Retail Watchers

Plastic leaches chemicals into food and can alter the taste of certain foods. I work in a pharmacy and certain medications cannot be put in plastic containers because the plastic leaches chemicals that can alter the medications. Glass is better as it does not release chemicals that alter food or med...

Many plastic items that carry the recycle logo are theoretically recyclable, but in reality only about 9 percent of that is actually recyclable. Plastic recycling is often dirty and contaminated and cannot be recycled. Most of it is thrown in landfills or incinerated. There is only a small market fo...

Used COVID tests are treated like used kleenex. You can throw them in the trash. In fact, a used bloody bandage or bloody cotton ball from a vaccination also is allowed by law to go in the trash. There are laws for what goes in the trash, and blood or other bodily fluids are allowed in regular trash...

I work in a pharmacy, and luckily my pharmacy has not had any recent COVID cases. However, the rest of the store employees are testing positive for COVID like crazy in the past few days. In California, you have to quarantine for 5 days. If you test negative in the fifth day, you can go back to work....

I remember visiting a local Kmart back around 2011 and the air conditioning system was broken. It was very difficult to breathe in the store as the heat inside was sweltering. I thought I was going to pass out after only a few minutes. I don't know how the employees could stand an entire 8 hours und...

Tea of any kind has disappeared at many fast food places. Maybe they do not have enough labor to brew tea. I also have not seen the A&W root beer made in the store in a long time. I am surprised that they raised the price of the chicken sandwiches. It was a good price. I will not be going there ...

I went to the former Longs Drugs Flagship store in Walnut Creek, California tonight. It has just finished a total remodel into a CVS HealthHub. The liquor section has been greatly reduced. Longs Drugs used to have 2 huge aisles devoted to liquor. Now it is just a small area. CVS used to lock the ais...

Drug stores seem busier now due to the rush of customers trying to buy COVID self tests. When people buy the test kits, they also pick up some other items as well. It really increases the sales. Even people who are just looking for the tests seem to buy other stuff even though the store may be out o...

They might be trying to appeal to people who want to reduce their meat consumption. They say people who eat more meat have a higher risk of pancreatic cancer.

Starting January 10, KFC will sell plant based Beyond Chicken for a limited time. The options are 6 or 12 pieces Starting at $6.99.

Beyond Chicken mimics Chicken muscle meat. However it will not be vegetarian as it is cooked on the same equipment as real Chicken meat.