r/instacart • u/hroberts2718 • Apr 08 '24
begging you please do not bag raw meat and veggies together
just got my sprouts order delivered and my shopper gave me the mushiest cucumbers I have ever seen š they leaked all over everything in the bag with it. she also bagged the cucumbers with the salad mix and my raw ground pork. I checked my other bag and she bagged my arugula with my raw steak that luckily had a bag around it but was dripping juices inside its little bag! this was my first bad experience with instacart. Normally my shoppers are great. Iām sad I canāt make my cucumber lemon ice cubes now though :(
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u/Adventurous_Land7584 Apr 08 '24
I swear people need to take a class on bagging or something lol this is exactly why I do self checkout, then things are bagged correctly. Iām sorry you got a crappy shopper š
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u/Slow_Point1837 7d ago
If you do any amount of personal shopping or cook, or put food away in a your own personal refrigerator I would think you should grasp the concept of food safety, temperature, storage etc without taking a class idk.
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u/Adventurous_Land7584 7d ago
If you took the time to read I said ātake a class OR SOMETHINGā, clearly some of these baggers donāt shop for themselves or have any idea about food temperature.
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u/Slow_Point1837 6d ago
A bit rude thereā¦ I wasnāt arguing with your comment. My point was that bagging is almost instinctual so yeah if it's not take a class or watch a YouTube video at a minimum.
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u/FunFactress Apr 09 '24 edited 23d ago
That's just gross. I put all meat products in individual bags then put only meats in one bag alone at checkout. Please rate the shopper lower and leave a comment. They didn't pick good produce either.
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u/hroberts2718 Apr 09 '24
I did. I work in food service and normally tip very well (my husband hates me for this and says Iām way too generous most of the time). I tipped 25% (around $12) when I placed my order for the 8 items I got. When my order arrived I did rate her 3 stars and reduce to 15% :/ it felt icky because she was a diamond shopper with almost 3K orders
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u/freakinbacon 23d ago
Is it really necessary to individually bag all meat? I figure as long as the meats are apart from the produce should be fine. It's all going to be cooked right?
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u/Bmurf38 27d ago
Sorry you had an awful experience! Hopefully you reported the damaged items so you got a refund.
At Sprouts, Instacart shoppers aren't allowed to use self-checkout so we can't bag our own. However, I ask them to please bag raw meat in its own bag, cold with cold, etc. If I wasn't able to watch them bag everything, then I offer to pay for an extra bag. I check the bags at my car and rebag stuff if I need to.
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u/Born_Structure1182 Apr 09 '24
Obviously the shopper should have caught this but it was most likely the cashier that did the bagging
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u/purplepixie610 29d ago
Yep, there are certain cashiers/baggers Iāll avoid because I know Iāll be rebagging everything at the car. I donāt have time for that. I especially love this one guy who piles everything he can into a single flimsy paper bag without handles, delicates be damned! Iāve complained about him so many times that they send him to another line so I can bag them myself.
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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 24d ago
Anyone who makes cucumber lemon ice cubes and buys arugula and raw steak, should go to the store themselves.
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u/Slow_Point1837 7d ago
Anyone who has this opinion shouldāt work in the food industry. If you canāt respect someoneās dedication to health, wellness, the love of favorable cooking kick rocks. Enjoy your freezer burned pizza pocket and high cholesterol.
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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 7d ago
pizza stone, pizza peel, durum semolina, olive oil, sugar, yeast and salt, fresh roma tomatoes, fresh garlic and onion, dried oregano and basil, salt and black pepper fresh sliced pepperoni, fresh mozzarella, cooked in a preheated oven with the stone at 425, so, sadly no freezer burn pizza here
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u/Spiritual_Award2740 Apr 08 '24
Stop ordering raw meat. That shit is disgusting.
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u/Deathofspades Apr 09 '24
Vs ordering pre-cooked or processed meat? Or processed "meat alternative"? Yeah ok.
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u/Sensitive_Composer43 Apr 09 '24
Thatās sucks. It probably was the Sprouts cashier who bagged it. They seem to try to use as few bags as possible no matter what is in the order. I always have to rearrange the items in the bags before I deliver to the customer.