smartmoney.com — "Just like the title says, here are ten ways your supermarket is either aiming to rip you off or potentially messing with your health. Practical information you can use to make wise choices rather than alarmist propaganda. Possibly limited to U.S. supermarkets but still worth reading." (This is the original article.)
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volcan96Jun 29, 2006
I see a few mythbusters episodes coming out of this article.
Closed AccountJun 29, 2006
@ gryffydoh yeah stop with the f**king quotes and "*" its f**king annoying. Bitch.
Closed AccountJun 29, 2006
@ JugulatorApparently you did not read my comment. I said that food is cooked above 210 degrees farenheit. You act is as if I didn't address it. When in fact washing your hands won't do s**t if you can't f**king cook the meat properly
Closed AccountJun 29, 2006
@ JuggulatorFinal comment.I never said we lived. I said we thrived. Because in fact have we, the human race, ever come anywhere near close to complete extincion?
gryffyddJun 29, 2006
Um, you said "We have been living" that's a lot closer to "we lived" than it is to "we have thrived."And I'll stop with the asterisks if you'll stop with your CAPS LOCK.Has the human race come close to extinction? No. But that's beside the point. Just because something won't make the whole species die doesn't mean it won't kill someone (or 100 or 1,000 someones) or make them very ill. You very clearly have no understanding of what's being discussed and you don't have the ability to read other people's posts well enough to carry on a logical argument.Bye bye.... *BLOCKED*
cmptrnrd16Jun 30, 2006
I work in a grocery store, and I deal with probably all 10 of those every day.
dwatchJun 30, 2006
Number 11 on that list should be 're-shopping'. I worked at a large south-east chain after high school, for almost 2 years. As a 'bag boy' or whatever they call them now days, when it got slow at the checkouts, they sent us on 're-shopping' runs. Take a buggy and walk up and down each isle and checkout lanes, looking for items left on shelves where it shouldn't be. Standard store policy was to put back everything on the shelves, including warm milk, packs of meat (as long as there was no green showing), frozen dinners that had gravy dripping out of them (because they were out so long they were thawed), even bags of donuts from the self-service rack were opened and put back on the shelf if they didn't look disgusting. This is why I always pull lunch meat, milk, TV dinners, etc, from behind the first few on the shelf. Not only is there a much lower chance that it was 're-shopped', but I also usually get a few extra days more on the 'sell by' dates, since they stock shelves in the FIFO method (first in, first out) and all new stuff is put in the back.
rezophonicJun 30, 2006
Some of those applications even accept phone numbers like "???-????", as I have learned from experience...