@Whatever_Happy_People I remember a mall restaurant worker who didn't wash his hands after using the men's room. I reported him and never went back to that restaurant.
People have always been disgusting, yet it seems to be getting worse, despite all of the advancements we’ve made in regards to hygiene and medicine. The public is so downright grotesque these days that I don’t even know what to say. Sometimes I wonder if I genuinely have contamination OCD or if “contamination OCD” is just a term made up for people that are aware of their surroundings. Similar to how we used to call women with opinions or emotions “hysterical” or “having the vapors”.
I was a store manager for a large grocery store chain. You also need to worry about what you don't see. Every store is different but people are not clean in general. Meat, deli, bakery and produce departments have many issues. Dirty working surfaces, equipment not cleaned properly. I caught a deli worker coming out of the bathroom with their gloves still on. Employees eating when preparing food. Not washing fruits and vegetables before cutting for the prepacks. Not washing the knives and talking over the food where a partical can spray out of their mouth. Deli workers will mix the out of date potato salad in with new. Never trust anyone with your food.
@monteniajackson1467 Try eating out in Korea (where l live); and China. In recent years, they just started drying the silverware. When l mentioned dry silverware to some Koreans, they were repulsed. And we often eat out of the same bowl. When l first came, people were drying their hands on a shared public towel. In China, they'd wash their hands in a shared basin of standing water, with a shared soap bar 🧼, and towel. When l spoke to them about it, they said, "We change it 2wice a day". Me trying to educate those wonderful Chinese people on hygiene, or the gross lack thereof, was like a _faux pas_ ; seriously stepping on toes. But things have improved.
My husband one time asked the deli people to slice bologna that we were buying by the pound. He seen the man just slice raw meat on the same machine he sliced our bologna on. He never cleaned the bloody meat juices off. Then he proceeded to slice our bologna. I asked my husband for bologna he told me what happened. A month later from that store I bought eggs and milk and within two or three days they went rotten. I could not believe the horrific smell of the eggs. Let's just say I never went shopping there again.
Don't eat at Whole Foods hot bar... I have seen people (ADULTS) stick their hands IN the food instead of using the utensils. I never eat food that comes from the hot bar anymore after seeing that. People are too gross to touch that stuff.
It seems like they have a problem, if you know what I mean. Whenever I want bagels or donuts, I go straight to the bakery and ask them how many I need. They carefully put them in a box for me, right off the oven.
I was shopping in a Walmart in Pennsylvania. I observed a woman take a bottled beverage off-the-shelf, open it, take a sip, put the cap back on and put it back on the shelf. I told the woman she shouldn't do that because someone else might buy that and she's already drank from the bottle. She was huffy with me and thought I should mind my own business. I just kept walking. But I did report it to a store associate who said "people do that kind of thing all the time"! Some people eat food, without paying, right out of packages and leave the wrappers on the shelves! People are inconsiderate oink oinks sometimes. Sorry to say it, but after you see something like that in a store, it turns your stomach.
My first job as a teenager (1972 in NJ) was in a hospital kitchen. Everything was spotless. We delivered supper trays to patients and one night a week I worked in the staff cafeteria. Again, everything was spotless. My next job was in a fast food restaurant. Again, we had to keep it spotless. Strict rules, even to how often the floors were to be mopped. Strict food storage rules. We all had to take several hours' worth of a Board of Health Food Service & Sanitation course (I still have the card). Keep in mind that back then a lot of places didn't have backup generators so placement on shelves was important (never store meat over anything else, etc.). Whenever we had any time we weren't cooking or serving customers, we were cleaning! I worked for an ophthalmologist/surgery center and worked with med/surg supplies, even scrubbing in to assist. For decades I worked in an office in hospitals. NJ, then FL. Later, closer to retirement in FL, I worked in a supermarket (large chain), a retail outlet, and cleaned vacant rentals. The supermarket is quite clean. I did custodial shift at night for months. The outlet store... let's just say their custodianaintenance men never did a proper clean. The managers would often have me do custodial work and wonder why it took me so long. Nothing like seeing white textured plastic walls where under the air hand dryer there were cascades of *brown* where people just rinsed their filthy hands and blew them dry. Cleaning those walls and the floors were time consuming. They couldn't understand why I was always cleaning the fitting rooms and the countertops. In the supermarket I was constantly cleaning between customers. People have no idea just how dirty the conveyor belts can be at the registers! They all probably thought I had OCD. No, they only required management and certain staff to take the FL food service course. I wasn't required to, but told them about the strictness of the NJ course. OK, that's it for this time. Thank you!
Thank you and bless your heart for cleaning. People don’t realize how important it is until they get sick. I like to clean around me when I work. I, also, cleaned houses for a while. A lot of the youth don’t clean or cook today. It’s very sad.
And a lot of people now don’t teach their kids how to clean. Everyone is on the run so mom just does it herself but kids need to learn how important it is to clean,
I have seen conveyor belts with wet & dried blood from leaking packages of meat! That's why I always line the shopping cart with the store sales paper, and because people also place their pets in the carts as well. I have pets but to me those carts are too nasty for them. I also place my food items in plastic bags while shopping. Once I am home everything is either wiped off with disinfectant wipes or sprayed with bleach water and rinsed. My fruits and vegetables are cleaned with diluted vinegar water.
I would also avoid pre-cut fruit, pre-boxed anything. At a major grocery store, I once observed a woman in the back preparing cut fruit. She put one piece in the box , and the next in her mouth with her gloved hand. This didn’t stop until she noticed me. Gross doesn’t really begin to describe what I was seeing.
@@Bonnie20Michaeljimmy John’s doesn’t wash their lettuce, and they wash their tomatoes in the dirty sink 😢 I always wondered why I get sick when I eat there and when I started working there it made more sense!
I went to a well known super market and had asked for luncheon meat. When I got home I was shocked to see the meat not cut into nice round circles. They were cut into little pieces. Like they took the end of the roll that should have been discarded and gave it to me the paying customer. I haven't been back since!
Years ago, I got hepatitis. I asked my doctor how I got hepatitis? He explained. "Someone picked their butt before going into the grocery store, picked up an orange decided they didn't want it, sat it down then you came along picked up the same orange decided you didn't want it then you rubbed your eyes." From that day forward, which was 40 years ago, I stopped touching gas station pump handles and door knobs, and my list has gotten much longer. I travel with paper towels so I dont have to touch anything with my bare hands. I was so sick and had to be hospitalized. Live it, learn it.
I use a sanitized wipe, when I use the gas pump. I wish they would have those readily available to use at EVERY gas pump. I know alot of people don't think of the germs that are spread just in the gas pump handles!
Don't read this if you get grossed out easily. Watching at stop lights the many people, mostly men digging in their nose. Then they go get gas. Or go grocery shopping, etc. Hand sanitizer should be in every car and every purse!
I always cary a small spray bottle of alcohol in my purse. I spray restaurant tables and my hands often during my day out. I am lost without my alcohol spray to sanitize after touching public things outside such as menus and door knows etc etc.
I was at a grocery store in Charleston, South Carolina that was my usual place to buy my groceries. I was standing at the deli counter, and i looked down into the deli case, and I literally saw a cockroach crawling along the front of the inside of the case. I have seen expired food all over the place, including baby food! Consumers need to pay attention to their surroundings because nobody else is. Let’s take care of each other.
Perhaps sending this video to the store manager and cc'd to the corporate headquarters of this grocery store might clean it up a bit. News stations love stories like these too. This is disgusting. Thank you Pam for doing this for us.
Re the doughnut case: that would NEVER pass a health inspection where I live. Call the dept of health and get them to perform an inspection. That was just gross.
