touching the food

louisiana · ‎12-03-2023

I have watched qvc for many years and am finding the practice of the food shows to be wasteful and unsanitary.

1. show starts with cooked or open food on the counter

2. they show you what your going to get

3. samples of food are out for display

4. the host and guest open more of the item from sealed containers to show you again, wasteful.

5. they are breathing over it, touching it and having long hair dangle over it

6. the hosts and guest touch the samples displayed pulling them apart and even place some touched items back into the common bowl, seriously!!

What is done with this amount of food that you seem to handle and open each presentation? Does it go to a food bank, shelter, homeless group?

This is honestly disgusting to watch at times and makes one sick to think that it is now all waste due to the marketing strategy you use.

There are things called tongs, rubber gloves, hair tie backs that can be easily incorporated into these shows that will show viewers the high level of food responsibilty that you should have

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@louisiana. You answered your own question. The food is sitting out under hot lights, is touched, breathed on so at the end of thre day, it's not fit for human consumption and is destroyed, unless the crew want to eat some of it.

All food samples are own and supplied by the vendors. It b doesn't belong to QVC so they don't have the option of deciding its fate.

QVC is expert at knowing how food should be shown to sell well, which is after all, the object of the presentation.

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Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

That's precisely WHY my mother never let "strangers" or my dirty cousins in the house.

They may have dog hair on their clothes which weren't fresh out of the laundry. They may have dirty fingernails, or DANDRUFF...and heaven only knew what was on their SHOES. Not to mention GERMS on their breath...

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louisiana · ‎12-03-2023

Some of that may be true for some foods, like ummm fish, meat and others but not nuts or non perishable items. Common food etiquite should always be maintained even on air. It is disqusting to see someone pick up something and then put it back in the bowl.

They have a responsibility to the viewers to not run amok with the fingers in the food, no double dipping is a food rule and no returing used food to the common bowl also a rule.

rockygems123 · ‎06-04-2012

@louisiana

QVC is not a restaurant or public or private dining.

The food presentations are meant solely for representation of the product. The food is handled completely differently than a normal eating environment as they are sales props.

loriqvc · ‎11-06-2011

@louisiana - Welcome to the forums—but I'm not sure QVC is going to be a good fit for you since your first three posts here are all just criticizing what you're seeing.

As for the topic of food, as @Kachina624 mentioned, presentations are designed for sales, not cooking; the purpose is to show multiple facets of a product to help people decide if they want to purchase it rather than focusing on proper serving practices in a commercial kitchen. And the product they bring to show on air is set aside for this purpose, so it would not be given to someone in need either before, during, or after a presentation (and what's more, the organizations that assist those in need would not and could not take the food after the presentations due to health codes). But we also don't know each vendor's practices; perhaps they give sizeable donations to those in their communities, or maybe they already have strategies in place for handling their products to avoid as much waste as possible while still turning a profit.

If you don't enjoy the presentations, that's one thing, but judging and making assumptions about what is going on will just cause you unnecessary stress and will not solve any problems, perceived or actual, for you or anyone else. But hey, if you ever decide you do want to purchase a food item, you can rest assured that you won't receive anything that was presented live under these conditions that are so frustrating to you...

kate2357 · ‎02-26-2012

@louisiana wrote:
Some of that may be true for some foods, like ummm fish, meat and others but not nuts or non perishable items. Common food etiquite should always be maintained even on air. It is disqusting to see someone pick up something and then put it back in the bowl.

They have a responsibility to the viewers to not run amok with the fingers in the food, no double dipping is a food rule and no returing used food to the common bowl also a rule.

@louisiana

Food marketing means showing product, how it arrives (packaging), how to prepare and/or display product, etc etc. I have been to many food shows and the amount of food on display is stunning...it's deemed a necessary marketing cost. Any opened food is tossed. Again, a marketing cost and a budgeted expense.

This is what consumers want...they want to see what they are possibly buying.

I don't see food waste from shows as any different than fast fashion, cheap fashion...it all ends up in the local dump. That $5 top from Walmart/Target/etc...how much do you think the person who sewed it got paid? You sell something, you want a profit and you need to sell a whole lot of $5 items at a profit to make the kind of money large companies need to make. Food selling is no different.

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Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

If you wanna see food waste, check the dumpsters of your favorite grocery store.

What do you think happens to food that expires before it is purchased?

The US wastes food all of the time. A lot of food purchased by the consumer gets thrown out too.

You can't save the world by calling out QVC for throwing out food used for display purposes.

It's not just food either. It's all merchandise that isn't sold within a certain amount of time.....make-up and other toiletries fill up our landfills still in the original package.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@louisiana wrote:
Some of that may be true for some foods, like ummm fish, meat and others but not nuts or non perishable items. Common food etiquite should always be maintained even on air. It is disqusting to see someone pick up something and then put it back in the bowl.

They have a responsibility to the viewers to not run amok with the fingers in the food, no double dipping is a food rule and no returing used food to the common bowl also a rule.

@louisiana. Their only responsibility to customers in regard to food is the describe and show it in a manner that allows the customer to make a buying decision. The QVC sales floor is not a public eating facility and is not covered by the same expectations or regulations.

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@kate2357 wrote:
@louisiana wrote:
Some of that may be true for some foods, like ummm fish, meat and others but not nuts or non perishable items. Common food etiquite should always be maintained even on air. It is disqusting to see someone pick up something and then put it back in the bowl.

They have a responsibility to the viewers to not run amok with the fingers in the food, no double dipping is a food rule and no returing used food to the common bowl also a rule.

@louisiana
Food marketing means showing product, how it arrives (packaging), how to prepare and/or display product, etc etc. I have been to many food shows and the amount of food on display is stunning...it's deemed a necessary marketing cost. Any opened food is tossed. Again, a marketing cost and a budgeted expense.

This is what consumers want...they want to see what they are possibly buying.

I don't see food waste from shows as any different than fast fashion, cheap fashion...it all ends up in the local dump. That $5 top from Walmart/Target/etc...how much do you think the person who sewed it got paid? You sell something, you want a profit and you need to sell a whole lot of $5 items at a profit to make the kind of money large companies need to make. Food selling is no different.