My concern is the fruit/vegetable bags. These bags are provided so that I can weigh the fruit and vegetables on the scales. This is particularly relevant when I buy 5 apples, etc., as I can weigh each apple individually. These bags are difficult to access in Migros. Either all the bags fall out of the foil straight away, or you can't grab them, so you have to reach in with your whole hand. Unfortunately, I often observe that many customers first moisten their fingers with their mouth, i.e. with spit, so that they can grip the sachets better. This is against the Covid-19 hygiene measures. Coop offers these bags on a roll. This makes them a little more accessible. I would be delighted if Migros could make its bags at least as accessible as Coop. The bags must be easy and quick to access and, above all, hygienic. It should not be the case that you have to reach into the foil with your whole hand and then soil all the bags, or that there is a risk of the bags being salivated on by other customers.
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This would be the perfect opportunity to switch to reusable cloth bags! They are guaranteed unspit and hygienic.
This would be the perfect opportunity to switch to reusable cloth bags! They are guaranteed unspit and hygienic.
@Yoliboli In times of Covid-19, reusable cloth bags are not ideal. You have to wash them all the time, which also consumes energy. In addition, the trays on the scales are not always clean. Soil often sticks to the courgettes or onions. So I don't want to contaminate the apples with soil.
@Yoliboli In times of Covid-19, reusable cloth bags are not ideal. You have to wash them all the time, which also consumes energy. In addition, the trays on the scales are not always clean. Soil often sticks to the courgettes or onions. So I don't want to contaminate the apples with soil.
Um, what kind of excuse is that, sorry. Wash the cloth bags all the time? Yes, ok, but the bags are so small, you just wash them with them, don't you? I don't suppose you wash 5 bags separately. Just add them to the normal wash, that's ok from an energy point of view. And soil on the courgette? I've never seen that before. Not even when I buy vegetables from the farm store do they have soil on them. With the exception of potatoes. And it's unlikely to have Covid-19 viruses in the soil.
Um, what kind of excuse is that, sorry. Wash the cloth bags all the time? Yes, ok, but the bags are so small, you just wash them with them, don't you? I don't suppose you wash 5 bags separately. Just add them to the normal wash, that's ok from an energy point of view. And soil on the courgette? I've never seen that before. Not even when I buy vegetables from the farm store do they have soil on them. With the exception of potatoes. And it's unlikely to have Covid-19 viruses in the soil.
@Yoliboli A courgette or other vegetable is never free from soil, and soil is not always free from pathogens or bacteria. Bacillus cereus, enterobacteriaceae, clostridia or leptospires can lurk in the soil. That's why the cloth bags are out of the question for me. Of course, this could be dismissed as excessive cleanliness. But reality teaches us better. Just a few months ago, anyone who disinfected their hands before shopping and walked around wearing a mask would have been dismissed as a hygiene fanatic. Perhaps someone still remembers the Ehec epidemic of 2011? If this epidemic were to happen again today, the cloth bags would certainly no longer be tolerated. The word Ehec is associated with one of the largest epidemics that Germany has ever experienced. In the early summer of 2011, more than 3,800 people were infected with the EHEC bacteria and 53 died. Further cases were reported from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom. Anyway, my original question was not about the cloth bags, but about the plastic bags.
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So that the "bags" came to meet me has never happened to me, by the way, I will never take the "fabric bags", because 1. as a single person I need few vegetables so I put them on the scales 2. have you ever put the fabric things individually on the scales they weigh about 8 grams 3. I tell every customer to put the goods on the scales without them, many were horrified because they unconsciously pay more, even if it is only about -.10 to -.15 centimes per customer, it adds up in favor of the stores.
@Yoliboli A courgette or other vegetable is never free from soil, and soil is not always free from pathogens or bacteria. Bacillus cereus, enterobacteriaceae, clostridia or leptospires can lurk in the soil. That's why the cloth bags are out of the question for me. Of course, this could be dismissed as excessive cleanliness. But reality teaches us better. Just a few months ago, anyone who disinfected their hands before shopping and walked around wearing a mask would have been dismissed as a hygiene fanatic. Perhaps someone still remembers the Ehec epidemic of 2011? If this epidemic were to happen again today, the cloth bags would certainly no longer be tolerated. The word Ehec is associated with one of the largest epidemics that Germany has ever experienced. In the early summer of 2011, more than 3,800 people were infected with the EHEC bacteria and 53 died. Further cases were reported from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom. Anyway, my original question was not about the cloth bags, but about the plastic bags.
