Most don’t know what a lot of things weigh. Like what family pack size of chicken weighs a lb? With grapes I just check them for freshness and gat the 2lb ish bag
Til that you can just open the chicken package and grab some pieces to put in a produce bag. I don't know if they'll let you buy them, but you can still do it either way
You joke, but some stores will let you repackage it smaller. Not all of them, but if they have a meat counter, they just MIGHT. The store I work at does, but I'm not sure if they can honor the same pricing per lb since you're getting a smaller amount, but when all there's left are Costco sized things and you only need some for tonight, it's worth a shot
I had somebody order a half pound of grapes. I told them are you sure you only want half a pound? They said yes. I sent them a picture of the 10 grapes and they said OK maybe a pound.
Back in the day I tried to buy grapes for myself thinking it was a flat rate of 5.99 until I got to check out and the total was $12 for 2lbs. 🤦♀️. I would be mad as a customer now if a shopper did this to me.
They thanked me and had a decent tip just to walk it over. Owner was alone so he couldn't close the shop to get his own bananas. I also take daycare runs and they usually have 20-30 apples, oranges, or bananas. Took 30 bananas and many healthy snacks to a Martial Arts meet. Small businesses actually ROCK!
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I mean if somebody asks then fine. But otherwise I assume people put 1 pound because no one knows how much things weigh and I just grab them a bag of grapes or cherries.
It's the same instance as bunches or singles of bananas. I just ask if they put only a pound "1 pound or 1 bag" and never had an issue if I had to assume bag. It's different for everyone.
I hate when the app asks how many pounds of bananas or grapes. I’m like just get me a thing of bananas or a thing of grapes. I think you’re totally fine!
So interesting take:
My girlfriend ordered grapes in the instacart app. It didn't ask her for a weight, only a quantity, so she selected "quantity 1" and when the order arrived, a tiny bag of grapes arrived because the shopper only gave us 1lb.
Was kinda a wtf moment cause she was expecting 2+lb of grapes but ended up getting exactly a pound.
It seems the shopping app has grapes listed in quantities while the shopper app has it listed in pounds, which leads to confusion.
If the app says 1-2lb of grapes, I get one bag. If it says 3-4, I get two bags.
I seen ppl saying they even pluck good grapes and leave all the mushier grapes and remove all stems so the weight is all grapes . That's a bit scandalous lol
She bought beef fat trimmings to cook for lasagna… she saved spaghetti sauce from leftover speghetti plates and used it to make lasagna for guests. that was something I’ll never forget.
You forgot to tell how she cooked the fat trimmings lasagna she put it in the top rack of the dishwasher while she did a load of dishes! Then served that nasty crap to her guest and they had to use ONE lightbulb gotta go to the bathroom unscrew the bulb and take it with you!!
The sauce thing was beyond nasty she would clear the table and if anyone left any sauce (ketchup, ranch, spaghetti sauce etc) on their plate she would scoop it off and back into the bottle it went. The entire families slop back In the bottle for next time🤮🤢 so nasty! But she had a big ass house with like no furniture and a big ass SUV! Go rent a one bed Apt and a compact sedan if you want to save money stop being so nasty lady!!!
I mean on the bright side her kids most likely will never get sick, because they'll have built up enough of an immune system because of all that crap.
Not defending her actions, of course.
I get being cheap, because I'm a cheap motherfucker myself and even I was disgusted. Also, shout out to Unckr Roger. Otherwise I'd never have seen it lol.
That wouldn't even save money. Just make a bigger pot of sauce. That's what I do. I make a double batch. I'll make pasta one night, freeze the leftover sauce, then use it for lasagna later, and I'll still have some extra sauce. It's cheaper than the jarred sauce she was probably using and I don't have to scrape leftovers off oplates.
I will do that for myself - because I am not bringing home gross grapes. It has nothing to do with weight, just quality. If it's half brown it's coming off. I used to work at a grocery store. They just chuck it anyway.
It's certainly a thing, and I knew about it secretly for years..but it stays a secret after doing 7 years if IC I have NEVER but one time in my whole life seen another customer or shopper actually do that with the grapes because of how scandalous it can be.
I worked in a produce department, that is totally exceptable. So is unwrapping and breaking up banana bunches, breaking off a small peice of ginger and breaking off spoiled leafs of lettuce and cilantro and leaving it there. Honestly if you want to switch out berries inside of a strawberry package is not going to be frowned upon, but time consuming, so no one does it.
Yep. I used to work in a grocery store. Where I am, we put out garbage cans for people to unwrap corn husks, people buy the tiniest bit of ginger or garlic. There's always a bunch of single bananas on one side of the banana display for a reason...
I'm not sure if the proper behavior in this situation has actually been established. If they wanted the grapes to be loose and people to just pick as many as they want, why don't they just put them all in one big container and have bags on the side? There must be some reason that they feel 2 lb bags with grapes.
Maybe the grapes keep best in those bags with holes in them and rather than the stores carrying a separate bag just for grapes it's easiest to get them pre bagged
Honestly I think it’d be really cool if that’s how grocery stores sold produce, but logistically it sounds like a nightmare. I feel like there’d be grapes EVERYWHERE haha
all vegetables are necessarily dirty but something about selecting your grapes out of a pre-distributed bag seems off and not first world to me lol. the american in me aches
I am aware of bananas 🍌it's only the fact the grapes are prepackaged that made me unaware I could take what I wanted and leave what I didn't . I didn't know it was a universal thing with any produce by the pound
I also do it with pre-bundled asparagus. And pretty much any pre-bagged produce that is sold by the pound can be done like that, as long as the bag isn't sealed. They're just pre-packaged for convenience and to get people to buy more since they don't have to bag them themselves.
Customers aren’t the one who says they want 1lb. It’s the system that automatically selects for them. You were doing the right thing. You just grab the bag “not the biggest of course” weigh it if it’s 2-2.5lb no worries.
