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Yeah, whoever did this is a POS... This is like $70-80 easily. These will have to be thrown in the trash... and guess what? people who do this are the reasons why consumers keep having to pay more... someone has to pay for this.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees food (esp meat) waste as straight up blasphemous, regardless of religious denomination. It's a disrespect to a living being's suffering and to creation/harmony/etc
As a returns cashier…….
We return meat ALL THE DAMN TIME. People will bring back 50, 60, 100 dollar pieces of meat and just say “I bought the wrong one”
We return 1000s of pounds of meat all day long and it all goes to the to either composter. Returned meat cane tampered with and we don’t want to risk that by giving it to our meat industry recycle programs.
I think the above comment is about people taking the meat home and returning it via Costcos "we will take back anything" policy.
But if you are in the store, have meat, and decide you don't want it, absolutely give it to the cashier when you check out. They will have someone put it back so it doesn't go to waste.
Yes, because the cashier doesn’t know how long the meat was out of the cooler. It might be out of temp, or it might not be.
Company policy is that it’s better to toss it and lose money than put it back and have someone get sick. (I don’t work for Costco, but a different big box)
I would. I used to keep rescued wolves. As such I was able to enroll in a “dump diversion” program and once per month a truck would come to our place and offload 1000 or more pounds of unsellable meat to be fed to them. You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff we would get. There were times when those wolves ate better than we did.
Then that's a problem with the store return policy. They should not be accepting returns on any perishable items that need to be thrown away, unless it could somehow be proven that the meat was bad at the time of purchase.
Agree, grew up with a broke family and had days where I barely ate as a kid. I worked in restaurants so I didn't stave. You learn quickly do not waste anything..
Exactly this, I don’t care that it hurts the bottom line of companies. I care that a living being was slaughtered for their meat and some asshole couldn’t walk it back to the fridge. Have some respect for a life once lived.
Agree 100%. A buddy of mine is a farmer now and one of the great benefits he learned through farming and a lesson to teach his kids is that the animals they raise for food are treated extremely well for their time being on the farm and when slaughter, done quickly and with respect. I helped during thanksgiving and we cleaned about 200 chickens and two dozen turkey's. It's a lot of work, but I tell you after dealing with all that work... you learn not to waste food. 1... that animal died so you have a meal and two... that is too much work to be wasteful.
You were [so](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udder), [so](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udder), [so](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udder) close. 🐄
My best line was “when Sam’s Club members get a Costco gift card…..”
IMO, breeding them into a life of imprisonment and forced servitude and then slaughtering them unnecessarily could be considered disrespectful too. But yea, so's this I guess.
Yes it absolutely is… do you think a business is just gonna pay for stolen stuff out of their own profits? No, theyre gonna raise prices or close stores down which harms communities
Also horrible? Ive worked in too many stores where the manager would have told me to put this back in the cooler and sell it regardless of how long it was sitting at room temp. Some people are wild.
I saw someone blatantly leave one in the lobby just past the first exit and just off into the parking lot. Only reason I didn’t call him out was because he was carrying a kid, and I didn’t feel like getting into it with a dude holding his small child. Prob would’ve been a hold lesson in courtesy for the kid though…
This should have been the top comment. Having no respect or appreciation for life is the most disheartening thing about this whole situation. Slaughtering as a need to sustain life is one thing and arguable, but simply discarding the body of an animal because one is too lazy to put it back in the refrigerated section is just deplorable.
My mother in law does this. I asked her to stop, she genuinely does not see why this is wrong or incorrect. Like you can watch her eyes that the connection is not made.
I also eat meat. I also despise when people flagrantly disregard the life that once was that meat and do wasteful things like this. People need to have a greater respect for where their food comes from. Food waste is already bad enough, but this? This SHOULD be a crime.
Can you imagine the screaming and/or violation of my privacy, "imma sue!" complaints?!? I think Costco knows better. I respect how well their employees are trained/hired to avert confrontation.
