A question of ethics

Sectorseven · Feb 28, 2020

Pistachios cost $9 per pound at my local grocery store.

Is it ethical to shell them in the store before they're put on the scale (effectively giving you more nuts per pound)?

xxracerxx · Feb 28, 2020

Fucking what?

No.

Go buy pre-shucked in a bag, you weirdo.

Arkestry · Feb 28, 2020

They're obviously priced with the shell on, so you're scamming the shop by removing shells.

GrimGrinningGuy · Feb 28, 2020

Chivalry · Feb 28, 2020

Do you also peel bananas before buying them?

CloseTalker · Feb 28, 2020

You wouldn't be asking if you knew it wasn't a shitty thing to do

Bio · Feb 28, 2020

If you're buying from a big corporate supermarket chain that rakes in billions every year, I say fuck 'em.

If you're doing it to a local market that might actually need that revenue, then no.

AcidCat · Feb 28, 2020

What? You're going to stand there and shell every pistachio you put into the bag? Yes pistachios are expensive but come on.

Officer Big Mac · Feb 28, 2020

OP dont be cheap

Yossarian · Feb 28, 2020

Chivalry said:
Do you also peel bananas before buying them?

You don't...?

Deleted member 4367 · Feb 28, 2020

Lol I know you're not standing there shelling a bunch of pistachios. What would you even do with the shells.

Jarrod38 · Feb 28, 2020

Nepenthe · Feb 28, 2020

.....

First of all, how long does it fucking take you to do that in store?

Vapelord · Feb 28, 2020

Just pickup an extra hour at work for the 1+hr you would spend at the grocery store shelling pistachios and buy pre-shelled my dude.

grang · Feb 28, 2020

Regardless of my answer on the ethics, where are you putting the shells? Back in the container?

Squarehard · Feb 28, 2020

This isn't even an ethics issue.

You have problems mate.

Z-Beat · Feb 28, 2020

Sectorseven said:
effectively giving you more nuts per pound

They make pills for that.

PhoncipleBone · Feb 28, 2020

A serious ethical dilemma.

Sectorseven · Feb 28, 2020

Arkestry said:
They're obviously priced with the shell on, so you're scamming the shop by removing shells.

They're already scamming me by trying to sneak in the ones with the shells you can't open.

Distantmantra · Feb 28, 2020

So if an employee catches you doing this what would you tell them? Come on.

Officer Big Mac · Feb 28, 2020

Distantmantra said:
So if an employee catches you doing this what would you tell them? Come on.

Shut the shell up.

xxracerxx · Feb 28, 2020

Sectorseven said:
They're already scamming me by trying to sneak in the ones with the shells you can't open.

Nut meet nutcracker.

SnakeXs · Feb 28, 2020

Yeah I also ask my butcher to take a whole chicken, debone it in front of me and charge me the price per pound of the whole chicken.

Sectorseven said:
They're already scamming me by trying to sneak in the ones with the shells you can't open.

Two ways to respond without totally raging.
1. You know that some pistachios will be closed and difficult/impossible going into your purchase. That's not a fucking scam.
2. It's a natural fucking product. Even if one reaches, to have the supply chain implement machinery to remove every sealed pistachio would cost machinery, thus money. Which would get passed on to you. Thus, more expensive per pound, but sans the HORROR AND SCAMMING OF SEALED PISTACHIOS BY THE CASHEW MAFIA.

Fuck.

TheOMan · Feb 28, 2020

I voted yes at first, because I thought you meant removing the empty shells.

Don't do that OP.

Wackamole · Feb 28, 2020

Haha. No.

ElectricBlanketFire · Feb 28, 2020

The one person who voted yes is the OP, isn't it?

PreeminentDB · Feb 28, 2020

PhoncipleBone said:
A serious ethical dilemma.

You double-cross a supermarket once - where's it all end? An interesting ethical question.

Sectorseven · Feb 28, 2020

xxracerxx said:
Nut meet nutcracker.

You're supposed to be able to open them with your fingers. That's what pistachios have going for them.

Baji Boxer · Feb 28, 2020

If you eat them all before putting them in the bag, then you really save some money per pound.

Seriously though, even if you want to cheat in such a petty way, it seems it would be too time consuming to be worth the small amount of money you save.

Lobster Roll · Feb 28, 2020

Sectorseven said:
They're already scamming me by trying to sneak in the ones with the shells you can't open.

So we've got the opportunity & rationalization of the fraud triangle. What's the pressure, I wonder? Is it just to save a few bucks?

PhoncipleBone · Feb 28, 2020

Col Willie Sharp said:
You double-cross a supermarket once - where's it all end? An interesting ethical question.