At the only large grocery store in my town, the cashier said she has seen people open the store brand of ICE CREAM & LICKED IT & put it back. There is no cellophane once you take the cover. The first stop in your grocery store, I almost vomited while looking at the filth. I had food poisoning years ago, SOMEONE must not have washed their hands. Went into the bathroom to wash my hands, floor sticky, no soap. I missed a week of work. I now go to the bathroom before I order & if its not clean or no csoap, I'M GONE. Never again.
Years ago I saw a child about 10, take a donut out of the open case and when mom said to put that back, he did! Any open food like that I’ve avoided for years! I’ve seen people in stores just cough into the air and those germs are going to anything open! Plus too many crazy people who will purposely sabotage food for meanness! 😮
In the UK, a lot of the grocery stores don't even put the fresh baked produce in glass cases. They just have "sneeze-guards" (like what restaurants have in the salad bar). Those sneeze-guards ain't guarding anything
I, too, saw someone open the self-serve donut case while their child sat on the lower shelf. When I saw that I was done! Like the infection control leader at work said, " Germs are like spiders." 🕷
I actually saw a worker do this not too long ago and I was like come on man you just touched that man throw it away. He gone say oh I’m sorry yeah I bet you are.
Pam, you're at Kroger. ... I worked for them for 20 years. I worked in the bakery department for 2 months, DISGUSTING! I took the time to clean out the donut case, and I was told, "You're wasting time." When that stuff is taken from the freezers, if it drops on the floor, they just pick it up and put it on the trays for baking. I quit.
When I was in my late teens I worked in a deli. I was told to flip over the cold cuts to the pink side to make it look fresh. Word of advice, have the deli workers turn over both sides of the deli meats when you purchase them out of the case.
That's why I have never trusted buying meat or seafood that the store's meat department has pre-seasoned. Before rinsing & cooking meat or seafood I always smell them to make sure they are still fresh, if not return to the store!
Yes, basically the same thing happened to me. I worked in the meat dept. as a teenager, and the butcher would take an older cut of meat like a roast, and slice off the top so the brown was removed and it revealed the pink of the meat.
So glad you did this segment. I walked into a grocery store last week and a man was eating from from the warm chicken bar, etc., with his hand. Lord that’s all I have to say. Trust me I will not and I will tell those I care about, Don’t! Thank you again.
I miss the old days when you would go to the store and the clerk would use the tines to hand them out. When I shop produce I put my hands in a bag to pick out the produce I want. I wash every can or jar when I bring it home an still before I open them. Thanks for sharing.
I asked the local ice cream shop how often do you clean the hideous black mold all over the floor of their ice cream bin show cases. They said, once a week, in my opinion that is definitely NOT enough. So, you can enquire the same about these pastry cases. I definitely would.
Hi Pam, Being a retired OR/RN I know a little bit about germs. When I arrive home with my groceries, I take several damp cloths with Lysol Disinfectant and everything is wiped down before putting away in my pantry or refrigerator. Special attention to bread wrappers. Fresh fruit and veggies are transferred to my containers unless the container that they are in can be wiped down. Eggs to my containers. Items in cardboard boxes like cereal and pasta are also wiped down and set aside to dry. Then I wipe off my shopping bags and set off to dry. So agree Pam!!! Thank you for all that you do. So enjoy your videos!
That's so nasty. I don't eat from any open item places where people can just go inside and touch things. So disgusting and very unsanitary. I'm glad you showed this because people should really be careful where they eat from and what they're eating. Unfortunately it's so much more we don't see, and that's why I cook my own foods. Thank you love for sharing 😊❤
Years ago my freshman year in college I worked as a waitress during the summer. It was a high end restaurant that served a popular popcorn shrimp meal. If a customer ordered that dish with one particular popular & well-tipped waiter...he was definitely going to eat some of their popcorn shrimp before he took it to the customer!
I won't eat from a salad bar in a restaurant either for those reasons. I've seen parents have their little kids with them and they would take a bite of something and put it back on the bar or sneeze into the food....Those sneeze bars aren't low enough for little ones....When I saw that years ago, my stomach turned and my mind has not forgotten it. Thanks for the show.
Your story reminds me of something I saw a long time ago, and it really stuck with me. At an all-you-can-eat buffet, I saw a little girl, about 8 years old, load up a plate with canned pears. Then she used her hand as a "colander" and tipped the plate back into the bowl of pears, draining off all the juice. 😮
Eww, eww, eww, eww!!! Now I REALLY want to make my own food from scratch. Your video should be aired on every platform & tv channel known to man. Thank you for always taking good care of us, Pam! Happy New Year!
I've worked at a grocery store from age 16-38. I'm 39 now. I seen so much in those years. I never had to run to clean something when I ran the dairy dept when inspectors came in. I always kept my dept clean. Dates were always in tact. I come from a clean upbringing though.
Good for you. Our mothers instilling cleanliness into us was priceless. My mom was poor but clean and carried herself well. You would never have guessed the poor part.
Meat cases with bloody packages and dairy cases with milk jugs that have dried milk drips are very high risk things. I always wipe off these things before putting them in my fridge. Helps keep my shelves cleaner too.
Me too! I also grab extra veggie/fruit plastic bags to place the meat & seafood in when storing them in the fridge. It helps protect the fridge from leaks and possible cross-contamination. After I clean & season the meat I place the empty meat trays in the same bags, spray a bleach water mixture in the bags to prevent it from smelling, tie it, and throw in the garbage. I do the same thing for onions & lettuce to reduce the smell in the kitchen garbage. It also limits dumping the trash to 1x per week!
I keep telling my husband dried milk is germy milk! And we use the plastic grocery bags for garbage- they don't actually get recycled and they are small-less time for scraps to hang around.
I never liked food out of those cases. I have been a mid level germophobe since I was in college, when I had a job as a waitress. You really would not believe the level of nastiness of random strangers--people coughing into their hands before grabbing bags of chips off the chip shelf, people biting their fingernails and then handing me their credit cards, the sheer number of men who would go to the restroom and come back a few moments later. With totally dry hands. The women with acrylic nails with little gemstones and charms, that had gunk all in them...and they would all be grabbing the coffee stirrers, the creamers, putting their fingers into the napkin dispensers to take more napkins...(we never cleaned those, btw. Restaurant napkin dispensers are sometimes really gross too...don't touch the dispensers when you get napkins...) 🤢🤢🤢😷😷😷
The same reason I don’t eat at buffets! I saw a young girl about 10-11 yrs old going around and tasting multiple food items with the serving spoon and then putting the serving spoon right back in the food! 🤢
@@pammiedoodle8693 it’s adults too, I’ve seen adults sample the buffet/salad bar with their fingers & keep touching & eating with their fingers. I also see flies sitting on the food bc the door is near the buffet. There used to be a store employee watching over these buffet tables at one store but not anymore.
It's everywhere. My mother was one to not even want to eat out at a restaurant, telling us people just aren't clean. I had already peaked that donut case thing. Never used the rolls thing so that salad bar and hot food tables in grocery stores my awareness is up.
@@SS-jb8wj after Covid, most of the stores got rid of bulk food bins, and now sell the same stuff prepackaged. Now we got that stomach flu virus going around which is contagious. I’m staying away from open help yourself food bars.
@@jmusic45 I don't blame you. After getting a bad dose of the flu last year (took me a month before I was better) I wear a mask when I go shopping every winter.
I know what you are talking about. I worked in a grocery store. I did the salad bar. When I did the salad bar it was cleaned and sanitized. I sanitized the deli from top to bottom. People always knew when I worked. On my day off, my regulars wouldn't go to the salad bar. After covid, they took the salad bar away.
😮 You've totally opened my eyes to something I've blindedly bought many times. I feel sick to my stomach to think of the countless gems I've paid for . Happy new year! ❤
The worst case of food posioning I've ever had was from some eggrolls I got from a grocery store. I won't name the chain because it was one store and decades ago, but the memory still makes me queasy.