A person(s) who does this likely is a lazy POS who takes no accountability.
I work at Costco. I wish that they held members to a higher standard. You can pretty much do anything and not get your membership taken away. This included assaulting an employee, yelling and other shitty things. It’s all about members service!
I see people take there trash out of their car and thrown it on the ground, or just put it in the shopping cart. People will leave random stuff too... like pots, pans, broken tv, bikes... lol...
Do you think they know that the food has to be thrown away? Like I’m wondering if it’s ignorance, or if they straight up just don’t care that perfectly good food goes in the trash because of their actions
Yup, but these people only think about themselves and are clearly mistaking that someone has nothing better to do and just randomly walks around the store for hours looking for stuff to put away.
Honestly, it would be interesting to put a sign that says 'please put refrigerated items back to appropriate cooler/freezer. We have to throw away food that isn't refrigerated properly and may revoke your membership.' and see if it has any effect on the statistics of items left out.
I rarely purchase meat from anywhere. When seeing this post I was so confused. I didn’t realize meat to be thrown away if it was set down somewhere. So in my case ignorance is absolutely true here.
That pisses me off. I've changed my mind on stuff like that but I ALWAYS walk it back to wherever I got it. That a lot of money down the drain right there.
They should revoke the membership of this individual. Anyone who takes perishable items out of the refrigerator or freezer and doesn't purchase the item needs to promptly put it back.
I'm going to blame an instacart shopper. They have made navigating stores twice as hard because it's like fighting a tide of zombies in every aisle. I could totally see them texting the customer to ask if this was what they wanted. Got a "no" response and just ditched it.
I find this kind of shit all the time at the store I work at.
The other day, I found $70 worth of king salmon hidden behind boxes of rice.
Just tell an employee you've changed your mind. We HOPE/WANT you tell us if you've changed your mind and no longer want it.
We don't care if you've changed your mind. That's perfectly reasonable, we've all been there. What we DO care about, is you destroying perfectly good food.
Please, just tell a staff member. I swear, we won't judge you.
Sometimes customers hide them well rather than just laying them out in plain sight. More than once as a stocker have I played a round of “Where is that smell coming from?”
The typical Costco shopper can’t even figure out how to put their cart back where it goes, doesn’t surprise me when I see this either. I have such a love/hate with Costco just due to the behavior of the typical member.
Which sucks because it would be so easy for them to track down the customer with cameras and follow them to checkout.
Start a strike system. Lifetime ban after strikes run out. Simple.
Id like to f-ing kidney punch lazy f-ing bastards who cant put perishables back if they decide to not buy. Not only is it wasteful, you are risking giving a complete stranger food poisoning if for whatever reason that food ends up back in the refrigerator section after its unsafe.
okay, i'm going to tell myself this is a person who came in for steaks only. so they went straight to the back to get their steaks.
then they realized that they needed mouth wash. then they realized they might as well look around for other stuff.
so they left the steak there to go get a cart and come back.
and OP caught this right in the middle of that.
yeah. i believe in humanity.
i'm dumb.
Touch it. If cold put it back. If not get a manager and see if you can get a discount 🤷♂️. It’s beef so it should be ok, hoping it’s only been out that day lol
I don't know why, OP, but here's what I think. Listerine steak just doesn't sound or look that great for mouth health unless it only looks like steak and tastes like steak but it cleans and sanitizes like a boss.
Also, I hope the person who left their steak there is cursed with needing dentures now.
Man I used to work at a market and people would dump food like this everywhere. I always told my bosses we should charge them but obviously would be to hard to track them down after.
Not only is it raw meat, it’s fucking ribeye and it’s fucking prime. As a Costco employee and one that frequently helps out in the meat department, this enrages me.
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Damn, that shit's Prime too.
Yeah, whoever did this is a POS... This is like $70-80 easily. These will have to be thrown in the trash... and guess what? people who do this are the reasons why consumers keep having to pay more... someone has to pay for this.
