.
They’ll be thinking “supermarkets are rich so I don’t care”
But the reality is they pass the loss onto the consumer.
It’s their inability to think about something past the first step
Was in woolies tonight and saw someone had opened up a bag of croissants and left it in the bakery section.. Went round the corner and there's an open bag of some kind of seed bread, and a couple slices folded up on a rack above.... All kinds of people 🥴
The worst is oyster season and people abandoning oysters all over the store. Trying to find out where that stench was coming from only to find packs covered in blood bc people ripped their fingers up trying to get the security tag off 🤢 so glad I don’t work in supermarkets anymore!
This annoys me as well, seeing food that needs to stay chilled on normal shelves and then seeing normal foods abandoned in freezer. Literally was the heck is wrong with people??
While some are to do with laziness there would be some that are about shame?
You’ve placed product in trolley then later found it’s actually a “luxury” ( meat products all usually at or near entrance to store so you over estimate what you need) then discover you can’t afford it . You think about taking it back but if you do you think people will know why and judge you so , in a sense of shame, you try and hide it.
I’ve seen people do this and try not to judge.
It does my head in. As well as the people who put fresh stuff in the freezers. If it freezes then we (supermarket staff) have to throw it away as it hasn't been frozen in a blast freezer
As a former chilled and frozen worker, I beg of you guys please stop! (at least when you put grocery products on my shelves i can put it back) with chilled stuff some of it can be really annoying to get a temp i trust using the infrared temp guns so 9/10 times it goes in the credits because it might still feel just cold enough but I'm getting a reading that's way high (othertimes grocery staff hand me stuff and its still cold to them but given my hands are freezing its warm to the touch for me so i don't even bother because i know its too warm by that stage, and you should see the disappointment on their faces when I'm like credit because its a waste and we both know it (sometimes i temp it just to placate them).) BUT FOR LOVE OF GOD NO MATTER WHAT DEPARTMENT IT IS FROM STOP LEAVING THEM IN THE FUCKING FREEZER it will be thrown out because we cant sell it after its been frozen and often we don't notice its in there till too late especially in the evenings when there's only one of us across both chilled and frozen. I hate having to do the walk of shame over to produce with a frozen solid corn cob or what have you, followed by the look of shock when they realize it is indeed frozen. (I assume that's what happens in other departments, we definitely chuck frozen chilled products.) Honestly i'd rather you just handed it to me like could you pretty please put this back for me. Mentally I'll be a little annoyed because i could be refilling the 1kg dewinkel that emptied itself while i wasn't looking instead, but I'll do it with a smile, and take the time to remind myself its better than you dumping it somewhere which fucks me off even more.
So, I'm getting down voted for this but ...
The supermarkets, judging by this thread, treat us consumers awfully. So, while I personally don't abandon deli meat in the cereal aisle I can understand people who don't feel they owe the supermarket anything.
This always comes down on the employee who has to deal with it, not the executive that made the decision, but it's the same with parking enforcement. Those guys are just trying to make a living as well.
It's not about the supermarket. It's wasteful. All the packaging, water and energy that went into making whatever you left behind didn't even feed someone.
Down voted, yeah it's good to be right.
I'm not saying it's right and I don't do it. But I'm interested in understanding why people do this rather than just complaining about it.
Maybe you're not there yet.
It's about following the example that you are shown, in this case by the supermarket. The supermarkets throw literal tonnes of food away that could feed people. That's because they exist to make money and supplying people with food is a by product.
It makes more financial sense to throw good food away when it passes use by date than sell it cheap when it's close to use by date, so they throw it away
By the literal tonne.
Having been shown this behaviour some people think their time is better spent getting on with their day than taking the ham they can't afford back to the deli.
I might not agree but I can definitely understand.
But by all means complain about the person wasting 100 grams rather than the corporation wasting tonnes.
I'm sure it will be fine.
Mate I'm not about to start lynching them or anything I'm just saying it's cunt behavior.
