Grocery Stores

[dreamrawalwz]

Do you now find yourself looking at other people's carts and wanting to lecture on how bad their food choices are? I know I do now. My parents were joking that if I worked at a restaurant or groccery cashier that I'd always say "do you know how bad this is for you..." I'd probably get fired haha. Sometimes I see their carts before I see the people and I can accurately guess if they have puffiness, acne, red faces, ect. from the foods they choose.

Also, everytime I'm in line with my plain salad bar, vegetables, and fruit people ask if i'm on a diet or something or just make a comment that I'm too healthy (in a mocking way). I think it's amusing actually. How can they think being healthy is a bad thing and that eating junk "once in a while" is good for them like a treat? I also think it's amusing when I get a new cashier that doesn't know ANY of the codes, but sometimes they don't even know the food (that's a little scary that they don't know lettuces or fruits!).

What are your experiances?

[Crystl-jade]

HI there!

People ask me, "what are you going to do with all that produce?"

One time, I had so much in my cart of different kinds of produce that
the person behind me became very angry because they had to wait while the new cashier looked up ALL the codes for each one. I must have had at least 50 different codes worth of produce to ring up and the guy behind me said,"would you PLEASE hurry up, I want to get out of here now."

Several times I've had the cashier ring up produce with the wrong code because they didn't know what the item was.

I know what you mean about peoples' shopping carts. Sometimes while waiting in line I just want to tell the people standing there all about the food they are eating and why it's so bad for them,, LOL. Or that drinking the juice from carrot,parsley,spinich and celery will help their little ones to grow up strong and healthy, ect. ect. ect. I'ts almost overwhelming at times,

Good question :)



crystl-jade

[I~Wanna~RAWk]

:) I am always doing that! I can hardly stomach all the meat I see in peoples carts.

On the flip side, other people look into my cart and say stuff like, "Are you going to EAT all of that?" I say, "Well, uh, yeah."

[juliebove]

I never feel the need to lecture anyone about anything. Although I do cringe when I see some of the stuff in other people's carts, I sure wouldn't comment to them on it. Now I have had people come up to me and ask me for advice about food. They're always friendly and polite. I've also had people comment on my salads from the salad bar telling me that they look soooo good and they wish they could concoct something that looks that good.

[RowanC]

I do I do .. it's funny you'd say this.

I see people with chips, cookies, cakes, candy and other horrid snacks in their carts... and a case of DIET coke! They're all swollen and puffy and unhealthy looking and I'm thinking.... "Are you nuts? What planet did you come from?" Sometimes I feel sorry for them, but mostly I feel sorry for their kids who are learning the same horrible eating habits.

The guy behind you who wanted you to hurry? I'd just smile and hold my ground. One pet peeve of mine "these days" is how rushed I feel in the grocery line. I can't even take the time to put away my receipt and change and they're ringing up the next person while pushing me through. It's annoying as heck.

People need to just get over it.
::having a rough day because I have the cold from hell today:::

[samadhisoul]

omg, I was at the store yesterday and this family had a nice amount of produce in the cart...it was a mom and a 6/7 yo boy and a 3/4 yo girl.
there was this HUNK of meat wrapped in plastic but there was blood seeping into all the corners of the plastic
it made my stomach turn but I wonder--what do the kids think about all that blood???
my dh told me it was either roast beef or corned beef....*shivers*

[PATH301]

hey dreamrawalwz, this is great question:

Crystl-jade,

People ask me, "what are you going to do with all that produce?"

One time, I had so much in my cart of different kinds of produce that
the person behind me became very angry because they had to wait while the new cashier looked up ALL the codes for each one. I must have had at least 50 different codes worth of produce to ring up and the guy behind me said,"would you PLEASE hurry up, I want to get out of here now."

I'd have to agree with RowanC about standing your ground.
I was in the store the other day getting a bunch of fruits and veggies. And the cashier said ..wow this is a lot of produce! Are you veggie freak or what? I said yep I just likem. This cashier guy was having to read through the catalog to find the produces numbers......and then He started to have this attitude all of the sudden,( proably because he was having a problem finding the codes), he said do you eat this crap all the time - as he take a swig of he'd diet drink. I sad sure, do you drink that crap all the time? He was sorta startled that I asked him the same questioned back to him. He said well, this stuff tastes really good and it gives me a burst of energy! I said well isn't that great for you - mine does the same thing but with much less chemicals. Then this married couple behind me were getting impatient becuase the cashier was having problems. The husband said " Mr. garden, can you move it along" I said Mr. junk man - why don't you eat one of your twinkies you have in your cart, while your waiting or better yet there's 30 of cashiers waiting to serve you!