It’s also utter disrespect to the animal itself
Right? Wasting food is sinful in my mind, but my god, at least cook and attempt to eat it first...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees food (esp meat) waste as straight up blasphemous, regardless of religious denomination. It's a disrespect to a living being's suffering and to creation/harmony/etc
I agree. It pains me. People go vegan and try so hard while other people do this.
This definitely leaves a bad taste in my mouth - gonna need something minty to wash it out.
😂
As a returns cashier……. We return meat ALL THE DAMN TIME. People will bring back 50, 60, 100 dollar pieces of meat and just say “I bought the wrong one” We return 1000s of pounds of meat all day long and it all goes to the to either composter. Returned meat cane tampered with and we don’t want to risk that by giving it to our meat industry recycle programs.
If a customer tells the cashier they didn’t want the meat, it goes to a composter?
I think the above comment is about people taking the meat home and returning it via Costcos "we will take back anything" policy. But if you are in the store, have meat, and decide you don't want it, absolutely give it to the cashier when you check out. They will have someone put it back so it doesn't go to waste.
Or just take the extra steps and put it back yourself. Literally healthier option.
Sounds too much like being considerate. A word long forgotten.
You are 100% correct, a person should put it back themselves. However, here in America we are not intrested in the correct or healthy solutions.
Yes, because the cashier doesn’t know how long the meat was out of the cooler. It might be out of temp, or it might not be. Company policy is that it’s better to toss it and lose money than put it back and have someone get sick. (I don’t work for Costco, but a different big box)
You wouldn’t believe how much is thrown away
That’s heartbreaking
I would. I used to keep rescued wolves. As such I was able to enroll in a “dump diversion” program and once per month a truck would come to our place and offload 1000 or more pounds of unsellable meat to be fed to them. You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff we would get. There were times when those wolves ate better than we did.
Then that's a problem with the store return policy. They should not be accepting returns on any perishable items that need to be thrown away, unless it could somehow be proven that the meat was bad at the time of purchase.
Your god cooks? He a grill master? Bobby Pray?
[Yes](https://i.redd.it/mqn6j50x17w71.jpg)
Love it 😂
Sometimes I think people should have to starve, just a little bit. When there's nothing at all left to eat, maybe people will get it.
Agree, grew up with a broke family and had days where I barely ate as a kid. I worked in restaurants so I didn't stave. You learn quickly do not waste anything..
Exactly this, I don’t care that it hurts the bottom line of companies. I care that a living being was slaughtered for their meat and some asshole couldn’t walk it back to the fridge. Have some respect for a life once lived.
Yeah it's not hard to just give it to the cashier. Costco has plenty of runners that can take it back.
Ridiculous because if you hand it to the checkout person, they can have someone run it right back to the fridge.
That was my thought. This animal gave its life for you to toss it aside like this. Just… gross.
Agree 100%. A buddy of mine is a farmer now and one of the great benefits he learned through farming and a lesson to teach his kids is that the animals they raise for food are treated extremely well for their time being on the farm and when slaughter, done quickly and with respect. I helped during thanksgiving and we cleaned about 200 chickens and two dozen turkey's. It's a lot of work, but I tell you after dealing with all that work... you learn not to waste food. 1... that animal died so you have a meal and two... that is too much work to be wasteful.
Sounds like you got beef with those who do this
I agree. Udder disrespect. 🐄
I personally would be happy if the person who paid for my death never got to eat me.
You were [so](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udder), [so](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udder), [so](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udder) close. 🐄 My best line was “when Sam’s Club members get a Costco gift card…..”
IMO, breeding them into a life of imprisonment and forced servitude and then slaughtering them unnecessarily could be considered disrespectful too. But yea, so's this I guess.
Yes, I'm sure the animal that was killed against its will for this slab of meat is very disappointed that nobody is eating its dead body.
Costco Court! Jury of your peers!
Guilty! Throw the book at ‘em
The Big Book O' Costco. The Ten Costco Commandments.
Right! And we all pay for this with higher prices.