I get really upset when I see a dog sitting inside a grocery cart. The next shopper is putting their produce and meat right where a dog butt was just minutes ago. I enjoy your topics and wise advice!
Today I was leaving Shop-rite (NJ) a woman was entering with her dog, walking past a huge sign that says NO PETS. Only registered service dogs. People just don't care. I put flyer under my food. It's disgusting.
I worked at Winco, in the deli. I had to clean the display case every week. It entailed removing any products and put in the big fridge, vacuum out the case, then clean with food safe cleaner, dry it, and clean the glass inside and out, then put the products back in. It was a 2 hour process. The bakery had similar processes. It's disgusting what some stores allow!
Thank you Miss Pam for a great POV @ the grocery store. The first thing I do is sanitize the grocery cart: handles, the seat area where a little one sits who may be sick with a dirty underside containing a virus or bacteria like E. coli! , and the little seat belt and clasp. I will put a fresh plastic bag down and strap in my purse and never put anything into the cart that isn't bagged. Fifty years ago there was a wonderful small grocery chain that would weekly steam clean their carts because my family doctor recommended they protect their customers from an outbreak of meningitis. I really appreciated your outing today! HAPPY AND HEALTHY 2025 TO ONE AND ALL!
A very good idea, some people don't realize this.But several grocery stores actually use the carts to take the trash to the dumpster and they don't sanitize them. The grocery store used to work at would put the dirty floor mats on top of the grocery carts When they were mopping the floor and never sanitize the carts afterwards.
Grocery stores that allow pets are a major no-no. I was in an Aldi and watched a woman with a non-service dog standing next to packages of strawberries. The dog was licking the tops of the berries. Anyone who buys those will have no idea of the bacteria that has been introduced to that food. Further, people who have allergies to dogs/cats could become severely ill if coming into contact with the saliva, hair or dander. People with pets don't consider those consequences of bringing their "family members" along to a place where they can cause harm and where they don't belong.
That was fun and interesting! Thanks! One thing I do is always wash my hands when I come home from anywhere. You never know what you may have touched that might have nasty germs on it.
Love your content. My son worked for a distribution center for a grocery store. He said don't ever eat the produce without washing first. If it falls on the floor they just pick it up and put it back on the pallets. That particular center the produce department was right outside of the restrooms 🤢
Thanks for the heads up, we go in the store of convenience without thinking about it and grab and go without thinking about what you pointed out..i dont like salad bars for the very reason you stated..its nasty..so pray over your food no matter where you eat😊
Cannot unsee this... I never buy this stuff...never thought about lack of cleaning - rather people touching the food despite having paper to handle these items. Thanks
Also, cashiers who cough into their hands. If I can, I go to another lane. We are in the winter, cold & flu season, & workers are expected to report to work, try to social distance in order to get out of line quickly. Thanks, Ms. Pam.
I once saw a bagger dig up his nose with his thumb and forefinger and go right back to bagging groceries. I went to the other line. That’s why I do self checkout. People nasty.
I know ! One was obviously sick snd coughing with a mask but I was already being checked out by her. It even happened at a hospital where the person checking my husband in for a chest X ray was obviously sick herself . I stayed far away and was angry ! y@@tiffany3319
That's why i shop at publix. I don't understand how people eat grapes 🤢🤮 at the grocery store and not wait until they get home to soak them in vinegar and baking soda
Ms. Pam, I worked as a food inspector for a number of years and I totally agree with you. Thank you for raising awareness to these areas. Not only are the dirty food-contact surfaces (what the bread was directly touching) and non-food-contact areas, like the dirty door tracks, something to consider for food safety, you also need to be aware of the risks of allergen cross-contamination and food defense issues, like intentional tampering with the food. Any self-serve areas are a big nope for me- salad bar, soup, olive bar, donuts, etc. Same for restaurant buffets. The stores are inspected in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, and it's amazing what they allow before being able to mandate remediation. For example, they're allowed a few dead flies in the chest freezer and blood on the meat shelf because the meat is wrapped (non-food-contact surface). Honestly, one of the first places I look before I grocery shop or eat somewhere is the bathroom. If they don't have soap and paper towels, you KNOW they aren't washing their hands.
Thank you for showing us this. The donut case was completey disgusting, it had not been cleaned in a long time. There is an outbreak of Norovirus in the U.S. I would not touch unwrapped food that other people might have touched or sneezed on.
When you are paying your money for grapes you have a right to pick out any undesirables that may be in the bag or if you don’t want as many that are bagged or if you want more I don’t see anything wrong with switching them out just go home and wash them thoroughly as you should be doing anyway.
I soak my produce in distilled vinegar to clean and sanitize. I witnessed employees coughing into their hands while stocking tomatoes and a customer sneeze into his palms while shopping and touching peppers. 🤢🤮
YOU ARE SO RIGHT I WOULD NOT GO THERE! IF THEM CASES ARE THAT DIRTY WHERE CUSTOMERS CAN SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE BACK WHERD THEY ARE BAKING, CUTTING MEAT AND CHEESE. NO MAM I WOULD NOT EVEN BUY CANNED AT THE FIRST STORE.
Pam I have never thought of this due a few things, my husband does most of the grocery shopping and he’d freak out if he saw bread in cases with gunk or filth. The bread he brings home is prepackaged. The donuts are usually sold in a 4 pack. Now the individual ones I’m assuming they are back in the cases and are self help. I’ll have to ask him and let him know what to look for. I do appreciate all these videos you do. I’m 67 and still learning.
Honey, I hear you loud and clear, but pray over everything 🙏🏾. You can't walk around in fear, but I agree be cautious. You are supposed to ask God to purify your stuff anyway 🙏🏾. I totally appreciate your post, though, and the next time, I will look at the case a little better. Thanks ❤
Thanks for sharing but fear is when you see a little something here and there. This is build up crud. And even the Bible says to be wise in your decision and I personally don’t see anything wise about eating from places that are disgusting. 🤮. lol. Thanks again
Yep, rethinking my purchases from now on! Well, and also you never know who wiped their nose & then moved my coffee container to get to the next one & then i come along & get the one they touched.😮
Thank you for pointing this out. 5:00 I was at a grocery store and I saw this woman open mouth cough on the produce. Never buy bell peppers from there again
Amen, Ms Pam! Agree 100%. Have you ever looked in the egg case or milk/dairy cases? Inside of egg content and milk spilled and dried on for weeks/months... I've even seen dead flies And another thing while we're on the subject, anyone else grossed out by all the deli meat precut and prepackaged at the Deli Counter so they do not have to wait on you and cut it fresh on demand??? And it sits there for a few days... so you can just pick up and go. No thanks
Wow 😮that was nasty! I agree with you 💯. My husband used to being me a donut when he was the manager of Dunkin donuts. His store was always spotless. My son in law is now working in his place since my husband died and he knows how piticular I am. God bless you Pam and your family. May you all have a blessed and healthy New York! 👑🙏💞🐾✝️🇺🇸🇮🇱
Like you mentioned salad bars & someone maybe cough or sneezing around an open food bar, actually you have no idea if the cooks who handle your food wash they hands or sneeze on your food. Just because you can't see what's going on means they're clean & hygienic.
I used to habitually buy baked goods from the local grocery store's baked good self-serve case. I stopped several summers ago when there were three flies buzzing inside the case.
Pam, I just recovered from 4 days of the Noro Virus from oysters I bought at Walmart. I found out a couple days later there was a recall on the oysters in multiple states. I was taking Pepto Bismol to stop the diarrhea (sry for graphics) and I was able to do that after one day but it took a few more days to be back to myself. I drew blood for a long time so I was familiar with that virus. Seems no foods are safe these days.
