When shopping in the grocery store, is it unethical to pull the bread off the back of the stack or take the milk from the back with the longer expiration date?
thats the way I shop:-)
I call it digging deeper to get to the good stuff. Some people don't think it’s worth the effort. What a bizarre post, I love it.
This reminds me of one of my favorite George Carlin comedy routines...
> When you make a sandwich at home, do you reach down past the first three or four pieces of bread to go down and get 'the good bread'? It's kind of a self preservation thing, y'know? What you're really saying is, "Let my family eat the rotten bread! I'll take care of Numero Uno!" And down you go into the loaf. Down, looking for the two that you want, a matching pair. And you have to be careful pulling them out so they don't tear. And then when you get them to the top, the upper eight slices fall the other way. I never straighten them out. I think, screw it, let 'em think a burglar made a sandwich. Not my job, straightening out the bread.
Now, we go to the back of the milk jugs to get the one with the longest expiration date. In the days when I drank a gallon a day, it wasn't an issue.
How about peeling corn husks back more than half way to check for rottenness, and then putting it back even when it's all right? (that's a pet peeve of mine for folks at the grocery)
That is simply shopping for the best product.
I always compare dates, give the bread a gentle squeeze, thump the fruit and look at every cut of meat to see the grain before I choose which package.
What about never taking the last one of ANYTHING on a shelf?
Our local grocery stores
keep trash cans available where the corn is on the shelf. I shuck the corn and leave the shucks in the store. No sense in taking the shucks home.
Andy
I had a rod man who went to a store to buy the old milk and
green bread. It was gross watching the chunks of stinky milk
drop out his thermos.
His technique must have been ethical -- he was a part-time preacher.
Good ethics is taking the front when that meets your real needs and taking the fresher one when that is what you really need.
If using the front will satisfy your needs, then you improve the situation for others who may have a need for that milk to last as long as possible.
Also, it isn't just altruism. If everyone took the back one, the store would end up with some unsellable product and your prices would go up along with everyone else.
There are more important ethical decisions to be made, however.
Thanks Roadhand, I never knew that.
I have trouble going through a whole loaf without it getting stale or moldy at the end, so I always want the freshest loaf I can get. There is nothing unethical about that. If they wanted to sell day-old bread at a cheaper price, or rate it day by day, that would be a different matter. But if they are charging the same for the day-old as they are for the freshest stuff, I will go fresh.
Some things might be unethical, but not that one, in my humble opinion.
Yeah but..
I always have several twist ties laying around because soemtimes when I open a loaf I "lose" the tie that came with it. SOOOO if I put a "newer" tie on the loaf is it fresher? ;>)
Andy
That's what I do. And I also squeeze the Charmin.
