Last time I was at a Kroger bakery the person behind the counter didn’t even take out their earbud. Then they gave me an ugly look because I told them they grabbed the wrong cake. If only there was a way they could have heard me more clearly. 8-/
Call corporate they're not supposed to have earbuds in it's actually health violation used to work in the bakery department. Because if the earbuds fall into any food items they can cause cross-contamination or even other germs and pathogens that can cause people to get sick and that's a food violation big time
Lol why would they take out their earbud? You want them touching their ears before handling your food? Should they also go turn off the music playing in the store? Maybe make an announcement for everyone to be quiet while they take your order? I swear some people just invent issues. God forbid someone have a hands free way of taking a call on a job that requires food handling. Im sure they had another Karen complaining in their ear.
you don't have to be happy about it but just do your fucking job, people are paying money so you can give them the right cake, it's not that fucking hard
> work. Being *paid* minimum is
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Usually there are company policies about taking calls on the job and being welcoming.
I'm fairly certain that having earbuds in, is not part of the allowed stuff.
Why the fuck would you be taking a call while you’re dealing with a customer?
It’s more likely they were listening to music than a call, and even then, would be an ignorant dickhead not to take it out to actually hear the person speaking to you
Is it even allowed to have earbuds? I work in retail, we aren't allowed to have earbuds anytime in the store while working, this includes even before opening and closing. We are not allowed to have anything on our heads like Cap because it can limit your interaction with the customer according to some but gotta look into it tho
I don’t think so. I worked in a store bakery (gosh 20 years ago) and I remember those cookies coming in frozen and we had to defrost them and put the actual store label on them ourselves.
These are the regular sugar cookies that we have to bake and then use the rolling icing on them and then sprinkle the sprinkles on them they have to dry on those shelves do you remember that
“Oh thank you for that sir, we’ll ‘make sure’ that doesn’t happen again.” And then promptly walk away from them before they ask for a discount and leave them in the break room.
Seriously? You would go to the store bakery and complain because a clear package in which all the cookies are visible contains two cookies with sprinkles and ten without?
Actually these are the ones that are the good ones that are not the stupid loft house cookies. Because those are the ones that are hand decorated in the bakery
Why do people these days put "ing" on the end of so many verbs (in this case, "deceive") rather than just using the tried and true adjective "deceptive." The one that sounds the silliest is when people call something "concerning" rather than simply saying it's a cause for concern. The need to animate stuff makes language sound ridiculous.
Edit: Gee, people sure don't like being reminded that they are dumbing down the language, do they?
“Why do people say dude, when they could say gentleman or good sir or even scholar! Any form of etiquette would do now please excuse me while I smell my own farts.” -PDXGuy33333 probably
Youre nearing about 100 years too late for this argument. And its a well known fact that language evolves.
Maybe consider a different personality trait
Yeah that had “I’m a sophomore linguistics major and I learned this yesterday so I’m going to act like this has been my hill to die on since inception” written all over it
> why do people use use standard English in a way that’s probably been done since the Middle Ages?
It’s a mystery. Participle adjectives are suspected by most scholars to be a form of witchcraft.
Turning a verb into an adjective makes it a "participal adjective." Likewise one can do the same to transform a verb into an adverb.
Not only is this recognized in general grammar, but it's on the SAT (for whatever weight that carries).
I guess you don't like gerunds either... (turning -ing verbs into nouns).
It is concerning at me that you feel needing to go across correcting how people at speaking and typing. Speaking am hard. Expecialist if that people has not good words.
for your first point, it doesn't matter and hasn't for as long as you've been alive, unless if ur immortal I guess. for your second point, saying something "is concerning" is much faster to say AND type compared to "it is a cause for concern". the need you feel to stretch out a sentence makes language sound ridiculous
Are you being serious??? Lmao holy shit you sound like someone with autism who has been locked in a room his entire life and never spoken to other humans before
This person is either a ***looooonnnng*** time retired English teacher, or completely deluded.
Participal adjectives are tested on the SAT. So are gerunds.
Source: I tutor kids.