Clicked on this vid so fast! I know exactly where you were Mrs. Pam and in that very same 1st store, during Covid, there was a customer who brought in his Great Dane Dog...not a service animal either and The Store manager went right over to have a full conversation with him. 😳 I mean they walked ALL around the produce area we were looking like wtw is going on here!?!😳. We don't shop there any longer. Please be safe and Happy New Year!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Unfortunately Miss Pam, at most grocery stores these days, waiting on customers and appearance of displays takes precedent over cleaning. The deli at the grocer I work at,the guys need one hour fifteen minutes to clean the hot bar EVERY DAY. They get 30 minutes.
I saw someone once pick up a shrimp with tongs from a shrimp buffet at a party and put that shrimp up to his nose, smell it and put it back on the buffet. I have watched women go to the bathroom, not wash their hands and then get food from a buffet. That is why I NEVER eat from anywhere that's self-serve. NEVER!!
I saw women at work, after using the toilet, go up to the sink put their hands under the tap to automatically dispense water for a second and then dry them. lol
@rhondaabugg305 How do you know they didn't wash their hands? Do you watch these women go to the bathroom? Are you seeing them not washing their hands,then get food from the buffet? Or do you follow everyone that goes to the bathroom,then to the buffet¡? Because that some craziness when you're out yourself,watching other people instead of doing your own thing.
I worked in a hotel lounge that shared a wall with the men’s room. You could hear the toilet flush and the sink through the wall. I heard the toilet flush far far more often than the sink. Our popcorn machine was up against that wall and many of those same men who did not use the sink, them came into the lounge and grabbed a handful of popcorn 🤢
Most people dnt look z Its sad put it's a Conveince for them. That was absolutely Nasty . I look at what I buy and I dnt by open items Like that. Hopefully this video goes a long way . Can save someone's life. 😊 GREAT VIDEO
I just followed your other 3 channels cause I had no idea you had them! I'm excited to see what information you have in those too! Aunty Pam to the rescue!!❤ You are appreciated!
It would be great if you could do a show on putting children in grocery carts where the food goes. I had a neighbor boy who used to work in a grocery store. He saw many gross things, from dirty shoes to overflowing diapers in the carts. Love all of your shows!
I stopped at a certain gas/convenience store that is popular in our area. I was craving one of their delicious chocolate chip cookies, so I went to the glass case that housed the freshly baked goods. There was a big ol’ fly buzzing around behind the glass, resting on the donuts, muffins, etc. Yuck 🤢 I told the clerk and he just stared at me wide-eyed.
Thank you, Thank you!! 👍 👏. When i see this in stores i would never open/ touch for reason you stated Pam. Buffet food is 💯 % out for me, that's even worse. No thank you!!
I too pay attention to EVERYTHING... AND... what and HOW is the cleaning being done... Are clean towels,wipes,etc being used.😳🧐.. Is one towel being used to wipe everything... uuummm..We have to be careful and PAY ATTENTION..Thanks for Sharing Pam...❤
And this is just supermarkets. I think if we saw even a fraction of the state of most restaurant kitchens and how food is stored/cleaned/prepped, we would no longer eat out.
Thanks Pam, great advice! Also ! I have always stayed away from the deli case, you don't know how long that food has been in there and the sloppy salads and other stuff just get scraped and put on top of the newer stuff! Ooh my! Love your videos and your lovely personality, sweet and chèerful🎉Best wishes for the new year!
There's a great,immensely clean grocery store chain in New Jersey called Shop Rite, there's always employees in each section cleaning/wiping everything up, I guess that people shopping there are more aware of their cleanliness and try to choose and pkg their choices neater than any other state and feel more secure to purchase open foodstuffs, olives, pre-made main dishes and sides, variety of salads, breads/rolls/bagels/bialys, etc. It was truly a beautiful thing to see and feel safer about my purchases 😊❤
Agreed!! I was just about to mention Shop Rite. Every Shop Rite I've been to here in North NJ, I always see employees cleaning. They also don't let dairy products sit outside, unlike Walmart & I've witnessed it several times. Target is a bit filthy too but not as bad as Walmart. Shop Rite will always be my top choice.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your amazing support. I really appreciate it.🙏🏾❤️
So glad to see someone who is as fussy with food as I am.Nobody seems to know how to clean any longer.😢
Me TOO!!
This beautiful lady knows what she is talking about. Thank you for watching out for all of us.
Pam's so cute. 🤗
@Whatever_Happy_People I remember a mall restaurant worker who didn't wash his hands after using the men's room. I reported him and never went back to that restaurant.
People have always been disgusting, yet it seems to be getting worse, despite all of the advancements we’ve made in regards to hygiene and medicine. The public is so downright grotesque these days that I don’t even know what to say. Sometimes I wonder if I genuinely have contamination OCD or if “contamination OCD” is just a term made up for people that are aware of their surroundings. Similar to how we used to call women with opinions or emotions “hysterical” or “having the vapors”.
I was a store manager for a large grocery store chain. You also need to worry about what you don't see. Every store is different but people are not clean in general. Meat, deli, bakery and produce departments have many issues. Dirty working surfaces, equipment not cleaned properly. I caught a deli worker coming out of the bathroom with their gloves still on. Employees eating when preparing food. Not washing fruits and vegetables before cutting for the prepacks. Not washing the knives and talking over the food where a partical can spray out of their mouth. Deli workers will mix the out of date potato salad in with new. Never trust anyone with your food.
Aaaacccckkkk!!!!
@@dlw70 You said a mouthful.
That is why myself don't care about eating out period anymore.
@monteniajackson1467 Try eating out in Korea (where l live); and China. In recent years, they just started drying the silverware. When l mentioned dry silverware to some Koreans, they were repulsed. And we often eat out of the same bowl. When l first came, people were drying their hands on a shared public towel. In China, they'd wash their hands in a shared basin of standing water, with a shared soap bar 🧼, and towel. When l spoke to them about it, they said, "We change it 2wice a day". Me trying to educate those wonderful Chinese people on hygiene, or the gross lack thereof, was like a _faux pas_ ; seriously stepping on toes. But things have improved.
My husband one time asked the deli people to slice bologna that we were buying by the pound. He seen the man just slice raw meat on the same machine he sliced our bologna on. He never cleaned the bloody meat juices off. Then he proceeded to slice our bologna. I asked my husband for bologna he told me what happened. A month later from that store I bought eggs and milk and within two or three days they went rotten. I could not believe the horrific smell of the eggs. Let's just say I never went shopping there again.
No unwrapped or self-serve products from the grocery store!! I totally agree with you. So gross!
No buffets either
Don't eat at Whole Foods hot bar... I have seen people (ADULTS) stick their hands IN the food instead of using the utensils. I never eat food that comes from the hot bar anymore after seeing that. People are too gross to touch that stuff.
I never realized this. Not all people are considerate of others. Thank you Pam. I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year.
It seems like they have a problem, if you know what I mean. Whenever I want bagels or donuts, I go straight to the bakery and ask them how many I need. They carefully put them in a box for me, right off the oven.
So glad someone else is noticing these things in the grocery store thanks for sharing this problem❤️👵🏻
You would make a great health inspector.
I was shopping in a Walmart in Pennsylvania. I observed a woman take a bottled beverage off-the-shelf, open it, take a sip, put the cap back on and put it back on the shelf. I told the woman she shouldn't do that because someone else might buy that and she's already drank from the bottle. She was huffy with me and thought I should mind my own business. I just kept walking. But I did report it to a store associate who said "people do that kind of thing all the time"! Some people eat food, without paying, right out of packages and leave the wrappers on the shelves! People are inconsiderate oink oinks sometimes. Sorry to say it, but after you see something like that in a store, it turns your stomach.
