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Do You Sneak Samples of Food Before Buying It at the Grocery Store?

SodaHead Living 2012/09/05 22:19:20
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What can we say? We're gaga over groceries! While we shop for our favorite snacks at the store, we often wonder if our grocery store etiquette is the same as others. Do most people sneak in samples at the candy bins while deciding whether or not they're going to buy the goods? What do you do when the cashier gives you too much change? And is it normal to go grocery shopping three times a week? We're finally going to find out.

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  • David 2012/09/05 22:31:41
    No, never!
    David
    +15
    Sneaking food is the same as shoplifting. Unless they have a table where an employee is giving out free samples you have no right to sample the products. Do you eat an apple before buying any? If you do thing like this, you are making the stores raise their prices to cover the losses. We all pay more for your indiscretion.
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  • Sunshine 2012/09/10 16:53:08
    No, never!
    Sunshine
    Absolutely NO! The only samples I take are those OFFERED as samples -- grapes with cheese cubes, for example. Then I take only one or two -- they are NOT being offered as a MEAL.
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  • Mike Legacy 2012/09/10 16:48:33
    Yes, all the time!
    Mike Legacy
    +1
    I don't know if it counts, but when I was a kid,I always used to "sample" 5 or 6 of those wafer cookies :) my mom would get so pissed.
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  • Sunshine Mike Le... 2012/09/10 16:55:31
    Sunshine
    +1
    When you were a child you BEHAVED AS A CHILD. Understandable -- and FORGIVEABLE!
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  • LV321 Mike Le... 2012/09/10 21:16:36
    LV321
    Yes. You are ok because you don't anymore.
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  • weenyboy 2012/09/10 16:48:13
    Only sometimes
    weenyboy
    +4
    If i'm expected to purchase grapes at $2.50-$3.00 per lb., you damned right i will try ONE. If I'm going to be paying $4.00+ per lb. for cherries......... yes, I'll be trying one! I've been burned too many times over the years. I do NOT sneak them but merely try one to check for ripeness & sweetness. I have never been questioned over this practice!
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  • Jim weenyboy 2012/09/10 18:02:02
    Jim
    You need to find a new place to shop. I've never paid those high prices.
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  • sami weenyboy 2012/09/10 20:17:18
    sami
    If you live near Irving Tx ... On Tuesday there is a movie place that charges 50 cents for a movie all day ... It is behind the Walmart on 183 close to the airport ... I take the other stores ads in and they match it ... The other day I bought cantalopes for 69 cents each and green seedless grapes for 89 cents a pound ... Walmarts is to far for me to go unless I am going near there anyway ...
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  • weenyboy sami 2012/09/15 15:28:00
    weenyboy
    I'd rather pay higher prices than put one dime in the pockets of the Right-Wing Walton family!............ the same goes for ANY product produced by the Koch Bros.!
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  • sami weenyboy 2012/09/18 23:39:20
    sami
    If you only buy the sale items they are not making money on you ... Maybe even losing money ...
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  • Holmes 2012/09/10 16:44:38
    No, never!
    Holmes
    Never have
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  • pennie Holmes 2012/09/10 17:51:10
    pennie
    Dont lie and say you have never you was once a kid and yes we all have done this one way or another.
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  • Jim pennie 2012/09/10 18:03:12
    Jim
    +2
    Not every one steals as a kid. I didn't
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  • Marcy B... Jim 2012/09/10 20:42:48
    Marcy Burke
    Neither did I.
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  • Holmes pennie 2012/09/15 16:31:08
    Holmes
    I'm not lying. When I was a kid, I got really hungry a lot and my parents would get some bananas and buy them and give me one, so I could eat something.
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  • pennie Holmes 2012/09/25 16:20:18
    pennie
    so you never picked up a pen or pencil, all kids take things and you may not remember but kids always pick up things they should not.
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  • Holmes pennie 2012/09/30 00:07:05 (edited)
    Holmes
    Maybe I did but I never stole anything
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  • pennie Holmes 2012/10/09 23:04:32
    pennie
    thats all im saying kids take with out knowing that they have even taken something.
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  • John Galt 2012/09/10 16:43:25
    Only sometimes
    John Galt
    Only fruit...to see if it's ripe, like grapes. Fruit is sold by the pound, so another consumer isn't getting ripped off, and it is your only way to know what you are buying, unlike packaged goods. Oh, but I never refuse the free slice of deli meat offered by the butcher either! I hate when other customers open packaging and sample, or actually consume the product without paying for it. That is outright theft!
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  • pennie John Galt 2012/09/10 17:53:27
    pennie
    I feel the same way I go for the samples like when the store offer like costcos, never just open things now if I was in line and got a soda from the frid next to the check out stand I might open it and say please ring this up I opened it I really had to take my meds or something but I always pay for the item.
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  • Marcy B... John Galt 2012/09/10 20:49:40
    Marcy Burke
    Once I opened a new container of peanut butter at home to find that someone had removed the seal and scooped out a finger full of the peanut butter. Grossed me out! I returned it to the store for a replacement. I have also opened a box of granola bars etc. to find only 5 in the box and not 6. I think it may be the shelf stockers that do this, but who knows? Could be anyone!
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  • ☆stillthe12c☆ 2012/09/10 16:39:11
    Only sometimes
    ☆stillthe12c☆
    Before I buy grapes I do take one so that I do not buy soar ones. Can not do that any more as the put them in plastic bags now. I only did this when they were not in season.
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  • Jen S. 2012/09/10 16:32:34
    No, never!
    Jen S.
    +1
    It's called stealing, and I don't do that. The more people steal from stores, the higher the prices will go. Only thing I have done several times, is open a drink of water or iced tea if I'm desperately thirsty and it would not be practical to get into a line for that one item. I ALWAYS pay for the drink, though. Sometimes it's just an empty bottle, but I make sure I pay for it. I once got out to my car, was loading groceries, and a very small item hadn't been scanned. I marched right back into the store (with my son) and paid the 99 cents for the item.
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  • John Galt Jen S. 2012/09/10 17:27:28
    John Galt
    I agree!