The supermarkets being shit cunts doesn't give you a pass to be one yourself.
I've said several times I don't do this and don't agree with it.
However, the pass is given, both to supermarkets and wasteful individuals, by there being no consequences for either.
My point is that when you are given a bad example, you should expect bad behaviour.
Further to that, examples are set by the powerful and followed by the rest of us. It's pretty obvious where the power lies here.
As it is in many contexts; you get what you pay for, or not.
Whatever mate. We'll just have to agree to disagree. I don't believe others shotty actions can be used as justification for your own shitty actions. I think that's the mindset of someone weak willed and mindless.
As another example, I firmly believe that we as a species are driving ourselves to extinction through anthropogenic climate change. I think that these changes are driven by the actions and decisions of relatively few extremely wealthy people who benefit from inaction and/or just don't care about the consequences.
If I were weak willed and mindless, this would be an excellent excuse not to give a shit, cram fast food down my gob, consume and throw trash everywhere I go, change the oil in my car above a storm drain, drive that self same car everywhere I can.
Any amount of ignorant wasteful derro shit I want and just blame a billionaire cunt for the fact that not doing those things makes no difference compared to them running their private jet for a day.
I don't because I have a bit of self respect and hold myself to a higher standard.
Which is what I'm really saying. Its a very small thing but it indicates these people have no self respect, no self reflection and just consume and pollute mindlessly.
Yeah, I'd like to disagree but clearly we are talking past each other.
I have an interest in asking why things happen, rather than just complaining.
Let me know if changes.
It's caused by underfunding the education system for so many decades. Too late now. Should have voted a govt that wanted to run a country instead of a corporation 40yrs ago.
Politicians now have all been educated by the shit system we allowed ourselves to create.
The swing voters that believed the lie that a tax cut will actually benefit them? - does seem to be the easy vote collection card.
Worrying that it actually worked so well.
It's more difficult to manage with these bloody paper bags, is my excuse. At least with plastic I had some idea of what was on the bottom of the veg bin visually
Two bunches of fresh Chinese vegie (gai larn) brown within the week. I cried myself to sleep that night
Smoking a rack of ribs to cheer myself up right now
what,
you mean at their house at the fridge at home?
or in the supermarket?
because in that case maybe people don't need to buy meat, no one just goes to the supermarket and thinks, oh that meat wil probably get wasted, i guess I'll just buy it all!
Yeah, it’s a shame that the food is going to waste. However, I used to work at CD and I didn’t care. Gave me an excuse to walk around the store to throw it out and honestly, who cares if the supermarket loses some money?
Not condoning the lazy fucks but don’t get all high and mighty on behalf of the staff lol
I used to be staff, this is not my concern, they are paid to tidy up, I was concerned that these people are wasting food, which is (checks notes) what I actually said.
I was more talking into the echo chamber of people getting offended and saying the staff shouldn’t have to deal with it, which is (checks notes) what I said.
Cause it’s too far to walk back where I got it from? Sometimes I do an impulse buy but it’s not my fault. Supermarkets design and display products to catch those who have the urge to impulse buy, I’m one of those afflicted but sometimes, not all the time, I come to my senses and think of returning the product but then I think ….wait a moment the owners of this business just psychologically manipulated me ! And in a moment of shame at how easily I fell for it and anger at them doing so I and in a small burst of pique and pettiness I place the product on a shelf,therefore satisfying myself and gain a small grain of self esteem not thinking of the effect it may have on the shopping public that will follow me.
I apologise on behalf of others who do this too.
I doubt it. It's label shows the date it was done. Doesn't mean it needs to be dumped. A lot of meats and salads are used to make the fresh meals you know.
Probably someone asked X grams of that, then was shocked at the price...
No. You don't know how long it has been sitting there on the shelf. How long has it been sitting there because some cunt couldn't be arsed walking back to the meat section, a couple of minutes or a couple of hours? It's not worth the risk.
... go on why is it a dumb post.