My first job as a teenager (1972 in NJ) was in a hospital kitchen. Everything was spotless. We delivered supper trays to patients and one night a week I worked in the staff cafeteria. Again, everything was spotless. My next job was in a fast food restaurant. Again, we had to keep it spotless. Strict rules, even to how often the floors were to be mopped. Strict food storage rules. We all had to take several hours' worth of a Board of Health Food Service & Sanitation course (I still have the card). Keep in mind that back then a lot of places didn't have backup generators so placement on shelves was important (never store meat over anything else, etc.). Whenever we had any time we weren't cooking or serving customers, we were cleaning!
I worked for an ophthalmologist/surgery center and worked with med/surg supplies, even scrubbing in to assist.
For decades I worked in an office in hospitals. NJ, then FL. Later, closer to retirement in FL, I worked in a supermarket (large chain), a retail outlet, and cleaned vacant rentals.
The supermarket is quite clean. I did custodial shift at night for months. The outlet store... let's just say their custodianaintenance men never did a proper clean. The managers would often have me do custodial work and wonder why it took me so long. Nothing like seeing white textured plastic walls where under the air hand dryer there were cascades of *brown* where people just rinsed their filthy hands and blew them dry. Cleaning those walls and the floors were time consuming. They couldn't understand why I was always cleaning the fitting rooms and the countertops.
In the supermarket I was constantly cleaning between customers. People have no idea just how dirty the conveyor belts can be at the registers! They all probably thought I had OCD. No, they only required management and certain staff to take the FL food service course. I wasn't required to, but told them about the strictness of the NJ course.
OK, that's it for this time. Thank you!
Thank you and bless your heart for cleaning. People don’t realize how important it is until they get sick. I like to clean around me when I work. I, also, cleaned houses for a while. A lot of the youth don’t clean or cook today. It’s very sad.
And a lot of people now don’t teach their kids how to clean. Everyone is on the run so mom just does it herself but kids need to learn how important it is to clean,
Very helpful!! Thank you.
I have seen conveyor belts with wet & dried blood from leaking packages of meat! That's why I always line the shopping cart with the store sales paper, and because people also place their pets in the carts as well. I have pets but to me those carts are too nasty for them.
I also place my food items in plastic bags while shopping. Once I am home everything is either wiped off with disinfectant wipes or sprayed with bleach water and rinsed. My fruits and vegetables are cleaned with diluted vinegar water.
Everyone should be as conscientious as you are sir !
I would also avoid pre-cut fruit, pre-boxed anything. At a major grocery store, I once observed a woman in the back preparing cut fruit. She put one piece in the box , and the next in her mouth with her gloved hand. This didn’t stop until she noticed me. Gross doesn’t really begin to describe what I was seeing.
I also witnessed a girl (in the back room) cutting fresh strawberries right out of the box, she was preparing fruit cups and never washed them!
@@annhunter2612 I would of been horrified 🤢. Thank you so much for posting your comment!
@@Bonnie20Michaeljimmy John’s doesn’t wash their lettuce, and they wash their tomatoes in the dirty sink 😢
I always wondered why I get sick when I eat there and when I started working there it made more sense!
I went to a well known super market and had asked for luncheon meat. When I got home I was shocked to see the meat not cut into nice round circles. They were cut into little pieces. Like they took the end of the roll that should have been discarded and gave it to me the paying customer.
I haven't been back since!
Thanks. Did you say anything to the manager? I always wash my fruit before I eat it.
I saw a man picking and eating from the salad bar. Not long after I reported him, the salad bar was removed. That's a good thing! 🥗
AND GO TO THE RESTROOM AND SEE IF ITS DIRTY. If it’s dirty well you know
IT ALWAYS IS DIRTY AND OUTDATED!🤢🙄 I hate going to the grocery store bathrooms
Years ago, I got hepatitis. I asked my doctor how I got hepatitis? He explained. "Someone picked their butt before going into the grocery store, picked up an orange decided they didn't want it, sat it down then you came along picked up the same orange decided you didn't want it then you rubbed your eyes." From that day forward, which was 40 years ago, I stopped touching gas station pump handles and door knobs, and my list has gotten much longer. I travel with paper towels so I dont have to touch anything with my bare hands. I was so sick and had to be hospitalized. Live it, learn it.
I use a sanitized wipe, when I use the gas pump. I wish they would have those readily available to use at EVERY gas pump. I know alot of people don't think of the germs that are spread just in the gas pump handles!
Don't read this if you get grossed out easily. Watching at stop lights the many people, mostly men digging in their nose. Then they go get gas. Or go grocery shopping, etc. Hand sanitizer should be in every car and every purse!
@@DeniseStamm-b1e Yes! Plus wipes in a car and/or purse.
@@bowlofpuffs523, I keep a box of gloves, like lunch ladies use, in my car. I put on before pumping gas and toss before getting into my car.
I always cary a small spray bottle of alcohol in my purse. I spray restaurant tables and my hands often during my day out. I am lost without my alcohol spray to sanitize after touching public things outside such as menus and door knows etc etc.
I was at a grocery store in Charleston, South Carolina that was my usual place to buy my groceries. I was standing at the deli counter, and i looked down into the deli case, and I literally saw a cockroach crawling along the front of the inside of the case. I have seen expired food all over the place, including baby food! Consumers need to pay attention to their surroundings because nobody else is. Let’s take care of each other.
I’ve seen flies in the donut cases 🤢
I think I just went on a diet
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Next time please report them to your local health department.
It really helps to nicely mention things like that to the store manager.
Perhaps sending this video to the store manager and cc'd to the corporate headquarters of this grocery store might clean it up a bit. News stations love stories like these too. This is disgusting. Thank you Pam for doing this for us.
Re the doughnut case: that would NEVER pass a health inspection where I live. Call the dept of health and get them to perform an inspection. That was just gross.
Yes!
The department of health doesn’t care
I had the same thought.
@@ggb2459 They do in Toronto where I live. They would close them down in a heartbeat with signs posted outside the doors.
I know!!!!!😮
At the only large grocery store in my town, the cashier said she has seen people open the store brand of ICE CREAM & LICKED IT & put it back. There is no cellophane once you take the cover. The first stop in your grocery store, I almost vomited while looking at the filth. I had food poisoning years ago, SOMEONE must not have washed their hands. Went into the bathroom to wash my hands, floor sticky, no soap. I missed a week of work. I now go to the bathroom before I order & if its not clean or no csoap, I'M GONE. Never again.
Years ago I saw a child about 10, take a donut out of the open case and when mom said to put that back, he did! Any open food like that I’ve avoided for years! I’ve seen people in stores just cough into the air and those germs are going to anything open! Plus too many crazy people who will purposely sabotage food for meanness! 😮
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In the UK, a lot of the grocery stores don't even put the fresh baked produce in glass cases. They just have "sneeze-guards" (like what restaurants have in the salad bar). Those sneeze-guards ain't guarding anything
I, too, saw someone open the self-serve donut case while their child sat on the lower shelf. When I saw that I was done! Like the infection control leader at work said, " Germs are like spiders." 🕷
We all know who sabotages food on purpose.
There was a Viral trend of licking ice cream and putting it back.
All one group of people.
I actually saw a worker do this not too long ago and I was like come on man you just touched that man throw it away. He gone say oh I’m sorry yeah I bet you are.
I always appreciate your advice and suggestions 🎉😂
Aaawww thank you so much! 🤗
People have to be crazy to buy from an open salad bar anyway. Great tip on the donuts, etc.👍🏿
Pam, you're at Kroger. ... I worked for them for 20 years. I worked in the bakery department for 2 months, DISGUSTING!
