Sampling fruits in produce section

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You know, this topic comes up so often. And I believe that the fruit manager at at least one major chain...Safeway or Giant or one of those has gone on camera as saying that the store is HAPPY to have customers sample a grape or cherry or whatever it is before they buy. Lighten up, Gertrude.

Hmm, generous. Sorry, but still don't support the sampling.

I agree with this. The thought that someone was previously groveling around in the fruit that I am selecting from is distasteful. What if they lick their fingers and then dive in for another taste? Yuck. If the store offers free samples, that is one thing. Otherwise it sounds unsanitary as well as rude.

Yes, it is unsanitary. So is pushing a grocery cart that others have touched. Or opening a door. Or wiping your butt. That is why you are supposed to wash your hands every once in a while, not to mention any produce before consuming it. Or do you just want to ban any of the above mentioned unsanitary activities?

[Anonymous]

PP, it's probably fair to just keep to the topic at hand, instead of offering extrapolations. Once again, the topic is the sampling of fruit that is enclosed, intended to be sold as it is presented (boxed, bagged).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you know what the apple or banana weighed, 15:46, since you pay for them by weight?

I do this when I'm at Wegmans.

However, before I give it to my child, I put it in a baggie on the scale and weigh it, creae a label and then let him have it.

[Anonymous]

if you are sampling and not paying, it is stealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, it's probably fair to just keep to the topic at hand, instead of offering extrapolations. Once again, the topic is the sampling of fruit that is enclosed, intended to be sold as it is presented (boxed, bagged).

So long as the items was sold by the pound, I would not care. Is issue for me is not whether someone touch the item (if that were the case I would just grow my own food), but whether I was paying for something that I did not get. BTW, the only produce that I buy in bag/cases are grapes - prefer to select fruit and veg individually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PPs- who cares! This is really what you post about? I hope you are all sampling your cherries at $7.99 a pound.

For the love of GOD, $7.99 a pound!!! If 1,000 people sample those cherries just think of the COST the store has to pass down to US!

DO NOT SAMPLE THE CHERRIES!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know, this topic comes up so often. And I believe that the fruit manager at at least one major chain...Safeway or Giant or one of those has gone on camera as saying that the store is HAPPY to have customers sample a grape or cherry or whatever it is before they buy. Lighten up, Gertrude.

Hmm, generous. Sorry, but still don't support the sampling.

I agree with this. The thought that someone was previously groveling around in the fruit that I am selecting from is distasteful. What if they lick their fingers and then dive in for another taste? Yuck. If the store offers free samples, that is one thing. Otherwise it sounds unsanitary as well as rude.

Yes, it is unsanitary. So is pushing a grocery cart that others have touched. Or opening a door. Or wiping your butt. That is why you are supposed to wash your hands every once in a while, not to mention any produce before consuming it. Or do you just want to ban any of the above mentioned unsanitary activities?

I hope germs eat you alive, you germaphobe... I suppose you don't use the cart wipes the store leaves out, do you?

[Anonymous]

Washing your hands and the fruit you eat makes you a germaphobe?! Really? I thought it was common practice, not pathological behavior. Oh, well...My bad.

[Anonymous]

What about peeling back some of the corn husk and sampling a few kernals?

[Anonymous]

I'm 38 and just within the last 6-12 months did I finally wise up and start sampling a grape before dec iding whether to buy them. I got really sick of throwing away sour fruit that I paid good money for. No regrets with the grape sampling as now I eat all of what I buy since i don't buy sour fruit anymore. FWIW I only sample 1 and only with the grapes.

[Anonymous]

I sample grapes, cherries, lychee...no remorse

[Anonymous]

Better to sample in store than take home only to return, IMO.

[Anonymous]

I would never have been the type to sample foods like this BUT when I shopped at Safeway a few years ago, the produce manager offered it to me all the time. He would ask if I wanted to try certain things. It was more of a marketing technique, but there were times when I didn't want the rest of the container he was offering and he put it back like it was no big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know, this topic comes up so often. And I believe that the fruit manager at at least one major chain...Safeway or Giant or one of those has gone on camera as saying that the store is HAPPY to have customers sample a grape or cherry or whatever it is before they buy. Lighten up, Gertrude.

Hmm, generous. Sorry, but still don't support the sampling.

I agree with this. The thought that someone was previously groveling around in the fruit that I am selecting from is distasteful. What if they lick their fingers and then dive in for another taste? Yuck. If the store offers free samples, that is one thing. Otherwise it sounds unsanitary as well as rude.

Yes, it is unsanitary. So is pushing a grocery cart that others have touched. Or opening a door. Or wiping your butt. That is why you are supposed to wash your hands every once in a while, not to mention any produce before consuming it. Or do you just want to ban any of the above mentioned unsanitary activities?

Gross. That is why I prefer to buy fruit that has not been mauled by the masses with their germy hands. But go ahead and nibble on unwashed fruit at the grocery store if you insist. Just pray that the grapes and cherries you sample are not contaminated with E. Coli as other produce has been found to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know, this topic comes up so often. And I believe that the fruit manager at at least one major chain...Safeway or Giant or one of those has gone on camera as saying that the store is HAPPY to have customers sample a grape or cherry or whatever it is before they buy. Lighten up, Gertrude.

Hmm, generous. Sorry, but still don't support the sampling.

I agree with this. The thought that someone was previously groveling around in the fruit that I am selecting from is distasteful. What if they lick their fingers and then dive in for another taste? Yuck. If the store offers free samples, that is one thing. Otherwise it sounds unsanitary as well as rude.

Yes, it is unsanitary. So is pushing a grocery cart that others have touched. Or opening a door. Or wiping your butt. That is why you are supposed to wash your hands every once in a while, not to mention any produce before consuming it. Or do you just want to ban any of the above mentioned unsanitary activities?

Gross. That is why I prefer to buy fruit that has not been mauled by the masses with their germy hands. But go ahead and nibble on unwashed fruit at the grocery store if you insist. Just pray that the grapes and cherries you sample are not contaminated with E. Coli as other produce has been found to be.

How can you possibly know what happens to the fruit you buy between the time it leaves the tree and comes to you. I have worked in many top restaurants over the years, and you would be shocked to see how food is treated. You are living in a fantasy world.