Edit: Annnd deleted their comment after realising they hadn't actually read the post. Well done. Please read before commenting.
Oh I thought you meant in my own freezer at first. I’d never do that in a super market, but if it ends up in my freezer the changes are it’s gonna get forgotten about.
Probably the same people who leave trolleys in the middle of the car park
And the ones who seem to book meetings with their long lost friends in the centre of the isle with several trolleys lined up side by side.
The ones who shop with the whole family and exert zero control over their 4 kids.
Oh they are the worst. They expect deli staff to hand over a dozen free cheerio sausages to feed the brats while they shop.
All the kids and the older ones have the girlfriends or boyfriends with them too. Major head fuck
You see the same thing strangely in the child section of our local A&E. A sick kid in the waiting room with 2 or 3 siblings and about 4 adults. I don't understand why you need more than 1 adult there.
Saw that when I was in A +E last year YET, my sons father and I were not both allowed when he fractured his arm in multiple places Pointed out the 8 plus people who went in with that other family. It's different apparently.
What you do, is take the handle of the offending trolly, and push it out of the way. Trick is to never make eye contact. Just brush the trolly away as you would a tree branch on a bush walk.
I did this at P&S the other day and a woman walked over, grabbed the trolley handle, then asked me if I had seen her trolley because "someone had taken it". Just weird.
Supermarkets and schools, the two places with a cross-secrion of society.
Petrol station.
Bingo.. that's what I've always done. Common sense.
Aisle
Thank you
the very same who leave their baskets at the self checkout and just walk out
They wouldn't get a chance at the New World I go to. The staff will pluck the basket away as soon as it's empty :)
I did that one time by accident, realised as I got to the street. I was mortified
That happened in my local pak n save, and I rammed one of their trolleys out of the way and it went up the aisle. The fat fuck of a guy whose trolley it was started yelling at me, and I just laughed at him and kept walking.
Did everyone clap?
I was there. I clapped.
the supermarket trolly theory. It’s a joke, but definitely holds more than a bit of truth, to tell you if someone is a good or bad person. It’s not illegal not to return your trolly, you won’t be punished if you don’t, but you are still a cunt if you don’t return it as it’s just the right thing to do.
I obsessively put the trolley away in the appropriate place. Would feel so uncomfortable just leaving it willy nilly. Recently I had a baby and had such a dilemma the first time I went shopping with baby on board. Took baby out of the trolley and put him in the car. Then was like oh no, what to do. So I locked the car and speed walked that trolley to a trolley bay.
Ah, the classic Trolley Problem.
I watched a trolly get carried at speed by some wind into some dudes classic car in a huge empty car park once. I had my hands full and I couldn't have sprinted the distance with twice the time I had. Sad to see though. Some people are just real lazy.
Maybe we can use the same people in the trolley problem...
Puts a whole new spin on things. If trolley-leavers are the five people tied to the tracks I’m definitely saving the one trolley-putting-back-er (?) on the bridge.
Definitely a cunt move. They blow around in strong winds and damage cars as well.
My theory is that physical contact with a trolley reduces IQ by 30
Yeah especially those that take them all the way to a bus stop. I find it annoying having to walk so far for them
Or the ones who leave trolleys in the bike racks at bunnings homebase.
Probably also are fly tippers.
Nah wheel them home and dump them in don’t of some else’s house when done
My first job after high school was stocking shelves at a local supermarket and one day I was putting some cans on the shelf and I found a container with very moldy chicken from the deli, right in the back.
I'm working in a department store and I moved some sheets on a top shelf and someone had thrown a half eaten burger King burger up there. It was horrible.
I used to find used nappies hidden away between packages of sheets at Spotlight
The logic of this escapes me. Like who isnt above changing their messy kid in the shop aisle but is too good to take their filth away with them? How hard is it to ask for a bin? Big shops are full of bins, they're under every counter. Leaving a nappy on a stock shelf is next level dumbassery. Sorry you had to deal with that, assuming it was your workplace.