I took the time to clean out the donut case, and I was told, "You're wasting time."
When that stuff is taken from the freezers, if it drops on the floor, they just pick it up and put it on the trays for baking.
I quit.
I knew somebody would snitch 😝
@@eciruamekard4440RIGHT! She’s literally NOT identifying and here comes Fran for some shineola😂😂😂never fails, always one
When I was in my late teens I worked in a deli. I was told to flip over the cold cuts to the pink side to make it look fresh. Word of advice, have the deli workers turn over both sides of the deli meats when you purchase them out of the case.
Do they even do that anymore? Where I live, they always slice Meats to order
My husband always asks for them to freshly slice the meat.
That's why I have never trusted buying meat or seafood that the store's meat department has pre-seasoned. Before rinsing & cooking meat or seafood I always smell them to make sure they are still fresh, if not return to the store!
Yes, basically the same thing happened to me. I worked in the meat dept. as a teenager, and the butcher would take an older cut of meat like a roast, and slice off the top so the brown was removed and it revealed the pink of the meat.
😂 stopped buying deli sandwich for that exact reason...saw it done right in front of my face.
So glad you did this segment. I walked into a grocery store last week and a man was eating from from the warm chicken bar, etc., with his hand. Lord that’s all I have to say. Trust me I will not and I will tell those I care about, Don’t! Thank you again.
I miss the old days when you would go to the store and the clerk would use the tines to hand them out. When I shop produce I put my hands in a bag to pick out the produce I want. I wash every can or jar when I bring it home an still before I open them. Thanks for sharing.
I asked the local ice cream shop how often do you clean the hideous black mold all over the floor of their ice cream bin show cases. They said, once a week, in my opinion that is definitely NOT enough. So, you can enquire the same about these pastry cases. I definitely would.
Very true, however, they can always lie about it.
if there was mold, they lied to you.
Hi Pam, Being a retired OR/RN I know a little bit about germs. When I arrive home with my groceries, I take several damp cloths with Lysol Disinfectant and everything is wiped down before putting away in my pantry or refrigerator. Special attention to bread wrappers. Fresh fruit and veggies are transferred to my containers unless the container that they are in can be wiped down. Eggs to my containers. Items in cardboard boxes like cereal and pasta are also wiped down and set aside to dry.
Then I wipe off my shopping bags and set off to dry.
So agree Pam!!! Thank you for all that you do. So enjoy your videos!
omg I never thought to do all that. Gonna make a change.
I do the same thing. If you look at most grocery shelves they are dusty and dirty. Why put that anywhere in your house.
Oh a real case of OCD.
My husband and I have been doing the same thing since the pandemic and intend to continue. I am immune suppressed and it's well worth the effort.
I did that during Covid but stopped after 2 years
That's so nasty. I don't eat from any open item places where people can just go inside and touch things. So disgusting and very unsanitary. I'm glad you showed this because people should really be careful where they eat from and what they're eating. Unfortunately it's so much more we don't see, and that's why I cook my own foods. Thank you love for sharing 😊❤
Years ago my freshman year in college I worked as a waitress during the summer. It was a high end restaurant that served a popular popcorn shrimp meal. If a customer ordered that dish with one particular popular & well-tipped waiter...he was definitely going to eat some of their popcorn shrimp before he took it to the customer!
Good looking out for us Ms Pam
You are Greatly Appreciated ✌🏽
Thank you Pam!!! Most people don't know the hidden dangers of a Grocery store! 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️🕊️.
I won't eat from a salad bar in a restaurant either for those reasons. I've seen parents have their little kids with them and they would take a bite of something and put it back on the bar or sneeze into the food....Those sneeze bars aren't low enough for little ones....When I saw that years ago, my stomach turned and my mind has not forgotten it. Thanks for the show.
Your story reminds me of something I saw a long time ago, and it really stuck with me. At an all-you-can-eat buffet, I saw a little girl, about 8 years old, load up a plate with canned pears. Then she used her hand as a "colander" and tipped the plate back into the bowl of pears, draining off all the juice. 😮
I miss good salad bars. I can't bring myself to ever eat at one again!
Eww, eww, eww, eww!!! Now I REALLY want to make my own food from scratch. Your video should be aired on every platform & tv channel known to man. Thank you for always taking good care of us, Pam! Happy New Year!
I've worked at a grocery store from age 16-38. I'm 39 now. I seen so much in those years. I never had to run to clean something when I ran the dairy dept when inspectors came in. I always kept my dept clean. Dates were always in tact. I come from a clean upbringing though.
Good for you. Our mothers instilling cleanliness into us was priceless. My mom was poor but clean and carried herself well. You would never have guessed the poor part.
@@truthseeker243 That's right.
That's the way to do it! Keep areas clean as outlined by health depts.; they should be able to walk in anytime unannounced, to inspect.
I agree with you 💯 Pam
Meat cases with bloody packages and dairy cases with milk jugs that have dried milk drips are very high risk things. I always wipe off these things before putting them in my fridge. Helps keep my shelves cleaner too.
Now that’s a great idea!! 💡 ❤
Me too!
I also grab extra veggie/fruit plastic bags to place the meat & seafood in when storing them in the fridge. It helps protect the fridge from leaks and possible cross-contamination. After I clean & season the meat I place the empty meat trays in the same bags, spray a bleach water mixture in the bags to prevent it from smelling, tie it, and throw in the garbage. I do the same thing for onions & lettuce to reduce the smell in the kitchen garbage. It also limits dumping the trash to 1x per week!
I keep telling my husband dried milk is germy milk! And we use the plastic grocery bags for garbage- they don't actually get recycled and they are small-less time for scraps to hang around.
Yep, I never stopped wiping all my groceries with clorox wipes and wash my fruit with soapy water🤣
I never liked food out of those cases. I have been a mid level germophobe since I was in college, when I had a job as a waitress.
You really would not believe the level of nastiness of random strangers--people coughing into their hands before grabbing bags of chips off the chip shelf, people biting their fingernails and then handing me their credit cards, the sheer number of men who would go to the restroom and come back a few moments later. With totally dry hands. The women with acrylic nails with little gemstones and charms, that had gunk all in them...and they would all be grabbing the coffee stirrers, the creamers, putting their fingers into the napkin dispensers to take more napkins...(we never cleaned those, btw. Restaurant napkin dispensers are sometimes really gross too...don't touch the dispensers when you get napkins...)
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The same reason I don’t eat at buffets!
I saw a young girl about 10-11 yrs old going around and tasting multiple food items with the serving spoon and then putting the serving spoon right back in the food! 🤢
Yum yum, where were the parents?
@@pammiedoodle8693 it’s adults too, I’ve seen adults sample the buffet/salad bar with their fingers & keep touching & eating with their fingers. I also see flies sitting on the food bc the door is near the buffet. There used to be a store employee watching over these buffet tables at one store but not anymore.
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It's everywhere. My mother was one to not even want to eat out at a restaurant, telling us people just aren't clean. I had already peaked that donut case thing. Never used the rolls thing so that salad bar and hot food tables in grocery stores my awareness is up.
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😮 thank for the Eye opening man that's bad we wonder why we always getting SICK Ms Pam thank you😅 😂
In Australia, our super markets used to have self serve bread buns but after covid, they disappeared and we haven't had them since.
@@SS-jb8wj after Covid, most of the stores got rid of bulk food bins, and now sell the same stuff prepackaged. Now we got that stomach flu virus going around which is contagious. I’m staying away from open help yourself food bars.
@@jmusic45 I don't blame you. After getting a bad dose of the flu last year (took me a month before I was better) I wear a mask when I go shopping every winter.
