This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
This reminds me of a deep childhood memory of grocery shopping. The milk bags would be rolled out to the front of the fridge like this in milk crates, on slightly angled roller shelves. Once the milk bags were all taken out, the crate would sit empty until an employee, or an excited child in this case, would grab them and roll them down the return roller slide. But yeah you could see through into the stock area.
Isn't that just the "stock" storage room? Where are you from that that's not the normal for grocery store? Like they have all the products back there and they push them out from that side.
Yeah this is mildly interesting because the lights are on. You load from the rear so old stuff is up front. It's also a refrigerator in the back, so if you were to load from the front, you'd be leaving the door open and letting cold air out.
Seeing as no one actually answered you. This is in Sweden and it is indeed not common to see.
what? this is everywhere in sweden
To be fair, it's not like I'm going to every store I pass, at least in the Coop, ICA and Hemkop's I've been frequenting in Sthlm, I've never seen anything like that.
Yep. Standard dairy cold storage. At least in the US.
I'm from the US and most grocery stores I've been to have so much stuff piled on the shelves you can't really see inside. I was maybe 20 or so the first time I saw a person walking around back there and was quite surprised.
Just wait till you go to a Costco or Sam's and see them driving a forklift in there. 😀
Sometimes workers don't even see back there very often. I remember hearing about a stocker getting stuck and dying behind some shelves. (There's a chance this is just an urban legend. I've never checked if it's real.)
There's doors to behind the shelves, they don't just go back there when it's empty and stock themselves in.
Where I'm from, the shelves are just tightly (efficiently) packed, and so you're not seeing much back there. The lights are also presumably on timers, or at least a switch and you don't leave it on if you're not in there working. So it's generally just a dark room behind it .
I've never seen anything like that in Europe.
This arrangement feels like the default in Denmark.
same in sweden, it's not easy to see in there but if a worker is in there in a brightly colored jacket you'll see them moving about
The highway gas pump store in Aarschot, Belgium, used to have this. Easy FIFO. You just add stuff from the back and push what's already inside to the front.
A bar that I worked in uses to have a similar system but not with glass doors.
Might be why it’s in “mildly interesting.”
I have always found this mildly interesting!
Go ahead and downvote, I’m not the idiot here
Nobody's an idiot here. This is just one of those 1/10,000 moments or whatever where somebody learns something new for the first time.
It should always be celebrated, not ridiculed!
Lies I can't see the cow back there
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I've seen lots of stores with extra cold storage as shown here. I don't typically see the lights on for the whole room unless someone is working back there, though. I will say that stores with deli sections typically have their own cold room/walk-in-fridge for open containers and the like.
When I worked at a grocery store the dairy stock room always had a weird tangy smell. Inevitably product would get spilled, and then cleaned up, but never seemed to be truly clean.
Has working at a grocery store changed your shopping habits at all?
Not really. I didn't see anything unhygienic in terms of the food people were taking home with them.