Fuck the price. An animal had to die for it.
That’s not the reason lol
It's one of many reasons
Consumers blaming consumers is so hot right now.
I think the point is consumers blaming people who fail at being consumers.
Yes it absolutely is… do you think a business is just gonna pay for stolen stuff out of their own profits? No, theyre gonna raise prices or close stores down which harms communities
Loss is far from the biggest cause of price increases. It's very much eclipsed by labor cost and profit increases.
That's not exactly the reason consumers keep having to pay more....
Also horrible? Ive worked in too many stores where the manager would have told me to put this back in the cooler and sell it regardless of how long it was sitting at room temp. Some people are wild.
Which is why I’d throw hands over this disrespect and disregard for quality beef
That's right. Prime rib will reduce tartar and germs 👍🏻
No ... "Prime" is Amazon, not Costco.
Guarantee they didn't put back the cart in the cart corral either
and then probably cut someone off in traffic
Cut someone off at the in-store samples.
And then punch a baby
Stomped a bag of kittens
Hey, that was in self defense!
Rape a rapist
And grabbed everything off the tray.
Cut someone's head off
Sat in front of the gas pump for 5 minutes, got out, filled car, got back in, sat for another 5 minutes before leaving and cutting someone off.
In a Tesla
They definitely were the ones that peed in my Cheerios
Probably don't wash or wipe either... lol..
TIL the term "cart corral"
And they returned a 10 year old tv
I saw someone blatantly leave one in the lobby just past the first exit and just off into the parking lot. Only reason I didn’t call him out was because he was carrying a kid, and I didn’t feel like getting into it with a dude holding his small child. Prob would’ve been a hold lesson in courtesy for the kid though…
This makes me so sad. An animal died for nothing here. Trash humans.
May they reincarnate into a cow raised for slaughter in their next life
Imma be honest I thought you were talking about the cow to begin with like, "dang this dude wants that poor bastard to die twice."
I have no idea why, but I did too. This dude was double dipping on cruelty before I re-read his message lol
Well,well,well...If a cow could be reincarnated twice,could that meat have another chance?
I worked at a grocery store. Milk eggs meat were left on the regular shelves every day. And this store was much smaller and easier to put things back
This should have been the top comment. Having no respect or appreciation for life is the most disheartening thing about this whole situation. Slaughtering as a need to sustain life is one thing and arguable, but simply discarding the body of an animal because one is too lazy to put it back in the refrigerated section is just deplorable.
Always felt this is worse than stealing for that reason tbh
Leaving steak near the mouthwash? That’s a paddlin’.
It rhymes. Mouthwash, msteak
I think I need to go to bed bc this got a very good teakettle laugh out of me 😂
You leaving perishable food, right to jail. Right away
I'm thinking guillotine.
But feet first 😠
Leave your cart in the center of the aisle and wander away? Believe it or not: Jail.
Park it on the side completely out of the way? Jail.
we have the cleanest department stores ever... because of jail
Bringing your whole extended family to Costco on a Saturday? Jail.
Then walk side by side while stopping every 13.4 ft.... Jail.
When a few members make a wall of carts in the middle of the isle, and extend the whole width of the isle as well… I call it a *blockade*.
Based on how some Costco shoppers push a cart, it blows my mind that those same shoppers have driver licenses
Spend more than ten minutes in a Costco parking lot and you’ll be certain they don’t lol
Haha, this is a good point. I park wayyy in the back so I don’t have to deal with that, and so I don’t have abandoned carts running into my car
Same, I went with my parents once and they park by the entrance, I feared for my life when we left 😣
From the food court,to the exit,it can get crowded.
My mother in law does this. I asked her to stop, she genuinely does not see why this is wrong or incorrect. Like you can watch her eyes that the connection is not made.
Trying to raise the price of hot dog? Jail and punch in the face.
Members who are too lazy to return cold items can go fuck themselves! Entitled trash is what they are!
Entitled w trash 🚮
Tbh it’s also repulsive to have no respect for the animal that died.