I know what you are talking about. I worked in a grocery store. I did the salad bar. When I did the salad bar it was cleaned and sanitized. I sanitized the deli from top to bottom. People always knew when I worked. On my day off, my regulars wouldn't go to the salad bar. After covid, they took the salad bar away.
Thank you Ms Pam. We really appreciate you for taking the time to share this with us. We love you❤
I currently work in a grocery store & you better believe that I will be checking this out!!!
😮 You've totally opened my eyes to something I've blindedly bought many times. I feel sick to my stomach to think of the countless gems I've paid for .
Happy new year! ❤
The worst case of food posioning I've ever had was from some eggrolls I got from a grocery store. I won't name the chain because it was one store and decades ago, but the memory still makes me queasy.
Food poisoning is strange . Sometimes the food we suspect was not what gave us the food poisoning!
I get really upset when I see a dog sitting inside a grocery cart. The next shopper is putting their produce and meat right where a dog butt was just minutes ago. I enjoy your topics and wise advice!
Today I was leaving Shop-rite (NJ) a woman was entering with her dog, walking past a huge sign that says NO PETS.
Only registered service dogs.
People just don't care.
I put flyer under my food.
It's disgusting.
@ Great idea! Thanks!
I never buy anything from those departments and, after watching this, I never will! Thank you Pam!
I worked at Winco, in the deli. I had to clean the display case every week. It entailed removing any products and put in the big fridge, vacuum out the case, then clean with food safe cleaner, dry it, and clean the glass inside and out, then put the products back in. It was a 2 hour process. The bakery had similar processes. It's disgusting what some stores allow!
Thank you Miss Pam for a great POV @ the grocery store. The first thing I do is sanitize the grocery cart: handles, the seat area where a little one sits who may be sick with a dirty underside containing a virus or bacteria like E. coli! , and the little seat belt and clasp. I will put a fresh plastic bag down and strap in my purse and never put anything into the cart that isn't bagged. Fifty years ago there was a wonderful small grocery chain that would weekly steam clean their carts because my family doctor recommended they protect their customers from an outbreak of meningitis. I really appreciated your outing today! HAPPY AND HEALTHY 2025 TO ONE AND ALL!
A very good idea, some people don't realize this.But several grocery stores actually use the carts to take the trash to the dumpster and they don't sanitize them. The grocery store used to work at would put the dirty floor mats on top of the grocery carts When they were mopping the floor and never sanitize the carts afterwards.
@@ASMRGRATITUDEyikes
Grocery stores that allow pets are a major no-no. I was in an Aldi and watched a woman with a non-service dog standing next to packages of strawberries. The dog was licking the tops of the berries. Anyone who buys those will have no idea of the bacteria that has been introduced to that food. Further, people who have allergies to dogs/cats could become severely ill if coming into contact with the saliva, hair or dander. People with pets don't consider those consequences of bringing their "family members" along to a place where they can cause harm and where they don't belong.
Thanks for pointing out the lack of cleanliness.
That was fun and interesting! Thanks! One thing I do is always wash my hands when I come home from anywhere. You never know what you may have touched that might have nasty germs on it.
Love your content. My son worked for a distribution center for a grocery store. He said don't ever eat the produce without washing first. If it falls on the floor they just pick it up and put it back on the pallets. That particular center the produce department was right outside of the restrooms 🤢
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It’s the flies too. I never buy open /exposed foods i.e., donuts, bread, salads… 3:23
@@blksunshine2206 Yes there was this Oubix in Atlanta and there were flies flying all around the deli. I was like NEVER!
Thanks for the heads up, we go in the store of convenience without thinking about it and grab and go without thinking about what you pointed out..i dont like salad bars for the very reason you stated..its nasty..so pray over your food no matter where you eat😊
Thank you because I try to be watchful 💯 Thank again
Cannot unsee this... I never buy this stuff...never thought about lack of cleaning - rather people touching the food despite having paper to handle these items. Thanks
Wow..disgusting. thanks for opening our eyes miss Pam
Also, cashiers who cough into their hands. If I can, I go to another lane. We are in the winter, cold & flu season, & workers are expected to report to work, try to social distance in order to get out of line quickly. Thanks, Ms. Pam.
I once saw a bagger dig up his nose with his thumb and forefinger and go right back to bagging groceries. I went to the other line. That’s why I do self checkout. People nasty.
I know ! One was obviously sick snd coughing with a mask but I was already being checked out by her. It even happened at a hospital where the person checking my husband in for a chest X ray was obviously sick herself . I stayed far away and was angry ! y@@tiffany3319
That's why i shop at publix. I don't understand how people eat grapes 🤢🤮 at the grocery store and not wait until they get home to soak them in vinegar and baking soda
Wow that's not right, you have to really look. Thank you for sharing Pam. Making me aware is great.
Ms. Pam, I worked as a food inspector for a number of years and I totally agree with you. Thank you for raising awareness to these areas. Not only are the dirty food-contact surfaces (what the bread was directly touching) and non-food-contact areas, like the dirty door tracks, something to consider for food safety, you also need to be aware of the risks of allergen cross-contamination and food defense issues, like intentional tampering with the food. Any self-serve areas are a big nope for me- salad bar, soup, olive bar, donuts, etc. Same for restaurant buffets. The stores are inspected in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, and it's amazing what they allow before being able to mandate remediation. For example, they're allowed a few dead flies in the chest freezer and blood on the meat shelf because the meat is wrapped (non-food-contact surface). Honestly, one of the first places I look before I grocery shop or eat somewhere is the bathroom. If they don't have soap and paper towels, you KNOW they aren't washing their hands.
Thank you for showing us this. The donut case was completey disgusting, it had not been cleaned in a long time. There is an outbreak of Norovirus in the U.S. I would not touch unwrapped food that other people might have touched or sneezed on.
Love how you bring us such important content , Pam. Hope you and your family have a healthy, happy and very blessed new year!❤❤❤
That's why I hate to buy grapes. People dig in the bag and switch grapes from one bag to another. I have no idea where those hands have been. Yuch!
I've seen adults eat grapes out of those bags in the produce area that really makes me ill.
Yuck! I didn’t know that!
When you are paying your money for grapes you have a right to pick out any undesirables that may be in the bag or if you don’t want as many that are bagged or if you want more I don’t see anything wrong with switching them out just go home and wash them thoroughly as you should be doing anyway.
@@bw3872totally agree
You gotta wash your grapes in a vinegar and water soak for 15 minutes and pat dry with paper towels😅
I soak my produce in distilled vinegar to clean and sanitize. I witnessed employees coughing into their hands while stocking tomatoes and a customer sneeze into his palms while shopping and touching peppers. 🤢🤮
YOU ARE SO RIGHT I WOULD NOT GO THERE! IF THEM CASES ARE THAT DIRTY WHERE CUSTOMERS CAN SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE BACK WHERD THEY ARE BAKING, CUTTING MEAT AND CHEESE. NO MAM I WOULD NOT EVEN BUY CANNED AT THE FIRST STORE.
Pam I have never thought of this due a few things, my husband does most of the grocery shopping and he’d freak out if he saw bread in cases with gunk or filth. The bread he brings home is prepackaged. The donuts are usually sold in a 4 pack. Now the individual ones I’m assuming they are back in the cases and are self help. I’ll have to ask him and let him know what to look for. I do appreciate all these videos you do. I’m 67 and still learning.
Glad to see that someone else sees what I see. Another area I am careful in is the fresh veggies area
Honey, I hear you loud and clear, but pray over everything 🙏🏾. You can't walk around in fear, but I agree be cautious. You are supposed to ask God to purify your stuff anyway 🙏🏾. I totally appreciate your post, though, and the next time, I will look at the case a little better. Thanks ❤
Thanks for sharing but fear is when you see a little something here and there. This is build up crud. And even the Bible says to be wise in your decision and I personally don’t see anything wise about eating from places that are disgusting. 🤮. lol. Thanks again
Yep, rethinking my purchases from now on!