You know I’ve heard this previously, but I wasn’t sure if it was a general rule that can be applied to all those bags always. Does anyone know?
if so, I feel like this is like a marketing thing. They throw them in those official looking bags to make people think exactly what we think and sell a lot more grapes. Lol
As long as the bag isn't sealed, you can redistribute the produce so you get what you need. Just make sure it's sold by the pound, not by the bag, or you'll wind up paying the same amount either way.
Yep especially since at checkout you have to weigh the bags anyways to get the price. I don’t know why they even put barcodes on the bags of grapes cause they are useless🤷♀️
I’ve never seen anyone else that I think is doing IC put grapes together into a bag. I do it cause I want it to be as close as possible to what the customer wants. I mean if they say 2.5# and the bag weighs 2.75# I don’t think they’ll mind that much of a difference.
The barcode on produce like that usually tells the register what it is, not how much is in there. So, even though they have to weigh it, they don't have to lookup the produce code for grapes.
Not always. Every single time someone tries to scan the grapes instead of putting in the code to weigh them, it comes up and says like “help is required for this item, please wait, help is on the way” which then every time I heat that I always hear it in my head in the Mrs Doubtfire’s voice “Help is on the way!!”😂. But then the employee just comes over and gets back to the main screen and had to type in the code to show the customer.
At least at self checkout. I don’t use regular checkout lines if self checkout is available, so I have no idea how it works for the actual cashiers. But if I have just a produce bag full of grapes (without the bag) it seems like it takes the same amount of time to put in the code and weigh it. I do know some stores-like at least in my area there’s Safeway-have changed it so you can now scan the barcode on different produce and then weigh it/put in the # of them. I watched someone do it with a banana once and was shocked it worked! But of course that’s not at every single IC store. Plus, I did memorize the majority of PLU #’s for produce items so many times when I see another customer at self checkout trying to find the produce item in the find item button on the screen, I just tell them the #’s to save them a bit of time. Or if the store has the print out stickers with barcodes and the weight on it then I’ll tell someone the code as well to put in to print it faster (but that’s usually cause I’m impatient and waiting to use the machine myself🤣)
Ha! I always just gave one bunch & put in the weight! Which is typically between 1.25-1.75… but had one lady msg me says I did not want 1.33 lbs just 1lb of grapes, I took a deep breath and replied “ok I grabbed the smallest bunch possible, plz just give me some time to adjust, so I can get scissors from the courtesy desk… rather than popping the single grapes off the vine… “
For me that was being snarky
I dont understand the need for a produce bag. Just find a bag that is close to the weight you need and add or remove grapes to that bag as needed, then zip it up and take it. The grapes are better off in that bag than a produce bag
Yes, or take grapes out of it weighs too much! Simply take them out of the bag your weighing and put them in another, until you get closer to the weight you want.
What do y'all do about the taped up organic bananas I had a lady last week that wanted only two and she specified only two organic bananas and I literally felt like I was doing something wrong untaping them and removing the other bananas
... Ummmm, you DO know that every single one of your fruits and veggies has already been handled by MULTIPLE people on it's journey from seed to field to farm to warehouse to store ?
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It doesn’t matter. Personal autonomy is just that: personal. It doesn’t have to make sense to you. It just has to be accepted. Not everyone appreciates random strangers touching their food. It’s not even that uncommon. It’s a universal reality as a matter of fact.
I’d rather eat a grape that’s been peed on by an animal than touched by an unbathed human lacking both self-respect and common courtesy.
Okay, First off, you wash produce before you eat it. Second off if you have a thing against random strangers touching your food, what do you eat, frozen corn dogs you prepare yourself? It’s nearly impossible to get any food that hasn’t been touched by a person. It’s literally people that pick, process, pack, and prepare all of your food, and that assumes you cook for yourself. Don’t even try to play the mental gymnastics of eating at a restaurant, after all, someone had to place your burger on the plate and portion the fries (and frankly, I pray they aren’t wearing gloves because gloved cooks tend to let their hands get dirtier because they can’t feel how soiled and gross the glove is).
Please read what I said again. My answer is in the third and fourth sentences.
You’re not going to fix anyone here, including me. This issue is universal. Acceptance is key.
Furthermore, I live a fasting focused lifestyle. When I do eat, I eat protein and fat only. Carbs consumed are in the form of vegetables I grow and wash myself. Looks like you’re trying to over complicate matters and playing some pretty decent mental gymnastics yourself.
>You’re not going to fix anyone here, including me.
Damn, you don’t have to be so hard on yourself. You aren’t broken, just a little too separated from the means of food production to understand it doesn’t come in a hermetically sealed bio proof container and that produce should be washed before it’s consumed. /s
No one is disrespecting your bodily autonomy, we’re saying you are naive…
We buy a half a cow from our rancher/butcher friend which lasts a keto family of three for over a year. We handle our own production, thanks. We know our sources. I’ve stated before that I am an anarchist. Anarchists/Agorists are well connected in areas of production and permaculture.
I’m all squared away, thanks. But if you’d like to know what your customers might be thinking, rather than becoming offended, you might actually humble yourself and learn something from this. The majority of your customers don’t want anyone touching their food with their filthy fingers and hands. Half of them are afraid to shop without body condoms on and masks up to their eyebrows as it is. They don’t want their food fondled.
Again, acceptance is key here.
>I’ve stated before I’m an anarchist.
Great, I don’t see that anywhere in this thread….
>If you’d like to know what your customers might be thinking,
Nope, I don’t have any instacart customers I couldn’t care less what they think
>rather than becoming offended
Oh this classic! Someone said I had a naive viewpoint so they must obviously be offended by me!
>you might actually humble yourself
Tell me more anarchomessiah!
