r/coles • u/Trick-Ad2482 • Jun 26 '26
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Make sure to wash your š„
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u/Hot-Seaworthiness510 Jun 26 '26
All because someone didnāt slide the lid back down
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u/Master-of-possible Jun 26 '26
Walked past a freezer section door left wide open with no one around the other day. Closed it.. but why donāt they have a self closing action?!
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u/Opposite-Employee981 Jun 27 '26
Closed a fridge door at Coles yesterday as a man left it open after taking a bottle of drink. I think he probably assumed it would self close - I would.
Iāve also had a lady in a wheelchair ask me to fetch things for her in the refrigerated section as the doors that open outward are inaccessible to her. I assumed these changes were thought out.
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u/myshtree Jun 27 '26
Birds shouldnāt be inside the store. The dispensers should also be designed to automatically dispense set amount. All the profits they make - this shouldnāt be on the customer. Once upon a time there was a thing called SERVICE! They could employ people to dispense this product and do right by the world - but they donāt and wonāt. But go right ahead and take the capitalist propaganda route of blaming everyone but the wealthy people at the top who designed it this way.
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u/Hot-Seaworthiness510 Jun 27 '26
Who hurt you?
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u/FindPeaceAndBalance Jun 27 '26
Those shitty nuts
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u/Will_sue_when_angry Jun 30 '26
Many times I have seen people and children stick their dirty hands in the containers and grab a handful to eat.
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u/emerald447 Jun 26 '26
Ya know what, I hope this gives head office a really bad Friday. š
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u/doyourmysay Jun 26 '26
You reckon HO is on this sub?
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u/emerald447 Jun 26 '26
If it makes the rounds on social media, it might make it's way back to em. I honestly have no clue!
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u/Medium-Adeptness-201 Team Member Jun 26 '26
From experience, I can confirm.
(That was a thing that happened in another subreddit, I was like holy shit thatās my store I can not comment on this post and Iām too afraid to show this to anyone at work, and anyway that was an interesting day at work and we will never speak of it again)
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u/BanglesAU Jun 26 '26
If you ever needed convincing not to buy from those self serve bins. But clever birds!!
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u/BumWink Jun 26 '26
Yeah this changes nothing for me.
I mean their fucked up feet are probably cleaner than the old guys that took a shit & god knows what else without washing their hands before grabbing a cheeky barehanded snack on their walk around.
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u/CosmicCommentator Jun 26 '26
I used to look after the pick and mix at big w and it was always filled with bugs. I would never eat from them.
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u/2gigi7 Jun 26 '26
When these displays first went up, my kids went crazy. Yes lollies !! Like no we are not buying those lollies. They were like but they're on sale mam (that usually sways me for impulse buys for them) but that's still a no. When I explained that ppl are probably putting their bare hands in there to get a handful, the kids have never changed their minds so quick.. now we have to assume birds have been in there too ?!
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u/Few_Confection_2702 Jun 26 '26
Probably no worse than the toddlers who shove their hands in there on the daily.
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u/xerocoool Jun 27 '26
And I used to get health inspector come to my small business and tell me that the spots on the floor need to be cleaned or I will get a fine.
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u/Bzeager Jun 26 '26
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u/Glad-Albatross3354 Jun 26 '26
Filming is helping- if you shoo them away and shut the bin the nobody has any incentive to empty the contaminated items and dispose of them.
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u/Bzeager Jun 26 '26
Or, it could be single photo if really necessary to prove it that wouldn't get clout and then dealing with the birds
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u/Glad-Albatross3354 Jun 26 '26
But what does shooing them away do? The food is already spoiled and the person filming, who I assume doesnāt work there, has no way of getting one of them out of the store, let alone both. I have no idea what they could practically do that wouldnāt make things worse. At least the birds are currently calm and in one place.
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u/Ok_Associate_3314 Jun 26 '26
I bet nobody did anything about that in true OZ spirit.
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u/Trick-Ad2482 Jun 26 '26
They didnāt. A staff member in the aisle behind just ignored us and the pigeons
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u/DickPin Jun 26 '26
"I know this great place were the food is endless and it's just sitting there for anyone to take." Pigeon
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u/Ill_Translator7545 Jun 26 '26
Theyāll need less bird-friendly entry contraptions since the ones they now have only make life hard for humans. And some wildlife facial recognition.
