Plastic packaging and Caution with spinach - refrigerated trucks.

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Chains use refrigerated trucks because they don't want to throw out

their profits. Sometimes it comes in fresh but has a shorter " shelf

life " then it normally has. We have one particular store that sells a

lot of that. You know you'll have to use the produce within a day or

two if you buy it there. But it is cheaper because of this. My sister

goes there but I won't step foot in the place.

I worked in a fruit & veggie store for years and learned about buying

cheap wholesale. They'd buy the stuff all the other buyers turned

down that was still on the broker's dock at the end of the day for a

lot less then when it came in fresh in the morning.

I'll bet that's why that one store always has crummy celery when

every other store has nice stuff.

 

, " Marilyn Daub " <mcdaub

wrote:

>

> They come into a main store further away and then sent to the

smaller stores

> that they own, by just a truck!!! This is why it happens and why

they can't

> return the merchandise as they do not deal directly with the

suppliers!!

>

> Marilyn Daub

> mcdaub

> Vanceburg, KY

> My Cats Knead Me!!

> -

> wwjd

>

> Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:04 PM

> Re: Re: Plastic packaging and Caution

with

> spinach - refrigerated trucks.

>

>

> This summer I worked in a cafeteria at a busy summer camp. When

those

> delivery trucks came in everyday, they were refrigerated and had

frozen

> sections on them. They immediately wheeled them into our walk in

> refrigerators and freezers. I feel sure that most places do the

same. but

> we did occasionally have spoiled produce delivered, which we sent

back with

> them and once we had some frozen stuff, partially thawed, that

were bakery

> items. We baked those right away, but got a refund from the

company.

> We have one grocery store here that always has rubbery thin

bitter celery

> and I never purchase it there. I've asked that produce man why he

accepts

> it, and he says they don't have a choice. Well, I'm wondering

why we did

> at camp, but a big grocery store chain doesn't... To strange. If

they had

> to eat the cost of bad produce, then a delivery company would

always make

> sure it was in great shape.

>

> Judy

> -

> Marilyn Daub

>

> Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:55 AM

> Re: Re: Plastic packaging and

Caution with

> spinach

>

>

> Maybe they need to look at how it is handled in some of the

grocery

> stores

> and the delivery in the hot trucks??

>

> Marilyn Daub

> mcdaub

> Vanceburg, KY

> My Cats Knead Me!!

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