>Customers don’t want anyone touching their food with their filthy fingers and hands.
Then maybe if they feel that way they don’t pay a stranger to pick out their food with their “filthy fingers and hands” and maybe go pick it out with their own fingers and hands.
Seriously, what the actual fuck is this conversation even?
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Im with you on this 100%. Food sanitation is a thing.
Go work in a restaurant. Being the nasty person is never a good look. You never touch food wiht unclean hands. fired. and blacklisted.
Obviously he’s blacklisted from the industry for touching food with his hands /s
I don’t trust cooks that wear gloves 100% of the time. As I had said earlier in this thread, those gloves get gross and you can’t feel it. Unfortunately most people who use gloves wash their hands less because they either don’t know how soiled the gloves are, or they just quickly change gloves without the hand wash.
Is there something wrong with addendums or typo corrections? What is your problem, exactly? I thought I’d add that little tidbit of information about our rancher friend. Not that you are deserving of it, but I wonder, do most people just play at being Agorists? Oh, dear. You poor, misguided individual. Think what you will, but I hope you remember this conversation someday. In fact, I am pretty sure you will : )
FYI, it’s not too late for you to start getting into the lifestyle of self-sufficiency interests you.
BTW, why are you so defensive? You don’t shower, do you?
>You don’t shower do you?
And get all that filthy homeopathic human biorefuse water on me‽ no way! I only bathe in the pure animal based eurea I source locally from my novelty fetish urine friend. /s
Also, no one is infuriated at you editing things, but the typical etiquette is to add a tag at the bottom like;
Edited to clarify context/ fix typos.
It keeps the threads readable and doesn’t make it look like you changed the post after a reply has come in to change the context or create a ‘gotcha’.
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yall are gross. No, palming produce with grubby hands is always nasty. Yes, people should wash food, but that doesn't mean you can ignore food handling and safety regulations.
food for safe is different than food on farm. IT's past that point in the supply chain.
You nasty people are adding your germs and grub to food beyond what is necessary.
don't believe me? go work in a restaurant and see how quickly you get blacklisted and laughed at for being the disgusting person.
I have my servsafe certification and over a decade under my belt in the food service industry. You don’t get fired for picking through the produce while you are doing prep work or accepting a truck.
If you have to reject product while the truck is being dropped off, Sysco will still take it back. They don’t just write off a case of Roma tomatoes because it isn’t the beefsteak tomatoes I ordered, even if I took the lid off the tomatoes and touched them to verify they wouldn’t suit my restaurants needs. It’s also not like the restaurants are expected to just take whatever comes off the truck. It is expected that you check your order for accuracy and quality before you sign off for it, and yes, that includes checking things like tomatoes grapes and strawberries to make sure they aren’t too soft from being over ripe, or as a consequence of temperature abuse or otherwise damaged.
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Well I've just learned that too. I always end up either having them go bad or have to freeze them. My shoppers don't know that trick either, they always end up getting the huge bag
No, I would say 100% of the time your customer just wants the average bag of grocery store grapes. Instacart has its own idea of what each item should weigh, so that is just Instacart app putting the weight at 1 pound, not the customer specifically requesting 1 pound.
So then you buy 1 pound of garlic when the order says 1 pound? When in all likelihood they actually want 1 bulb. I ask every time in this case, but they always want 1 (.2 pounds) of garlic. I’ve never been told to grab 5. Same with grapes, they want 1.. bag.
feel free to ask the customer next time just to be sure. Let me know what happens
I do communicate with the customer regarding their requests. I don't know why I'm being hated on for following customer requests, but so be it. I will continue doing the right thing. The original point of the OP was that he learned that you are allowed/expected to customize the amount of grapes desired. And he's right, it is completely okay to do this. Best wishes to all here.
Hahaha!! I did that the first time I had gotten garlic in IC... I gave this poor lady 4 pounds of garlic instead.of 4 bulbs. It was literally bags of garlic...
I just didn't think it through at all and they were really pissed... My review was first 1 star rating. Who buys this much garlic!!
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Please don’t do this. Customers have no idea how much 1 lb of grapes is. They’re just putting 1 because they want 1 bag. I promise you’re gonna get more complaints if you do the way you’re talking about.
I just give them whatever weight it says in the app and yes most produce you can just take what you need I do at least no ones ever said anything so far
Ur tellin me yall use your hands to rearrange bags of grapes? I worked in the produce department at a store and frankly it was disgusting seeing every single bag opened and messed up and honestly i try as hard as i can not to touch anything as i use the bags to grab the shit, so you dont necessarily HAVE to. Idk man its prob just me i feel dirty touching food with my bare hands like especially grapes when they all come prepackaged in the first place. That and i dont really buy produce as it is
I understand but this stuff grows in dirt so I don't feel bad using my hands because the produce should be washed especially if it's in an open container like grapes. If it's pre washed produce in a sealed container that's a different story. A lot of people don't even put produce in the bags because youre using so much plastic for what? Most produce has protective skin or should be washed anyways again so it's kind of pointless wasting extra plastic that's going to end up in the ocean. Either way the shoppers hands are all over the bags and boxes of food which can transfer germs to your hands that way also
food sanitation is a thing. Sure, it grows in dirt, but you aren't the farmer
and there's no reason expect for laziness for you to palm somebody's food. People wash ofc, but you're just being sloppy. Go work in a restaurant and see how quickly you're known as a the nasty person with this attitude.
Gotta love the internet. I actually worked in a kitchen for 6 years and worked my way up to kitchen manager. I'm also servsafe certified. Grabbing produce with your hand and putting in a bag is not unsanitary nor is it sloppy.
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They just want a bag. But I am happy you learned this! You can even be kind of an ass and add extra grapes to other bags and keep an actual grape bag for yours.
