26. Dirty Supermarkets

I mentioned it already but the supermarkets in Germany are so dirty that I think it is worth repeating.

I can only compare to French supermarkets I visited a few months ago and to Berlin and Düsseldorf ones that I went to 10 or 20 years ago, but those I have been to in Bavaria are particularly very extremely dirty, unorganised, and with plenty of empty shelves.

I have visited in differents days and time and inevitably were they with:

• food on the floor: not so fresh anymore fruits or vegetables, spilled rice, crushed tomatoe sauce...
• rotten fruits and vegetables
• expired products, which I bought once and since then, I check thoroughly (I blame those years in Asia where I was able to trust my supermarket not to sell me perished food).
• damaged packaging: I saw once a jar of organic tomato sauce with half of its content rotten with green mold. I once bought a package of fresh pasta that I opened the day after only to discover that the package was not fully sealed and that mold invited itself in it. Yummy. I bought a glass bottle of water, and when I opened it, the edge or the rim (the part in the cap) was broken so it was too dangerous to drink.
• Empty shelves are quite common
• Dirty shelves, not only the floor
• Dirty cashier counters

One last complaint:
Whenever I visit a supermarket in Germany, there is always an employee putting products on the shelves, which I almost never saw in other countries I lived in. There is also always some huge pallets in the middle of the passage.