Bonus: Grocery Store Secrets That Might Ruin Your Next Shopping Trip 😳🛒

Ever wondered what really happens to your food before it hits your cart? In this eye-opening segment, grocery store workers reveal shocking behind-the-scenes secrets that most shoppers have no idea about. From unexpected food handling practices to things you should definitely be doing when you get home, some of these might change the way you shop forever. 👀

But how much is truth… and how much is just rumor? That’s part of the mystery.

If you’re into consumer tips, grocery shopping hacks, food safety advice, and viral “insider secrets,” this is a must-listen.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you ever wonder what happens to your food before
you buy it? It's the jewbile show. Most people probably
don't want to know. Grocery store workers are revealing the
dirty secrets that shoppers didn't know.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Braise yourselves.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, and we'll go over it right now. So you
can never shop in the grocery store over again.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Probably.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
But here are some of the responses from grocery store
workers on the dirty little secrets that their customers don't know. One,
as cashiers, we're not trained to stop shoplifters. We could
literally watch you carry something out of the store, and
we can't run after you or tell you to stop.
So go ahead and steal as much as you want.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I think it's a new thing a couple of years.
Why because there were some lawsuits and whatnot for people
being arrested or hurt during the erend.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't think the employees like there's a They don't
want them getting hurt if they chase after somebody. I
saw this dude's shoplift at a ross the other day,
and he just walked right past the security guard. Even
the security gar I can't really do anything. It's just like, hey, man,
literally at them, stop, stop, and then you got on
the phone with the real cops.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Right, so the cops.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Will be here in thirty minutes, So anybody can steal
it any time these cops aren't present.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That's that a lot of that has to do with
if you see these bashing dash jewelry robberies a lot
that have been happening virally over the last couple of years,
it's because they literally have policies.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Where they just can go take it and not be chased.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah, well, I will say that's an information cashier at
one point. I was never trained on any of this,
but honestly, someone was gonna steal something right in front
of me. I'm not chasing after It's not my merchandise.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
But so it's like, got some heroes out there, though,
heroes out there, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Grocery store workers are sharing their dirty secrets that customers
don't know. Here's one for you. A good portion of
whitefish filets, maybe forty, come to us with at least
one worm curled up. We do our best to notice
them and remove them, but some do. Go on, why
do you notice when that is the last time I

(02:04):
eat tilapia from the grocery store.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Why much less of never mind, some fast food spots
have some you guys do food as well.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm gonna get sick.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
What are other things that grocery store workers are saying?
Are the dirty secrets that customers don't know? The individual
slices of cake in the bakery are often from a
cake that's already expired.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh no, my mom eats thays a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
She gets Oh that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Wait.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
I thought they would have said, like a cake that
she's like half eaten.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
But that's.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Not as bad as she already expired. So like, let's
just cut it up before it gets into a whole
new life if it.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Gets ten extra months.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Well, sometimes the bakeries will actually sell the expired goods
at a cheaper price. And I have a friend that
will go and he'll just eat that.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
But isn't it expire? Yeah, he doesn't care.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
It's like a little bit stale, but it's still a
treat because it's a better price.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
There's a trend going viral of grocery store workers sharing
the dirty secrets that customers don't want to know about
what happens in the grocery store. Somebody said the store
is disgusting. Clean everything when you get home.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh yeah, I've heard that.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
People played to clean after closing, don't care and are
trying to go home as quick as possible, probably even
clean your body.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Just take a shower. It sounds like you get home
from the grocer.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
It sounds like a terrible, disgusting place.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
It looks making me feel like.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
You pick up in jar pickles and real this is
the wrong one.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
You put it back.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
They think of how many hands on it?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, well I don't want.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
To think about that.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Have a medical isle, what the medical isle where they
had the medicines and everything.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh that's true too.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
But they're all touching it and they're sick.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah. Another grocery store worker said, your green leaf lettuce
was full of spiders and various other insects before we
clean them. We try to get all of them, but
make sure you clean it when you get home. That
is the truth. I worked in a restaurant and the
green leafy lettuce always had all kinds of things on it.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Really, Yeah, something I expect that I pick up.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I pick for it.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'm sorry, what why?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Because I don't want to eat it? So I'd rather
make sure that it's not in there, like especially with
romaine lettuce, Like if it's inside of like the little
you know, divot, they can like hide and there's sometimes
there's dead bugs in there.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I've never done it them. I've never done it.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
But have any and you don't have to blast the restaurant,
But have any of you guys ever found something in
your food hair?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, but like living or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Okay, But I was always told if there's bugs in
your like vegetables are like fruit, it's not a bad thing.
That means there was no pesticides on it.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
That they're fresh and you get a little protein, right.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah. Another grocery store worker said most grocery stores have
really bad roadent problems, FYI.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Especially if you're in New York.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I feel like you.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Kind of hear that, but I just don't want to
think about it.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
I just never think about it, and I feel pretty
great ignorance.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
But listen, until right now, living in New York, that
was the thing, Like I would go through in the
bodegas they all have cats, and I thought it was
so cute, Oh look at the kiddy. Yeah, And then
like about two weeks in, I was like, why are
these cats. Oh, these cats are here for control. Yeah,
and rats here that the cats are here to keep
them away everywhere.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
There was this tip food place that I used to
get food from, and it was right next to a
comedy club that I used to work at all the time,
so I'd always get food late night there. And then
one night they were closed. It was like two in
the morning, and I was standing out there talking to
some other people and we looked in the window and
there was a huge rat right.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
On the top of the store.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I was like, oh, I'm never eating there again. Another
grocery store worker said, if you give the cashier anything
to put back that's frozen, it's one hundred percent going
in the trash. I guess they just throw it out automatically.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
They don't want to go take it all the way back.
Really well, yeah, either they go take it all the
way back or we'll probably forget about it the time
your ship's done.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
You're wasteful.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, and I'm thinking, if it's frozen, that can be saved.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Like, I agree with you, guys, I didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I'm you know what I mean, forget.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Or it just kind of there's a trend of grocery
store workers sharing the dirty little secrets that they don't
want their customers to know. Somebody else said, everything in
our bakery comes in frozen. Even the few things we
do actually bake in store comes in as frozen dough first,
so that basically the baker at your grocery store is
not actually a baker. They just warm stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, cool, disgusted, eat microwave pancakes. I can't be you,
you can't be upset. Yeah, I do love.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Another grocery store worker said, you need, you really need
to clean the lids of your cans before you open them.
For the love of God, please clean the lids of
your cans before you look them.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
What are you doing on the

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Lids of ca I don't know, but the way they
said that, for the love of God, please clean them,
I'm definitely gonna make sure that I did after now
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