• Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Worked in retail many moons ago. Back when organic was just becoming a thing. I can tell you one thing.: A lot of people were getting a deal on organic food -because cashiers would just key in the code for non-organic. The lines were too long, and you look foolish looking things up in the “book” haha.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Isn’t it usually just the same code with a “9” concatenated at the start? I.e. tomatoes are #4664, organic tomatoes are #94664.

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        2 years ago

        Are those tomatoes made from metal? Or sand? If you can chew it then it’s organic. Technucally if it has carbon-based compounds.

        Fun fact: acetone is organic too. And you don’t want to drink it. Seriously, don’t do it.

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      2 years ago

      I still do this if I have to go through self checkout. Look man, I don’t work at a grocery store. If they force me to do two completely separate jobs (cashier and bagger), and still raise my food prices, I’m going to give myself some employee discounts.

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        2 years ago

        That’s stealing, says the person who also does this. Also I have some saffron I nicked from Wally world too if you want to try it with our ill gotten gains.

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      2 years ago

      last time I didn’t use self checkout, the cashier keyed in all my stuff as organic when it wasn’t :(

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      2 years ago

      The only inorganic compounds in food I can imagine are salts. It is beyond me how they not understand that almost everything everyone eats is organic.