Oh Yuk....blowflies On Fish Display In Asda

[Mosaic]

Just had words in my local big branch of Asda about the blowflies walking and doing blowfly stuff on the chilled display of fish........ 'it's just nature' said the manager.......unbelievable.

[hc4361]

Did you take a photo?
Complain on twitter using @Asda You'll get a quick response

[Mosaic]

Oh I got a right barracking for taking a photo - along with staff shooing flies away!

[hc4361]

I haven't seen a blowfly for years, filthy things.
Definitely complain to head office and on Twitter

[Mosaic]

I couldn't beleieve the staff reaction - I had to get all vocal before they even took two pieces off fish off display.
One actually said 'there's flies all over meat in Africa'......

WAAAGH!

[diddlydo]

I would never buy fish from Asda - a branch I used to frequent on behalf of my aged mother signalled the whereabouts of the (smelly) fish counter as soon as you walked through the door. Similarly, I would never buy unwrapped bread/rolls in Tesco after I saw an assistant letting a child customer take them off the baking tray and place them in the racks for sale. She thought I was being very fussy when I reminded her of where children put their fingers......

[Mosaic]

It's all pointing in a 'don't shop at Asda' kind of direction!
Leastwise, not in that branch.
eeew.

[Retrochic]

Tesco's display is the worst I've seen -like a semi circle unmanned counter when people can prod and poke the fish and sneeze all over it -disgusting!

[Old_Geezer]

They do seem unfit to do the job they are tasked with.

Did the one with the foolish response look as if they came from Africa and thus used to it ?

Reading this thread suggests one can not trust any "fresh" food product anywhere :-(

Let's hope you find something useful to do with the photo Mo.

[B00]

How do they get rid of 'em though?

I had a customer tell me we had a wasp hanging around our danish pastry section (y'know, looking hard and menacing grannies) this morning and I just thanked her for telling me and pretty much ignored it- what on earth was I supposed to do about it?

[Mamyalynne]

A large number of blowflies on a fresh display should have alerted the manager to clear and close that counter,obviously something had been allowed to fester.


The odd wasp in a cake shop is something I recall often as a child and needs dealing with as it is seen,not I hasten to add with sprays.

[Old_Geezer]

You keep things like fish under glass where the flies can't get in, and use electronic (and other) killers to ensure they get nowhere near.

Counters of olives and suchlike should be under glass too. Don't need folk sneezing on them or, as I have been told of, kids doing things to them because their inadequate parents are not keeping them under control.

Bread is more difficult but the baker could ensure they and only they put them in bags or something similar before being put on the shelves for the customers to get to them.

[EDDIE51]

Which branch was this so we can avoid it?

[gina32]

I worked in a big store bakery for years, I wouldn't know where to start telling the things that happened there

[237SJ]

Every outdoor fishmonger`s stall has flies all over it. I still buy the fish though because it`s better than the stuff in the supermarket. I suppose the issue is that the flies shouldn`t be in the supermarket in the first place

[B00]

I agree SJ, you'd think they know before they flew in that they weren't welcome wouldn't you?

[Prudie]

Shopper to a baker "Do you sell wasps?"
Baker "No, of course not"
Shopper "that's odd because you've got loads in the window"

[Mosaic]

Eddie - the branch was Grimshaw Park, Blackburn
Maybe a mis-spelling of grime-shaw.....
But worth avoiding unless a fews days off work / early death are your heart's desire.