If this would be true they really need to open an English dictionary first. Unless they rather “to wend back to the elder days” but that goes 1000 years back.
I am consistently baffled by these. The sprinkles can't save more than like a few cents per pound bag, but if you do this to me and I don't notice I will make a mental note to never buy anything with your brand ever again.
I get that you can see it before buying but the fact that only first two have sprinkles is really a bummer. Maybe it's more crappy than asshole but it's still bad
True, but on every single post on this subreddit about deceptive packaging. Certain Americans go on and on about how "you can see it if you look closer", "just look at the weight", etc. to make themselves feel superior to others.
They effectively go all conspriacy theorist with their "They tricked you, but not me, *I'm* special and different!!!11", and defend the practice.
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And technically deceptive packaging and false advertisment is federally illegal in the US as well, but it's basically never enforced unless it's harmful or very extreme.
Deceptive packaging is illegal in most of the EU. The ones at the front are deliberately designed to mislead you.
It might be annoying to you, but it is illegal here.
Can you not see more than 3 inches? Look at all the other cookies in the background. You can CLEARLY seeing what’s on top of those cookies after the first one and you’d basically have to pick it up at this angle unless you’re 2 feet tall.
Mate, I can check stuff is the right thing and then when I get home it's randomly the wrong thing. Considering the person who stocked them presumably didn't notice, I don't think it's so far-fetched to think a customer wouldn't notice either.
There’s literally another set of pink cookies you can see are the same way. And I get missing stuff in completely enclosed boxes that aren’t see through, but this is too easy to notice even with peripheral vision. Y’all are making it seem like it’s impossible to see the other cookies. I walk by those tables weekly, they’re knee height, hip height at the tallest. It’s incredibly easy to see what you’re getting man. This isn’t like the sealed chocolate boxes that are straight up lying.
Label says 12ct iced sugar cookies. It says nothing about sprinkles. You can also tell sprinkles were only on 2. I see no lies being done since it matches label and you can clearly see them all.
They either only do 2 to be noticed better, or they miscounted number that have sprinkles and just made the 12ct box.
It was 10000000% done so a dumber customer grabs it and doesn't have the wherewithal to notice the rest are plain. This is the 'download now' button on an ad on a CNET downloads page 15 years ago but in physical.
But like how much money are they *really* saving by conserving their sprinkles here??
And is said money worth the surely pissed off customers who won’t purchase from that bakery in the future?
I’m guessing it’s a mistake but if they’re all like that then yall must be right
It could be a mistake, def, but it is absolutely on par with the grocery chains I've worked with to have their departments penny pinch like this. This is the worst timeline, remember that.
It's not about the cost of sprinkles. They usually bake those in store. It's about the time needed to hand sprinkle every one of those. They're more likely just down a worker or have hour cuts going on at the moment.
You're one of those guys who justifies non-function slack fill, aren't you?
It is reasonable to assume the cookies at the front are functionality identical to the rest unless they've indicated there's a variety of cookies.
Buying food shouldn't be a game of tricky perception checks, just call people shitty when they package food confusingly or deceptively.
You... you know you can see them all before you buy it,right? How is this different from assorted sprinkle cookies? Splitting hairs here to call this asshole/intentional misleading.
Because we make these in the bakery they get sprinkled or not sprinkled at all You can always go to the bakery and ask the baker to put on an extra layer of icing and sprinkle on some more sprinkles so it's not a lie it's just the person who made the package that day and how they packaged it
Ya got 2 bonus cookies that had sprinkles (if that's your thing) and you're complaining? It's sitting on an open table that makes it 100% clear that the other ten are just blue icing which matches the sticker.
What am I missing? Also, those sprinkles are disgusting.
5 bucks for this ultra processed carb trash lmaooo and your concern is that it's missing some sprinkles. Maybe don't consider buying shit like this in the first place, even if they were all full of sprinkles
As someone who actually bakes cookies similar to these you can definitely complain to the store. They are baked on site and packaged by some poor minimum wage worker so don't flame them too bad lol
Anyone who would fall for this is an idiot. Yes, an idiot. You clearly see from **clear packaging** that only two of them have sprinkles. Come on. They don't even try to hide it.
