Grocery Store Workers Reveal Secrets Shoppers Don’t Know

Most of us have been to the grocery store hundreds, if not thousands of times, but only as shoppers. It’s the people who actually work there who know the behind-the-scenes secrets that customers like us are clueless about, but thanks to Reddit and BuzzFeed, they’re spilling the tea.

This is the insider info supermarket employees know, but say we probably shouldn’t know:

• "You really need to clean the lids of your cans before you open them. Truly."
• "I worked for Publix. We are not as happy to be there as we seem. We are the Disneyland of grocery stores. When hired, you are literally hired as the 'talent.'"
• "Your green leaf lettuce was full of spiders and various other insects before we cleaned them. Pretty sure we got all of them."
• "Everything in our bakery comes in frozen, even the few things we actually do bake in-store come in as frozen dough first."
• "The store is just disgusting. Clean everything when you get home. The people paid to clean after closing do not care and are trying to go home as quickly as possible."
• "Most grocery stores have bad rodent problems."
• "If you give the cashier anything to put back that's frozen, it is 100% going in the trash."
• "The individual slices of cake in the bakery are often from a cake that’s already expired."
• "We actually CAN refund pretty much everything, and your attitude towards us is the only thing stopping you from getting it refunded."
• "A good portion of whitefish fillets (maybe 40%) come to us with at least one worm curled up in them. We do our best to notice them and remove them, but some go unnoticed."
• "The single most profitable items in the grocery store are bags of ice and loaves of bread from the bakery. Ice can have a 100% markup, and bakery bread can have a 90% markup. People just don't understand where grocery stores make their money."
• "As cashiers, we were trained not to stop shoplifters. We could literally watch you carry something out of the store, and we couldn’t run after you or tell you to stop."
• "We hate when customers come in with 'Friday pleasantries' like, 'So glad it's Friday, aren't you happy for the weekend?' Since when has the grocery store been closed on the weekend?"⠀

Source: BuzzFeed