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There are more and more stores that sell dry food without packaging. The customers have to bring their packaging (jars, etc..) required to take the goods home.
by gmueckl 6y ago
There are more and more stores that sell dry food without packaging. The customers have to bring their packaging (jars, etc..) required to take the goods home.
- crazygringo 6y agoWow really? I live in NYC and I've never seen any of that in any regular grocery store. I suppose you might be able to do that in Chinatown or at some specialty spice or coffee stores... and maybe this is a dumb question, but: how do they weigh it? Because with paper/plastic the weight is negligible so it doesn't really make a difference. But if you bring your own heavy mason jars then you need to tare it... and if you're doing it yourself then what, you need to affix the labels it prints to your jars? (Which would be annoying to have to scrape off every time.) Or if the cashier does it when you check out then you don't have an empty one to tare with... how does it work in practice? I'm genuinely curious how this gets solved.
- gmueckl 6y agoI don't recall seeing one in the US yet, but they are getting more numerous in Germany. I haven't shopped there yet, but from what I read you are expected to tare the scale. How they handle that at the checkout I don't know.