When an Australian mother peeled back the first few layers of her lettuce to discover it was rotting within, she immediately lambasted grocery behemoth Coles.
On Saturday, Maria D’Amato saw her $3.50 iceberg lettuce was covered in a brown slime a few layers into placing her goods into her car.
Later, Ms. D’Amato uploaded a picture of the vegetable and the receipt to Facebook.
‘Unbelievable, It hasn’t happened before, and it won’t happen again. Quality checks are no longer conducted, the caption read.
Ms. D’Amato acknowledged returning the lettuce to the Coles supermarket and receiving a $3.50 refund to Daily Mail Australia.
The angry mother uploaded a picture of the $3.50 head of iceberg lettuce she bought from Coles. She peeled back a few layers and found dark slime all throughout.
Users responded strongly to her message, with one woman claiming that she frequently leaves fresh vegetables behind due to its high quality.
Absolutely not unbelievable. I’ve seen a lot of vegetables in the stores that should be thrown out because it’s slimy or moldy, but I usually don’t put it in my cart. She wrote, “Staff don’t appear to care.”
So you’re hoping that someone else won’t notice something that you yourself missed before purchasing it? … It certainly wasn’t noticeable and was on a lot of leave. Another person responded, “No one would be able to tell.”
Users responded strongly to the picture that was posted to a Facebook group page on Saturday.
Who doesn’t inspect their produce when they buy it, a third person remarked? As if you weren’t aware of that.
So how should they know about this if you didn’t because it might have been hidden by the outer leaves? It’s comparable to receiving a capsicum that has inside rot. A fourth said, “There isn’t X-ray vision for that.”
I don’t understand how she picked it up, paid for it, and then placed it in the car, stated a fifth individual. That means she handled it at least four times before she noticed.
It’s absurd enough how much produce is thrown away because of its appearance. Peel it back, then consume the good parts. It’s not like the lettuce cost you $12,’ a sixth person chimed in.
Upon being contacted by Daily Mail Australia, Coles opted not to respond.
‘I don’t understand how she picked it up and didn’t notice it then paid for it then put it in car… That would of been at least four times she had to handle it before noticing,’ one person commented