u/SaraAB87

Does anyone have any comments or experience with this location? I might be going there soon.

I know this is a weird question but sometimes you can't get answers from the employees at the store on these things. This would be for the Erie, PA location in case there are different suppliers for the ice cream for different regions. I need to know if the ice cream contains High fructose corn syrup because I am allergic to it and I get sick when I consume HFCS. Some ice creams contain it and some do not.

I can tell you that Hershey's contains it and so does friendly's but I haven't found one from Perry's that does yet. Some flavors of Turkey hill have it. I know Byrne dairy is a supplier in PA and that does contain HFCS. You guys don't have to tell me who the supplier is but that's just some examples, I just need to know if its in there so I know if I can buy ice cream or not.

Thank you.

Believe me, this is not something I wish to be discussing as much as you all probably do not want to hear it but I am at my wits end.

I am as much of a buyer as a flipper and now I think I am going to have to stop being a buyer of secondhand goods altogether unless its something very small and fits in a very small envelope.

I have now received by 3rd package with bugs in it. I am 100% sure my home does not have an infestation. I live in a standard detached house and not an apartment. I am 100% sure my mailbox does not have an infestation either. I live in Upstate NY.

Yes I am opening packages outside and checking them very carefully and not letting anything into my house until I am sure.

I am vetting my sellers and only buying from those with clean photos and from northern states where roaches at least are less common. I do not want to send messages to sellers asking them to ensure their items are bug free before they send them, I cannot imagine doing that.

Packages are still arriving with bugs in them. I just ordered something and I found evidence of bug droppings inside the item after opening it and in the outer cardboard box there was a bug in one of the corners. I unfortunately do not know what kind of bug it was but it was pretty big and hard to miss.

Right now it seems to only be secondhand purchases from Mercari, Ebay and poshmark as I've had a package with bugs delivered from all 3. It also seems to be coming from USPS. During the winter I had 2 packages delivered with bugs in them and one had a lot of bugs in the package. Now I figured I would give it another chance but no, still bugs even though I waited several months to order something again.

I have had plenty of things delivered from Aliexpress, UPS and amazon with no evidence of bugs and very clean packaging. I just received a package (a cardboard box) from Germany via DHL and it was just fine. I also received a small bubble envelope from Japan and that was fine too. It also does not seem to be anything shipped in a bubble envelope from anywhere. I did have at least one secondhand item that came from UPS and that was just fine.

I have been buying items at thrift stores and garage sales as I usually do and I haven't had any issues and yes I have been checking my items perhaps, way too carefully now.

Can anyone tell me if there is anything I can do about this or can anyone give any advice here? I will continue to check packages outside only carefully, and not order things that come in a cardboard box secondhand but stopping all ordering activity from secondhand sites is going to be hard in this day and age.