Walmart is taking over our food system
Saw this on the Sustainable Chester Facebook page.
Aubretia Edick has worked at a Walmart store in upstate New York for 11 years, but she won't buy fresh food there. Bagged salads, she claims, are often past their sell-by dates and, in the summer, fruit is sometimes kept on shelves until it rots. "They say, 'We'll take care of it,' but they don't. As a cashier, you hear a lot of people complain," she said.
Edick blames the problems on the store's chronic understaffing and Walmart's lack of respect for the skilled labor needed to handle the nation's food supply. At her store, a former maintenance person was made produce manager. He's often diverted to other tasks. "If the toilets get backed up, they call him," she said.
http://www.grist.org/food/2011-12-30-eaters-beware-walmart-is-taking-over-our-food-system
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You have to be careful about the meat too. It's all delivered to the store prepackaged and is sometimes left out on the shelves well past the sell by dates.
Staff shortages are a large part of the issue. My daughter works at Walmart and right now she is the only person in Frozen/Dairy. She works anywhere from 18 to 30 hours a week and when she's not there...nothing gets done.
She personally works hard because that's her nature, but an entire department, not even on an every day basis, is way too much for one person.
As for produce, she'd be the first to say don't buy anything from the Walmart produce section. It's poorly handled and not kept up to date.
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I'm a strong proponent of local farms and knowing where your food comes from..... The bigger the stores and longer the food chain, the more nutrition you lose... I prefer Mini-Mac for my meats....
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