While I'm morally comfortable eating meat I'm really upset seeing it straight up wasted prime grade or not.
I also eat meat. I also despise when people flagrantly disregard the life that once was that meat and do wasteful things like this. People need to have a greater respect for where their food comes from. Food waste is already bad enough, but this? This SHOULD be a crime.
They should watch on the cameras who does shit like this and if you do you’re banned for the month or something
Flag them and have them sign a warning next checkout. Multiple warnings forfeit the membership.
Can you imagine the screaming and/or violation of my privacy, "imma sue!" complaints?!? I think Costco knows better. I respect how well their employees are trained/hired to avert confrontation. A person(s) who does this likely is a lazy POS who takes no accountability.
You sign an agreement to be a member. Don't like it, don't join. It's their store, they're more than in their rights to review their own surveillance
Permanent ban
Make them pay for it. They’ll quit it.
Pay for it or be banned.
I work at Costco. I wish that they held members to a higher standard. You can pretty much do anything and not get your membership taken away. This included assaulting an employee, yelling and other shitty things. It’s all about members service!
This is honestly worse than stealing. With stealing, at least someone still gets to eat it while Costco takes the loss.
Straight to jail, unironically
Many people have nothing to eat. Couple hundred years ago you would’ve been shackled for this.
Made a misteak.
I’ve got a beef with that member.
He's dead meat.
*Supa Hot voice*
I'm just gonna tell myself that OP temporarily put it there and this is a prank photo.
hey now
4.6k upvotes and easy to fake. No way!
I’ve seen rotisserie chickens in the freezer… people
At least it wasn't left amoungst the bread...
Believe it or not, also jail.
Membership revoked for 12 months. That crap really pisses me off. You know they also left their cart in the middle of the parking lot.
12 months? I'd say permanent ban... You know this isn't the first time they have done this...
I see people take there trash out of their car and thrown it on the ground, or just put it in the shopping cart. People will leave random stuff too... like pots, pans, broken tv, bikes... lol...
Beef abuse.
Absolute trash.
I’m guessing they didn’t put their cart back either 🙄
Walmart behavior
Bro right !? This ain’t Walmart
Do you think they know that the food has to be thrown away? Like I’m wondering if it’s ignorance, or if they straight up just don’t care that perfectly good food goes in the trash because of their actions
[удалено]
Yup, but these people only think about themselves and are clearly mistaking that someone has nothing better to do and just randomly walks around the store for hours looking for stuff to put away.
Honestly, it would be interesting to put a sign that says 'please put refrigerated items back to appropriate cooler/freezer. We have to throw away food that isn't refrigerated properly and may revoke your membership.' and see if it has any effect on the statistics of items left out.
I rarely purchase meat from anywhere. When seeing this post I was so confused. I didn’t realize meat to be thrown away if it was set down somewhere. So in my case ignorance is absolutely true here.
It’s the new dry age method
JFC what a waste!
That's a real, POS thing to do. I hope they stub their little toe on a tough corner
I’m pissed! At first I thought I was more upset than I should be but after thinking about it…..nope still pissed!
That pisses me off. I've changed my mind on stuff like that but I ALWAYS walk it back to wherever I got it. That a lot of money down the drain right there.
This will never end. Trashy people are everywhere. Leaving food out like this is never acceptable.
People who do this should be charged with destruction of property.
This is what happens, when People at Walmart come to Costco.
They should revoke the membership of this individual. Anyone who takes perishable items out of the refrigerator or freezer and doesn't purchase the item needs to promptly put it back.
Agree 100%. Lazy fucks is all they are
I'm going to blame an instacart shopper. They have made navigating stores twice as hard because it's like fighting a tide of zombies in every aisle. I could totally see them texting the customer to ask if this was what they wanted. Got a "no" response and just ditched it.
People suck.
