“[People] will sometimes decide to stop buying [redacted] when they find this out.”

Angelica Martinez is the Latine Editorial Lead at BuzzFeed and covers a little bit of everything, from quizzes and true crime to celebrities and pop culture.

"Oh yeah, every fucking flat of tuna cans has one busted one. That shit is aaaaall over the other cans." 

"Also, quite a bit of store-brand/brand-name stuff is made at the same facilities (with differences in recipes). This is not always the case, but it happens more often than you think."

"One time, a customer returned a head of cauliflower that had an easy-to-overlook streak of rot down the middle. A coworker of mine cut into it to see the gory details, but she got more than she bargained for. Hundreds of baby spiders came skittering out. Luckily, she hucked that shit in the trash real quick and tied off the bag before too many got loose."

"Did they think the three people they see in the department baked the 3,000 products we stock on the shelves from scratch every day? Do they think there is an army of minimum wage workers hidden in the back, lovingly kneading breads and whispering encouragements to cake batter as it goes into the oven?"

"Most grocery stores have bad rodent problems."

"Plan better next time. We're already tired, and we still have work to do after you leave."

"If you give us fresh produce, popsicles, frozen pizzas, ice cream, anything that we can't just set back on the shelf for whatever reason, it WILL be wasted."

"Also, don't ruin the score of the big game or the plot of a TV episode that just dropped when you come into the store after watching. Some of us have recorded it or planned to watch a replay."

"They also aren't supposed to do it because that job belongs to Loss Prevention people, aaaaand those guys have very different instructions for handling shoplifters."

"When I worked at a grocery store, I couldn't believe it when I found out the meat department sold most items at cost, and most sale items were sold at a loss. The only products they sold at a profit were made in-store."

"And, for everyone's sake, do not have social meetings in aisles of the shop. If you insist on doing this, take it elsewhere."

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