I saw this on a social media group i'm in, it reminds me of my boss
my boss never ceases to amaze me/he's been adding an extra styrofoam boats to get more weight to raise the price on products but today a customer caught it so I had to apologize to them and reweigh and repackage them. He so greedy 8 cents extra each pack-really
A lot of Safeway stores use double trays because they're so thin nowadays. A single tray will break in the wrapping machine a lot of the time. It's easy to adjust the tare, but I'm not sure if anyone is. Possibly the tare is already set for two trays. A lot of Safeway stores have the chosen tare printed on the price label. I would have weighed it alone with no package/no tare to hopefully prove that even though two trays were used, the weight was still correct.
The tare might be 2 for the tray but we always would have it set at 4 just to be safe. The trays don't always weight the exact same. I used to like to use two trays for bulkier items, because they would snap in half when the customer lifted them out of the case. There are less obvious ways to add weight if cheating customers out of a few pennies is the agenda. Maybe your managerneeds to be more creative.
p.s. Andrew, we can read your stores name on the label. That is a termination offense in a lot of store. You might want to black that part of the label out. I wouldn't want you to get in trouble.
-- Edited by fdarn on Friday 4th of September 2015 09:03:53 PM
Cheating on tares was verboten in the large chain I worked for and finished my career with, but it was the norm in the 2 independents I started my career with, and it could make a big difference in the department's profitability.
I noticed that too and almost said something. I guess if you cut it in 3, one of them is center. It's just a term I've never seen used for the rump.
Yea, rump is the only end cut they always want, the middle cut bottom does well, the heel almost never sells. We'd be better off to just make 2 roasts and use the heel for other things.
