Cash & Carry (now Smart Foodservice Warehouse Store), located at 2050 Monument Blvd. in Concord, was closed this week after inspectors from the Contra Costa County Department of Environmental Health say they found the following:
- Dead rodent on trap on the floor underneath the storage rack in aisle 3. Next to the rice bags and spaghetti
boxes. - Rodent gnaw marks on cream cheese filling bag on the shelf on the sales floor in aisle 5.
- Rodent markings on the shelf beam next to packaged cherry filling bags and on top of cherry filling cans.
- Urine marks on the shelves next to freezer bags and single-use cups.
- Rodent droppings on the sales floor shelves and floor in Aisles 1-13.
- 2 Rodent droppings next to hickory smoke liquid.
- 2 Rodent droppings next to shortening boxes.
- 3 rodent droppings next to canned peach halves.
- 4 rodent droppings next to relish and crushed canned pineapples.
- 2 rodent droppings next to penne pasta bag.
- 5 rodent droppings next to spaghetti noodle bags.
- 4+ rodent droppings next to rice bags.
- 15+ rodent droppings on the floor between rice and spaghetti boxes.
- 2 rodent droppings next to pineapple can tibets.
- 2 rodent droppings on top of the Basmati rice.
- 1 rodent dropping next to bagged grains.
- 1 rodent dropping next to canned chile peppers.
- 3+ rodent droppings next to canned beans.
- 1+ rodent droppings next to packaged almonds.
- 2 rodent droppings next to cream cheese filling packages.
- 2+ rodent droppings next to smoothie mix.
- 1 rodent droppings next to bleach bottle.
- 1 rodent dropping behind cans of cherry filling.
- 1+ rodent dropping on top of and next to sealed box of chocolate cones.
- 1 rodent droppings next to fruit punch concentrate.
- 2 rodent droppings next to spices.
- 2+ rodent droppings next to glass bottled soda.
- 2+ rodent droppings next to box of napkins.
- 3+ rodent droppings next to packaged food containers.
- 1 rodent droppings next to wood chips
The store has since been reinspected and reopened.
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17 comments
That’s one incontinent rat!
Sounds like he pooped himself to death.
Poor thing. He’d probably never had it that good.
Yuck.
That’s a lot of rodent droppings.
Glad I don’t shop there.
Damn, new record for how many violations and still reopens?
And have they checked Big Lots next door? Good for holiday decorations, but I’d never eat food out of there!
Still my favorite place to pick up meat at a decent price.
Oh, it’s reopened? I’ll rush right on over before it gets shut down again. NOT!
In the days of the plague they would have burned the place down.
Now that is really disgusting. To those owners, you see you were trying to save money by not hiring enough people to maintain good and clean environment especially with food products.. They knew they had rodents as the traps were set and lack of flollow through on the traps. I was there Saturday looking for linens for party tables and they only had plastic. It apparently looked clean but I didn’t go to the food section.First time there , I always get advertisements as I purchase in bulks, but I am never going there. How can people buy stuff that has been touch by rodents.. I know they will not throw everything away. And start with new products. How are they still open… gross… don shop there.. eat organic, homemade not from a can or a box don’t know what rodents or how has passed your box or can.😱😩🥵
Unlike dogs and cats, most of you don’t know that rats and mice don’t stop to pee or crap, the do it on the run, so they just pee all over wherever they happen to be, Their pee trails are exposed with a black light, while the pellets are scattered wherever the critters run about. Dead rats and mice are a sign that efforts to control them are effective, considering the location adjacent to open fields.
Yep. They’re incontinent! Dribbling all along their merry way. That’s why their trails look so grubby. It doesn’t take long to get a substantial buildup.
The business was shut down and allowed to reopened 1 day later. The findings suggest a significant rodent infestation. How then could the infestation be completely eradicated in 1 day? Sealing up rodent entrances from the outside of the building (.25 inches and larger); locating where the rats/mice are living inside, and removing the nests; trapping all inside rats/mice. Sanitizing the building. This would take longer than 24 hours. Not to mention identifying for sale items/vendors on which rats may be ‘catching a ride’ to this business.
Way beyond gross.
Rats! Rats! Rats! Does Willard work there?
Good time to shop for Ratatouille ingredients..
yuck, I won’t go there. as gross as it is, mice and rats poop 50 to 75 times a day, so 65 isnt really that much… just food for thought. but not there.
It needs to be dealt with, but its not really that big of a deal.
1st: mice & rats are everywhere. With a good extermination effort & ongoing prevention it can be cleaned up pretty quickly.
2nd: dropping on the floor are more concerning in a restaurant where it might get into the food. In a packaged goid store any package that hasn’t been attacked is fine to use. Those little poops don’t magically find there way into the food.
3. Most people would be shocked to learn there are probably hundreds of rodents around them every day. That’s the world we live in.
Imagine being the person who has to inspect this place and count rodent poops.
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