Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> Crash and I did some serious grocery shopping last night, and I was
so
> disgusted. In the (soda) pop aisle, we found a nearly empty plastic
bottle
> of Mountain Dew. Later, we found a partially eaten roll of Rolo
candies.
> These people have no class, and they're thieves!

These kinds of misdeeds (partially eaten products) are much more apt to
have been commited by the store employees... typically most shelf
restocking is done by the night shift, and typically they are poorly
suppervized, if supervized at all... mostly they are itinerate temps,
and not paid very well... and in fact in order to recruit them the
store management often offers the 'all you can eat on premises' perk.

> The greeter guy at another store recently told us of having to clean
up
> after mothers who left dirty diapers in carts.

I know in some locations stupidmarkets maintain public restrooms but
many locations throuhgout the US do not. I've never seen a public
restroom at any stupidmarket in the entire state of NY... if the stores
don't offer a terlit to the patrons it should come as no surprise that
putrid pampers will be changed and discarded out in the parking lot...
and generally there are no trash recepticals, at least not handy, so if
garbage ends up in the carts rather than strewn about the streets
that's a good thing (lesser of evils)... for that kind of trash I place
the *entire* blame on the Municipality Officials for not enacting
commercial building code REQUIRING _adequate_ public restroom
facilities in *ALL* retail establishments, and that the municipality
must require that all retail establishments contract with private
sanitation companys to maintain adequate trash recepticals with timely
pick up thereof.

> The world is in a sorry state of affairs when this kind of thing is
> happening.

Not the entire world, only those in charge... how those pinheads become
in charge is the true sorry state of affairs.

> Any other gross encounters of the shopping kind?

By far the very worst stupidmarket _filth offenders_ are the employees
working in the meat and deli departments... um, yoose really don't
wanna know.

Sorry, but I can't place the blame on the public.