When is it ok to taste the produce before buying it?

• majorspark

  

  I am at the grocery store today and I glance up and realize this women just popped a grape in her mouth. She realizes I see her and grimaces like she does not like it and carries on with her shopping without taking the bag of grapes. I have eaten a few grapes in the grocery store before but only when placed in my cart knowing I will be purchasing them and taking them home with me.
• gut

  With all the pesticides and e-coli these days you are a Darwin front-runner if you eat unwashed produce at the store.
  
  Smile and tell her she will die soon.
• FatHobbit

  

  I think it's weird. I was shopping with my step dad and he drank a pop while we were shopping. He paid for it when we checked out so I don't really have an issue with it but it struck me funny. I've also opened a box of crackers to keep my 16 month old son calm while we were shopping
• sleeper

  

  One grape isn't a big deal.
• SnotBubbles

  

  I've fed my family many meals with this approach.
  
  "Grapes, green beans and lunch meat samples for dinner tonight boys!"
  
  Fuck you Kroger.
• sleeper

  

  FatHobbit;1681585 wrote:I think it's weird. I was shopping with my step dad and he drank a pop while we were shopping. He paid for it when we checked out so I don't really have an issue with it but it struck me funny. I've also opened a box of crackers to keep my 16 month old son calm while we were shopping

  These scenarios are fine as well.
• Sonofanump

  SnotBubbles;1681594 wrote:I've fed my family many meals with this approach.
  
  "Grapes, green beans and lunch meat samples for dinner tonight boys!"
  
  Fuck you Kroger.

  You should visit Sam's club on Saturdays.
• Ironman92

  

  majorspark;1681445 wrote:I am at the grocery store today and I glance up and realize this women just popped a grape in her mouth. She realizes I see her and grimaces like she does not like it and carries on with her shopping without taking the bag of grapes. I have eaten a few grapes in the grocery store before but only when placed in my cart knowing I will be purchasing them and taking them home with me.

  My dad worked at Big Bear for 27 years and I spent a short stay there when I was a teenager. The taking of a grape is for whatever reason common and acceptable....but that is the only one I know of.
• Fab4Runner

  

  I have never seen anyone sample a grape, and I would never do it.
• hilliardfan

  Is there any difference in eating the grape and not buying versus eating a grape and then buying them? Either way, you're not paying for the grape you ate.
• sleeper

  

  hilliardfan;1681610 wrote:Is there any difference in eating the grape and not buying versus eating a grape and then buying them? Either way, you're not paying for the grape you ate.

  It's acceptable because if you weren't allowed and you bought the grapes and they ended up being too sweet or not sweet enough(or terrible or whatever) you could return them to the store. This wastes everyone's time and if they are return the store will lose money from an expired product.
  
  Other fruits require you to degrade the quality of the product before you buy, say an apple where a bite would ruin the apple for another customer. For grapes, taking 1 grape doesn't ruin the product for the next customer.
• hilliardfan

  sleeper;1681616 wrote:It's acceptable because if you weren't allowed and you bought the grapes and they ended up being too sweet or not sweet enough(or terrible or whatever) you could return them to the store. This wastes everyone's time and if they are return the store will lose money from an expired product.
  
  Other fruits require you to degrade the quality of the product before you buy, say an apple where a bite would ruin the apple for another customer. For grapes, taking 1 grape doesn't ruin the product for the next customer.

  I'm not questioning if it's acceptable or not, just is there any difference if you buy them or not and the fact is there's really no difference at all.
• raiderbuck

  Aren't grapes sold by weight? If so...then technically, eating before purchasing would be stealing. You would be lowering the weight of the bunch and only paying for the leftovers. However, one grape isn't going to tip the scale anyway.
• sleeper

  

  hilliardfan;1681628 wrote:I'm not questioning if it's acceptable or not, just is there any difference if you buy them or not and the fact is there's really no difference at all.

  There is no difference however it doesn't matter. Go complain to a grocery store manager about someone eating a grape and I'll bet he'll say "You can eat one too if you want".
• sleeper

  

  raiderbuck;1681649 wrote:Aren't grapes sold by weight? If so...then technically, eating before purchasing would be stealing. You would be lowering the weight of the bunch and only paying for the leftovers. However, one grape isn't going to tip the scale anyway.

  Again, no grocery store manager cares if you or 100 people eat 1 grape. Most people that eat 1 grape end up buying the package anyway.
• Heretic

  

  The answer to the question is: When you're poor.
• BR1986FB

  When I was a kid, my father owned/operated a fruit stand at his house. I was over there one weekend (parents divorced) and this family pulls up and gets out of their car. Their son was enormous and I believe he may have had Downs Syndrome, or something. The kid walks up to the fruit stand and just starts picking up random pieces of fruit, taking two or three bites, and then putting the partially eaten fruit back into the basket. The kid must have done this with about 8-10 apples, pears, peaches, etc and I'm looking at him like "WTF?" Can't remember who was running the fruit stand that day but they must not have cared because they didn't say anything to the kids parents (who didn't seem to care).
• Ironman92

  

  sleeper;1681663 wrote:Again, no grocery store manager cares if you or 100 people eat 1 grape. Most people that eat 1 grape end up buying the package anyway.

  Yep
• Ironman92

  

  BR1986FB;1681668 wrote:When I was a kid, my father owned/operated a fruit stand at his house. I was over there one weekend (parents divorced) and this family pulls up and gets out of their car. Their son was enormous and I believe he may have had Downs Syndrome, or something. The kid walks up to the fruit stand and just starts picking up random pieces of fruit, taking two or three bites, and then putting the partially eaten fruit back into the basket. The kid must have done this with about 8-10 apples, pears, peaches, etc and I'm looking at him like "WTF?" Can't remember who was running the fruit stand that day but they must not have cared because they didn't say anything to the kids parents (who didn't seem to care).

  Have you seen my baseball?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  One always needs to taste the produce if they ever have any intention of staying with said produce for the rest of their lives...
• salto

  

  sleeper;1681593 wrote:One grape isn't a big deal.

  Same type of mentality as Michael Brown stealing a box of cigars.
• I Wear Pants

  salto;1681812 wrote:Same type of mentality as Michael Brown stealing a box of cigars.

  To be fair if the grape eater assaulted a police officer afterwards sleeper would probably have a different opinion of them too.
• Glory Days

  

  People who open food before purchasing it bothers me. you haven't bought it yet, you don't own it.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Glory Days;1681927 wrote:People who open food before purchasing it bothers me. you haven't bought it yet, you don't own it.

  Just don't shoot them officer
• I Wear Pants

  DeyDurkie5;1681943 wrote:Just don't shoot them officer

  He reached into the fruit bin, there could have been a gun there. And the thug had just been witnessed stealing a grape. Justified.