Baby Carrot? More like College Graduate Carrot!
For the last several months, Wegmans has been seriously slacking when it comes to baby carrots. I have always gotten them in the large sized bag. Never had a problem. Now as of lately, the size of the actual carrots being passed off as baby carrots has darn near tripled! It's not just a matter of convenience, but a matter of choking hazards for alot of people as well as the ability to pack them into containers for a daily snack throughout the day, and altogether not take out my darn tooth or cause jaw pain when I bite into the thing because it's a full grown carrot with a thick inner core! And Wegmans wonders why it loses steam and reputation points amongst consumers lately.
Just last week I was telling my partner I suspected that they were just taking a regular carrot and chopping it into three slices and throwing it into the bag and not even remotely cutting them down to an appropriate more uniform size. Today I see the proof in the bag on the shelf! The green top of the carrot was still on! I felt vindicated when I saw that and literally said outloud like Mrs. Marple, AHA! I KNEW IT!
It's time to get your crap together Wegmans! Groceries are expensive enough. it's not too much to ask that our baby carrots haven't graduated college or been drafted to the Bills. My lord!
For those concerned about food waste:
For many farms, they would often take the tops of the carrots and use those as baby carrots while then using the bottom stumps to create frozen and canned sliced carrots, so there really was minimal waste at all.