[sport]

In the days that I used to buy meat for my husband (history) I would take some plastic bags from the produce section and double wrap the prepacked meat without touching it and then place it at the back of the trolly. I would put it on the belt last so that it did not touch my food (or the real food as I used to call it).
One day I got home without the meat and realised that I had left it on the end of the belt and that it had not moved up and I had not noticed.
Another day I was outside the store when I found a pack of smoked salmon still laying up against the back of the trolly and not paid for. I was lucky that my paranoia did not get me in serious trouble.

[misslinda]

YES!!!!!!!!! that was me down to a T, Dream..........I even stare a their gorssly filled carts and THEN look at them in their face with puzzlement

Yesterday, I went to Trader Joes and grabbed a Larabar and this woman said to me "have you ever tried this cherry flavor?"

I said "yes I have but don't care for it....blahbalha" anyone she went on to say that her son cannot have any dairy meat etc...........

and I smile and asked "Is he raw vegan?" '

she said "No. but at least this will give him something to eat" (as if it was )depriving to be wihtout dairy etc)

I smiled at her and said........."Well I'm raw vegan so I would believe he is doing the right thing.....chuckled"

She looked at me like I was crazy and I walked off.

[lil fairy z girl]

yes i do find myself looking at others trolleys. its wierd.
i also find when in a restaurant i have to stop myself making comments. my mother-in-law was eating some cooked stuffed mushrooms with roasted peppers, and she said mmh these are so tasty, i had to stop myself saying that actually they would be more tasty raw.
anyway, at least it shows we are happy on raw,

best wishes
sal
~*~*~*

ps path301 your comments made me laugh, i would love to be in the same queue as you

[mbf]

Wow. so funny because I had an interesting check-out line chat with another mom yesterday morning ! My childrens school is having a bake sale and I was assigned Rice krispie treats. I have never made them before, even before Raw Food my family never ate that stuff !
So i'm reading the box and a mom with 2 kids in front of me must see the ingredients on the belt and asks me if i'm making rice krispie treats, so I reply yes, but I have never made them before can you give me any suggestions. You should have seen the look on her face !
and then I explained that my family doesn't eat these things and of course she wanted to know why not. I simply told her too much sugar and I try to limit their sugar intake.
Ok this is the unbelievable part... she then actually tried to convince me that rice krispie treats are a healthy snack !! and picked up the marshmellow bag and said "see it's not that much sugar !" I was completely dumb founded by this woman. I was so thankfull she had paid and her kids were tugging on her to go because I think I was just staring at her in total amazment and at that moment couldn't think of anyway to reasonably answer this woman.

I buy so little at our local conventional grocery store these days but it does blow me away what people are feeding their kids !


MBF

[LovesAnimals777]

I work at a grocery store so I see the junk people put in their carts ALL the time. And there's some people who do eat very healthy judging by what they have in their cart.

Oh, I almost forgot to add, I hate it when customers ask me if I tried something that's I don't consume.

[JennaBoBenna]

RowanC,

One pet peeve of mine "these days" is how rushed I feel in the grocery line. I can't even take the time to put away my receipt and change and they're ringing up the next person while pushing me through. It's annoying as heck.

It is SO annoying! Because they give you the change and receipt all in the same hand and its like okay, change goes in this part of my wallet...unzip, put change in, zip...dollars go here...and of course i can NEVER fit the dollars into my wallet in a hurry without them turning into a big crumply mess making my wallet all fat, and then the receipt goes in the bag....and now I have to put my wallet back into my purse, close my purse...grab my grocery bags...and I'm supposed to do all of this in oh....THREE SECONDS ?!! Right.

lol

(edited to fix typo)

[JennaBoBenna]

Chrstn4ptsrc2me,

I work at a grocery store so I see the junk people put in their carts ALL the time.

My boyfriend said I should work at Whole Foods because I love going there, but I wouldn't be able to stand ringing up the stuff that people buy! I'd have like a disgusted scowl on my face also, Whole Foods smells too much like stinky cheese for me to be there all day

[Anne]

This was a great thread to read!! There is so much truth to it all!!
I myself am at times very judgemental of what others have in their carts.
Human nature!!!

Let's just keep setting the right example!
Blessings, Anne