Well, and also you never know who wiped their nose & then moved my coffee container to get to the next one & then i come along & get the one they touched.😮
Pam gurl... Exactly!!! This vid was very point specific I really appreciate you for sure👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you for pointing this out. 5:00 I was at a grocery store and I saw this woman open mouth cough on the produce. Never buy bell peppers from there again
Amen, Ms Pam! Agree 100%. Have you ever looked in the egg case or milk/dairy cases? Inside of egg content and milk spilled and dried on for weeks/months... I've even seen dead flies
And another thing while we're on the subject, anyone else grossed out by all the deli meat precut and prepackaged at the Deli Counter so they do not have to wait on you and cut it fresh on demand??? And it sits there for a few days... so you can just pick up and go. No thanks
Wow 😮that was nasty! I agree with you 💯. My husband used to being me a donut when he was the manager of Dunkin donuts. His store was always spotless. My son in law is now working in his place since my husband died and he knows how piticular I am. God bless you Pam and your family. May you all have a blessed and healthy New York! 👑🙏💞🐾✝️🇺🇸🇮🇱
Like you mentioned salad bars & someone maybe cough or sneezing around an open food bar, actually you have no idea if the cooks who handle your food wash they hands or sneeze on your food. Just because you can't see what's going on means they're clean & hygienic.
Pam, I love watching your videos. I love learning, and ALWAYS learn something new from you! Thanks
Aaaaawww thanks so much Kim!
I used to habitually buy baked goods from the local grocery store's baked good self-serve case. I stopped several summers ago when there were three flies buzzing inside the case.
Thanks Pam!
Pam, I just recovered from 4 days of the Noro Virus from oysters I bought at Walmart. I found out a couple days later there was a recall on the oysters in multiple states. I was taking Pepto Bismol to stop the diarrhea (sry for graphics) and I was able to do that after one day but it took a few more days to be back to myself. I drew blood for a long time so I was familiar with that virus. Seems no foods are safe these days.
Oh my goodness, i'm so sorry you were sick!!
@@sharonlatour6230 That's so sweet. Thank you and God Bless!
@@Clairbear1222 You're welcome!! God bless!
Thank you dear pam ! I never thought about the donut case !
Clicked on this vid so fast! I know exactly where you were Mrs. Pam and in that very same 1st store, during Covid, there was a customer who brought in his Great Dane Dog...not a service animal either and The Store manager went right over to have a full conversation with him. 😳 I mean they walked ALL around the produce area we were looking like wtw is going on here!?!😳. We don't shop there any longer. Please be safe and Happy New Year!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thanks for sharing
Ms. Pam,
I greatly appreciate everything you do! Thank you so much!
Unfortunately Miss Pam, at most grocery stores these days, waiting on customers and appearance of displays takes precedent over cleaning. The deli at the grocer I work at,the guys need one hour fifteen minutes to clean the hot bar EVERY DAY. They get 30 minutes.
I wholeheartedly agree with you ❤
I saw someone once pick up a shrimp with tongs from a shrimp buffet at a party and put that shrimp up to his nose, smell it and put it back on the buffet. I have watched women go to the bathroom, not wash their hands and then get food from a buffet. That is why I NEVER eat from anywhere that's self-serve. NEVER!!
You know THEY NEVER WASH hands..🤷🏿♀️
I saw women at work, after using the toilet, go up to the sink put their hands under the tap to automatically dispense water for a second and then dry them. lol
@rhondaabugg305 How do you know they didn't wash their hands?
Do you watch these women go to the bathroom?
Are you seeing them not washing their hands,then get food from the buffet?
Or do you follow everyone that goes to the bathroom,then to the buffet¡?
Because that some craziness when you're out yourself,watching other people instead of doing your own thing.
@@AngelStormeeReally one Second. SMH.
You all have a funny way of explaining what you see.🤔
I worked in a hotel lounge that shared a wall with the men’s room. You could hear the toilet flush and the sink through the wall. I heard the toilet flush far far more often than the sink.
Our popcorn machine was up against that wall and many of those same men who did not use the sink, them came into the lounge and grabbed a handful of popcorn 🤢
Most people dnt look z Its sad put it's a Conveince for them. That was absolutely Nasty . I look at what I buy and I dnt by open items Like that. Hopefully this video goes a long way . Can save someone's life. 😊
GREAT VIDEO
I just followed your other 3 channels cause I had no idea you had them! I'm excited to see what information you have in those too! Aunty Pam to the rescue!!❤ You are appreciated!
Awesome! Thank you!
Ms. Pam you are solid platinum. We value you so much at our place. Stay blessed and thank you so much for your wisdom.
Thank you for sharing.. For these reasons and a few more I refuse to eat at buffets etc. And everybody's house.
It would be great if you could do a show on putting children in grocery carts where the food goes.
I had a neighbor boy who used to work in a grocery store. He saw many gross things, from dirty shoes to overflowing diapers in the carts.
Love all of your shows!
Dogs in carts are worse 🤢
I stopped at a certain gas/convenience store that is popular in our area. I was craving one of their delicious chocolate chip cookies, so I went to the glass case that housed the freshly baked goods. There was a big ol’ fly buzzing around behind the glass, resting on the donuts, muffins, etc. Yuck 🤢 I told the clerk and he just stared at me wide-eyed.
Thank you, Thank you!! 👍 👏. When i see this in stores i would never open/ touch for reason you stated Pam. Buffet food is 💯 % out for me, that's even worse. No thank you!!
I too pay attention to EVERYTHING... AND... what and HOW is the cleaning being done... Are clean towels,wipes,etc being used.😳🧐.. Is one towel being used to wipe everything... uuummm..We have to be careful and PAY ATTENTION..Thanks for Sharing Pam...❤
That first grocery store is beyond filthy! I wouldn’t go there if they were giving away groceries!
And this is just supermarkets. I think if we saw even a fraction of the state of most restaurant kitchens and how food is stored/cleaned/prepped, we would no longer eat out.
Agreed!
Most DEFINITELY!!!
Oh Pam, you are a wicked one! Thanks for letting us see your concerns. Very valid, very eye opening. I'm rethinking open food bars, too.
What is your definition of wicked? Ms Pam ain't hardly that,but those she expose are wicked. Poor management there
Thank you for pointing these things out 💖! You’re a smart lady!!!!
Thanks Pam, great advice! Also ! I have always stayed away from the deli case, you don't know how long that food has been in there and the sloppy salads and other stuff just get scraped and put on top of the newer stuff! Ooh my! Love your videos and your lovely personality, sweet and chèerful🎉Best wishes for the new year!
Thank you Ms Pam ❤ I totally agree with you.
There's a great,immensely clean grocery store chain in New Jersey called Shop Rite, there's always employees in each section cleaning/wiping everything up, I guess that people shopping there are more aware of their cleanliness and try to choose and pkg their choices neater than any other state and feel more secure to purchase open foodstuffs, olives, pre-made main dishes and sides, variety of salads, breads/rolls/bagels/bialys, etc. It was truly a beautiful thing to see and feel safer about my purchases 😊❤
Agreed!! I was just about to mention Shop Rite. Every Shop Rite I've been to here in North NJ, I always see employees cleaning. They also don't let dairy products sit outside, unlike Walmart & I've witnessed it several times. Target is a bit filthy too but not as bad as Walmart. Shop Rite will always be my top choice.
That is exactly what goes across my mind at the buffet. I literally detest having to use the tongs that everybody has touched!!!
❤ Thank you so much for caring. 🎉 Happy New Year. 😅 and I thought I was the only one fussy and extremely careful about what I buy from clean places.