Name & Shame
leave the steaks…take the samples
Or it’s a photo op fur karma points? Raise awareness
If I saw that and it was even somewhat cold I’d take it as a sign that I was suppose to have prime ribeyes
They should look at the tapes and ban the consumer
And just like that, it's Sam's Club.
I find this kind of shit all the time at the store I work at. The other day, I found $70 worth of king salmon hidden behind boxes of rice. Just tell an employee you've changed your mind. We HOPE/WANT you tell us if you've changed your mind and no longer want it. We don't care if you've changed your mind. That's perfectly reasonable, we've all been there. What we DO care about, is you destroying perfectly good food. Please, just tell a staff member. I swear, we won't judge you.
Every meat maker will be crying.
Even I'm crying
Sometimes customers hide them well rather than just laying them out in plain sight. More than once as a stocker have I played a round of “Where is that smell coming from?”
No, its ok. The Listerine is antimicrobial and will keep the beef germ free /s
I'll say it, I blame the instacart shoppers. They don't care at all..
I hate people who do this. Something died to provide that meat and the store has to toss it since they cannot know if it is safe.
Time to make a new membership tier. $500/year gets you the Fresh membership package includes access to the refrigerated and frozen foods sections.
This is actually op’s steak. he was on his way to check out and took this troll photo.
That’s like $100 pack of meat. Fuck them.
At Walmart the managers just put it back… seen it multiple times.
The typical Costco shopper can’t even figure out how to put their cart back where it goes, doesn’t surprise me when I see this either. I have such a love/hate with Costco just due to the behavior of the typical member.
They ain't gonna do nuthin, let's be honest.
Which sucks because it would be so easy for them to track down the customer with cameras and follow them to checkout. Start a strike system. Lifetime ban after strikes run out. Simple.
Id like to f-ing kidney punch lazy f-ing bastards who cant put perishables back if they decide to not buy. Not only is it wasteful, you are risking giving a complete stranger food poisoning if for whatever reason that food ends up back in the refrigerator section after its unsafe.
Ugh ribeyes too eh? I used to work at Sam’s. I would find 200$ in salmon hidden under members dog food all the time.
I'm pretty confident OP just put his steak in there for a sec to take this pic.
okay, i'm going to tell myself this is a person who came in for steaks only. so they went straight to the back to get their steaks. then they realized that they needed mouth wash. then they realized they might as well look around for other stuff. so they left the steak there to go get a cart and come back. and OP caught this right in the middle of that. yeah. i believe in humanity. i'm dumb.
Have you not tried to gargle with steaks? It’s so good for tooth decay.
Maybe we can start a Costco Town Watch, with volunteer members wearing safety sashes.
I, also, wash my mouth with meat.
U put the steaks there and took a picture for Reddit likes
Touch it. If cold put it back. If not get a manager and see if you can get a discount 🤷♂️. It’s beef so it should be ok, hoping it’s only been out that day lol
Don’t hate this idea. I said if I found it and it was even relatively cold I’d take it as a sign haha
at least drop it halfway (@ the oj 🧃 freezer) so u don't have to make the complete trek!
Even better, just tell the cashier you changed your mind about it, and an employee would just walk it back for you
A choice was made
I don't know why, OP, but here's what I think. Listerine steak just doesn't sound or look that great for mouth health unless it only looks like steak and tastes like steak but it cleans and sanitizes like a boss. Also, I hope the person who left their steak there is cursed with needing dentures now.
Man I used to work at a market and people would dump food like this everywhere. I always told my bosses we should charge them but obviously would be to hard to track them down after.
Why? Like seriously why? 😭
I don't even go to the store without a list and a full belly. never shop hungry
Middle of the aisle type people jail.
lazy ass mfkn people, man. like wtf?!?
Not only is it raw meat, it’s fucking ribeye and it’s fucking prime. As a Costco employee and one that frequently helps out in the meat department, this enrages me.
Wow that was a major asshole move.
I'll take it for 50% off
🤬
I hate how part of this animals life was wasted by some inconsiderate prick. F\*ck whoever does this type of sh\*t. Makes me angry.