At Migros, there are always several plastic bag stations in the fruit/vegetable section. I choose one where the roll is correctly positioned so that I can slowly pull out the handles and tear off the bag in one go without touching the roll. Since I've always done it this way, it works 100%. I don't understand the whole problem. I've managed to open every plastic bag in my life with a quick movement, like snapping your fingers to make a noise. With the plastic in between, there is no noise, and only in exceptional cases do I succeed at the second or third attempt. The bags from Migros are particularly easy to open and if one pack leaks in the chicken department, the others may also have salmonella on the outside... That's why I prefer plastic bags to veggie bags.
At Migros, there are always several plastic bag stations in the fruit/vegetable section. I choose one where the roll is correctly positioned so that I can slowly pull out the handles and tear off the bag in one go without touching the roll. Since I've always done it this way, it works 100%. I don't understand the whole problem. I've managed to open every plastic bag in my life with a quick movement, like snapping your fingers to make a noise. With the plastic in between, there is no noise, and only in exceptional cases do I succeed at the second or third attempt. The bags from Migros are particularly easy to open and if one pack leaks in the chicken department, the others may also have salmonella on the outside... That's why I prefer plastic bags to veggie bags.
@Cinderella1925 My store doesn't have the kind of rolls where you can tear off the plastic bags in one go. That's the problem. I thought the rolls were a rarity, I thought only Coop had such rolls. But I hear from you that there are other Migros stores that have these rolls. I was in Alnatura today and they also have them. So I wish that my Migros store would buy such plastic bag lists with rolls! Because without these rolls it is really very, very difficult to get to the bags.
@Cinderella1925 My store doesn't have the kind of rolls where you can tear off the plastic bags in one go. That's the problem. I thought the rolls were a rarity, I thought only Coop had such rolls. But I hear from you that there are other Migros stores that have these rolls. I was in Alnatura today and they also have them. So I wish that my Migros store would buy such plastic bag lists with rolls! Because without these rolls it is really very, very difficult to get to the bags.
Loxiran Personally, I just think that viruses and bacteria can be everywhere. No matter which ones. That's why the bag is not a problem for me at all. The vegetables and fruit, including strawberries, are just lying there in the store and theoretically anyone could sneeze, cough or touch them. Viruses and bacteria are lurking everywhere. Even before the coronavirus, so perhaps I don't understand your concern.
Loxiran Personally, I just think that viruses and bacteria can be everywhere. No matter which ones. That's why the bag is not a problem for me at all. The vegetables and fruit, including strawberries, are just lying there in the store and theoretically anyone could sneeze, cough or touch them. Viruses and bacteria are lurking everywhere. Even before the coronavirus, so perhaps I don't understand your concern.
At least the strawberries are protected by a plastic bowl. I wasn't at all happy when the day before yesterday, during a self-scanning check, the sales clerk started putting my food (yoghurts...) one by one on the floor next to her till to get a better overview, even though she could have put them 1.5 m away on the packaging area of an unused self-scanning station (and I myself had put a very large shopping bag next to the scales). She apologized when I asked her about it, but I wouldn't have liked to see a cloth bag like that on the floor.
@M-Infoline I would be happy if Migros could take care of this matter. To summarize briefly once again. In the store where I shop, the fruit and vegetable bags are offered in dispensers with a bag system. The problem is that they are not always easy to grip or remove. Sometimes you have to reach into the bags with your whole hand, so that the customer can contaminate all the bags with one hand. There are also customers who even moisten their fingers with their tongue to be able to grip the bags. There are branches, for example Alnatura, where the bags are offered on rolls, which is a little easier to grip and reduces the contamination rate somewhat. I think Migros should take this seriously!