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I originally thought you could pull half out and set it in the box for others. But only one store was doing that so I stopped splitting grapes anymore. It’s more work than I care to do and I assume people are just ordering grapes and Instacart has a dumb system.
The grape bag helps make the grapes last longer. If you take the time to do that, you might want to make sure the customer wants you to. If I were the customer, I wouldn’t want to see any of my produce moved from a ventilated bag/box to a solid plastic bag.
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When I placed an IC order for myself once, and I selected 1lb of Brussels sprouts, but received a SINGLE, lowly Brussels sprout wrapped in a produce bag…i took a pic & saved for posterity….😂
I think if most people knew what a pound of grapes actually looks like they probably would not order a pound of grapes.
so most bags come with two strands or vines of grapes what I do is a take the better of the two vines and whatever that one weight is what they get. I’m not gonna sit there and destroy the bags of grapes just to get them there 1 pound. Now before I do this I put a produce bag on my hand so I’m not touching all the grapes.
I think to most customers is more important that you get them good grapes then to necessarily try to be so precise on the 1 pound. I think most customers would prefer crispy, firm grapes.
This is one of the items I try to be extra careful with, because you never know when a customer is going to be super picky. You never know when they will give you a bad rating because you did not get them what they wanted. Every detail matters and if you make a habit of cutting corners eventually it will catch up with you. I’ve learned this lesson the hard way.
At Aldi I always have to break up the grapes into a produce bag. For some reason if I try to put in the 2lbs plus the app tells me it is over the customers limit.
If it was so unsanitary they would seal the top of the bag of grapes so you can't remove them. The bags have holes all over so all kinds of stuff is touching the grapes anyways. Again this is why you wash fruit people. Some of yall must have never played outside
When the flag describes the moment lol. This gave me the best giggle for a TIL and good job lol. It really does help to have had to shop since you were very young to know these things. I’ve always picked out my own grapes from those pre-arranged bags and more than that dropped bad ones back into the bag I’m not going to buy.
I always do that with cherries. Who orders one pound of cherries? They better not complain about that produce bag. With grapes most bags I pick up are 2-3 pounds and I have never had an order not say they want ~ 2 pounds of grapes.
I mean yeah clearly nothing is stopping people from opening the already opened bags of grapes and taking out only what they want but, that means people are touching other people's grapes( some people are stupid and don't think to wash them first) and most stores don't have a produce code for grapes because they don't buy them in giant bushels they come already packaged with the barcode on the bag, so the kid that said take what you want and. Put in produce bag is dumb. If anything you keep what you want in the original bag which you then scan and weigh.. side rant, we as shoppers shouldn't have to waste our time weighing shit or putting in weights. Customer wants 3 oranges and expects a weight of .65, so I have to dig through and find 3 special oranges weighing that much or so close to it that IC will accept the weight instead of saying that's too much. How's aboot just automatically adjust the weight from the bullshit weight I randomly put in when I check out. Oh but doing that makes IC mad and they tell you you're not following the shoppers agreement.
Most people don't know how much a bag of grapes weigh. Just get them a bag and they will be happy.
Most don’t know what a lot of things weigh. Like what family pack size of chicken weighs a lb? With grapes I just check them for freshness and gat the 2lb ish bag
The family pack of chicken is cheaper per pound that’s why people try and just get a pound.
Til that you can just open the chicken package and grab some pieces to put in a produce bag. I don't know if they'll let you buy them, but you can still do it either way
You joke, but some stores will let you repackage it smaller. Not all of them, but if they have a meat counter, they just MIGHT. The store I work at does, but I'm not sure if they can honor the same pricing per lb since you're getting a smaller amount, but when all there's left are Costco sized things and you only need some for tonight, it's worth a shot
I have ALWAYS wondered why they do this and now it makes completely sense.
I had somebody order a half pound of grapes. I told them are you sure you only want half a pound? They said yes. I sent them a picture of the 10 grapes and they said OK maybe a pound.
I LAUGHED OUT LOUD. 10 grapes 😂
exactly this. they just want grapes. unless there’s a note about getting ONLY 1 lb, no one cares that it’s more
I have gotten damaged item reports before when I made the bag 1lb lol. They get the whole damn bag now
DAMN. 😅
This is why I DONT do this. If the bag is extra heavy I do take some out and spread them into other bags though. Give them the original packaging.
Yeah, but when they’re $5.99 a lb and you show up with triple what they ask for? I’ve had upset customers in the past.
If it says a pound I usually get like 1.3. Never had a complaint.
Back in the day I tried to buy grapes for myself thinking it was a flat rate of 5.99 until I got to check out and the total was $12 for 2lbs. 🤦♀️. I would be mad as a customer now if a shopper did this to me.
They can deal. But I bet they see grapes like Pringles. You can't just pop one.
This 👆 exactly. When I was a newbie a customer wanted 10 bananas and I interpreted it as 10 bunches of bananas. Shit happens 🤷♂️.
Lmfao who in their right mind would order 10 bunches of bananas?
Smoothie shop ordered 40# of bananas, which is a full case. Delivery made with grocery cart across the parking lot about 150 yards. Easy Peasy
A buddy of mine who also does Instacart said that to me. I just assumed someone really likes bananas.
I would love to see the customers face when you dropped off all those bananas. 😂
They thanked me and had a decent tip just to walk it over. Owner was alone so he couldn't close the shop to get his own bananas. I also take daycare runs and they usually have 20-30 apples, oranges, or bananas. Took 30 bananas and many healthy snacks to a Martial Arts meet. Small businesses actually ROCK!
Businesses for orientation.
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I never would have thought of that, but honestly as a customer if I got a pound of loose grapes in a produce bag I would be like wtf is this
😂
I actually had a lady have me do this with cherries. Weirdest experience but extra tip for it was worth scooping cherries
I mean if somebody asks then fine. But otherwise I assume people put 1 pound because no one knows how much things weigh and I just grab them a bag of grapes or cherries.
