My wife has expressed the same complaints several times.

Feeling same!
 

I do observe their poor habits of touching all veggies, fruits, and canned foods, too. What I did is when I got home, I dipped each item in the pail of water with bleach inside the garage, and then bring cleaned items inside the house. Better be safe than nothing!

:bigbow:

I've been doing the shopping for a bit now due to my wife's health. I would rather let Mike Tyson chew on my ear for an hour than grocery shop.

I am on your side. All supermarkets should provide gloves in the produce department like they do in Italy and most parts of Europe. They are made of same thin plastic material as the bags used to place them. No one dares to touch fruits nor vegetables with bare hands.

...UNTIL you put your hands on all the groceries that were in your bag.
and then, it will be as though you hadn't been wearing gloves at all.

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.