To hate the lazy assholes that waste perfectly good food

[CrappyJob]

In the supermarket, because they can't be bothered to put it back in the right place?

I'm talking about items from the fridge left in the freezer or on a shelf and
Items from the freezer left on a shelf or in the fridge
Less often ambient items get left in the freezer, which also gets wasted.

I work in a supermarket, and we get several of these every day. Multiply that by every supermarket and it's probably enough food to feed a village if not more.

I don't even care if it goes back in the exact right place - just put frozen stuff in a freezer and chilled stuff in a fridge. I've even seen fridge stuff left in a freezer - when the fridge is literally the other side of the aisle, like two meters away.

It's such a pointless waste of perfectly good food. If you really can't be bothered to put it back yourself, hand it to a member of staff when you go to the till - it's part of one of the teams job to do things like this.

Basically I'm coming on to aibu to ask people not to do this. I didn't care if anyone thinks I'm unreasonable - I'm not!

*putting not putty on my previous comment

I can tell you for a fact that it doesnt.

It drives me nuts as a customer so as staff OP I can imagine the level of frustration. I am afraid it reflects a growing section of society that is lazy, wasteful, entitled, disrespectful and cannot stop their children meddling and moving items around the store and abandoning them just anywhere.

I hate when people put meat in the plant based sections. I’ve seen it so often I’m sure people do it on purpose, the losers

Equally annoying when it's vice versa. I don't know why the manufacturers of processed plant-based meat-substitutes try to make them look like meat and give them names like 'Not Chicken' since they're not aimed at meat-eaters. They should leave them their natural sludge-grey colour and call them 'fungus extract burgers' so they are easily spotted if put amongst the meat products.

What I particularly dislike is folk throwing normal bread into gluten free bread - made me incredibly ill last year whilst trying to care for a family member. Sadly I was dead impressed at first with the new Morrison's gf bread cakes - for around an hour - so a double disappointment 🙈
I know I should check but was just grabbing from regular place. It taught me a lesson to check.
Appalling the waste of food though - never really thought how much it adds up to - maybe a bit of a push in store to remind people to do this, or reminding people if staff see them doing it could help.

Not really as annoying as eating meat generally isn’t an ethical choice.

Children need to enter shops with hands tied behind back, in trousers pockets. Then I heard parents saying to their DC "look but don't touch". Completely ignored their parents.

Another thing that annoys me is if a DC is hungry. Parents got a multipack of crisps, opened the multipack up, take ONE bag (or two if two DC) and leave the rest on the shelf. That is theft. Sometimes when I was on checkouts, the parent said becareful of (product) as opened the pack of the crisps, chocolate etc. That's fine.

Ideally, though its not possible in some circumstances, make sure your DC has something to eat before you take them to the shops.

Some branded food which they have a GF version, the difference between the normal and GF products is just a little sign with gluten free. It does not stand out,

Some shop staff don't take note of this and put the normal in the GF or vice versa. As had it myself where a customer bought an Old El Passo kit and it cost them 80p more. On inspection, it was the GF version. I went to the Mexican section and saw two cases of the GF version on the shelves and took them to the Free From section. Lo and behold, the normal OEP was there. Have noticed that OEP have increased the size of the words Gluten Free on their boxes.

When we get new bread lines (sometimes they are delivered in error) we are told to dress them in due to the shortness of the date. I was finding no end of normal breadlines in the FF section.

I both instances, I told managers about this the other managers did tell the usual staff the seriousness of this. The last store manager couldn't care less. That was another tick in the "I need to leave this place"

In the store where I worked, FF is down one aisle between cereals and eggs and the normal bread was down the next aisle on the other side.

Similar issues with dairy-free as well. It's not my department, but I have often moved dairy free yogurt to where it should be, and occasionally the other way around. The packaging is very similar.

People with allergies/celiac disease really need to be vigilant, because, annoyingly, sometimes the staff aren't.

There's nothing ethical about eating processed meat substitutes, which have a horrendous environmental footprint.

That's got nothing to do with the thread, not sure why you're bringing it up.

Do you think it's worse than meat, environmentally?

I don't believe it is. But I'm willing to be shown otherwise. This is the first source I could find that seems to be neutral.

knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/how-sustainable-are-fake-meats#:~:text=Beef%20is%20by%20far%20the,a%20given%20quantity%20of%20protein.

Animal agriculture has the highest environmental footprint of all food farming.

The implication by a pp was, fine to put meat-substitutes in with the meat, but not fine to put meat in with the meat-substitutes. I was just pointing out it's equally annoying either way.

The op was "talking about lazy arseholes in the super market , not "hotdogs made of lips udders and arseholes' you could make your own thread with your opinions on that @Sethera

I have no issue with the formulation of hotdogs.

@Sethera but your comment leads others to jump in the bandwagon derailing the thread was my point .

Yes. The DF milks were in one section - they were at the end of an aisle chiller before we condensed the lines - as some lines were poor sellers at my store such as the This Is Not Milk. Now they are below the cream.

DF yogurts such as Alpro were in the normal sections - big pots in the big pots section and the multipack fruit ones with the multipacks. Apparently they have the same category as the above, no separate ones for DF. Yet there was a separate category for Free From desserts - cheesecake, fruit pies etc.

I'm ok with the minor derailment, as long as they can justify their comment that suggests meat alternatives have a bigger environmental impact than meat - given they've ignored my question yet answered your one that's after it - I'm guessing they can't.

It isn't always worse - it depends on the processing and transport involved. This is a good article explaining:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200211-why-the-vegan-diet-is-not-always-green

The one that says "Even the “greenest” sources of meat still produce more greenhouse gases than plant-based proteins."

(Apologies for the blue, it was copied and pasted like that).

And then goes on to talk far more about the environmental impact of blueberries, avocado and coconut than it does about meat alternatives? Cool.