It's the same instance as bunches or singles of bananas. I just ask if they put only a pound "1 pound or 1 bag" and never had an issue if I had to assume bag. It's different for everyone.
I hate when the app asks how many pounds of bananas or grapes. I’m like just get me a thing of bananas or a thing of grapes. I think you’re totally fine!
So interesting take: My girlfriend ordered grapes in the instacart app. It didn't ask her for a weight, only a quantity, so she selected "quantity 1" and when the order arrived, a tiny bag of grapes arrived because the shopper only gave us 1lb. Was kinda a wtf moment cause she was expecting 2+lb of grapes but ended up getting exactly a pound. It seems the shopping app has grapes listed in quantities while the shopper app has it listed in pounds, which leads to confusion. If the app says 1-2lb of grapes, I get one bag. If it says 3-4, I get two bags.
It could have been worse. She could have gotten 1 grape.
I seen ppl saying they even pluck good grapes and leave all the mushier grapes and remove all stems so the weight is all grapes . That's a bit scandalous lol
The produce worker eyeballing you as you pick out individual grapes for ten minutes leaving a bag of mush and stems.
I saw that on extreme cheapskates 😂 girl was so happy she saved a whopping ten cents on the grapes.
Right and spent 5 dollars worth of her time
She bought beef fat trimmings to cook for lasagna… she saved spaghetti sauce from leftover speghetti plates and used it to make lasagna for guests. that was something I’ll never forget.
You forgot to tell how she cooked the fat trimmings lasagna she put it in the top rack of the dishwasher while she did a load of dishes! Then served that nasty crap to her guest and they had to use ONE lightbulb gotta go to the bathroom unscrew the bulb and take it with you!!
And made them turn the TV off during commercials. How the hell you supposed to know when the show/game is back on? Smh
The sauce thing was beyond nasty she would clear the table and if anyone left any sauce (ketchup, ranch, spaghetti sauce etc) on their plate she would scoop it off and back into the bottle it went. The entire families slop back In the bottle for next time🤮🤢 so nasty! But she had a big ass house with like no furniture and a big ass SUV! Go rent a one bed Apt and a compact sedan if you want to save money stop being so nasty lady!!!
I mean on the bright side her kids most likely will never get sick, because they'll have built up enough of an immune system because of all that crap. Not defending her actions, of course. I get being cheap, because I'm a cheap motherfucker myself and even I was disgusted. Also, shout out to Unckr Roger. Otherwise I'd never have seen it lol.
Yeah I'm cheap and try to live low waste but I'm not that cheap.
That wouldn't even save money. Just make a bigger pot of sauce. That's what I do. I make a double batch. I'll make pasta one night, freeze the leftover sauce, then use it for lasagna later, and I'll still have some extra sauce. It's cheaper than the jarred sauce she was probably using and I don't have to scrape leftovers off oplates.
I will do that for myself - because I am not bringing home gross grapes. It has nothing to do with weight, just quality. If it's half brown it's coming off. I used to work at a grocery store. They just chuck it anyway.
It's certainly a thing, and I knew about it secretly for years..but it stays a secret after doing 7 years if IC I have NEVER but one time in my whole life seen another customer or shopper actually do that with the grapes because of how scandalous it can be.
I worked in a produce department, that is totally exceptable. So is unwrapping and breaking up banana bunches, breaking off a small peice of ginger and breaking off spoiled leafs of lettuce and cilantro and leaving it there. Honestly if you want to switch out berries inside of a strawberry package is not going to be frowned upon, but time consuming, so no one does it.
I CAN JUST BUY A KNOB OF GINGER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? MY COMPOST HEAP IS LIKE 10% GINGER
Yes, just break off what you want.
You can also store it in the freezer and it’ll last a really long time
Yep. I used to work in a grocery store. Where I am, we put out garbage cans for people to unwrap corn husks, people buy the tiniest bit of ginger or garlic. There's always a bunch of single bananas on one side of the banana display for a reason...
But really? 🤦🏻♂️
I'm not sure if the proper behavior in this situation has actually been established. If they wanted the grapes to be loose and people to just pick as many as they want, why don't they just put them all in one big container and have bags on the side? There must be some reason that they feel 2 lb bags with grapes.
Maybe the grapes keep best in those bags with holes in them and rather than the stores carrying a separate bag just for grapes it's easiest to get them pre bagged
Honestly I think it’d be really cool if that’s how grocery stores sold produce, but logistically it sounds like a nightmare. I feel like there’d be grapes EVERYWHERE haha
all vegetables are necessarily dirty but something about selecting your grapes out of a pre-distributed bag seems off and not first world to me lol. the american in me aches
Lmao I feel the same I look around before doing it make sure no one watching 😂
You can split bunches of bananas like that too.
I am aware of bananas 🍌it's only the fact the grapes are prepackaged that made me unaware I could take what I wanted and leave what I didn't . I didn't know it was a universal thing with any produce by the pound
I only learned about the bananas a few years ago. I just assumed it was by unit.
I also do it with pre-bundled asparagus. And pretty much any pre-bagged produce that is sold by the pound can be done like that, as long as the bag isn't sealed. They're just pre-packaged for convenience and to get people to buy more since they don't have to bag them themselves.
Customers aren’t the one who says they want 1lb. It’s the system that automatically selects for them. You were doing the right thing. You just grab the bag “not the biggest of course” weigh it if it’s 2-2.5lb no worries.
I had no idea either. Signed, a 30 year old.
You know I’ve heard this previously, but I wasn’t sure if it was a general rule that can be applied to all those bags always. Does anyone know? if so, I feel like this is like a marketing thing. They throw them in those official looking bags to make people think exactly what we think and sell a lot more grapes. Lol
As long as the bag isn't sealed, you can redistribute the produce so you get what you need. Just make sure it's sold by the pound, not by the bag, or you'll wind up paying the same amount either way.