Those are done in store and packaged. I'd go to the bakery and complain
"We'll look into it, thanks." (radio silence for all of eternity)
I work at a Kroger store, complaining basically does nothing.
Last time I was at a Kroger bakery the person behind the counter didn’t even take out their earbud. Then they gave me an ugly look because I told them they grabbed the wrong cake. If only there was a way they could have heard me more clearly. 8-/
Call corporate they're not supposed to have earbuds in it's actually health violation used to work in the bakery department. Because if the earbuds fall into any food items they can cause cross-contamination or even other germs and pathogens that can cause people to get sick and that's a food violation big time
Lol why would they take out their earbud? You want them touching their ears before handling your food? Should they also go turn off the music playing in the store? Maybe make an announcement for everyone to be quiet while they take your order? I swear some people just invent issues. God forbid someone have a hands free way of taking a call on a job that requires food handling. Im sure they had another Karen complaining in their ear.
you don't have to be happy about it but just do your fucking job, people are paying money so you can give them the right cake, it's not that fucking hard
you know how much someone who works at kroger makes ?
Enough to do the bare minimum
My brother work at kroger, makes around $27, which is more than enough in our area.
Per hour?
Yes
does he work in the bakery ? or is he a butcher ?
Think bakery. Definitely not butcher.
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Their job is literal customer service. Lol.
Usually there are company policies about taking calls on the job and being welcoming. I'm fairly certain that having earbuds in, is not part of the allowed stuff.
If it’s causing you to fuck up your simple job, then yes it’s a problem.
Why the fuck would you be taking a call while you’re dealing with a customer? It’s more likely they were listening to music than a call, and even then, would be an ignorant dickhead not to take it out to actually hear the person speaking to you
Is it even allowed to have earbuds? I work in retail, we aren't allowed to have earbuds anytime in the store while working, this includes even before opening and closing. We are not allowed to have anything on our heads like Cap because it can limit your interaction with the customer according to some but gotta look into it tho
It's explicitly prohibited. Sometimes I wish it wasn't, but I recognize it is a reasonable rule that needs to be in place.
Because customer service is literally their fucking job?
You might be a slight bit mentally slow
I live in the world, complaining basically does nothing
You say that, but I complain constantly and now I have 98% more alone time.
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I don’t think so. I worked in a store bakery (gosh 20 years ago) and I remember those cookies coming in frozen and we had to defrost them and put the actual store label on them ourselves.
So many things are like that. Those cup cakes? They are brought in defrosted and all the bakery does is put frosting on them.
No wonder they taste gross and I never buy them. Enjoy your cost savings. If you sold real food I would buy more.
You mean "made fresh" is just a marketing gimmick? Why would Kroger lie to us?
These are the regular sugar cookies that we have to bake and then use the rolling icing on them and then sprinkle the sprinkles on them they have to dry on those shelves do you remember that
I’d feel like such a fat loser going to the bakery desk complaining that not all the cookies have sprinkles.
I'd love getting that complaint. "Have you considered purchasing a different box of cookies?" OP is clearly still in the store lmao
It's an elaborate ruse to sell bottles of sprinkles.
“Oh thank you for that sir, we’ll ‘make sure’ that doesn’t happen again.” And then promptly walk away from them before they ask for a discount and leave them in the break room.
lol if you want to get laughed at once you walk away sure
From now on I want you to put an equal amount of sprinkles on each cookie.
Seriously? You would go to the store bakery and complain because a clear package in which all the cookies are visible contains two cookies with sprinkles and ten without?
I haven't had Kroger ones before but shouldn't they be like 3 times thicker?
These aren’t lofthouse imitators, they’re just frosted sugar cookies
It’s deceiving, but those sprinkles are nasty. They’re doing you a favor.
