Why don't they do free samples at grocery stores anymore?

Why don't they do free samples at grocery stores anymore?

  1. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    because they have to pay someone to give out samples and most minimum wage businesses have been operating with skeleton crews since covid

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >because they have to pay someone to give out samples and most minimum wage businesses have been operating with skeleton crews since covid

      The local Little Caesars shut down it's drive-thru, as they can't get enough workers to keep it manned.

  2. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    they have been doing at that the last 4 groceries stores i've visited.
    publix, kroger, whole foods, sprouts'
    which state?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Prove it.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >sprouts'
      I'm

      wut?
      They do. My local ShopRite did last time I was there. Don't know wtf it was cuz I don't really eat the sort of stuff that would be offered as a free sample but they definitely do. They had the lady with the electric griddle and the tongs and the cups and the toothpicks handing out free shit.
      And Safeway does, too, but in a different way. Every week, they toss free shit to customers through the app. You just grab a package, take it through checkout and off you fuck with your sample. Last week, it was tortilla chips and the week before, Barilla pasta al bronzo. Last month or so, it was that shitty new Coke flavour and so on. Once, it was vegan cheese. Tasted nice, but didn't melt.
      Is this something that they stopped doing in flyover states or something, like that thread about "where have all the live lobsters gone?!" thread a few months back?

      I forgot about Sprouts. Yeah, they still give out samples, too. I don't go there that often so I forgot.

  3. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    These days I mostly see an alcohol rep trying to pawn off whatever new flavor of bacardi or smirnoff they have on hand. Then you have to show your ID to get a half ounce pour if their shit.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I went to the perth royal show this year and was shocked to see in the shopping hall area lots of place just handing out booze samples, I'm sure if I weren't so obviously adult they would have asked for ID but I'm still surprised with how heavy our laws generally are about alcohol serving and selling they were allowed to be there at all.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        whats australia like? is it boomer central ?

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          I guess, we have a lot of the same sort of issues around our housing market as america with boomer investors

  4. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    did they ever give away samples of regular food?
    i saw one not long ago but it was blatantly being paid for by the company that produced whatever slop it was. so i guess not many companies are willing to pay for it now.

  5. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Costco still has product demonstrations. Stop being a poorfag and get a membership.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Nah. I went into a Costco once with a friend and it was full of jeets. I don't want to see ugly ass Indians when I'm trying to think of food.

  6. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Stop living in a third world country. My local super market has an old lady giving out samples on every other aisle, including wine samples.

  7. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    If you are going at 8am like you should be, of course they aren't.

  8. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    when i worked in a grocery store as a kid over 20 years ago, on weekends the wife of the meat market manager would come in and serve samples of smoked meats amongst other meat related things
    thanks for the memory op

  9. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    But they do ?

  10. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    me

  11. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >DURING THESE TRYING AND UNCERTAIN TIMES IN THE DARK WINTER OF THE NEW NORMAL....

  12. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    anon, do you really not know or are you just trying to bait people so you can report them for le heckin racism?

  13. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    That’s just Bidenomics buddy!

  14. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    They do, it's just during certain hours of the day. If you are going in the evenings, you can get fucked. They target females during the business hours of the day shopping for their families, usually around lunch time.

    Places like Walmart never did samples. Only bulk clubs and fancy groceries.

  15. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I walked past the meat counter and I hear, "Do you want to try some of our hickory smoked bacon?' I said, "Hell yeah" and was presented with a tray of cooked, thick cut smoked bacon. I asked the butcher if anyone ever says "No" to that question.
    I ended up buying 5 lbs of their bacon. It's fucking delicious.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Well your store just sounds fun honestly

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Did they give you three for free?

  16. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    minorities

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      i had to scroll this far down for the correct answer

  17. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    They realized that it's fucking stupid and that no one has ever actually decided to buy a product because of a free sample. People just take it, eat it, and walk away.

  18. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    They do it at my publix all the time. I never buy anything though. I just eat the free samples, fill my gallon jug up with lemonade from the deli fountain, and leave.

  19. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    wut?
    They do. My local ShopRite did last time I was there. Don't know wtf it was cuz I don't really eat the sort of stuff that would be offered as a free sample but they definitely do. They had the lady with the electric griddle and the tongs and the cups and the toothpicks handing out free shit.
    And Safeway does, too, but in a different way. Every week, they toss free shit to customers through the app. You just grab a package, take it through checkout and off you fuck with your sample. Last week, it was tortilla chips and the week before, Barilla pasta al bronzo. Last month or so, it was that shitty new Coke flavour and so on. Once, it was vegan cheese. Tasted nice, but didn't melt.
    Is this something that they stopped doing in flyover states or something, like that thread about "where have all the live lobsters gone?!" thread a few months back?

  20. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    most stores dont do it because of N-

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      N-'s just steal food and laundry detergent. They don't bother with free samples.

  21. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    You know fucking why. Everyone knows why.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Your really can't blame this on joggers or refried beans. It's much more likely the hospital bombers

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I know that you're utterly race-obsessed and have to bring it up at all opportunities, but it really doesn't work here. There's no possible way to actually justify your argument here. There is no possible way to make the claim "they stopped giving away free samples at stores because of black people" and back it up with proof that is logical and rational.

  22. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    you know why

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Is not the fucking same dickhead

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        it is anon,you may not like it but diversity means no more self serve places,you know its true

        there is a reason their areas KFCs have more bullet proof glass than a bank for a reason also

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          No moron is no the fucking same

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

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  23. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I get free shots of booze at the Ralph's grocery store on Friday evenings.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      So do I. I just chug the bottle when no one is looking then put it back.

  24. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >Places like Walmart never did samples. Only bulk clubs and fancy groceries.
    This, a Sam's Club always has some usually near their freezer aisles.

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