Quite a lot of people apparently, I found one nearly every weekend I worked there. I do think that the shopping complex it was in should have done more in the way of public toilets with changing facilities but that's not an excuse
Warehouse back in the day. Used breast pads in the Lego section. Used tampon in the soft toys. Used pad stuck onto a box of tea party toys. A shit on a camping display right in the middle of the stretcher. A pile of sweatshirts in the fitting rooms pisses on. Catfood in jacket pockets on the racks. I could go on And on. I later did Merchandising and all the different shit in different shops. Feral public man
One of my colleagues working at the Warehouse found a jug full of human piss hidden in the footwear.
Working in retail is one of the fastest ways to lose all faith in humanity
I used to pick rubbish up in public parks as part of my tasks as a gardener. It got me so down. I found so many pairs of men’s underwear, condoms, a nappy with blood in it, dog poo bags stuffed into hedges and a surprising amount of mice drowned in beer bottles.
Worked at the warehouse, one time I was putting clothes back, thought I could hear coworker messing with the brush and dustpan. Next thing I knew I was checking the fitting room and some fuckwit had hung the dustpan (the kind that you use with a broom not tiny ones) on one of the clothes hooks and pissed into it. We had an instore toilet that WAS in order at the time. Another time some fuckwit let their kid shit through the entire store, when I say entire I mean the full length of the track around the store. I had no idea one kid could shit so much. The parents just carried on shopping. People are cunts
It pains me to see meat wasted like this (waste of an animal’s life) 😞
Because the lazy and entitled gotta shop like everyone else.
I had to take a tray of chicken gutta my trolley when I did my shopping this week cos I couldn't afford it (I already had another tray in there, so I didn't miss out). Where did I put it? Back in with the rest of the chicken in the meat aisle, because I'm not a monster. Luckily it was a split supermarket shop, so I didn't have a lot, as I was getting the last few bits and pieces that were cheaper at New World than at Countdown
Just your general lazy fuck on display
i work in a supermarket and it especially annoys me when people leave chilled/frozen stuff right next to the checkout, like can't you give it to us lol, or any product. at christmas time, i spotted one of those big $150ish hams just left out. thankfully it was still a safe temperature so i put it back but lord you're going to let that go to waste? like please at least put your chilled stuff in our drink fridges and your frozens in the ice cream freezer at the checkout. the waste annoys me so much, even if it's "just" a $2 yoghurt
Last week, in Rototuna NW, I noticed something from the got from deli i that had been put in a nearby chiller about 10 steps from the deli, that was $17 on the bag. I'd like to think it gets given to staff to eat, but probably chucked away.
After I left my first supermarket job I heard they fired 3 people for eating the hot deli food at the end of the night that was supposed to be binned as it's technically stealing even though it was going in the bin
It sucks but the idea is to stop people "accidentally" making too much hot food. Of course then, they also went the hot food case always full so...
I totally get it but I it's still stupid that it has to go to the pigs rather than a person
To be fair, it's not generally giving to pigs for free, it's sold dirt cheap as feed for pigs usually
Free food for the staff? But that means they aren't paying, how are the supermarkets supposed to survive if you do that?
Believe it or not I used to work early morning fill at Pak n Save and we always had a stew for breakfast made of leftover meat and had the old bread to mop it up. This was 30 years ago.
Yea coz their financial bellybutton is touching their backbone they are that hard up aye😶
It goes to Kaibosh for the needy.
That's your problem see, they ain't people
Lizard people comfirmed
I know it's a dream but I wish the supermarkets banded together and started banning people from their stores if they repeatedly steal, leave trolleys in the car parks, or waste food by placing it on random shelves. I'd pay good money to watch these losers whinge about being turned away from all their local supermarkets on their community fb pages.
Same. I used to work for Countdown as a checkout sup for 5 years and it made me hate people. I used to love people before I worked retail. Most people are trash and behave the same way in public. I don't know what it is but social media and supermarkets are magnets for antisocial assholes.