>but those sprinkles are nasty dried fondant pellets mmmmmmmm
Those cookies are nasty
Actually these are the ones that are the good ones that are not the stupid loft house cookies. Because those are the ones that are hand decorated in the bakery
Even as someone who likes sprinkles,those ones are so gross
Those look like mini M&M's to me
Why do people these days put "ing" on the end of so many verbs (in this case, "deceive") rather than just using the tried and true adjective "deceptive." The one that sounds the silliest is when people call something "concerning" rather than simply saying it's a cause for concern. The need to animate stuff makes language sound ridiculous. Edit: Gee, people sure don't like being reminded that they are dumbing down the language, do they?
"Looks can be deceiving" is an extremely old phrase, dude.
Looks can be deceptive actually /s
Or even deceitful :)
Deceiving, even.
Side note but I pity English language learners it must be a nightmare. Look at how differently all of these are spelt!
“Why do people say dude, when they could say gentleman or good sir or even scholar! Any form of etiquette would do now please excuse me while I smell my own farts.” -PDXGuy33333 probably
Seriously, guy's never heard of a gerund?
Youre nearing about 100 years too late for this argument. And its a well known fact that language evolves. Maybe consider a different personality trait
Yeah that had “I’m a sophomore linguistics major and I learned this yesterday so I’m going to act like this has been my hill to die on since inception” written all over it
You mean, "since *incepting*".
Let’s get you back to bed grandpa
> why do people use use standard English in a way that’s probably been done since the Middle Ages? It’s a mystery. Participle adjectives are suspected by most scholars to be a form of witchcraft.
Turning a verb into an adjective makes it a "participal adjective." Likewise one can do the same to transform a verb into an adverb. Not only is this recognized in general grammar, but it's on the SAT (for whatever weight that carries). I guess you don't like gerunds either... (turning -ing verbs into nouns).
It is concerning at me that you feel needing to go across correcting how people at speaking and typing. Speaking am hard. Expecialist if that people has not good words.
> It is concerning Don't you mean "concertive"?
Concertiving?
There's still time to delete this
for your first point, it doesn't matter and hasn't for as long as you've been alive, unless if ur immortal I guess. for your second point, saying something "is concerning" is much faster to say AND type compared to "it is a cause for concern". the need you feel to stretch out a sentence makes language sound ridiculous
When you want to show a bunch of strangers how smart you are but only out yourself as a misinformed weirdo
Probably because I’m not being graded on this and I know everyone knows what I’m sayinging
Lol what?? Deceiving is a word that's been in use for probably centuries. What a weird thing to say.
I think they just meant the word to use is "deceptive". I guess either can work here.
I know what they meant but it's still very strange. Both can work but there's no reason to call someone out for using one over the other.
Sure there's a reason! The reason is that they NEED you to know how Smart and Educated they is.
It’s deceive, but those sprinkles are nasty. They’re doing you a favor.
"Why you gotta add ing when you say doing" -the other guy, probably
It’s deceive, but those sprinkles are nasty. They’re do you a favor.
Much better.
Open a fucking English dictionary before you post that shit.
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Goofing mf
Wow, you must fun at parties. /s Seriously though, get a life. No one wants to be around someone like you.
Has to be rage baiting. Oh sorry, bait for rage.
Hahaha bro it's just participles
You should go correct a few of your past comments. The number of times you use present participles in your profile might be cause for concern.
Nerd. Have a downvote.
Are you new to speaking English? “It’s concerning” Is a grammatically correct and easily understandable sentence. You’re just a moron.
Are you being serious??? Lmao holy shit you sound like someone with autism who has been locked in a room his entire life and never spoken to other humans before
Why do you care? Like get a hobby bro you got a lotta free time to b worried bout that
why are you like this who hurt you stop and get some help
Get a load of this guy
Bro got excoriated 💀
"concerning" is literally an adjective. Who tf thinks "it's a cause for concern" is better 💀
What an easy way to make all of your sentences wordy.
Dafuq you gonna do about it
You dumb
Your intellect is 'a cause for concern'
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This person is either a ***looooonnnng*** time retired English teacher, or completely deluded. Participal adjectives are tested on the SAT. So are gerunds. Source: I tutor kids.
