If you don't cheat, you won't sell. This saying is familiar to store owners and employees. How do they try to deceive us in stores and supermarkets? A few useful tips will save your wallet and even your health from unwanted purchases.
Just want to warn you that not every store deceives its customers. I would like to believe that there are such stores that are ready to work honestly and within the law. Also, not every point of this article will apply to the supermarket where you make purchases.
Read the inscriptions on the packages
The first rule of supermarkets is to carefully read the inscriptions on the packaging. If a sticker is pasted on the package, which is completely sealed with another one, most likely, they want to deceive you. Of course, the option that the price of the product has changed is not excluded, but perhaps the store employees artificially increased the shelf life of the product.
Very often on the shelves there are already expired goods. This is especially true of semi-finished products and milk. I would not advise buying meat and dairy products, which have a long shelf life. It is possible to preserve the properties of such a product only if all conditions are met: you need a certain room and a certain storage temperature. And where are the guarantees that supermarket employees adhere to these rules?
Don't buy cooking
Many supermarkets have a cooking department. Usually there is a kitchen that prepares various cuts, salads and dishes. I think it's no secret that such blanks are very often used products that are about to deteriorate or, even worse, whose shelf life has already expired.
Also a big question is how these products are prepared. Whether clean knives are used, whether tables and cutting boards are regularly washed and wiped. Missing foods can be the source of many different diseases. Staphylococci, streptococci, gonococci, E. coli. If you do not want to get acquainted with these cute creatures, then you should avoid visiting the culinary department in the supermarket.
Don't be fooled by stocks
Supermarkets love to lure their customers with promotions. They are even willing to spend certain amounts of money on advertising booklets that end up in your inboxes or directly in your hands. Cucumbers are 20% cheaper, three kilograms of potatoes for the price of two, sausage is two times cheaper. All this undoubtedly attracts our attention, and we go to this supermarket to save money.
Once again, we carefully read the information on the packages, check the shelf life, dates of manufacture and appearance of the products. If only a factory sticker is pasted on the product, you can relax a little. Violations by factories are much less common than by owners and employees of supermarkets.
Don't buy slicing
I do not advise you to buy slices of sausages and cheeses in supermarkets. There, as in cooking, also very often get expired products. In the cutting of cheese at one price, 50-100 grams of cheese at another price can "accidentally" get in. And you will notice this only at home, when you open the package and get to the middle of the cutting.
Pay attention to the appearance of goods
Take a good look at the goods. If the chicken has frozen smudges, chances are it was thawed and then frozen again. This procedure does not bring anything useful.
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