On Monday, January 22, 2018 at 10:42:17 AM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
>
> I'm thnking something like that too is possible (at least for some of
> it). Julie is in a fairly damp climate I gather. It's not like she
> has mold climbing the walls or anything, but she may still have a
> potential spore issue there.
>
> I have a friend who can't get a good sourdough starter going. Seems it
> always turns pink on him. He lives in a well forested area and his
> backyard is pretty much natural mulch from leaves and mold. His case
> is fairly radical but Julie may have something a little like it going
> on. 'No see'um' spores or something?
>
> On the other comments on it being the store selling lower quality items
> to delivery customers, I don't buy into that one. They'd horrifically
> lose all customers for that venue if so and all the ones *here*, all
> you have to do if call and they comeback, replace, and it's *free* then.
>
> That all said, I have one store near me that I won't get any fresh
> foods from. I believe it is at least partly a local manager issue.
> The super WalMart nearest me. It used to be good but then they dummied
> down what the manager could do to ensure best produce and he quit.
> Since then, I've had so many things mold the next day, I stopped using
> them at all. No other stores have that issue so it's not something
> environmental to my place.

I think that some of these invisible infestations can be highly localized. In one house but not the other. It might also be that some stores will have this problem and some won't. My guess is that it's tough to rid a place of some spores once they're established.