So, you didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday I see! :faint: ————it was a joke

Bravo 👏!

I’ve always said “see something, say something”.

As a 16 yo high school junior in NJ, my first job was at an Acme supermarket at $1.15@hr. The middle-aged produce manager, his name I will never forget, Bob Higgins, told me that you can tell a lot about a woman by the way she picks up a cucumber (zucchini). So when I see a woman as you described, it brings fond memories. Perhaps, instead of grousing at her, you could’ve complimented her style.

You are very lucky
 

Consider yourself fortunate that you didnt get knocked on your butt. Another self appointed Deputy Dawg deciding how other people should behave

Wrong, we put the bags down in the garage and wash our hands in the garage sink with soap and water, then unpack the items.

The new normal is to get your produce and wash it with soap and water when you get it home. You are not taking into account other people who have been equally touchy-feely with the stock but you didn't see them doing it...

Grocery shopping
 

[QUOTE=davem4616;1762031]I've been doing the grocery shopping for 20 years...not a rookie at this....I get the etiquette and shop like a regular and conform to the new one way shopping traffic flows, I don't hoard...etc.

I've been going to the grocery store lately on the odd times to avoid the heavy traffic

this evening I'm waiting in produce to buy some zucchini watching this lady take her time as she handles every single damn zuke in the bin....after a while I finally said..."we're not suppose to be handling all of the veggies and fruit, you don't have gloves on, please take what you want and move one."....she turned to me and said "six feet please...and stop whining"....I replied "grow up and get with the new normal" ...

I wanted to say "hey, cupcake, give me any more of your friggin lip and I'll knock you into aisle 7 along with the guy you're with"...but I didn't (at best she was in her early 70's and certainly more than capable of knowing that in today's world you don't handle everything trying to figure out what you want to buy...come on, a zuke is a darn zuke)

what the heck is it with people that still think that it's okay handle every single piece of fruit or veggie or package of meat, and put it back and do the same thing with another until their inner voice tells them that this is the one... like they did in the pre-covid-19 days and for some reason they think that that's okay in today's world?

okay...take your best shots...and tell me how I infringed upon this sweet woman's shopping experience and how I aborted her freedom of choice...so that I can learn from this experience[/QUOTE

She was ahead of you. You wait in line until she is finished. It was not your right to tell her your thoughts. If you were unhappy go speak to a manager.

You are part of the problem.

Perfect.

So you wash your hands and THEN touch all those groceries that dozens - if not hundreds - of other people have touched.

And you're not seeing how that defeats the purpose?

Honestly - don't obsess about cleaning your groceries, and don't believe for one second that you are protecting yourself from anything by washing your hands BEFORE touching all that stuff.

You're more likely to find e.coli on the hem of your pants than you are to find COVID-19 on your rutebega or can of soup.

Well crappola what's the point of getting old then? I thought once you turned 60 and got your grouch card in the mail (AARP) you got a free pass on ALL these things, plus a few more.. SIGH!!

Probably not the worst those Zuks have seen. Save yourself the stress and drama. Here is a recipe for cleaning fruits and veggies. Serenity now! ;-)

How To Wash Vegetables with Baking Soda and Vinegar

Grocery stores should enforce mandatory masks . In Publix a few days ago and about 25% no masks. Stop them at the door!!!

Wow, what high paying job! When I was in freshman high school Going pay in grocery store in my Smallllll town was 60 cent hour. Would be considered child slave labor now days. But In Early 60s some of kids was glad to get it.

I agree, I brought up that on post and got crucified. You think it’s bad there, when to ace hardware this morning and it was packed. Hard enough to get isles at ace anyway let alone being packed with people. Most had masks.

Grocery Behavior??????

For the most part, I find my groceries are quite well behaved. Artichokes and pineapples might be the exception :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

We've already seen one thread about one guy who couldn't control his temper and screamed vulgarities loudly enough to be heard across the store. That was right here at the Villages.

We've seen "that online newspaper" giving us push-by-shove descriptions of police reports of violence against, and by, store employees out of anger, over the past few years.

There has been at least one incident so far of a man shooting and killing a store employee for having the nerve to require that the man wear a mask. That was not in the Villages - but it did happen recently.

Many Villagers are proud owners of firearms, sport their NRA bumper stickers on their cars and golf carts, and even come here to this forum declaring on no uncertain terms that they will use their firearms to protect their freedoms if and whenever necessary.

I for one do NOT want to be the person at the supermarket ordering some twitchy old geezer with an eager trigger finger, carrying his glock in his side holster, to wear a mask or get out of my store.

If it's that important to you, then go ahead and open up your own store and enforce your rules however you see fit. Let me know which store it is so I know at which store to never apply for a job.

Depending on what it was, not all meat is created equal. The packages are also stacked, so it might have had to do with cost. We cannot possibly know anyone's situation except our own. These days, lots of patience is in order. JMHO

Did we not all wash our fruits and veggies prior to this? What am I missing?

Exactly. Where was all this concern when we were having the big outbreak of Hep A in this area? You DO know how that's spread?

So you get it home and it's not good. Then what? Not everyone can afford to toss food. It's not like nobody else has touched the produce....pickers, packers, stockers, checkers, other customers, etc., anyway.

Just curious...have you always done this, or just now?

I think too many are obsessing about food cleanliness while overlooking that our fruits and vegetables grow outside where Lots of critters like birds, mice, rabbits and lots of insects and worms coexist with them. Root crops like potatoes, onions, carrots grow in dirt which is full of microbes and, um, Poop ...so how is it that a customer touching a zucchini is causing harm? Don’t you wash your food (and your hands) before eating it? COVID-19 is just one of a bazillion pathogens, you know?

And how do you think the items got into the plastic bags?

This virus has infected our sense of common decency and usurped our common sense, too.