Save On Foods

Yes save on foods it’s a wonderful store full of products and goods more than you could ever consume yet it’s a wonderful please to pick up supplies such as food fruits vegetables oranges meats breads the selection is endless you’ll are more than guaranteed to find something that will please anything that you could possibly hope for in the store.

I’ve been shopping at Save On Foods 227^th store in Maple Ridge, since it opened, and after what I saw and experienced there tonight I will not buy from their meat department again.
I like to buy the marinated peppercorn steaks, so I went to the usual section and noticed they had these precooked hams butting right up against the packaged beef and turkey. As I was looking at the meat I was considering purchasing, the person in front of me picked up a large precooked ham. As he did so I saw liquid dripping off the ham and a big puddle under the ham, flowing over to the turkey and beef section. I never eat pork products and I thought this was most disgusting. In all my years shopping there Save On Foods has always kept the pork products with a degree of separation from the other meat products. I am told they are conscious of all the muslim and jewish people who do not eat pork, which makes sense to me who am neither. I did take a food safe course a few years back for a job I had, and one of the major dangers of food contamination we were told about is transference.
I then moved along to the main meat section looking for some beef or chicken to buy as an alternative, because I surely was not going to buy in that section where all the meats stacked beside the precooked hams were now dripping with run off liquid from the hams. Lo and behold I had never in all my years shopping there seen so many pork products scattered in an amongst the beef, chicken and turkey sections. I had never seen Save On Foods stack and arrange their meat in this manner in my many years shopping there. They literally were separating the steaks from the ground beef with different cuts of pork products. In the past they have always kept the beef in one section poultry in another, and pork in a separate section. I guess I msut have looked a little taken aback, because an employee (who I had never seen before) came up and asked me if I needed help. I replied, «Why are you using pork products to separate all the other meat products, usually you have the pork, poultry and beef in separate areas, but here you are using those pork products to separate the steaks from the ground beef, why would you do that? This was not some young high school employee either, he looked like a veteran Save On Employee. He looked at me rather quizzically and had no reply. I then said, «Even though I know none of your meats are kosher, you have always maintained a separation of meat products one from another.» He replied, «What is kosher?» I said, «You must be new in the meat section if you do not know what the word KOSHER means.» He said, «I have been working with Save On in meat products for over 20 years.» I said, «You have been working with meat for over 20 years (he nodded his head affirmative), and you do not know what the term kosher means?» I laughed and walked away.
Even at the local White Spot in Maple Ridge, the owner never cooks his bacon or pork products on the same grill he uses for beef and chicken. I believe he is muslim and he told me he is conscious of some of the dietary foibles of his customers.