And even the craft shopping is not as much fun as it should be, because
invariably if one is looking for a particular object, one will find
everything BUT that object!
On 1/31/12 6:12 PM, Agnes Boddington wrote:
What do you mean: Shopping is becoming a real chore ..?
I loathe shopping,
Along the line of supermarkets bad habits, the other week I went to the fish
counter and there was nobody there to serve me so the girl from the meat
counter next door said wait a minute she's on her break I will serve you
when I have finished serving this lady, she finished serving her customer
We were trying to work out how long to advise our delegates to wash their
hands before starting their cooking session. Apparantly, signing 'Happy
Birthday' for two verses is the right amount of time.
However, we have to
remind delegates to sing it IN THEIR HEADS. 16 people singing happy
In the UK, under food handling regulations, people should remove the gloves
and dispose of them when handling food. What makes me spit is that often they
prepare your food then hold their gloved hand out to take your money.
As we
tell delegates, when you have finished preparing some food, go
In the US food people are supposed to wear gloves and change them often but I
have also seen them accepting money with the gloves on in food courts.
Wonder if those gloves are recycled or go into the trash.
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
My day job involves food. I have to be current on my food hygiene
certification and I have certification on food safety that you would expect
for someone running a restaurant.
The last time I phoned up Ocado and told
them that putting raw and cooked meat in the same bag was an issue on food
The packers at our supermarkets have been told that meat
goes into a separate bag, but they haven't been told why,
it's a rule to be blindly followed, like walking into the
teeth of the traffic even when you have no chance at all of
getting out of the way when you see a car coming -- so the
Joy Beeson joybee...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm not at all sure how that happened, since I store my bags in the trunk.
DH was with me, which may have had something to do with it.
This happens to us all the time.the problem is forgetting to put the bags back
in the car after you bring your shopping
The bags I use for supermarket shopping are the Bags-for-Life which
the supermarkets themselves sell. These are substantial good-sized
plastic bags with strong handles; they cost 10 or 12 pence, they last
a long time (years in my experience), and when they wear out the
supermarket will exchange
Yes, Patricia, book shops I can deal with and decent chocolate shops.
And as Sue already mentioned, I do like bead shops too.
I'm with Agnes: all shopping is a bore but I would add bookshops to her
list
of non chore shopping/browsing.
Patricia in Wales
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I have decided I must be a changling, my Mother, 3 sisters and daughter were
all born to shop, I shop out of necessity:-) Dislike clothes shopping.
Was close to abandoning our normal supermarket when they refurbished it, but
several of them were doing the same thing at the same time, but
ag...@weatherwax.karoo.co.uk
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Sent: Tue, January 31, 2012 5:12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Green thing
What do you mean: Shopping is becoming a real chore ..?
I loathe shopping, shopping for food, shopping for clothes or shoes etc.
The only shopping I like is craft stuff
I had to give up on on-line shopping. I have ongoing rows with the different
on-line supermarkets for the following reasons that I hate and they don't
think are an issue or worse, contravene food hygiene. What they also don't
understand is that when they deliver something broken or substituted
I try to remember my cloth bags but take the plastic if I forget or don't have
enough bags with me. There are so many uses for the plastic bags that they are
not thrown out. The local free meal programs use them for the 'take out'
meals. My church uses them in the summer at the produce table
I sometimes think about asking if I will get a discount if I go through the
self service checkout! Bet I know what the answer would be. I wouldn't mind
so much if these do it yourself tills were actually quicker. In Wales we have
to pay for plastic bags if we don't bring out own. So, at the
My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection. I like
to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I
get to the checkout and that is the ONLY reason I go through this torture when
I go shopping.
I go in, I put my card through the swipe
Or you could shop on-line and have it delivered with four giant size tins of
dog food in one carrier bag and just a tube of toothpaste in another! It never
ceases to amaze me why they can't even up the distribution between the plastic
carrier bags.
Brenda
On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:45, Jean
thelace...@btinternet.com
To: Chat lace-chat@arachne.com
Sent: Tue, January 31, 2012 3:53:58 PM
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Green thing
My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection. I like
to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I
get
I don't know why the supermarket staff remind you that there are self
service tills, don't the silly people realise that those same machines will
one day put them out of a job because when the powers to be find out that
everyone is at last using them (by the way I will not in principal) they
will
What do you mean: Shopping is becoming a real chore ..?
I loathe shopping, shopping for food, shopping for clothes or shoes etc.
The only shopping I like is craft stuff shopping!
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
to bring our own. Shopping is becoming a real chore these days.
Janice
To
our own. Shopping is becoming a real chore these days
From: The Lace Bee thelace...@btinternet.com
To: Chat lace-chat@arachne.com
Sent: Tue, January 31, 2012 3:53:58 PM
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Green thing
My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point
Locally here, they will give you a plastic shopping bag, but at 5
cents each. Generally a reusable bag from them is about a dollar.
But even better we've found is that they also offer these plastic
bins.. about the same size as one of those baskets you can carry
around the shop in lieu of a
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