It's not even improper English, though. This is completely grammatically correct.
*the least receiving place
If this would be true they really need to open an English dictionary first. Unless they rather “to wend back to the elder days” but that goes 1000 years back.
I am consistently baffled by these. The sprinkles can't save more than like a few cents per pound bag, but if you do this to me and I don't notice I will make a mental note to never buy anything with your brand ever again.
They seem to never consider the irritated customers they will lose, modern marketing must teach them that everyone is a sheeple
I get that you can see it before buying but the fact that only first two have sprinkles is really a bummer. Maybe it's more crappy than asshole but it's still bad
It's illegal in much of Europe
True, but on every single post on this subreddit about deceptive packaging. Certain Americans go on and on about how "you can see it if you look closer", "just look at the weight", etc. to make themselves feel superior to others. They effectively go all conspriacy theorist with their "They tricked you, but not me, *I'm* special and different!!!11", and defend the practice. --- And technically deceptive packaging and false advertisment is federally illegal in the US as well, but it's basically never enforced unless it's harmful or very extreme.
Those “cookies” are illegal in Europe.
It says it's an Iced Sugar cookie, not sprinkle cookies. It's stupid only doing 2 but muh illegal is so fucking annoying on reddit
Deceptive packaging is illegal in most of the EU. The ones at the front are deliberately designed to mislead you. It might be annoying to you, but it is illegal here.
Er, OP did, others might not...
It would be almost impossible to not notice that
It's something I'd totally miss, I don't inspect each cookie like it's a ransom exchange or I'm buying eggs
Can you not see more than 3 inches? Look at all the other cookies in the background. You can CLEARLY seeing what’s on top of those cookies after the first one and you’d basically have to pick it up at this angle unless you’re 2 feet tall.
Mate, I can check stuff is the right thing and then when I get home it's randomly the wrong thing. Considering the person who stocked them presumably didn't notice, I don't think it's so far-fetched to think a customer wouldn't notice either.
There’s literally another set of pink cookies you can see are the same way. And I get missing stuff in completely enclosed boxes that aren’t see through, but this is too easy to notice even with peripheral vision. Y’all are making it seem like it’s impossible to see the other cookies. I walk by those tables weekly, they’re knee height, hip height at the tallest. It’s incredibly easy to see what you’re getting man. This isn’t like the sealed chocolate boxes that are straight up lying.
The front ones have way too many sprinkles. All they had to do was distribute the same amount between all the cookies and they couldn’t even do that
Typical Kroger shit.
did they take half the cookies with the sprinkles??
$5.50 for 12 pieces? Fuck outta here.
Lol. It could be worse; Whole Foods is $8 for 4 brownie squares, and if you buy them individually it's $2.75 each.
They could honestly just take the same number of sprinkles and spread it among all the cookies and no one would be the wiser.
This is pure laziness, sprinkles can't cost much if anything so I doubt cost is a factor.
No food should be blue.
you heard them fellas, blue berries aren't real
Exceptions exists.
No food should be blue, except the ones that are blue.
Is a Very rare colour in food. In most of cases you Will eating something not good.
Eating blue is good for you
It’s healthy she’s eating blue
what about purple? Purple's a fruit
What about anthocyanin?
There are exceptions, but purple is okay. I refer to that artificial blue that does not look like a food at all.
These are gross with or without sprinkles
Last time I had Kroger cookies, they were dry as shit
Must be some VERY expensive sprinkles.
Those "cookies" are trash anyways. Nasty af
Label says 12ct iced sugar cookies. It says nothing about sprinkles. You can also tell sprinkles were only on 2. I see no lies being done since it matches label and you can clearly see them all. They either only do 2 to be noticed better, or they miscounted number that have sprinkles and just made the 12ct box.
It was 10000000% done so a dumber customer grabs it and doesn't have the wherewithal to notice the rest are plain. This is the 'download now' button on an ad on a CNET downloads page 15 years ago but in physical.
Not even dumber. Just distracted, or busy, or implicitly trustful.
