Rant: Extreme Egg Checkers

[GaryS]

My mother taught me to check the eggs before putting the carton in the box. I sometimes have to go through two or three boxes before I find a complete carton.

You're lucky.

All those annoying people are why I try to use self check whenever possible.

If the carton isn't stuck to the one above or below it, I grab & go. It drives my wife crazy when I do that (which may be why I do it, LOL). Maybe 1 time a year I'll get home and find a cracked egg. Typically wait for a sale and buy about 8-10 dozen at a time. Last week it was $.49 per dz. so I got a gross, not one bad egg in the bunch.

 

[Engineer1911]

Women who are the only person in the store. They park their cart sideways so the aisle is blocked, then proceed to graze in the canned vegetable aisle looking for the freshest veggies. This one babe blocked my path 3 times in less than 5 minutes and smile so sweetly each time.

Finally got done shopping, through the checkout, and babe is 2 checkouts closer to the door. She parks her cart crossways in the exit lane to carefully arrange her bags in the cart. Simple solution, "Excuse me, ma'am" with a big smile, shove her cart out of the way with mine, give her another big smile and walk to the door unimpeded by this idiot. Oh the disrespect! ! !

 

[Old TexMex]

There could be a dead weasel in my egg carton and I wouldn't know it until I get home.

I've seen people check eggs, but cherry picking the biggest eggs from different cartons to make a supercarton is a new one on me. I think fingering up eggs that other people will probably buy is gross.

I had a brother-in-law who would vigorously rub all the loose skin off of onions before buying them because he paid by the pound. Once I gave him a dollar and said now you never have to do that for the rest of your life. He pocketed the dollar and kept on rubbing.

Weasels gotta eat too!

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[Gaffer]

Being brought up on a farm it never occurred to me to check the eggs but my wife does. People are self absorbed to the point of idiots y and the oldere they get the worse it is. I know as I approach 87.

 

[vytoland]

you wanna save the planet??.....eliminate humans.....

 

[joeintexas]

Ode to the incredible edible egg, if it ain't broke in the carton.

 

[wood714]

I hate grocery stores. When I go I'm on a mission, in and out as fast as possible. I could walk past a best friend and not notice them...tunnel vision helps in speedy shopping.

I did great till the idiots moved everything around in the store. Now I'm on a mission to find where they moved the stuff I want to.

 

[phonejack]

I have always given each egg a slight push to see if it is cracked and leaking (stuck). Just the frugal nature of me I guess

 

[mtgianni]

$1.78 for a dozen large eggs locally. Fresh from ranch kids are $3.

 

[GaryS]

Those idiots move stuff around on purpose as part of their marketing strategy. They don't want people like you going in and out in a hurry. They want you wandering around and seeing those high profit impulse items on the end caps.

It works or they wouldn't do it.

I hate grocery stores. When I go I'm on a mission, in and out as fast as possible. I could walk past a best friend and not notice them...tunnel vision helps in speedy shopping.

I did great till the idiots moved everything around in the store. Now I'm on a mission to find where they moved the stuff I want to.

 

[swsig]

I hate grocery stores. When I go I'm on a mission, in and out as fast as possible. I could walk past a best friend and not notice them...tunnel vision helps in speedy shopping.

I did great till the idiots moved everything around in the store. Now I'm on a mission to find where they moved the stuff I want to.

I'm convinced that stores move everything around deliberately to slow down tunnel-visioned speed shoppers like you (and me). By keeping us in the store longer, they increase the chances that we'll do more impulse buying of things we didn't originally intend to purchase. Those impulse buys really can add to a store's bottom line.

Edit: GaryS (above) posted the same thought almost simultaneously. We must be right!

 

[loknload]

swsig,,,,

I'm convinced that stores move everything around deliberately to slow down tunnel-visioned speed shoppers like you (and me). By keeping us in the store longer, they increase the chances that we'll do more impulse buying of things we didn't originally intend to purchase. Those impulse buys really can add to a store's bottom line.
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Yes they do! I had a store manager tell me that once! It's called Merchandising!

 

[ColbyBruce]

Ya ever wonder how one egg in the carton gets broken?

I'll check that the coast is clear, while breaking one egg in as many cartons as possible without getting caught. Whistling, I'll push the buggy to the bread isle and mash as many of the loaves I can. Then it's off to the milk cooler to break the seals on the jugs.... ever get to checkout and find your milk is leaking??? Uh huh....

Someone has to maintain the earths equilibrium..... you're welcome.. No Charge

You must live in Madison, and frequent the grocery store my sister shops at.

 

[gman51]

misswired you have the perfect screen name.

 

[Rastoff]

Buy some chickens. Unlimited eggs and you don't have to deal with these EECs.

 

[GaryS]

That's why dairy products are waaaaaayyyy in the back. If you "run in" just to get some milk and eggs, you have to go through the candy and pastry aisles.

When you've been married to a woman who has a degree in merchandising, you know those things.

I'm convinced that stores move everything around deliberately to slow down tunnel-visioned speed shoppers like you (and me). By keeping us in the store longer, they increase the chances that we'll do more impulse buying of things we didn't originally intend to purchase. Those impulse buys really can add to a store's bottom line.

Edit: GaryS (above) posted the same thought almost simultaneously. We must be right!

 

[GaryS]

swsig,,,,

Yes they do! I had a store manager tell me that once! It's called Merchandising!

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[oneounceload]

Eggs for 63 cents a dozen? Sheesh how old is this thread?
I have never seen an EEC. Reminds me of Sheldon saying he had to go back to the store because one egg in a carton wasn't a jumbo egg. HMM Have you ever seen an EEC picking his nose or rubbing his backside then fingering all the eggs? Yeah I think I will pass on buying eggs after seeing that.
Once an egg is refrigerated it has to be kept cool from then on. Personally I like my egg shells washed rather than have chicken poop all over them. I try and buy my eggs from a local back yard producer anyway. Yes they do wash the shells. One didn't and I didn't go back there again either even though she explained to me once an egg is washed it has to be kept cool.
The people that get me are the people in groups that just barely get into the store and they have a group chat party right there blocking other customers from getting into the store. Or they do it in an isle so you can't get by them. Unreal how inconsiderate some people are.

$.63/dozen was yesterday........for jumbo.

 

[Ματθιας]

At the grocery store, when I'd find broken a egg(s) I'd put the carton down a pick another one

Then one day a couple of ladies were stocking and I asked what they did with the broken eggs and was told they use them in their bakery. As I was inspecting the eggs I found a cracked one and asked if she wanted the carton. She said "just trade them out with an unbroken one. That's what we do." I've been doing that ever since.

BTW, I'm THAT guy with the checkbook at the register holding everybody up.

Eggs at the local Walmart are $1.34 for 18 Ex Large.

 

[jscheck]

Aha!

Ya ever wonder how one egg in the carton gets broken?

I'll check that the coast is clear, while breaking one egg in as many cartons as possible without getting caught. Whistling, I'll push the buggy to the bread isle and mash as many of the loaves I can. Then it's off to the milk cooler to break the seals on the jugs.... ever get to checkout and find your milk is leaking??? Uh huh....

Someone has to maintain the earths equilibrium..... you're welcome.. No Charge

At last we know! ROFL!