I was at woolies and purchased some chorizo, the black plastic was covering all the items as they were near close, so I couldn't see.
When I got home it turned out they were the mini franks.
I returned them the next day, and the staff emptied the returned franks back into the deli display stock.
I'm a little shocked as they could have been in the boot of my car overnight. Or left out on a kitchen bench.
Don't want to name the store, but a little shocked if this is their normal policy.
No video unfortunately.
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I swear people do this all the time, but itās in their basket while they do their entire shop, and then before checkout they decide they donāt want it anymore so they leave it at self checkout or put it back on the shelf (after itās lost itās cool).
you can tell because theres lots of condensation on the inside. Iāve seen it on sandwiches, meat, cold pastry.
I sometimes see cold perishable items like milk/ deli packets lying on room temperature shelves (probably moved by some idiot customers) and wonder what happens with them. Do they get tossed out?
I sometimes see cold perishable items like milk/ deli packets lying on room temperature shelves (probably moved by some idiot customers)
probably the same thing as I mentioned, just the customer couldnāt be bothered to walk back to fridge and didnāt want to take it to checkout because they might accidentally buy it.
or maybe itās even mid shop they just decide āI donāt want this anymoreā
so they just dump it on the closest shelf. people are just like that, selfish and itās ānot my problemā.
what happens with stuff like this probably depends on store manager.
I should also say, leaving things at self checkout can happen by accident. Iāve done it a few times I forget to scan an item and I get home and realise I left it behind. š
They get taken to the waste room out the back and written off/trashed
yeah, highly likely that they have suffered temperature abuse and the butcher has know way to know if the cold chain was preserved. i would get in touch with the store manager or corporate, not acceptable behaviour and putting the reputation of the brand of mini frank in jeopardy
Not to mention OP took them home with him, he could have stuck those sausages up his ass for all Woolworth's knows.
how would they pass the sniff test if that was the case?
Mini franks probably smell like ass anyway.
Now they are unique!
Hmm good point, they'd probably charge extra for those ones.
People complain about Colesworth hiring idiots like that, but I bet back before supermarkets sold meat, that plenty of butchers did the exact same thing. Probably was even more prevalent, small business owners get obsessed with this kind of money saving.
Before Supermarkets butchers werenāt much into prepacking produce. You asked for what you wanted and they wrapped it for you on the spot. Also once you bought it you didnāt usually return it.
Also if they had the opportunity to buy horse meat for 1/10th the price per pound of beef, they could take it and no one would ever know the difference.
Something to be careful of if you get teleported 50 years into the past and believe a conspiracy theory that AustriaBargain's just invented.
Maybe but the Supermarkets in the UK were doing that recently. Horse meat in the Lasagne.
One of the companies caught in the scandal was Tesco's. When they found the remains of Richard the 3rd under one of the Tesco car parks an English comedian quipped, āI see he found that horse he was looking forā
That sort of happened in Russia. Some years ago, Russia was Australia's #1 export market for kangaroo meat, yet nobody ever saw it sold in the shops.
Then the government banned imports, which is what happens when officials do not get a sufficiently large slice of the proceeds.
First World Problem.
What can we do about it?
You should have gone straight to the manager there and then.
If for no other reason than you won't dare buy anything from that store's deli counter ever again.
I returned them the next day, and the staff emptied the returned franks back into the deli display stock.
Isn't the service desk at the front of the store and the deli section usually at the back (without cash registers), how could you see this?
Accompanied to deli with the service desk staff member.
Why are you returning food to Woolworths? What did you expect them to do? Offer you a refund and then throw it out, just because you made a mistake in selecting the wrong item?
I asked for chorizo, item was stickered and charged as chorizo, but when i opened the pack it was the small cheaper cocktail frankfurts inside.
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I stopped buying milk from WW since their milk only lasts 3-4 days after I buy it, even though the BB date has not passed. Compared with MIlk, I also buy from other supermarkets, including Costco.
This is not with any particular branch but with WW Milk, and I am not sure if their cooling system is bad, their handling is incorrect, or they are pushing the BB date beyond the standard life.
Not sure what's going on with your woolies, but I always buy Woolworths milk and the milk always lasts up to at least the use-by date.
Woolworths policy is any item which leaves the deli (or any other perishable item for that matter) and is returned needs to be binned. Having said this, staff are overworked and underpaid with not much care, so will just do whatever they feel like at the time. On the flipside your chorizo cost max $10, probably closer to $5, is it really worth the time and effort for the refund.
Staff get FULL union pay!!
Staff training could be up for discussion!
Just a shame their union is so shit, that their "union pay" is barely above minimum wage
Sometimes some folks on the top of companies work around and trick the general consumer like they did with the failed Masters debacle. This is NOT the right forum to go to details but even scandals can be wrapped in gold wrap!
Yeh but its the vibe of the whole thing.
Woolworths, the fresh food people!!
thats kidults for ya, dont care about anything but themselves
After a few incidents of poor food handling in the past, I now rarely buy from the deli. Now, I usually buy the prepacked ham/fish/sausages/etc.
I wouldn't buy any meat products from Woolies after too many bad experiences.
The deli is the worst job in the store, so you donāt always get the brightest employees rostered on
Normally procedure is to dump stock returned to the store, I'm shocked they would put them back on display.
Name and shame imo
Could be the next food safety media piece like that time the Maccas worker was drying a dirty mop under the fries heater