We know you want to spend as little time as possible in the grocery store these days, but if you decide to buy an item, then change your mind and don’t want it anymore, don’t just place it anywhere, put it back where it belongs.
Or, if you really don’t want to go the extra mile, then just give it to an employee, or the person at the checkout counter.
It only takes a minute to do the right thing.
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Yeah and gross, looks like it’s been opened!
It sure does, like somebody opened it and maybe licked it. Don’t those Dreyer’s containers usually have the clear plastic seals around the lid? Photo may have been staged for the story, but it looks like a great combination, brownies and ice cream.
Looks more like Safeway’s typical advertising 🙁
If you touch it, buy it.
Yes! I agree, you touch it you buy it. I see some people act like little mice touching almost everything they see. It’s such a strange behavior.
I would also like to point that when people put refrigerated items in the freezer , if we dont get to them in time we have to toss it. Every day we toss out mostly meat , because people change their mind and put it in the freezer area. You may think you are doing a good thing , but we can not sell , non-refrigerated items once they have been frozen. Yes, it’s still good but it must say on the package previously frozen. This also goes for juice and other items that are not frozen. So much food is tossed out because put them in the wrong spot. We dont mind and much rather you just bring them to the register with you and let us know you changed your mind.
That’s as pathetic as all the rubber gloves littering the entrance/exits/parking lots.
Give it to the checkout clerk. That way they can clean it before they put it back.
I have an old habit that my mother taught me when I was a tiny tot. When I try on an item of clothing in a fitting room and I decide I don’t want it, I always return it to where I found it. I even return shopping carts, so they won’t take up a parking space or roll into somebody’s car.
It must have been the era I grew up in. Always pick up after yourself and put things away, and treat others as you would like to be treated.
You are a dream customer. I work at Macy’s (furloughed) in dresses and better sportswear, many customer’s not only do not put things back on hangers, they just leave it on the floor, even expensive evening gowns. We actually don’t expect customer’s to put it back on the floor, just on hangers and bring it out and leave on the rack outside would be much appreciated. I probably will get some flak for this, but women are worse than men. Could be because at home the spend time picking up after kids etc. not sure.
Hanne J. “Women are worse than men.” I’m guessing it is because men usually know what they want before they go into the store. They do not feel the need to try on 15 different pairs of slacks before deciding that the right slacks must be in a different store.
Better yet, please don’t handle any items if you don’t intend to buy them. No second thoughts! You touch it, you buy it.
How would I read the ingredients on the back of the product?
If you don’t know what you want, don’t go shopping until you do. Do you’re window shopping on a computer at home, ace.
Same people to lazy to use the provided trash cans and designated shopping cart return areas.
Has nothing to do with laziness, and everything to do with torn rotators cuffs, a very painful injury to the shoulder, which you will eventually have yourself from trying to get the carts unstuck in the corral.
@G I have had a torn rotator cuff therefore I am smart enough to un-tangle a cart first instead of jerking on it. So now I must ask you “how do you get a torn rotator cuff RETURNING a shopping cart”?
Many things I do aggravates it … putting on a seatbelt, sleeping wrong, vacuuming, mowing the lawn, taking the bulky, unwieldy garbage cants to the curb, pushing a shopping cart up and down the aisles of the store, re-injuring it trying to get stuck shopping carts apart when I get there and saying when I leave, “Forget it, I’ll leave it here for the next person that has torn rotators so they won’t have to unstick it.” They won’t give me a Handicapped Parking decal so, too bad! Sorry, not sorry. And don’t ask me why I don’t have surgery. I’ll have it right after the six other surgeries they say I need!
When I go shopping, I actually straighten the merchandise that is out of place.. I like to see it presented in an orderly fashion. Maybe that’s why I’m too tired to return the carts to the corral.
@Gittyup…and again, maybe back off that mayo and those chips.
Stop picking on my Giddyup! You will get the wrath of Aunt Barbara!
Pain is awful and karma may come knocking on your doors!
@Aunt Barbara…Bring it on, Barb, I’m the fastest Quickdraw (with my leaf blower) in the West!….Noon tomorrow, in front of the Clayton Club, I’ll be waitin’ for ya.
Thank you Aunt Barbara.
@nytemuver What to you put on sandwiches, weed?
Sadly, too many people don’t care. Even giving it to the checkout cashier can cause a problem. I was at the store the other day and the store was closing in a half hour. The manager berated the cashier for having “too many items” at the register that other customers didn’t want. He wisely didn’t fire back at his boss, but asked me “what am I supposed to do? I have to be at the register to ring customers up.” I felt bad for him, and thanked him for doing his job.
I agree with if you don’t want it, put it back yourself. It is the right thing to do.
The dilemma of retail and cashier personal. Always trying to multi task. Hard to get away from the register when you have a line. In addition to ringing up customers at Macy’s sales associates are suppose to empty the dressing rooms at least every hour, preferable between customers, help customer find items, straighten up the floor, and pick up the phone.
The customer that are ready to buy always come first. Picking up the phone is a judgement call, most of the time it means you have to go and look for an items, then either put it on hold, or more often do a charge send. If I have 5 people in line, picking up the phone means they have to wait longer, if I pick up the phone and tell the person, please hold, they get upset. If any of Claycords readers wants to call any store to order an item, try to call when they store is not so busy. Like week days, right when the store opens, or after dinnertime. Worst time week ends when there is a big sale.
Hanne – I totally agree. I worked retail when I was very young, and relied on the experienced cashiers for guidance.
Hanne J., if I were still in management, I think you are the sort of person I would hire.
Me..me..me me..ME…its all about Me…….
@Lovelacee
You are 100% correct.
You hit the nail on the head.
Once I visited Japan, specifically the Ginza in Tokyo (8.3 million people), and there was not ONE single piece of litter on the street. I asked a fellow why this was and he said “we are socially conscious, and would never think of throwing a ciggie butt or wrapper on the street.” Meanwhile, back in the US, not so much. Like Dawg says, those days are long gone. And the “new” moms don’t teach us anymore. Either that, or we don’t listen.
Not only empty drink containers, but containers half full, or a half eaten sandwich, hamburger, burrito etc. I have found all at numerous times at Macy’s dressing rooms, even sometime out on the floor next to the merchandise.
Ever been to Switzerland? The same there and most European countries, it has to do with respect, respect for the environment, respect for other human beings.
The worst I’ve seen was a dirty diaper on the shelf, next to a package with one diaper missing. It was disgusting on every level.
Funny how women who have babies think their so special.
Funny how bitter old women who never had children thing they’re so special.
How do you know I didn’t have children? You don’t!
This looks like something I would do. I’m ashamed to say.
Perhaps then this is a wake up call for you. We are not perfect, we have all done things that is inconsiderate, or perhaps even rude, could be several reasons, busy, distracted, young and clueless. It is never to late to change.
Better yet…you touch, you buy! Especially, during this time. I bought a frozen food from the store one that seemed refrozen after I opened it. Like maybe the person did all their shopping and returned it at the end. Or maybe an employee put something back they found on the shelf. Yuck
April, You are very compassionate. First of all many have to read the ingredients, on the less serious side, to find out how many calories, carbs etc. on the more serious side, to check if an items contains something that someone might trigger a serious allergy attack.
That’s nothing. You should see what we find at Target. Especially now since people are bored……and destructive.
@essential I sympathize with you.
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