When I was young my father and I would buy food from costco and other places where we could afford it. We were poor and I guess right now my family is average yet I noticed something wrong with two different foods that many stores sell.

The first is bread. A baguette is phenomenal quality. No complaints. Yet so many stores have faulty packaging. People hold it at the time. It falls through the bag and lands on the floor. Costco is the same and so are many bakerys.

The second is ham. When something is newer people don't know how to think because they aren't used to it. They need more time to catch up to something else. There is a reason the stores from an older time had ham covered in thin rope packaging. This ham had a crust after it was baked. A thick crust. Like a lemon peel. Yet the ham in stores that follows this asthetic is raw and doesn't have a cover. It has a handle yet most people pick it up the way we take any other products. By holding it at the bottom. The thin wire mesh moves and cuts the tinfoil opening the ham. Then after you bring it home it spoils very quickly.

When I was young before I came to the US my grandmother told me that you should never throw away food and I think every country values food regardless of any differences.

I personally don't like meat though I need it to build a better body. If it were up to me I would just eat fruit and vegetables all day. Yet for our average finances even though it seems to my mother that we're buying something expensive for 20 dollars this is a staple. Meat fills you up. If a person eats just bread and butter they feel hungry in two hours. If you eat a large slice of ham you feel full for nearly half a day. There was this company that had a lottery for someone to have a 20 dollar lunch. A large ham or maybe two can feed one person for a month and that's only 40 dollars in total. It has tons of calories and protein. Bread -I don't think this is a major issue. As for ham: The company that provides it could make better packaging.

We went to costco today. Somewhere around the time I was a teenager my father had a problem with his ham opening from the thin wire mesh opening the tin foil when he picked it up. He raised his finger a week later and said another person who had clipped his nails had the same problem.

This ham is well made but people have to think a lot to buy it. And that's why it's losing money. It has a handle where the wire mesh is tied yet this handle is abbrasive when someone picks it up. People hold it like a soccer ball then place it in their cart. I'd imagine many decades ago things were simple. Many years have passed since then. We've developed more science and technology but our lives are too full to remember things that seem insignificant such as a special way to carry a ham.

The same thing happened to me and we had not brought enough money so I went back and tried to explain it. I even said that I don't want to get in an arguement so I'd like to just pay for the ham. Unfortunately someone had bought it. I tried to explain. Unfortunately the words may have come out muddy.

When something is newer people don't know how to think because they aren't used to it. They need more time to catch up to something that's older. I'm not certain yet I think maybe a person whom is much older than me could remember the packaging that bread was in when they purchased it during their youth and bring back that packaging. We need to be conscious about what we do as a society so that more people can eat and less food is wasted.

For the quality of the food that we've brought for nearly two decades anywhere in the US I can only say phenomenal. Superior quality. I think the packaging could be made better for these two foods. I've also noticed that because of this many people have stopped buying it from there and other stores.

I don't want to cause problems and I just want to be heard.

Post Scriptum:

Multiple times when I was on vacation in Bulgaria during summer break my aunt and I would buy bread. I think maybe 7 times she picked it up by the tip of the plastic and yep.. you guessed it. The bread fell right through while we were still in the store. I actually laughed nervously out of shock the first time because we use a bit thicker plastic and it happened. If I remember correctly it was dobrush bread which is the most expensive one for our standards.

Post post scriptum:

In the 90s when my family and I walked outside most people brought food for the day. We have more money now in Bulgaria and people there buy larger quantities. We have smartphones and faster computers. It seems many people have shut theirselves in and buy food for a month so that they don't have to go outside again. It's strange how things change as Charlie Chaplin said.