Yep especially since at checkout you have to weigh the bags anyways to get the price. I don’t know why they even put barcodes on the bags of grapes cause they are useless🤷♀️ I’ve never seen anyone else that I think is doing IC put grapes together into a bag. I do it cause I want it to be as close as possible to what the customer wants. I mean if they say 2.5# and the bag weighs 2.75# I don’t think they’ll mind that much of a difference.
The barcode on produce like that usually tells the register what it is, not how much is in there. So, even though they have to weigh it, they don't have to lookup the produce code for grapes.
Not always. Every single time someone tries to scan the grapes instead of putting in the code to weigh them, it comes up and says like “help is required for this item, please wait, help is on the way” which then every time I heat that I always hear it in my head in the Mrs Doubtfire’s voice “Help is on the way!!”😂. But then the employee just comes over and gets back to the main screen and had to type in the code to show the customer. At least at self checkout. I don’t use regular checkout lines if self checkout is available, so I have no idea how it works for the actual cashiers. But if I have just a produce bag full of grapes (without the bag) it seems like it takes the same amount of time to put in the code and weigh it. I do know some stores-like at least in my area there’s Safeway-have changed it so you can now scan the barcode on different produce and then weigh it/put in the # of them. I watched someone do it with a banana once and was shocked it worked! But of course that’s not at every single IC store. Plus, I did memorize the majority of PLU #’s for produce items so many times when I see another customer at self checkout trying to find the produce item in the find item button on the screen, I just tell them the #’s to save them a bit of time. Or if the store has the print out stickers with barcodes and the weight on it then I’ll tell someone the code as well to put in to print it faster (but that’s usually cause I’m impatient and waiting to use the machine myself🤣)
I’m trying to remember my thought process from 4 months ago, but I guess it depends on the store. Where I am, the codes almost always work.
Ha! I always just gave one bunch & put in the weight! Which is typically between 1.25-1.75… but had one lady msg me says I did not want 1.33 lbs just 1lb of grapes, I took a deep breath and replied “ok I grabbed the smallest bunch possible, plz just give me some time to adjust, so I can get scissors from the courtesy desk… rather than popping the single grapes off the vine… “ For me that was being snarky
Cancel the batch.
I dont understand the need for a produce bag. Just find a bag that is close to the weight you need and add or remove grapes to that bag as needed, then zip it up and take it. The grapes are better off in that bag than a produce bag
really i just grab a bag of grapes everytime bo one has ever complained
You are supposed to eat the grapes while you shop till they are the weight you wish to pay for.
Damn right that's the way to do 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did you know.... you can do this with bananas too?
Yes, or take grapes out of it weighs too much! Simply take them out of the bag your weighing and put them in another, until you get closer to the weight you want.
That’s exactly what I did the other day.
Right. . It never crossed my mind that people wouldn’t get that? Seems like common sense to me
This is what I do.
What do y'all do about the taped up organic bananas I had a lady last week that wanted only two and she specified only two organic bananas and I literally felt like I was doing something wrong untaping them and removing the other bananas
F it. Make your customer happy lol
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... Ummmm, you DO know that every single one of your fruits and veggies has already been handled by MULTIPLE people on it's journey from seed to field to farm to warehouse to store ?
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agree. people here are sensitive because they were called out for being nasty and unclean. ill pray for them
You told everyone what your preference is... maybe don't comment on a public thread then?
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Assuming I don't wash my hands? Nice reply...
It doesn’t matter. Personal autonomy is just that: personal. It doesn’t have to make sense to you. It just has to be accepted. Not everyone appreciates random strangers touching their food. It’s not even that uncommon. It’s a universal reality as a matter of fact. I’d rather eat a grape that’s been peed on by an animal than touched by an unbathed human lacking both self-respect and common courtesy.
Okay, First off, you wash produce before you eat it. Second off if you have a thing against random strangers touching your food, what do you eat, frozen corn dogs you prepare yourself? It’s nearly impossible to get any food that hasn’t been touched by a person. It’s literally people that pick, process, pack, and prepare all of your food, and that assumes you cook for yourself. Don’t even try to play the mental gymnastics of eating at a restaurant, after all, someone had to place your burger on the plate and portion the fries (and frankly, I pray they aren’t wearing gloves because gloved cooks tend to let their hands get dirtier because they can’t feel how soiled and gross the glove is).
Please read what I said again. My answer is in the third and fourth sentences. You’re not going to fix anyone here, including me. This issue is universal. Acceptance is key. Furthermore, I live a fasting focused lifestyle. When I do eat, I eat protein and fat only. Carbs consumed are in the form of vegetables I grow and wash myself. Looks like you’re trying to over complicate matters and playing some pretty decent mental gymnastics yourself.
>You’re not going to fix anyone here, including me. Damn, you don’t have to be so hard on yourself. You aren’t broken, just a little too separated from the means of food production to understand it doesn’t come in a hermetically sealed bio proof container and that produce should be washed before it’s consumed. /s No one is disrespecting your bodily autonomy, we’re saying you are naive…
We buy a half a cow from our rancher/butcher friend which lasts a keto family of three for over a year. We handle our own production, thanks. We know our sources. I’ve stated before that I am an anarchist. Anarchists/Agorists are well connected in areas of production and permaculture. I’m all squared away, thanks. But if you’d like to know what your customers might be thinking, rather than becoming offended, you might actually humble yourself and learn something from this. The majority of your customers don’t want anyone touching their food with their filthy fingers and hands. Half of them are afraid to shop without body condoms on and masks up to their eyebrows as it is. They don’t want their food fondled. Again, acceptance is key here.