    I am curious though...so many of us are so rigid in our honest ways, which is very reassuring, but has anyone thought about the subtle ways we are ripped off at the grocery store? We pay for tomatoes by the pound, the store buys them by the pallet. We pay $5-$7 a pound FOR THE STINKING VINE! Completely inedible! Does the store compensate us? Has anyone ever removed all the tomatoes (THAT THEY ARE BUYING, OF COURSE) from the vine before purchasing, or dried the heads of lettuce (Kale, spinach, etc.) that they are constantly misting? Do you want to pay $3, $4, even $5 a pound for WATER? I even get pissed that I'm paying $12 a pound for a lobster, and only 25% is edible! Steak? Do you eat the bone and fat? Many of these items we pay for by weight, and they pay for by item/volume.
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  • pennie John Galt 2012/09/10 17:56:53
    pennie
    Your right we do get ripped off by the stores. Safe way always over price items
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  • waterlady 2012/09/10 16:28:27
    No, never!
    waterlady
    That is stealing.
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  • susanc06 2012/09/10 16:13:35
    Only sometimes
    susanc06
    I really only have for grapes and bing cherries. If they taste good to me, sweet and juicy I will buy. If they are sour I will not, I wanna make sure they taste good before I buy them so I will eat them when I bring them home rather than go to waste.
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  • anne.k.murphy 2012/09/10 16:12:12
    No, never!
    anne.k.murphy
    The stores usually have enough free samples that I can make a meal of them. Most deli counters will let me try samples of their salads too.
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  • pennie anne.k.... 2012/09/10 18:09:28
    pennie
    yhea and you stand there and tast everything making meals WOW just tast and move along instead youstay and make meals that wrong, and yes you do tast and take the food I see you all the time in costcos and safe way the food don't even be ready and yet you stand in the line until she comes back from brake.
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  • Kozmo 2012/09/10 16:07:07
    No, never!
    Kozmo
    Dangerous to admit anything on SH, trolls lurking behind every corner.
    "Grazing" is THEFT & sampling may violate health codes.
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  • Anne Jordan 2012/09/10 16:06:13
    Only sometimes
    Anne Jordan
    +1
    There is only one thing I ever sample--organic grapes. I eat 1 grape and buy that bag--unless they are sour. Sorry, but a whole bag of expensive sour grapes is not happening. I would gladly pay for that grape and 90% of the time the grapes are fine and I buy the bag. I am not a liberal and I don't want to go to hell over these stolen grapes--will confess next time I go to Fresh Market!!!
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  • pennie Anne Jo... 2012/09/10 18:12:14
    pennie
    everyone should go to FARMERS MARKET they always have free samples of most of the things they sell like BREAD ,Olive oils. grapes, home made jams etc
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  • overdog001 2012/09/10 15:58:39
    No, never!
    overdog001
    I don't have to. The places I shop give you free samples whenever you ask.
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  • Torchmanner ~PWCM~JLA 2012/09/10 15:54:27
    No, never!
    Torchmanner ~PWCM~JLA
    +1
    No, I'm not a liberal. I don't believe in stealing from anyone, no matter how much they have.
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  • Jen S. Torchma... 2012/09/10 16:35:05
    Jen S.
    You're a republican, you obviously don't believing in sharing no matter how much you have.
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  • pennie Jen S. 2012/09/25 16:26:41
    pennie
    Good one. republicans never want to share anything lol :) that was a good one
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  • gocar 2012/09/10 15:51:23
    No, never!
    gocar
    No never, it just never occurs to me. The grapes look good and usually are. I can't take a bite out of an apple and the potatoes need to be peeled to see really. Corn often looks better than it tastes once cooked. That's is why Costco probably does a good job of selling. The have samples at every corner and I'm sure that works.
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  • brittany 2012/09/10 15:48:37
    Only sometimes
    brittany
    i hardly ever do that. but if i do, its only with fruit or a hole poked in a bag of marshmallows.
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  • laura reade 2012/09/10 15:44:46
    Only sometimes
    laura reade
    Yes but only grapes. Have to taste one before I buy the whole bunch.
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  • dj 2012/09/10 15:43:50
    No, never!
    dj
    Why would I sneak samples? For things they are trying to sell many times they are handing them out. Besides things like produce are never washed and you don't know who touch with what kind of dirty hands
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  • jcadla 2012/09/10 15:42:30
    No, never!
    jcadla
    And I would never keep money if I were overpaid with change. But I do check my CC receipts, realizing some are not as honest as I.
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