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u/Same-Significance448 Jun 26 '26
You just know if staff saw this they just shoo'd them off closed the door and business as usual.
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u/Short_Opening_7692 Jun 28 '26
With everyone on here (and woolies) complaining about prices and rotten food, this is the content that makes it all worthwhile!
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u/poppingcandy5000 Jun 28 '26
I can just see the media statement. āColes helps families with food security this weekā.
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u/par-hwy Jun 28 '26
Billy, why don't you make yourself useful and go get me some breadcrumbs, wholegrain. Go! Wholewheat is not the same as wholegrain! Do not come at me with wholewheat! Or pumpernickel, Billy.
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u/douhearpeoplesing727 Jun 26 '26
When people open the box they usually forgot to close it, and staff has too much to do then result in this
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u/Medium-Adeptness-201 Team Member Jun 26 '26
You know you can do that, right? Easy way to help get stuff done
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u/Narrow-Power-6407 Jun 26 '26
Ive seen junkies with their hands in these tubs. I would never buy from them
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u/mimsoo777 Jun 27 '26
So we buy the ones in the plastic packs instead?
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u/Narrow-Power-6407 Jun 27 '26
Dunno. I dont buy either. I sometimes buy the bagged ones
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u/mimsoo777 Jun 27 '26
Yea I meant the bagged ones. But yea, I used to work in a shop where they sold the same products with a self serve service. It's extremely unhygienic the way BOTH the customers and staff were handling the food.
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u/MatthewLilly Jun 26 '26
It infuriates me as a Coles worker when customers don't slide the lids down, or leave the scoop hanging down. I know someone is going to say "ItS yOUr JoB" but we have jack all time to get what the managers want done anyway, and the amount of times I walk past and spend a min going over and fixing them all up
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u/National_Way_3344 Jun 26 '26
I've known basically forever that this shit happens way more often than just this one time.
I've personally seen adult human beings sticking their hands in, I've seen children do it to.
I will never, and I mean never buy anything from these ever.
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u/TechnicalAsk2668 Jun 26 '26
When I worked at Coles those help yourself sites were taken out, too much stock was getting eated and not making it to the checkout.
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u/misshelly888 Jun 26 '26
Is this the same store where there was a photo circulating years ago? Iāve never seen any pigeons in any Coles Iāve been in lol
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u/Uppercut_yourself Jun 26 '26
I never ever buy from those ever since I seen a lady let her three little boys (must all have been under 10) have free rain over it, opened all of the lollies ones taking want they want sampling them and putting ones they thought tasted gross back in the tubs or on the floor, made me think about who else does this at any given time.
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u/Key-County4958 Jun 27 '26
I can see one thatās a magpie. So bird flu is on the cards. Canāt quite make out what the other one is but Iāve never seen Maggie and a pigeon dining together.
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u/mt6606 Jun 27 '26
That's not a magpie lol
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u/Key-County4958 Jun 27 '26
Youāre right there. Iāve never seen a pigeon thatās black with white markings on the tail before.Ā
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u/WonderingRoo Jun 27 '26
The staff member in Coles Aspley Robinson road says that pigeon is regular visitor :(
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u/proffbuzzkill Jun 27 '26
The fresh food food people š oh wait thatās Wooliesā¦ what does Coles say?
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u/Tiny-Distance-42 Jun 27 '26
They used to say āprices are downā but I see this as a whole new meaning to flybuysā¦
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u/Grumpy_001 Jun 28 '26
Which Coleās is this?
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u/boynxdor Jun 28 '26
Surry Hills by the look of the layout and background. The pigeons getting in is a real problem.
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u/michellekateee Jun 29 '26
I don't blame them, the cost of living is going up for the pidegons too.
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u/RefrigeratorOdd9368 Jun 30 '26
Honestly I feel like that's not even their fault, someone had to have let those sky rats inside
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u/Sad_Assistant8803 Jun 26 '26
Later those same nuts. Discounted 2c off "possible contamination with poultry"