<strong>Written By:</strong> jensonj
<strong>Date:</strong> 2007-07-15 14:13:15
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Look, what do you want us to do -- stop selling bananas and coffee because they make too big a footprint? Boycott watermelons and olive oil? Ban chocolate? That WOULD be huge. But would that make you switch from your current supermarket to ours? Yeah, we didn't think so. Just give the bags a try. You might feel good about yourself! Aw, piddle. This isn't working. Cut.

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I remember about 15 years ago when me and my wife first went to Super Store to try it out. All the other stores where using brown paper grocery bags. I questioned this as being not environmentally sound when Super Store pulled out the plastic bags besides being upset at being charged for them as well. They were telling everyone then that it was more environmentally safer then killing trees for bags. They even ran commercials stating their point of view.

So what has changed? Maybe a threat to profits from decreasing sales figures.


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In their defence they do push plastic bins and reusable fabric/canvas shopping bags - at least out West they do.

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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

   

I despise Superstore, from their barracaded entrance that makes you walk all the way around (and rude staff that give you heck if you try to zip through a clear till lane) to their 'bag yer own damn groceries'(so we can skimp on staff and still charge you with competitive pricing) and their 'pay fer yer own damn bag' policy.

Nobody is kidding me that they are doing all this to keep prices down. Give me a break! Prices there are hardly earth-shattering, so at the end of the day I am left with more work to do and more money to shell out, as well as the stress of maneuvering through a parking lot that rivals Cost Co for size and traffic.

The local store near me has also been caught re-dating meat still it stank and made people sick.

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"The local store near me has also been caught re-dating meat still it stank and made people sick."

That happens at all of them. I used to work at one, and we'd call the Regular Ground that was onsale for $.30 a pound 'Barnyard Surprise'. Most was brown or green when the meat arrived. It was even hard to grind it. Not to mention leftover goat, pork, chicken . . .I'd never eat ground or really any meat from there. The Meat manager (and all others) get bonuses based on monthly profit. Throwing away 'slightly spoiled' meat cuts into profits. 10 pounds of spoled crap in 100 pounds of ground meat goes a long way toward that new Mercedes.

They used to have many on-site cutters and bring the meat in as 'sides' etc - whole beef and break it down onsite like many meat stores. But they moved it all to non-union meat processing facilities, and it arrives already cut and trayed. Which means it spoils faster. I'm genuinely surprised they still get away with it.

"Just give the bags a try. You might feel good about yourself!"

I'm also not surprised they don't "get it" ethier. Being more eco-friendly is probabally a totally foriegn concept to them. Just another angle to increase sales. Not a real attempt at change.

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After reading your post DC, I think I'll turn vegan.

"The Meat manager (and all others) get bonuses based on monthly profit."

Hence the big lettered label that says you must cook your ground meat super extra well done and take a full body shower after handling the meat or you may get sick and die.

I for one, don't like the meat at any local Super Store, and the fish is usually always putrid.

BYW, I think COSTCO cuts their meat on-site, and I do find their meat to be much better than what I see at the Super Store.

Bottom line is that unless you grow your own, you'll have no idea what you're eating.

   

Your friendly neighbourhood butcher is probably better than most. Give him a try.

If my post makes one person turn away from SuperStore meat, then I'll take it as a positive . And Costco meat is actually pretty good. My local does cut their own, and even the fish is decent.

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This whole thread is a good indicator for why we should be making our separate deals with farmers, rather than go the lazy route of supermarkets.

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