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Anonymous wrote:Weird. Who cares? Just buy the amount you want. I’ve never used the scale inside the produce section.

If you want a pound of apples, how do you know how much to buy?

If produced isn't individually priced or bagged at a set price per pound, then a scale should be available.

You estimate. I've never gone into the store looking for a pound of apples. I want a certain #. Same with tomatoes. And Potatoes. And peaches . . . .

Am guessing you don't cook. Just this past week I used scales to weight the quantity of tomatoes and peaches I needed for two different recipes. Eyeballing, especially with produce that can vary tremendously in size like tomatoes, is highly unreliable.

I assume you seal your produce at the store to prevent water loss and recipe failures?

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Anonymous wrote:Omg do you have nothing else to worry about? They have a scale at the register.

OMG! Did you not read the thread?!?!

Humor aside, there are genuine reasons for wanting a scale, as mentioned several times by other posters. I'm envisioning the fun of weighing at the register and discovering you have half a pound too much of tomatoes or potatoes or apples that could have been easily avoided if only there was a scale in the produce area.

It's not calibrated though and no reason for it to calibrated. So there will be a difference between the calibrated scale at the register. You can only imagine the number of complaints this will generate.

Eh? So if I weigh three pounds of tomatoes for my gazpacho and at the till it comes out to 2.895 pounds instead, this is worse than blindly bagging two pounds or four pounds?

When the checkout scale says 3.1 lbs you will be at the customer service desk demanding that they calibrate the convenience scale or that the scales are rigged to overcharge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird. Who cares? Just buy the amount you want. I’ve never used the scale inside the produce section.

If you want a pound of apples, how do you know how much to buy?

If produced isn't individually priced or bagged at a set price per pound, then a scale should be available.

You estimate. I've never gone into the store looking for a pound of apples. I want a certain #. Same with tomatoes. And Potatoes. And peaches . . . .

Am guessing you don't cook. Just this past week I used scales to weight the quantity of tomatoes and peaches I needed for two different recipes. Eyeballing, especially with produce that can vary tremendously in size like tomatoes, is highly unreliable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird. Who cares? Just buy the amount you want. I’ve never used the scale inside the produce section.

If you want a pound of apples, how do you know how much to buy?

If produced isn't individually priced or bagged at a set price per pound, then a scale should be available.

You estimate. I've never gone into the store looking for a pound of apples. I want a certain #. Same with tomatoes. And Potatoes. And peaches . . . .

That’s nice for you. I wanted to make strawberry rhubarb pie. My recipe called for a pound of rhubarb. I didn’t have a good idea of how many individual stalks of rhubarb that would be, so I used the scale.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird. Who cares? Just buy the amount you want. I’ve never used the scale inside the produce section.

If you want a pound of apples, how do you know how much to buy?

If produced isn't individually priced or bagged at a set price per pound, then a scale should be available.

You estimate. I've never gone into the store looking for a pound of apples. I want a certain #. Same with tomatoes. And Potatoes. And peaches . . . .

It is interesting so many people don't weight their produce. I often do because if I am buying a fruit or vegetable that I don't often buy, I want to have a rough idea of how much to buy. Not all of us can buy without looking at prices.

Last week I took my 13 year old to the grocery store and he wanted grapes that were $5.99 a pound. He picked up a bunch of grapes and I said no they are too expensive. He said but they are only 6 dollars. I explained they were sold by the pound. I told him to weigh them and he wanted to buy 3 pounds of grapes. He was amazed it was going to be $17.97 not $5.99.

So yeah, there needs to be scales in grocery stores.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg do you have nothing else to worry about? They have a scale at the register.

OMG! Did you not read the thread?!?!

Humor aside, there are genuine reasons for wanting a scale, as mentioned several times by other posters. I'm envisioning the fun of weighing at the register and discovering you have half a pound too much of tomatoes or potatoes or apples that could have been easily avoided if only there was a scale in the produce area.

It's not calibrated though and no reason for it to calibrated. So there will be a difference between the calibrated scale at the register. You can only imagine the number of complaints this will generate.

Eh? So if I weigh three pounds of tomatoes for my gazpacho and at the till it comes out to 2.895 pounds instead, this is worse than blindly bagging two pounds or four pounds?

The office that deals with this is the Maryland Weights and Measures.
https://mda.maryland.gov/weights_measures/Pages/weights_measures.aspx


I didn't do an extensive search of the law, but it appears to me that while any scales used to charge customers (so the ones at checkout) must be accurate, I don't see any requirement for a customer available scale in the produce department.

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Anonymous wrote:You buy the amount you will eat before it goes bad. I have literally never weighed produce. My kid loves grapes I take enough out of the prefilled bags for her to consume in 2-3 days and go on with my life.

Good for you. Sales often limit the number of lbs you can buy at the reduced price. For people trying to maximize what they can get on a budget, that is important information.

If you always buy up to the limit, you are probably eating too much

np

you are an idiot, incapable of critical thinking

Anonymous wrote:Weird. Who cares? Just buy the amount you want. I’ve never used the scale inside the produce section.

If you want a pound of apples, how do you know how much to buy?

If produced isn't individually priced or bagged at a set price per pound, then a scale should be available.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg do you have nothing else to worry about? They have a scale at the register.

OMG! Did you not read the thread?!?!

Humor aside, there are genuine reasons for wanting a scale, as mentioned several times by other posters. I'm envisioning the fun of weighing at the register and discovering you have half a pound too much of tomatoes or potatoes or apples that could have been easily avoided if only there was a scale in the produce area.

It's not calibrated though and no reason for it to calibrated. So there will be a difference between the calibrated scale at the register. You can only imagine the number of complaints this will generate.

Weird. Who cares? Just buy the amount you want. I’ve never used the scale inside the produce section.

Anonymous wrote:Omg do you have nothing else to worry about? They have a scale at the register.

OMG! Did you not read the thread?!?!

Humor aside, there are genuine reasons for wanting a scale, as mentioned several times by other posters. I'm envisioning the fun of weighing at the register and discovering you have half a pound too much of tomatoes or potatoes or apples that could have been easily avoided if only there was a scale in the produce area.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares. I have never used a scale. Are you cheap?

You never buy just enough of a certain kind of produce that the recipe calls for?

Likely someone who either never cooks from scratch , only eats a very limited diet, or has a lot of food waste.

NP. I’ve used the scale when a recipe calls for a certain number of ounces of produce and I’m bad at visualizing that.

+1. This is when I use a scale. I admit I have only ever seen one other person besides me use a scale, but it is a cheap and reasonable thing for a grocery store to have. And evidently it's required.

Omg do you have nothing else to worry about? They have a scale at the register.