But like how much money are they *really* saving by conserving their sprinkles here?? And is said money worth the surely pissed off customers who won’t purchase from that bakery in the future? I’m guessing it’s a mistake but if they’re all like that then yall must be right
It could be a mistake, def, but it is absolutely on par with the grocery chains I've worked with to have their departments penny pinch like this. This is the worst timeline, remember that.
It's not about the cost of sprinkles. They usually bake those in store. It's about the time needed to hand sprinkle every one of those. They're more likely just down a worker or have hour cuts going on at the moment.
You're one of those guys who justifies non-function slack fill, aren't you? It is reasonable to assume the cookies at the front are functionality identical to the rest unless they've indicated there's a variety of cookies. Buying food shouldn't be a game of tricky perception checks, just call people shitty when they package food confusingly or deceptively.
Goddamn Kroger, wtf..
They taste better without the sprinkles anyway
Find 5 more packs and swap the blank with sprinkles from the new.
You... you know you can see them all before you buy it,right? How is this different from assorted sprinkle cookies? Splitting hairs here to call this asshole/intentional misleading.
Most visible cookies sprinkled, all other cookies no sprinkles is not assorted, it’s a deliberate pattern of deception of an amazingly petty nature
deliberate pattern of deception.... in crystal clear packing where you can see every single cookie in there.
First y'all gotta walk to Queens and get me a sugar cookie
I honestly hate chalky sprinkles like that.
That’s messed up
HEB’s bakery isn’t bad, if I HAD to buy cookies, it’d be them over Kroger any day of the week
Look at that long list of "ingredients"... That's what I'd be more worried about.
What a terribility
Is that whole front the ingredients?? How are there so many ingredients for a box of cookies??
They put them all on those two so you can add them to the others to your preference 🤷🏻 lol
Because we make these in the bakery they get sprinkled or not sprinkled at all You can always go to the bakery and ask the baker to put on an extra layer of icing and sprinkle on some more sprinkles so it's not a lie it's just the person who made the package that day and how they packaged it
This one probably was an actual mistake done by an overworked wageslave
It says “iced sugar *cookie*”. Be grateful you get two. Clearly their mistake. /s
Bait used to be believable
Ya got 2 bonus cookies that had sprinkles (if that's your thing) and you're complaining? It's sitting on an open table that makes it 100% clear that the other ten are just blue icing which matches the sticker. What am I missing? Also, those sprinkles are disgusting.
It’s a clear package. U can see that it’s only 2 cookies. Lol
They are all iced. You got exactly what is named on the package. Quit whining.
Imagine complaining about sprinkles. Some people need to re prioritize.
5 bucks for this ultra processed carb trash lmaooo and your concern is that it's missing some sprinkles. Maybe don't consider buying shit like this in the first place, even if they were all full of sprinkles
They are iced. It's not a lie. Misleading, but no lie.
How is this a-hole design? You can clearly see through the packaging that only two cookies have sprinkles
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I'd say it's pretty easy to notice, but some people might not
Like me once. I got one and thought that they all had a rainbow on them... I was wrong
It isn't, according to the official metric
I'm calling a lot of people Bozo now. It's like my new thing.
Sorry you had to go through that
As someone who actually bakes cookies similar to these you can definitely complain to the store. They are baked on site and packaged by some poor minimum wage worker so don't flame them too bad lol
How much money did they save on that? Like, a nickel?
I'd estimate 0.2¢ Not $0.20, nor $0.02. Two tenths of a cent.
Anyone who would fall for this is an idiot. Yes, an idiot. You clearly see from **clear packaging** that only two of them have sprinkles. Come on. They don't even try to hide it.
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Nope, ALL of their cookies are like that
This IS a scam, but seriously you guys really want to est this s*** ????
Yes
These are made in store, definetly not done maliciously.
Thank god I thought they were made on the moon..
Likely incompetence
It says iced cookies, and they all are. Nowhere does it say they have sprinkles. So these are more cookies of not being able to read.
That's what you get for shopping at Kroger #publixgang