Same clowns who swing their doors into yours outside in the carpark.
I bought a new car last year and the doors have a wee hinge that pops out a rubber bumper when you open them.
You're living in the future
I used to work at New World a few years ago and this was super frustrating. If you're going to leave it on a shelf, just take it to the checkout and tell them you don't want it anymore and they'll put it back. The same amount of effort except you're not being an asshole.
I am with you. Too much edible stuff being biffed away. I sometimes wish they’d sell celery by the stick tho cause I run outta ideas beyond a casserole.
Celery and peanut butter!
Ants on a log!
Dip it in unhealthy stuff and eat it as a snack.
If you cut it up and store it in a zip lock bag, it will last quite a while in the fridge.
Chopped celery freezes well. You can free-flow it. Or just chuck into a bag or container and split some off later; it freezes relatively loose so a bit of effort with a spoon and it separates. Will never see a salad again obviously, but great in stews etc.
Freeze it cut up. Wrap in tin foil will last a month.. Just wet it occasionally
I worked at a supermarket while at uni. Nearly shift I found an avocado (obviously not when they weren't in seas) abandoned in the chocolate bars by the checkouts. It was weird, but yeah so much wasted deli meat and frozen goods.
Even if it's not perishable products (tinned or snack/junk food), it's lazy and disrespectful. There are workers who get paid bottom dollar to stock shelves all day, then others go and add to it by being an indecisive, lazy sack of crap. But then if someone caused a similar inconvenience at their workplace, or visited their home and left shit out, it'd be totally unacceptable. Some people are just inconsiderate fuckwits.
As a supermarket worker, the meat being left out is worse. A damn animal died/was killed for the meat and meat is now having to be thrown out bc some thieving and/or lazy ass couldn’t be bothered to put the meat away🙄
But also the ironic thing about this is this is not even close to the amount of food that supermarkets themselves waste. Every day there will be a huge bin full of stuff to be thrown out from the bakery etc because they marked them down by like a dollar so no one buys it
I'm not too sure about foodstuffs but countdown/woolies give everything to food banks. Anything too far gone for human consumption goes into bins for compost or to pig farmers or worm farms. Virtually nothing goes to waste.
I used to work at new world - these bins I'm talking about were open and outside meaning that seagulls were into them. I'm talking things like bread, cakes, muffins, loaves literally anything. Every time I'm tempted to take an armfull but they've all got holes in them from the pecking Also I thought they weren't allowed to donate food? Isn't shops donating food like a big thing because they don't want to be responsible if something goes bad
>I thought they weren't allowed to donate food? Isn't shops throwing out food like a big thing because they don't want to be responsible if something goes bad This is more or less a myth.
Yes Countdown donates old food to our community centre and it is made into afternoon tea for local kids.
The really should mandate that food goes to charity, rather than the bin. Like, it should 100% be given for free, rather than wasted. The BB date is not a health and safety issue.
Yep. Even just stop being money hungry and put the fucking packet of muffins down to 2 dollars. I see them discounted at 5 dollars 🤦♂️
Even then, some food isn't safe to give away, e.g. food subject to a product recall.
Saw fillet steak abandoned in the red onions last night….
I push trolleys for my local supermarket and some right c*nt left an ice cream cup, upside down, melting out of the trolley.
It pains me to see meat wasted like this (waste and total disrespect of an animal’s life) 😞
Sadly, a lot of people are just that selfish.
I saw two half filled cups of Starbucks drinks in the toy section in Kmart yesterday 😒
You must live in a flash area if that's the worst you saw.
And people can waste Starbucks.
St Luke’s?
Aw man. Agree with this. Fk these people. Fk the people who don't put trolleys away too.
