Supermarkets are frauds
I work in the produce dept. of a fairly large chain of supermarkets in Denmark. And i can onfirm your suspicions that we rip you off or try to kill you on a daily basis.

For instance, it is not uncommon for us to mark up an item, and then offer it on sale at its now "cheap" standard price.
Ok, so this mainly goes on in the produce dept...fresh goods and everything, with prices changing daily. But still. It's illegal and I feel bad doing it.

Or bread from our bakery dept. that gets dropped on the floor. If nobody is looking...back on the shelf. This practice was started by our manager one morning when he was in a hurry and dropped a few trays of bread...now everyone does it.

And don't get me started on the state of our bakery out back...suffice to say that we've just been fined a fair bit of cash because of the state of the cleanliness there...granted, our baker stopped and we've just gotten a new one, but still...you should've seen the brown goo they had to wash off the ceiling with a high pressure water jet.

The worst part...i've been trained as a chef, i know hygiene, storage temps, everything...and still i turn a blind eye. But when you're permanently understaffed like we are, and the ppl that actually DO come to work are spotty 17 yr olds that call in sick 2 days out of 5, you simply don't have the time for these "minor" things...as if the 60 hr weeks weren't enough as it is.

Sigh...ok...might be a bit off topic there at the end,and a little ranty...feels better getting this off my chest tho

length? about 10 hrs every day, for 6 days...
(Jindrak, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 17:29, Reply)