With the way stores are run these days (insane amounts of micro management from corporate) most managers only care that the shelves and cases are stocked the way corporate wants them to be. The last store I worked at would only clean the shelves and cases whenever the big wigs were coming by. They will only do the minimum amount of cleaning required. My local grocery store has mold underneath pretty much every dairy rack they have. I've brought it up countless times and they are still filthy.
Need one of those milwaukee transfer pumps or stick pumps for that case. Yeah when I worked produce if the worker didn't care about their product it was always nasty like that. One guy I worked with left all the rotten stuff on the bottom and kept putting new on top.
I agree those Milwaukee 18V pumps and 12V stick pumps are totally bad a$$. And not only can you evac the chunky debris with them, after you wash them out you can fill a 44 gallon trash can with sanitation fluid (bleach, water, and soap) and they will give you really high pressure on a sprayer. Now if you really want good cleaning power portable Milwaukee pressure washer is great for these situations. Also get some Lye to run down those drain lines. Anytime you deal with that much junk you're going to want to just clean them out anyway.
Organic all right... Organic Botulism, Coliform, E. Coli and I'm sure a whole host of other molds, fugus, and bacteria in that special soup. And it doesn't just sit isolated in the sump area, it naturally rides in the water vapor through the air about 5-15 feet in all directions (which is why code doesn't allow toilets next to food prep/storage areas). Now the sprayers will actually help wash some of it down off the produce (assuming they are clean in the first place), but the misting action also helps propel that which does propagate out another 20-30 feet from the case. Those goopy things that look like Jellyfish are actually many many generations of bacterial colonies that pile up on eachother called Bio-Film. Based upon that buildup I would say this case was last really cleaned 6 months ago, maybe closer to a year. Technically if you shipped this case off to the russian/ukrainian front lines by NATO regulations you would be planting a bio-warfare device.
That's really gross. You really actually never know what the food that you're buying has been through. Some of these are big brand stores too. A normal person on a regular day would think that their store Would not do this but they would be wrong.
Yeah unfortunately this is so common in stores. The place I work at doesn't even consider 'Leak Level Detected' alarm as a concern. Two years ago; we had a Leak Level Detection alarm go off for over 6 months until eventually all the tanks were empty. We ran out of cooler fluid and the store lost every product in Frozen and over half in dairy. We kept trying to inform management about the issue, but they just shrug it off until Corporate says it needs to be fixed. When we were finally allowed to make the call; the guys that came out were flabbergasted as to why it took so long. The night crew is not allowed to make calls to call in Refrigeration techs; that's reserved for the store director and upper management. It baffles me how people don't get sick more often from the food that gets sold in these stores.
@@RuujRubellite yeah that's crazy it actually baffles me to how they can have the nerve to start and run a business such as a large grocery store without understanding that they have to have a budget set aside for the maintenance of these expensive refrigeration systems which are the heart of their operations
That shmoo you kept asking about is what we call a biofilm in the microbiology business. Gotta deal with those nasties in our water system and keep an eye on bacterial levels in our manufacturing suites.
ice ice baby...our seafood coffin cases did this all the time..fun when the drains get clogged. They made us strip the cases..id tell em get a produce guy over hear now and strip it then clean it!
Yup been there done that. I've cream in the stand ups and one was a cauffin. I wasn't HVAC just a frozen 🥶 employee. We had blitz guns connected to line on top of the stand-up freezers connected to the stores pressure washer pump. It helped but you had to unfreeze the shut off first or you would never get anywhere. Much cleaner than yours maybe a frozen broccoli 🥦 bag that had split open. Once the drain was defrosted I went to town. Took a while. Cleaned all the trays and metal racks in the sink in the back. Usually the next shift would have to put what product was in the shopping carts back in the shelf from the walk-in freezer.
At my hy vee I have been working at this for over a year and the food stains that are original are still there I don't see any manager making an effort because it is costs again and this hy vee is eleven years old
well if we have a lack of air flow, the temperature of the refrigerant will get lower and lower and very quickly get below freezing. Once that happens, the ice starts to grow and it only continues to grow until It is removed somehow. With this one all of the standing water in the bottom was affecting how the fans were operating across the entire case. That and I believe they were overstocking it in the front, blocking the air curtain.
When was the last time the employees cleaned this produce case? Just Nasty! Why are the store managers not inspecting for cleanliness?
@@jd2799 I would say it's never been cleaned
@@HVACRServiceTech No doubt
With the way stores are run these days (insane amounts of micro management from corporate) most managers only care that the shelves and cases are stocked the way corporate wants them to be. The last store I worked at would only clean the shelves and cases whenever the big wigs were coming by. They will only do the minimum amount of cleaning required. My local grocery store has mold underneath pretty much every dairy rack they have. I've brought it up countless times and they are still filthy.
Need one of those milwaukee transfer pumps or stick pumps for that case.
Yeah when I worked produce if the worker didn't care about their product it was always nasty like that. One guy I worked with left all the rotten stuff on the bottom and kept putting new on top.
@@anthonyaldridge that's terrible
I agree those Milwaukee 18V pumps and 12V stick pumps are totally bad a$$. And not only can you evac the chunky debris with them, after you wash them out you can fill a 44 gallon trash can with sanitation fluid (bleach, water, and soap) and they will give you really high pressure on a sprayer. Now if you really want good cleaning power portable Milwaukee pressure washer is great for these situations.
Also get some Lye to run down those drain lines. Anytime you deal with that much junk you're going to want to just clean them out anyway.