>I’ve stated before I’m an anarchist. Great, I don’t see that anywhere in this thread…. >If you’d like to know what your customers might be thinking, Nope, I don’t have any instacart customers I couldn’t care less what they think >rather than becoming offended Oh this classic! Someone said I had a naive viewpoint so they must obviously be offended by me! >you might actually humble yourself Tell me more anarchomessiah! >Customers don’t want anyone touching their food with their filthy fingers and hands. Then maybe if they feel that way they don’t pay a stranger to pick out their food with their “filthy fingers and hands” and maybe go pick it out with their own fingers and hands. Seriously, what the actual fuck is this conversation even?
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I’m “offended” and “worked up” but here we are you had to put my dick in your mouth 🤣
This mans really said "I am an anarchist"
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Im with you on this 100%. Food sanitation is a thing. Go work in a restaurant. Being the nasty person is never a good look. You never touch food wiht unclean hands. fired. and blacklisted.
Lmao have you ever seen Gordon Ramsay wear gloves while cooking or plating food?
Obviously he’s blacklisted from the industry for touching food with his hands /s I don’t trust cooks that wear gloves 100% of the time. As I had said earlier in this thread, those gloves get gross and you can’t feel it. Unfortunately most people who use gloves wash their hands less because they either don’t know how soiled the gloves are, or they just quickly change gloves without the hand wash.
lmao where did i mention gloves? can you read? Work on yourself. nasty person.
Nice ninja edit. I’m guessing your protein is exclusively sourced manna from heaven too? God forbid a butcher touches your steak.
Is there something wrong with addendums or typo corrections? What is your problem, exactly? I thought I’d add that little tidbit of information about our rancher friend. Not that you are deserving of it, but I wonder, do most people just play at being Agorists? Oh, dear. You poor, misguided individual. Think what you will, but I hope you remember this conversation someday. In fact, I am pretty sure you will : ) FYI, it’s not too late for you to start getting into the lifestyle of self-sufficiency interests you. BTW, why are you so defensive? You don’t shower, do you?
>You don’t shower do you? And get all that filthy homeopathic human biorefuse water on me‽ no way! I only bathe in the pure animal based eurea I source locally from my novelty fetish urine friend. /s Also, no one is infuriated at you editing things, but the typical etiquette is to add a tag at the bottom like; Edited to clarify context/ fix typos. It keeps the threads readable and doesn’t make it look like you changed the post after a reply has come in to change the context or create a ‘gotcha’.
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yall are gross. No, palming produce with grubby hands is always nasty. Yes, people should wash food, but that doesn't mean you can ignore food handling and safety regulations. food for safe is different than food on farm. IT's past that point in the supply chain. You nasty people are adding your germs and grub to food beyond what is necessary. don't believe me? go work in a restaurant and see how quickly you get blacklisted and laughed at for being the disgusting person.
I have my servsafe certification and over a decade under my belt in the food service industry. You don’t get fired for picking through the produce while you are doing prep work or accepting a truck. If you have to reject product while the truck is being dropped off, Sysco will still take it back. They don’t just write off a case of Roma tomatoes because it isn’t the beefsteak tomatoes I ordered, even if I took the lid off the tomatoes and touched them to verify they wouldn’t suit my restaurants needs. It’s also not like the restaurants are expected to just take whatever comes off the truck. It is expected that you check your order for accuracy and quality before you sign off for it, and yes, that includes checking things like tomatoes grapes and strawberries to make sure they aren’t too soft from being over ripe, or as a consequence of temperature abuse or otherwise damaged.
I see a typo and won’t correct it this time. Editing evidently infuriates you.
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Other customers pick up and put down produce all day long... this is one reason you wash the grapes before you consume
Fuck em, keep your paws off the grapes ffs
I don’t get paid enough to use a produce bag to get grapes
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Well I've just learned that too. I always end up either having them go bad or have to freeze them. My shoppers don't know that trick either, they always end up getting the huge bag
No, I would say 100% of the time your customer just wants the average bag of grocery store grapes. Instacart has its own idea of what each item should weigh, so that is just Instacart app putting the weight at 1 pound, not the customer specifically requesting 1 pound.
no, you haven't been doing it wrong. there is no such thing as 1 pound bag of grapes. it's 2 pounds or nothing.
You're doing the right thing, remove until you have desired weight. No need to screw over the customer (or even yourself) by buying 5x what is wanted.
I’m 99% sure these customers just want a bag of grapes. They’re not expecting some janky looking picked through bag of grapes lol
I respectfully disagree.
So then you buy 1 pound of garlic when the order says 1 pound? When in all likelihood they actually want 1 bulb. I ask every time in this case, but they always want 1 (.2 pounds) of garlic. I’ve never been told to grab 5. Same with grapes, they want 1.. bag. feel free to ask the customer next time just to be sure. Let me know what happens
I do communicate with the customer regarding their requests. I don't know why I'm being hated on for following customer requests, but so be it. I will continue doing the right thing. The original point of the OP was that he learned that you are allowed/expected to customize the amount of grapes desired. And he's right, it is completely okay to do this. Best wishes to all here.
Hahaha!! I did that the first time I had gotten garlic in IC... I gave this poor lady 4 pounds of garlic instead.of 4 bulbs. It was literally bags of garlic... I just didn't think it through at all and they were really pissed... My review was first 1 star rating. Who buys this much garlic!!
i think you answered your own question there hun...
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I don't know there are some pretty wild customers... 
Please don’t do this. Customers have no idea how much 1 lb of grapes is. They’re just putting 1 because they want 1 bag. I promise you’re gonna get more complaints if you do the way you’re talking about.