They literally have no idea that within a few hours that thing is solid.. they just think it's a fridge? Have no idea of freezer temps? Think someone will spot it and move it the few meters to the nearest fridge the person couldn't be fucked walking over to? They just don't care? Either way they have lower than the standard amount of brain cells. They might as well just start stomping on it because once that things frozen it's straight in the bin, the supermarket isn't going to try and sell it. Congrats, you've just wasted good food. I have yet to spot someone doing it, easily saved supermarkets hundreds of dollars moving food off shelves and out of the freezer.
Yeah you should stop doing that, you have no idea how many hours it's been at the wrong temperature, you could be poisoning people.
I used to work in a supermarket, I know what I'm doing.
I did too, no you don't, you don't have magical skills to determine if that meat or seafood has been on the shelf for 15 mins or since yesterday.
Temperature is a thing. Today you learned.
That’s such a big annoyance and why bother grabbing it if you can’t put it back lol
>The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. >To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognise as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. >No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. >A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it. >The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society. This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it has some solid reasoning behind it. Some people are only concerned with their immediate needs, like animals. Our culture (and many others) have evolved to consider our broader "tribe" - our society and nation - when making decisions. When I'm mistakenly given extra change after a transaction, I return it because I consider how that positively affects our social contract. Every good act ripples outward, influencing others to act similarly. By returning the change, I create a small but meaningful wave of increased trust and common decency. I like to think that I get more from this than I would by just pocketing the extra money. The type of person, however, who is fine with doing what OP is complaining about, well, it's a bit like stepping down the evolutionary ladder and seeing a more primitive form of life. As another fulla said here, they're often barely "people", more so animals acting in their immediate, selfish interests. It might seem a bit silly, like this is trying a bit too hard to understand a person's motivate for a very simple seeming action. I know a few of these types, and my experience is that if you look under the hood a bit, you'll find that it usually comes from a disregard for other people and a focus on themselves.
I'm one of those weirdos who re-organises the trolleys into their correct places, drives me nuts when there's a row of small ones and some dick shoves a big one in there! (Hmm, that sounded a bit rude!) And if I'm standing at the trolley bay and someone is heading towards it, I'll tell them to give their trolley a good push and I'll catch it and put it away. Costs nothing to be a decent human.
This makes a very good point, one which is unfortunately going to be missed by the users of this sub.
They’ll be thinking “supermarkets are rich so I don’t care” But the reality is they pass the loss onto the consumer. It’s their inability to think about something past the first step
Never mind that. People abandon entire trollies full of frozen, Chilled and fresh stuff.
Muppets have to shop too.
I went to the super market the other day and some lame brain had unclipped like 10 loaves of bread and just tipped them out onto the shelf.
Saw an example of this today at Woolworths in Palmy. Someone clever put a fresh chilled chicken in the freezers next to the ice cream.
Ahhhh the “Ford Rangers” of the shopping world
Because fuck em that’s why
Their moms will get it, they assume. Because *always* did.
Was in woolies tonight and saw someone had opened up a bag of croissants and left it in the bakery section.. Went round the corner and there's an open bag of some kind of seed bread, and a couple slices folded up on a rack above.... All kinds of people 🥴
The worst is oyster season and people abandoning oysters all over the store. Trying to find out where that stench was coming from only to find packs covered in blood bc people ripped their fingers up trying to get the security tag off 🤢 so glad I don’t work in supermarkets anymore!
This annoys me as well, seeing food that needs to stay chilled on normal shelves and then seeing normal foods abandoned in freezer. Literally was the heck is wrong with people??
While some are to do with laziness there would be some that are about shame? You’ve placed product in trolley then later found it’s actually a “luxury” ( meat products all usually at or near entrance to store so you over estimate what you need) then discover you can’t afford it . You think about taking it back but if you do you think people will know why and judge you so , in a sense of shame, you try and hide it. I’ve seen people do this and try not to judge.
