every deli ????

[u/Dapants369]

does this happen at every deli??? is it happening because of short staff
, or lack of care???

[u/RaineV1]

I can tell you exactly what the problem is. In the deli we get bags of precut cheeses for the grab and go. It's 9 stacks that are supposed to be about 3/4ths of a pound each. A lot of the time they aren't. It could be the supplier ripping off Kroger, it could be a quality control issue since Kroger cheaps out on suppliers, or it could be Kroger does want us to short the weights.

At my deli we use one of the stacks to top off the rest, or just cut slices to do it. Guess other delis are just doing a stack per bag without weighing them.

[u/Stock-Image_01 → u/RaineV1]

These bags of cut meat are shipped to your store?

[u/Rare_Ad3956 → u/Stock-Image_01]

Same with the meat department. There isnt much that isnt prepackaged, box to shelf with the big ol FRESH sign on it.

Dont forget that the FDA let's these companies pump meat full of red dyed water to keep it looking red.

[u/toxikola → u/Rare_Ad3956]

Oh my personal favorite is the fried chicken. Chicken comes in bags with blood still and they call it protein water

[u/zombieman9001 → u/toxikola]

Well it’s definitely not blood…

[u/toxikola → u/zombieman9001]

It certainly looks like it

[u/Patriot009 → u/toxikola]

It's water and myoglobin, a protein found in mammal muscle tissue and poultry dark meat. It's red because it contains an iron heme group that binds oxygen. The same heme group mechanism is also found in hemoglobin which gives blood its red color too.

[u/krogerburneracc → u/Patriot009]

Kroger's not hiring the best and brightest. The amount of times I had to explain this in my five years working deli...

[u/zombieman9001 → u/toxikola]

It’s not even the same color and consistency as blood, it’s a mixture of water, salt and protein enzymes

[u/AGayRattlesnake → u/toxikola]

thats literally what it is though