Right or wrong?

In local Lidl store earlier a woman was squeezing every nectarine in the display. And I mean EVERY nectarine for several minutes.
"I'll have the fruit you've squeezed to death and rejected shall I" ? I said.
By all means check the fruit in the punnet before you buy but EVERY ONE?
this happens with bread too and these guys squeeze with a vigour! .....sorry if you are a "squeezer" too but this aint nice for the rest of us.
On the plus side another customer loudly praised my criticism

 

Yes, saw parents watching their kids touching all the unwrapped bread in between picking their noses and Lidl's staff ignoring it, don't buy unwrapped stuff there any more, or lift top box and select fruit/veg from one beneath.

 

and that's when it's in the shops, you want to see what happerns to your food before it hits the shops

some of the things we have seen would put you off bread for sure

 

I thought everyone knew that supermarket fruit is rarely ripe, if it is it's past its sell by date.

 

I like that @Verdun ! I am very much for saying things aloud like that to get the message across. I don't like people man handling food and definitely not snotty kids. However......how on earth do you tell if an avocado is ripe without feeling it?!?! Please someone tell me-I am sick of wasting so much money on blimmin unripe avocados. @pete is right-only ripe when out of date....even the "ripe and ready" stuff.

 

I recently read a damning review of a pub stating that the landlord shouted at a child. The landlord replied that the child was in the flower bed picking the flowers whilst the parents sat and watched.

G.

 

I am afraid I am also a squeezer (sorryy) but a gentle one - (in my defence)

 

Sorry miraflores, if you are anything like this woman then practically every fruit was squeezed. I squeeze too....if too soft I leave it; if ok I buy. I dont squeeze the rest. I guess you can wash fruit but......
I think the worst are the squeezers of bread.....in many stores bread is unwrapped......dirty hands (with the best will in the world few of us wash our hands before we enter the store yet we would have handled money, shaken hands, petted our dogs, filled with fuel or worse) on fresh bread is not a good combination. I will comment, if the mood takes me, "we can have the rejects then, can we"?

 

I was in a Lidl a couple of days ago and spied a huge basket of very nice looking Cherries. I approached at speed thinking "ah I'll just have a taste of 1 and if good I'll buy a good bag full as I LOVE Cherries"
However, when I got closer I saw a hand written notice above the basket saying that Lidl was not keen on try before you buy, obviously others like myself like to test them. Ok I see their point but I was all ready to pop a cherry into the gob and see if they were nice or not with a view to buying lots. Crestfallen I bu''ered off down the fruit isle and bought some pretty bog standard Bananas instead. Cherries like plums can either be glorious or not so I wasn't really prepared to shell out for what are a quite expensive item before testing them 1st.

 

You ought to copy that to Lidl @silu

 

Other side of the coin folks......how many people have you seen eating the odd grape or two or three with no intention of buying. I have seen a family do this.
Other than food, how many of us try air fresheners, etc., and not purchase? Or unpack a product,return it to the shelves only to pick up an unopened one? Some customers are naughty
I guess it is a difficult balancing act for the stores.
I am far from a prude but the food squeezing is potentially a health problem