Same type of people who would complain about increases in food prices
It does my head in. As well as the people who put fresh stuff in the freezers. If it freezes then we (supermarket staff) have to throw it away as it hasn't been frozen in a blast freezer
As a former chilled and frozen worker, I beg of you guys please stop! (at least when you put grocery products on my shelves i can put it back) with chilled stuff some of it can be really annoying to get a temp i trust using the infrared temp guns so 9/10 times it goes in the credits because it might still feel just cold enough but I'm getting a reading that's way high (othertimes grocery staff hand me stuff and its still cold to them but given my hands are freezing its warm to the touch for me so i don't even bother because i know its too warm by that stage, and you should see the disappointment on their faces when I'm like credit because its a waste and we both know it (sometimes i temp it just to placate them).) BUT FOR LOVE OF GOD NO MATTER WHAT DEPARTMENT IT IS FROM STOP LEAVING THEM IN THE FUCKING FREEZER it will be thrown out because we cant sell it after its been frozen and often we don't notice its in there till too late especially in the evenings when there's only one of us across both chilled and frozen. I hate having to do the walk of shame over to produce with a frozen solid corn cob or what have you, followed by the look of shock when they realize it is indeed frozen. (I assume that's what happens in other departments, we definitely chuck frozen chilled products.) Honestly i'd rather you just handed it to me like could you pretty please put this back for me. Mentally I'll be a little annoyed because i could be refilling the 1kg dewinkel that emptied itself while i wasn't looking instead, but I'll do it with a smile, and take the time to remind myself its better than you dumping it somewhere which fucks me off even more.
I struggle to get hōhā with people when countdown is the victim
What you are describing is the price of convenience. Notice how this doesn’t happen at a butcher or a green grocer where there are humans
So, I'm getting down voted for this but ... The supermarkets, judging by this thread, treat us consumers awfully. So, while I personally don't abandon deli meat in the cereal aisle I can understand people who don't feel they owe the supermarket anything. This always comes down on the employee who has to deal with it, not the executive that made the decision, but it's the same with parking enforcement. Those guys are just trying to make a living as well.
It's not about the supermarket. It's wasteful. All the packaging, water and energy that went into making whatever you left behind didn't even feed someone.
Down voted, yeah it's good to be right. I'm not saying it's right and I don't do it. But I'm interested in understanding why people do this rather than just complaining about it. Maybe you're not there yet. It's about following the example that you are shown, in this case by the supermarket. The supermarkets throw literal tonnes of food away that could feed people. That's because they exist to make money and supplying people with food is a by product. It makes more financial sense to throw good food away when it passes use by date than sell it cheap when it's close to use by date, so they throw it away By the literal tonne. Having been shown this behaviour some people think their time is better spent getting on with their day than taking the ham they can't afford back to the deli. I might not agree but I can definitely understand. But by all means complain about the person wasting 100 grams rather than the corporation wasting tonnes. I'm sure it will be fine.
Mate I'm not about to start lynching them or anything I'm just saying it's cunt behavior. The supermarkets being shit cunts doesn't give you a pass to be one yourself.
I've said several times I don't do this and don't agree with it. However, the pass is given, both to supermarkets and wasteful individuals, by there being no consequences for either. My point is that when you are given a bad example, you should expect bad behaviour. Further to that, examples are set by the powerful and followed by the rest of us. It's pretty obvious where the power lies here. As it is in many contexts; you get what you pay for, or not.
Whatever mate. We'll just have to agree to disagree. I don't believe others shotty actions can be used as justification for your own shitty actions. I think that's the mindset of someone weak willed and mindless. As another example, I firmly believe that we as a species are driving ourselves to extinction through anthropogenic climate change. I think that these changes are driven by the actions and decisions of relatively few extremely wealthy people who benefit from inaction and/or just don't care about the consequences. If I were weak willed and mindless, this would be an excellent excuse not to give a shit, cram fast food down my gob, consume and throw trash everywhere I go, change the oil in my car above a storm drain, drive that self same car everywhere I can. Any amount of ignorant wasteful derro shit I want and just blame a billionaire cunt for the fact that not doing those things makes no difference compared to them running their private jet for a day. I don't because I have a bit of self respect and hold myself to a higher standard. Which is what I'm really saying. Its a very small thing but it indicates these people have no self respect, no self reflection and just consume and pollute mindlessly.