But when you leave, just make sure you put one in the brain.

xxracerxx · Feb 28, 2020

Sectorseven said:
You're supposed to be able to open them with your fingers. That's what pistachios have going for them.

Again...buy the pre-shucked ones and live like a maniac.

https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Pistachios-No-Shell-Roasted-Salted/dp/B004HZFASG

edit: This product image for that bag of shelled pistachios is everything:

NoblesseOblige · Feb 28, 2020

If it's a corporate store then who gives a fuck if you scam them. Fuck them and corporate apologists.

PowerThroughLov · Feb 28, 2020

Is this a real question? Like I'm not even saying that in pass by, I can't tell.

TheOMan · Feb 28, 2020

So, there's a supermarket chain here that allows you to eat whatever you want, in store, and not pay for it AS LONG as you don't leave with the wrapper or the food. They just recently instituted this policy, and I've seen wrappers left all over the store. I'm very curious to see how long this lasts.

Distantmantra · Feb 28, 2020

Way to fuck over the workers who provided you with the pre-shelled ones. You don't want to do it yourself? Pay a bit extra and support them.

Baji Boxer · Feb 28, 2020

Sectorseven said:
They're already scamming me by trying to sneak in the ones with the shells you can't open.

Lol

Ultimate Bear Cub · Feb 28, 2020

Is this viral marketing for the Knives Out sequel? Nuts Cracked? You don't have an Apple phone by any chance OP?

platypotamus · Feb 28, 2020

Nepenthe said:
.....

First of all, how long does it fucking take you to do that in store?

For reals. Your time is far more valuable than any savings you would achieve here, unless you brought some sort of pistachio shelling machine in with you and the upfront investment cost of that would never be paid off unless you buy a metric fucktown of pistachios.

Baji Boxer · Feb 28, 2020

There are 16 OZ in a pound. 1 pistachio weights about 0.02 OZ according to Google. That's a hell of a lot of in store pistachio shucking to save a really small amount of money.

xxracerxx · Feb 28, 2020

Some TikTok should show how OP is losing wealth (with pistachios) by wasting time shucking pistachios in store.

finalflame · Feb 28, 2020

No, the price includes the shells.

jukeboxhero2396 · Feb 28, 2020

Baji Boxer said:
There are 16 OZ in a pound. 1 pistachio weights about 0.02 OZ according to Google. That's a hell of a lot of in store pistachio shucking to save a really small amount of money.

don't you know? gotta being that weight down to .01OZ

/S

RedMercury · Feb 28, 2020

SnakeXs said:
2. It's a natural fucking product. Even if one reaches, to have the supply chain implement machinery to remove every sealed pistachio would cost machinery, thus money. Which would get passed on to you. Thus, more expensive per pound, but sans the HORROR AND SCAMMING OF SEALED PISTACHIOS BY THE CASHEW MAFIA.

Sounds like a "them" problem tbh, shoulda checked their nuts better

WedgeX · Feb 28, 2020

GrimGrinningGuy said:

Too perfect.

Poppy · Feb 28, 2020

thats on the grifter side

whats next, you gonna peel oranges before buying?

DickGrayson · Feb 28, 2020

Lets say you're buying 2lbs of Pistachio

Each shelled Pistachio weighs .05oz

Each Pistachio shell weighs .01oz

And each Pistachio takes 4sec to shell

And we'll round out the price to $10 a lb to make the math easy

So...

640 Shelled Pistachios in 2lbs

42.5 Mins to shell 640 Pistachios

533.5 Pistachios /w Shell in 2lbs

So you get an extra 107 Pistachios or about $3.34 worth of Pistachios for 43 minutes of work.

You did it. You stuck it to the man.

echoshifting · Feb 28, 2020

I am just imagining what buying produce is like for op

Just a trail of stems, peels, seeds and rubber bands in his wake

Deleted member 16365 · Feb 28, 2020

Absolutely not. There's a reason shelled nuts cost more and if you shell them then use the whole nut code you're technically stealing.

jukeboxhero2396 · Feb 28, 2020

DickGrayson said:
Lets say you're buying 2lbs of Pistachio

Each shelled Pistachio weighs .05oz

Each Pistachio shell weighs .01oz

And each Pistachio takes 4sec to shell

And we'll round out the price to $10 a lb to make the math easy

So...

640 Shelled Pistachios in 2lbs

42.5 Mins to shell 640 Pistachios

533.5 Pistachios /w Shell in 2lbs

So you get an extra 107 Pistachios or about $3.34 worth of Pistachios for 43 minutes of work.

You did it. You stuck it to the man.

don't you see? They're happy about their $4/hr time save

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Is it ethical to remove pistachio shells before you buy them?

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