Just have to ease my mind some before i drink my coffee and prepare for a short run.
When we go to the store to buy food i often buy fruit and nuts as well, of course. ICA (the name of the supermarket where i do my groceries) always deliver fresh food and a wide variety of green goods.
But when the fruit supply comes to an end. I sometimes have to wander off to the stores that are close to home. One of them is a place called "Fruit Center".
Imagine the center, feel it, touch it. I want you to think of the center when you go in and see all the fresh fruits, the green miles of apples, oranges, grapes, kiwis, papayas and all the fruits you can possible think of.
The nice personnel who knows everything and anything about fruits and what they taste like. You are in fruit heaven.
What a wonderful vision of a fruit center. The vision you are having though is WRONG.
Instead, when you come in, the smell of rotten fruit hits you in the face like a punch from Mike Tyson, you see the fridges who contain those "fresh" foods leaking fluids on the floor that is already a mishmash of filth, flies and hair, i even feel sorry for my shoes when i enter.
They don´t want to take away the bad fruits, instead they push them forward on the shelves, and let the "fresh" fruit lie on the highest shelf, those shelves are even high for me to reach. And even though i reach it, the fruits i manage to get taste bad as well.
Blood grapefruits that are supposed to be red like blood are pale and mostly look like the inside of a pink water balloon .
Kiwis are either to hard and sour or to soft and sweet.
Oranges are to soft and rotten.
Apples that are supposed to be sour and firm, are sweet and powdery and have stickers on them that are impossible to remove.
And on top of that, there is not enough fruits to get a fruit specialist like me to be happy.
This is just insane, the center that is supposed to be a center of wild, good and fresh fruits are just trying to get by on its bare knees and cant even compete with supermarkets that are selling everything from fruits to dog food and motor oil.
I can imagine that fruits its a hard market to handle but if your going to open a shop that is all about fruit, then LEARN about fruit and how to serve it before you sell it.
And got damn, you can at least give me a smile when i ask for a special fruit instead of being rude.
Crappy store, from today on, i close down the fruit center from my life for good. Shitty place.
Now, time to run!
Peace off!