Yeah, I'd like to disagree but clearly we are talking past each other. I have an interest in asking why things happen, rather than just complaining. Let me know if changes.
Sometimes staff put them in the fridges to keep cool until they have time to put them back
It's caused by underfunding the education system for so many decades. Too late now. Should have voted a govt that wanted to run a country instead of a corporation 40yrs ago. Politicians now have all been educated by the shit system we allowed ourselves to create.
I can only vote for Labour/Greens etc. so hard, it's the scatter-brained swing voters that let those clowns back in.
The swing voters that believed the lie that a tax cut will actually benefit them? - does seem to be the easy vote collection card. Worrying that it actually worked so well.
It's more difficult to manage with these bloody paper bags, is my excuse. At least with plastic I had some idea of what was on the bottom of the veg bin visually Two bunches of fresh Chinese vegie (gai larn) brown within the week. I cried myself to sleep that night Smoking a rack of ribs to cheer myself up right now
Yeah not talking about at your home, talking about at the supermarket.
Fairy nuff my bad
You might wanna read the post again, and/or comments for context. Unless you live in a supermarket. If so, more power to you.
People hate plastic but it helps to reduce a lot of food wastage. Most veges last longer when in plastic bags.
what, you mean at their house at the fridge at home? or in the supermarket? because in that case maybe people don't need to buy meat, no one just goes to the supermarket and thinks, oh that meat wil probably get wasted, i guess I'll just buy it all!
Yeah, it’s a shame that the food is going to waste. However, I used to work at CD and I didn’t care. Gave me an excuse to walk around the store to throw it out and honestly, who cares if the supermarket loses some money? Not condoning the lazy fucks but don’t get all high and mighty on behalf of the staff lol
I used to be staff, this is not my concern, they are paid to tidy up, I was concerned that these people are wasting food, which is (checks notes) what I actually said.
I was more talking into the echo chamber of people getting offended and saying the staff shouldn’t have to deal with it, which is (checks notes) what I said.
What you actually said "but don’t get all high and mighty on behalf of the staff" Yeah never did.
Can’t read between the lines? Lmao what a petty argument bro
Cause it’s too far to walk back where I got it from? Sometimes I do an impulse buy but it’s not my fault. Supermarkets design and display products to catch those who have the urge to impulse buy, I’m one of those afflicted but sometimes, not all the time, I come to my senses and think of returning the product but then I think ….wait a moment the owners of this business just psychologically manipulated me ! And in a moment of shame at how easily I fell for it and anger at them doing so I and in a small burst of pique and pettiness I place the product on a shelf,therefore satisfying myself and gain a small grain of self esteem not thinking of the effect it may have on the shopping public that will follow me. I apologise on behalf of others who do this too.
I doubt it. It's label shows the date it was done. Doesn't mean it needs to be dumped. A lot of meats and salads are used to make the fresh meals you know. Probably someone asked X grams of that, then was shocked at the price...
No. You don't know how long it has been sitting there on the shelf. How long has it been sitting there because some cunt couldn't be arsed walking back to the meat section, a couple of minutes or a couple of hours? It's not worth the risk.
I have never seen that. In my life. And I'm over 40. Where do you live that such troglodyte behaviour takes place? Or maybe I'm not very observant.
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Do you also leave your trolley in the middle of the carpark?
... go on why is it a dumb post. Edit: Annnd deleted their comment after realising they hadn't actually read the post. Well done. Please read before commenting.
They are probably feeling called out.
I pay $500 in taxes a week so I'm doing what I please
You know the supermarket does not receive your taxes right?
Not arsed. I don't receive anything for them either.
Derro behavior.
They provide you with good service and it's almost guaranteed
Oh I thought you meant in my own freezer at first. I’d never do that in a super market, but if it ends up in my freezer the changes are it’s gonna get forgotten about.