A grocery store worker in Manitoba has answered a question thousands of us have been apparently asking ourselves since COVID-19 arrived in March, drastically changing how we shop for groceries.
After donning a mask, sanitizing our hands and shopping cart, keeping a safe distance from fellow shoppers, and carefully making sure not to put our hands anywhere near our faces, it happens: we arrive at the fruits and vegetable section to find those clingy, clear produce bags with both sides stubbornly stuck together.
How, we scream silently to ourselves, are we supposed to open the bags without risking it all, removing our masks and licking our fingers?
The answer, it appears, has been in our hands the whole time.
“So here’s a trick to open your produce bags without licking your finger,” says the anonymous employee from a Sobeys in Brandon in a short video that has gone on to be viewed more than 4,600 times since it was posted to the store’s Twitter account Nov. 9.
“Take the end you’re supposed to open … put it between your palms, rub it really hard, and the static opens it every, single, time.”
As promised, the bag easily opens in the man’s hands.
Grateful reactions to the unknown hero’s simple grocery-store hack came quickly in the tweet’s replies.
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