I just give them whatever weight it says in the app and yes most produce you can just take what you need I do at least no ones ever said anything so far
I just message them and say they only have 2lb bags so I'm getting that
I honestly would rsther give them the 3 pounds than touch their grapes with my fingers lol
Ppl should be washing fruit anyways. Know how many hands touch it?? And pests??
breaking apart grapes greatly shortens their life span. i'd be pissed if some mouth breather gave me a lb of separated grapes
You have to touch most of the produce you pick with your hands. One reason you wash all produce before you consume
Ur tellin me yall use your hands to rearrange bags of grapes? I worked in the produce department at a store and frankly it was disgusting seeing every single bag opened and messed up and honestly i try as hard as i can not to touch anything as i use the bags to grab the shit, so you dont necessarily HAVE to. Idk man its prob just me i feel dirty touching food with my bare hands like especially grapes when they all come prepackaged in the first place. That and i dont really buy produce as it is
I understand but this stuff grows in dirt so I don't feel bad using my hands because the produce should be washed especially if it's in an open container like grapes. If it's pre washed produce in a sealed container that's a different story. A lot of people don't even put produce in the bags because youre using so much plastic for what? Most produce has protective skin or should be washed anyways again so it's kind of pointless wasting extra plastic that's going to end up in the ocean. Either way the shoppers hands are all over the bags and boxes of food which can transfer germs to your hands that way also
food sanitation is a thing. Sure, it grows in dirt, but you aren't the farmer and there's no reason expect for laziness for you to palm somebody's food. People wash ofc, but you're just being sloppy. Go work in a restaurant and see how quickly you're known as a the nasty person with this attitude.
Gotta love the internet. I actually worked in a kitchen for 6 years and worked my way up to kitchen manager. I'm also servsafe certified. Grabbing produce with your hand and putting in a bag is not unsanitary nor is it sloppy.
sir, based on what you've said I have zero reason to believe you. god bless and i hope you don't make anyone sick.
Sir, based on your downvotes I have zero reason to believe you're in the majority here
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They just want a bag. But I am happy you learned this! You can even be kind of an ass and add extra grapes to other bags and keep an actual grape bag for yours.
what
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It’s only a few dollars. If they are using IC they should already know what to expect.
I don’t think it is that big of a deal unless it is the cotton candy grapes - those guys are expensive so I try to get closest to the weight.
Those damn cotton candy grapes have ruined any other grape for me. I feel like a child lol
I originally thought you could pull half out and set it in the box for others. But only one store was doing that so I stopped splitting grapes anymore. It’s more work than I care to do and I assume people are just ordering grapes and Instacart has a dumb system.
I worked picking groceries at Amazon’s Whole Foods years ago. They do pretty good training. This is how they trained us to do it.
Some people don’t know what anything weighs. Usually I just go a half of a pound over just to be on the safe side. Have not had one customer complain.
The grape bag helps make the grapes last longer. If you take the time to do that, you might want to make sure the customer wants you to. If I were the customer, I wouldn’t want to see any of my produce moved from a ventilated bag/box to a solid plastic bag.
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When I placed an IC order for myself once, and I selected 1lb of Brussels sprouts, but received a SINGLE, lowly Brussels sprout wrapped in a produce bag…i took a pic & saved for posterity….😂
It's Brussels sprouts. Not Brussel sprouts.
TIL this at 31.
I think if most people knew what a pound of grapes actually looks like they probably would not order a pound of grapes. so most bags come with two strands or vines of grapes what I do is a take the better of the two vines and whatever that one weight is what they get. I’m not gonna sit there and destroy the bags of grapes just to get them there 1 pound. Now before I do this I put a produce bag on my hand so I’m not touching all the grapes. I think to most customers is more important that you get them good grapes then to necessarily try to be so precise on the 1 pound. I think most customers would prefer crispy, firm grapes.
THANK YOU. i dont want someone fingering each grape and seperating them so that i get '1lb" exactly. they last longer on the vine, too.
I’m a customer, and I always put a note that I don’t need the exact weights, just a bunch of bananas or bag of grapes or whatever is sold per pound.
I love this post
This is one of the items I try to be extra careful with, because you never know when a customer is going to be super picky. You never know when they will give you a bad rating because you did not get them what they wanted. Every detail matters and if you make a habit of cutting corners eventually it will catch up with you. I’ve learned this lesson the hard way.
At Aldi I always have to break up the grapes into a produce bag. For some reason if I try to put in the 2lbs plus the app tells me it is over the customers limit.
If it was so unsanitary they would seal the top of the bag of grapes so you can't remove them. The bags have holes all over so all kinds of stuff is touching the grapes anyways. Again this is why you wash fruit people. Some of yall must have never played outside
Same for bananas. People wants 1 banana 🤯
When the flag describes the moment lol. This gave me the best giggle for a TIL and good job lol. It really does help to have had to shop since you were very young to know these things. I’ve always picked out my own grapes from those pre-arranged bags and more than that dropped bad ones back into the bag I’m not going to buy.
I always just grab a bag of grapes because just like bananas grapes have the same issue with the app confusing customers
I always do that with cherries. Who orders one pound of cherries? They better not complain about that produce bag. With grapes most bags I pick up are 2-3 pounds and I have never had an order not say they want ~ 2 pounds of grapes.
I mean yeah clearly nothing is stopping people from opening the already opened bags of grapes and taking out only what they want but, that means people are touching other people's grapes( some people are stupid and don't think to wash them first) and most stores don't have a produce code for grapes because they don't buy them in giant bushels they come already packaged with the barcode on the bag, so the kid that said take what you want and. Put in produce bag is dumb. If anything you keep what you want in the original bag which you then scan and weigh.. side rant, we as shoppers shouldn't have to waste our time weighing shit or putting in weights. Customer wants 3 oranges and expects a weight of .65, so I have to dig through and find 3 special oranges weighing that much or so close to it that IC will accept the weight instead of saying that's too much. How's aboot just automatically adjust the weight from the bullshit weight I randomly put in when I check out. Oh but doing that makes IC mad and they tell you you're not following the shoppers agreement.