...bowls of mixed cut fresh fruit have been on sale since the day after Easter. Something everyone who works in the produce department dreads. It takes two people doing prep. work all day long, at minimum. And sometimes that is not enough man power. I was told that the store manager, and assistant store manager were back in the prep. area cutting fruit as fast as they could chop recently. So that would have been four people working constantly to try to get ahead of the volume of sales when the mixed fruit is advertised in the sale circular.
Most items that are adv. are on sale from Wed. morning until Tuesday night. But for some obscure reason this particular item has been in the paper for nearly two weeks. There were two people cutting, getting the cantaloupe, honeydew melon, watermelon, pineapple, strawberries and grapes ready to assemble into bowls when I got to work this morning. I pretty much spent the day putting the completed product on the scale to weigh, printing labels and applying to the bowls. Then cleaning up after everyone got finished, with the floor so sticky it was hard to get across the tiles.
After cutting up an entire bin of watermelons, plus dozens of pineapple (the stickiest thing ever) the floor had so much juice on it, it was absolutely gummy. Pulling at your shoes with every step. Reminding me of having little people in the house, when they would spill apple juice on the kitchen floor ,(sippy cups - arrgghhh!) and it would be so sticky, if you walked across it in your sock feet, the socks would pull off your feet.
I am going to bed, as I have to get up and go back on Monday at 6 a.m.
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