On July 17, the inspector found “green algal growth” in a puddle of standing water in a raw holding cooler. And on July 27, an inspector noted clear liquid leaking out from a square patch on the ceiling. Behind the patch, there were two other patches that were also leaking. An employee came and wiped the liquid away with a sponge, but it returned within 10 seconds. The employee wiped it again, and the liquid again returned within 10 seconds. Meanwhile, a ceiling fan mounted close by was blowing the leaking liquid onto uncovered hams in a hallway outside the room.
A picture of hell.
If were being pedantic, if you purchase with a card your money actually goes to the bank, who transfers it to Visa, who transfers it to the grocer. The grocer restocks the item you purchased, transferring a portion of your money (less all the upstream overhead/fees) to the manufacturer of your purchased good.
If people stop buying products with a harmful supply chain, grocers stop stocking it. They’re not just putting processed deli meat on the shelves because they think meat bricks look cool.
To be super pedantic, no, ownership of your money never transfers to visa. When your card is swiped (tapped, whatever) visa (or mc or Amex or whoever else) facilitates communication between your bank and the merchant’s bank, but no money moves yet. At the end of the day the merchant settles out those transactions, but that’s still just data. The money moves typically a day or two later, and that is done directly between the customer and merchant’s bank. Source: worked in credit card processing for ~9 years.
TIL! thanks for that!
they can choose not to do that. it’s not as though they literally re-order every product the moment they sell a unit.
“they can choose not to do that. it’s not as though they literally re-order every product the moment they sell a unit.”
No shit. Most stock systems just remove that item from current inventory, and when it gets too low it triggers a reorder request.
Corporations do not abide by ethics. They do not care about anything but increasing profits. So not buying certain things causes stock to sit, and in this case expire. That hurts their bottom line, and so it is more likely to trigger change in the form of them no longer stocking said item to sell. Are you really this dense?
calling me names doesn’t change whether i’m responsible for others’ actions.
Somebody walks the aisles at 10 pm every night scanning the out of stocks.
aren’t they responsible for their own actions?
Chain grocery stores don’t really allow individual branches to all follow different policies.
people can always choose to do otherwise. you dont lose free will when you clock in.
… i don’t even know how to respond to that because I’m not sure if itself is a response to what I said.
this isn’t causal, and the grocers can choose to stop stocking it for any reason or no reason.
whatever their reason, it’s their choice, not mine.