i have been cutting 13 years and always had self serve cases.  but i am afraid i have never been so lucky to have someone buy my pulled meat thinking its fresher.  if that ever happens to me I ll have this big **** eating grin and say suuure help youself to more.  i hate marking down meat or giving it to the deli or worse throwing it away i want to sell it all.  so if that ever happens to me I ll be pretty darn happy.  but what i do get is plenty of people who will help themselves to the fresher stuff on the rack while i am dragging it around with me. I hate that. they could have asked first...the ones who do ask i say sure go ahead because of course i want to make the customer happy but i wish they would look at the case first.  what really irritates me is the ones who ring the bell and ask to see what I have in the cooler...I usually lie and say its the same thing thats in the case no fresher no older.  or i just say there is nothing back there.  everything I have is in the case now.  THEN there are the really BOLD guys who will just go "let me have a look anyway" and they walk back there and start looking around like they own the place...that gets my blood boiling ..does that happen to anyone on here?  customers just letting themselves into your department to see what you got hiding in the cooler? 

forgot to mention sometimes when they would be going through my fresh rack i would get tired of waiting   there could be a whole mob around it i ll just leave it right there in the middle of the floor and go back to work and check on it later..it would usually be empty then.

fdarn wrote:

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i have been cutting 13 years and always had self serve cases.  but i am afraid i have never been so lucky to have someone buy my pulled meat thinking its fresher.  if that ever happens to me I ll have this big **** eating grin and say suuure help youself to more.  i hate marking down meat or giving it to the deli or worse throwing it away i want to sell it all.  so if that ever happens to me I ll be pretty darn happy.  but what i do get is plenty of people who will help themselves to the fresher stuff on the rack while i am dragging it around with me. I hate that. they could have asked first...the ones who do ask i say sure go ahead because of course i want to make the customer happy but i wish they would look at the case first.  what really irritates me is the ones who ring the bell and ask to see what I have in the cooler...I usually lie and say its the same thing thats in the case no fresher no older.  or i just say there is nothing back there.  everything I have is in the case now.  THEN there are the really BOLD guys who will just go "let me have a look anyway" and they walk back there and start looking around like they own the place...that gets my blood boiling ..does that happen to anyone on here?  customers just letting themselves into your department to see what you got hiding in the cooler? 

 

forgot to mention sometimes when they would be going through my fresh rack i would get tired of waiting   there could be a whole mob around it i ll just leave it right there in the middle of the floor and go back to work and check on it later..it would usually be empty then.

-- Edited by fdarn on Sunday 26th of June 2011 04:03:59 PM

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 fdarn, I don't think I've ever seen a customer walk into the meat dept and start looking around the way you describe. I'd demand they leave. Tell them it's a safety issue. It is a safety issue.

I think you should have a pan of old meat on your rack now and then and see what happens to it.

I was into walmart the other day and a customer was going through the poor old meat clerk's rack of gas-packed burger looking for the "fresh stuff" as if they actually ground it there. That was the funniest thing I've seen this year!

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The local Wal-Mart Supercenters here (YEAH we have 2 within 10 miles of each other, 2 too many if you ask me) only have prepack. I was in with one of my cutters checking out the product and prices (in street clothes) at the newest one and within 7 minutes we had the market "manager" accompanied by 2 security guards asking us if we worked for Wal-Mart and if not, who did we work for. It was bizarre. We left pretty quick after that. Their product is crap anyway. Just like every other product in the store. That's my opinion!

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 That's funny that they recognized you as grocery or meat people and confronted you.

butcher29 wrote:

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there aint **** they can do to make u leave next time buy a pop then ud be a customer and tell the rent a cops to piss off

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 That's pretty much what we did. Except minus buying anything. I'm not about to give 1 single cent to Wal-Mart. I'd feel better giving money to a drunk bum than Wal-Mart.

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i am afraid ia m going to offend someone here who actually works in a walmart meat dept. but i have been wanting to ask are you guys really meat cutters or stock boys? just wondering. and what do you do when a customer comes in during the holiday season and asks for a crown roast enough for 20 people do you go "oh we don't do that here we aren't meat cutters go to a grocery store" or what? just curious really don't want to make anyone mad.

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 They're are no practicing meat cutters functioning as a meat cutter in a Wal-Mart. In a Sam's Club, that's different. They actually cut meat in a Sam's Club. 

i have only been in one sam's club before and I actually thought they had a pretty nice meat department. what i don't get is why they have a walmart supercenter then a sam's club across the street. i swear god thats what they have in charlottesville, Va. i guess it makes sence to some people but to me its like competing with yourself.

Meatman 7615 wrote:

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I know a Sams meatcutter. They dont even grind their trim, they just THROW IT AWAY!!! I was shocked to hear that.

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 I know a Sam's cutter and he told me they have to throw ALL product that reaches it's code date away, even bacon. He told be you can get fired by selling it cheap or giving it away. That's just dumb.

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 will they get fired for taking home discarded meat? think of all the perfectly good meat and lunch meats walmart is wasting. There are starving kids all over the world and walmart just dumps it in the trash.

-- Edited by fdarn on Sunday 3rd of July 2011 07:36:27 PM

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At my old job, we had signs on the wall saying "the taking or consuming of spoils is considered theft and grounds for termination". One thing I hated to throw away was the Nestle Crunch candy bar in Oscar Mayer "Lunchabels" that were outdated. I ate a lot of those candy bars when we had to throw away the OM Lunchables.