Things Grocery Employees Wish You’d Never Find Out

13. Buy the store brand/off brand basics, (milk, eggs, flour etc) It’s literally the same exact thing from the same exact place as the more expensive brand name stuff.

When I worked at a grocery store, we would occasionally get products with a label from from another store mixed in with our stuff. Also quite a bit of store brand/brand name stuff is made at the same facilities (with differences in recipes) This is not always the case but it happens more often than you think.

14. We get our produce delivered on the same truck as we get our raw meat and fish.

Not a huge deal to me but I always thought the vegans and vegetarians that shopped there would freak out if they found out our store worked that way

15. If you leave your cart in the parking lot, not in the corral, we all hate you on a deeply personal level.

The store is just disgusting. Clean everything when you get home. The people paid to clean after closing do not care and are trying to go home as quickly as possible.

Cashiers will notice you if you’re buying condoms or pregnancy tests, even if they don’t say anything.

If you are rude, we will talk shit about you when you leave. Just please be nice

16. When I worked for HEB, the ripped meat packets would go back to meat market and reseal it and put it back on the shelf.

You never know what kind of dirt from the belt that it may have been on.