Bet that smelled amazing!
20:06 were the insides of the fan connectors ( both male and female halves) dried out? 20:45 sounded pretty wet
Organic all right... Organic Botulism, Coliform, E. Coli and I'm sure a whole host of other molds, fugus, and bacteria in that special soup. And it doesn't just sit isolated in the sump area, it naturally rides in the water vapor through the air about 5-15 feet in all directions (which is why code doesn't allow toilets next to food prep/storage areas). Now the sprayers will actually help wash some of it down off the produce (assuming they are clean in the first place), but the misting action also helps propel that which does propagate out another 20-30 feet from the case.
Those goopy things that look like Jellyfish are actually many many generations of bacterial colonies that pile up on eachother called Bio-Film. Based upon that buildup I would say this case was last really cleaned 6 months ago, maybe closer to a year.
Technically if you shipped this case off to the russian/ukrainian front lines by NATO regulations you would be planting a bio-warfare device.
thats crazy. I guess I need to be more careful then
Some women: we don't need men.
Meanwhile: Girl, not even your salad exists without us.
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That's definitely the "clear drains, valve off, see you in a couple hours" de-icing. Wouldn't even attempt to de-ice vertical coils at 2AM.
I like the overtime
I know exactly how this smells…..I used to work in a supermarket and we would clean cases like this monthly.
thats actually how Kombucha is made
Looking at the inside of these cases it’s a wonder people aren’t in the hospital. Too bad their customers don’t see this.
Man, you should see what vegetables are grown in.
you don't even want to know what the food trucks look like
That's really gross. You really actually never know what the food that you're buying has been through. Some of these are big brand stores too. A normal person on a regular day would think that their store Would not do this but they would be wrong.
Yeah unfortunately this is so common in stores. The place I work at doesn't even consider 'Leak Level Detected' alarm as a concern. Two years ago; we had a Leak Level Detection alarm go off for over 6 months until eventually all the tanks were empty. We ran out of cooler fluid and the store lost every product in Frozen and over half in dairy. We kept trying to inform management about the issue, but they just shrug it off until Corporate says it needs to be fixed.
When we were finally allowed to make the call; the guys that came out were flabbergasted as to why it took so long. The night crew is not allowed to make calls to call in Refrigeration techs; that's reserved for the store director and upper management. It baffles me how people don't get sick more often from the food that gets sold in these stores.
@@RuujRubellite yeah that's crazy it actually baffles me to how they can have the nerve to start and run a business such as a large grocery store without understanding that they have to have a budget set aside for the maintenance of these expensive refrigeration systems which are the heart of their operations
And at the end of the day you buy refrozen food
10:12 is exactly how one of the fans sounds in the meat case at one of the stores I shop at except 10 times worse
That shmoo you kept asking about is what we call a biofilm in the microbiology business.
Gotta deal with those nasties in our water system and keep an eye on bacterial levels in our manufacturing suites.
biofilm, huh? wow, thats tough stuff man
@@HVACRServiceTech No kidding
It withstands heat and even chemicals. Very tough stuff. That's why getting rid of it pays my bills.
@Bjorngrim74 So it's just gonna grow again right? The fact that I removed, it doesn't mean that I killed it. It's like mold huh
Are they electric defrost or hot gas?
these ones were air defrost, since they were medium temp. just tue off cycle is the defrost
Need a bandaid on that cut working around food
@@Handfulofhandsomeness yea, you're right.
welcome to the real world
I worked at a Kroger store. That would never pass their standards or health department/ ecolab.
@Josb_Bluebird2143 the same standards can be said and are the case for this store chain. Just a strange occurrence actually
This was very informative but god i shouldn't have watched this while eating
ice ice baby...our seafood coffin cases did this all the time..fun when the drains get clogged. They made us strip the cases..id tell em get a produce guy over hear now and strip it then clean it!
Yup been there done that. I've cream in the stand ups and one was a cauffin. I wasn't HVAC just a frozen 🥶 employee.
We had blitz guns connected to line on top of the stand-up freezers connected to the stores pressure washer pump. It helped but you had to unfreeze the shut off first or you would never get anywhere.
Much cleaner than yours maybe a frozen broccoli 🥦 bag that had split open. Once the drain was defrosted I went to town. Took a while. Cleaned all the trays and metal racks in the sink in the back. Usually the next shift would have to put what product was in the shopping carts back in the shelf from the walk-in freezer.
that doesn't just happen overnight
So we aren’t going to diagnose the defrost issue? Just wash it and wait for it to ice up again in 2 weeks 😂
I thought under the checkstand scanner and belt was bad (I serviced the POS equipment)
At my hy vee I have been working at this for over a year and the food stains that are original are still there I don't see any manager making an effort because it is costs again and this hy vee is eleven years old
How does ice form inside a produce cooler if it's above freezing
well if we have a lack of air flow, the temperature of the refrigerant will get lower and lower and very quickly get below freezing. Once that happens, the ice starts to grow and it only continues to grow until It is removed somehow. With this one all of the standing water in the bottom was affecting how the fans were operating across the entire case. That and I believe they were overstocking it in the front, blocking the air curtain.
@@HVACRServiceTech do you shop at Costco because the produce room is cold even in the summer and it is the opposite of the norm
I would have shown it to management before working on it.
This is a Tom Thumb/albertsons store, they are too cheap to pay their employees to waste time cleaning cases
Put a wet rag around your hose nozzle all water pushing out all the spunk out
Running their cases into the ground...
you know, none of these stores do like any maintenance
Need a green machine